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Sechan wrote:
My suggestion would be to occasionally do what you did with Wampus Cat. Say the raffle is a dragon/oriental/unicorn/pegasus/griffin etc. Give a vague yet creative description of it, but don’t show a picture. Then let people enter…. I only entered the raffle because you said ‘dragon’ and that’s enough for me any day. The description that he was flamboyant didn’t deter me in the slightest.
I agree completely! That way, the people that don’t like surprises don’t have to enter, but there are still raffles for those people. And a surprise every now and then for those of us that like the wild, off-the-wall, “what the heck is that” pieces!
Miss Melody, that surprise raffle was so much fun! I hope you do more like that in the future! I was excited to learn about the raffle, then I was excited to see who won, then I was excited to finally see it! I was on the edge of my seat for almost a month! Thank You! 😀
Does he have a different kind of globe or is it just the way the light is hitting it? Looks teal to me 😕 Either way, I think he’s pretty!
Sechan wrote:Melody wont even let *me* see a pic so we just have to wait until I get it in the mail. I don’t even know if he has shipped yet.
I can’t wait!!!!! I think I’m just as excited as you are for it to arrive!!
If you check the feedback, he hasn’t sold anything in the past 90 days (at least). I really want a rainbow fledgie too, but this auction scares me. It would be nice to at least have an actual photo.
machineguts wrote:The Skeksis! They are my all time favorite movie creature!
THAT’S what they’re called! My hubby and I almost watched it again late last night just because neither of us could remember the name & it was driving us nuts!
Lokie wrote:I’m curious, skeeterdeee, why didn’t you put in a claim as Item Not Paid For (or something or other) with Ebay? They obviously bid with no intention of paying, so why not take the power out of their hands and put a strike against them? And doesn’t Ebay refund listings in those cases as well? And are more likely to remove negatives from those buyers? Please correct me if that’s no longer the case as I’m out of touch with Ebay.
Anyways, really sorry you have to go through that. Add me to those who are fed up with Ebay. I haven’t sold there in a while since the 21 day payment holds started and the forced 5 “free” listings (but with higher end fees 😡 ).
I’m new at selling, so I really don’t know how it all works. I thought if I claimed it as Item Not Paid, all that eBay would do is send him an e-mail telling him to pay. He made it VERY clear he has no intention of paying (I have the rotten letter saved in My Ebay, but I don’t know what to do with it).I thought simply cancelling it would solve the issue, but he’s being a jerk-wad about it.
He has a week to agree, after that week can I claim it as not paid for? Or is it too late to do that? Now I wish I would’ve asked you guys for advice before I opened the claim, but I was just so mad! 😡Poems wrote:Skeeter, when a buyer sends bidding thru the roof, I always get suspicious. Number one, they probably are selling the same thing, and wanted to knock you out of the ballpark. So many dishonest people out there 🙁 I sold a used iPod Touch for my nephew and the ‘winner’ had like 5 feedbacks but hadn’t used that name in forever. Of course they didn’t contact me, of course they didn’t pay, and my second high bidder had of course already bought one from another seller. People like that bid with no intention to pay, just because you are selling something they sell………but in your case, you had received contact from the buyer questioning everything and you spent time answering. When they wrote not wanting to go thru with the auction, they should have initiated the withdraw from sale. If they wrote to you via MY EBAY (and always always ALWAYS contact people using your MY EBAY) – then you have proof to eBay that they withdrew from the sale. Write or call eBay and ask them to reimburse you your fees. They will usually do it….. I think there’s a link where you can contact them with a problem. DO IT. And if they don’t reimburse you, head on over to the bbb.com as well. You should get your money. And don’t even say it’s only $7………..do you know how many seven dollars from thousands of people they get to keep??? Don’t give them the satisfaction!
I’m out of room. I could go on! lol
Thanks! I got the ball rolling with cancelling it like it never happened. What gets me is that the buyer has to “approve” the cancellation, why does he get the control when it doesn’t affect him any? What really bugs me is that this is the 4th thing I have EVER sold on eBay, and basically I had to give the first three away to pay this fee. I was hoping to make a few bucks for the holidays coming up, but now I’m afraid to even mess with eBay. Any contact we had with each other is stored in MyEBAY, just in case.
Frozendragon- if I was out that much I would be making a huge stink to everyone involved! Don’t let them get away with that! I guess there are a lot of crooked people out there that have to ruin it for the rest of us. I feel bad whining about $7 when it could’ve been much worse, it just really bugged me & he was rude to me for no reason 😥
I just had an awful experience with eBay and needed to let it out!
This week I put a couple things up on eBay to have a little spending cash. I listed an item and was asking 99 cents for it. The bidding SKYROCKETED to $70!! I couldn’t believe it! I was already spending the cash in my head, I was so excited! I would have been happy with the 99 cents, to tell the truth. The bidder had e-mailed me every day with every question he could possibly ask and I answered each one in vivid detail. When the auction ended I didn’t hear from him, so I sent an invoice (correct thing to do, right?). A couple hours later I get an e-mail from him saying, “I ain’t paying $70 for THAT! Are you NUTS??”. So, I went to the Resolution Center and filed a “cancel transaction” case, reason being “bidder changed mind on item”. I was told that an e-mail was sent to the winner to agree to the cancellation, HE WON’T AGREE!!!!!!!!! 😡 Now I’m stuck with the $7 eBay fee because he was a jerk!!! It’s people like him that take the fun out of eBay for people like me 🙁 I want to send him a nasty e-mail back, but he still has the option to leave me feedback and I don’t want a negative ruining my 100 % rating. I would have been happy with the stinkin’ dollar, now I’m $7 in the hole! (I even tried the second chance offer, but I don’t blame them for not taking it, it’s not worth $69. I just want my eBay fee back, DARN IT!). After selling four items, I now owe eBay more than I made. 🙄
If anyone else has had a STINKY experience with eBay, feel free to rant here with me!
Thank you for letting me vent, I’m really upset about it.
