Sold NEW Mobo on eBay, Guy Has a Problem With It

[mightymouse]

good luck mate, sound like a right idiot to do something like that and make you pay for it. i hate these donkeys, they are the ones who exploits ebay and make it such a hostile place for trading.

[k4p84]

One of my mates damaged the socket pins on his board.

A few minutes with a few tools and hey presto pin was back where it should have been and away he went.

You can actually run some boards and CPU's with pins not making contact or joined, though you usually use conductive or nonconductive materials of the CPU contacts. It is a sort of hardware overclocking method. A tad crude but I have read that it works but I would not like to try it !

I saw many of these types of thread and I have never sold tech on ebay, only over forums where you tend to get a better class of buyer !

I really hope you do well out of this mate.

Regards

Ed

[stevecross]

I have recently sold items on ebay and paypal withold your funds for up to 21 days or untill posative feedback is left, in other words the buyer can try the item for up to 21 days and if they decide for whatever reason they do not want the item just damage it and send it you back. no ptoection for the seller at all.

[daveyhue]

Good luck man, I try to state in my listings item is sold as unseen and untested and will not accept refunds even if it's sealed new.

Often people don't even read the listing e.g. the bloke from portugal which recently purchased my Razer headphones when it stated U.K bidders only!!

[Rhythmeister]

My god anyone who speaks english that badly should not be building a computer. Most people get a bit slack when typing but that is terrible.

I think people who are that BAD at using their native language should be locked away from a keyboard...

[Blaineoliver]

Good luck man, I try to state in my listings item is sold as unseen and untested and will not accept refunds even if it's sealed new.

Often people don't even read the listing e.g. the bloke from portugal which recently purchased my Razer headphones when it stated U.K bidders only!!

You can tick uk bidders only when you list it, if that guy from portugal won, you would have to post it to him.

[Englander]

I have recently sold items on ebay and paypal withold your funds for up to 21 days or untill posative feedback is left, in other words the buyer can try the item for up to 21 days and if they decide for whatever reason they do not want the item just damage it and send it you back. no ptoection for the seller at all.

Yea I just got caught by this after selling a few things. Both buyer received their items on ~Wednesday and neither have yet to leave positive feedback. So currently I have quite a lot of money (only by my standards) sitting pending in my paypal account where I can't touch it...

EDIT: spoke a bit soon. One of the guys has just left positive feedback so that's ~half the money out.

[Ulti]

I sold something where my payment was on hold for the full 21 days, not sure if it's the buyer being stupid and not leaving feedback or what or perhaps forgetting but either way, 21 days is quite a long wait.

[KalC]

I sold something where my payment was on hold for the full 21 days, not sure if it's the buyer being stupid and not leaving feedback or what or perhaps forgetting but either way, 21 days is quite a long wait.

Thats to do with PayPal I think. Also happened to me, no protection for sellers.

[Ulti]

Yeah I know, Paypal is being stupid too, I have 5 stars in everything except P&P charges where it's 4.9 and Paypal stated something along the lines of having to post things with tracking, not getting enough positive feedback and stuff along those lines and therefore holding my payment for 21 days until the buyer leaves a positive. Unfortunately the buyer didn't leave feedback (and still hasn't) so I had to wait the 21 days.

I've got 100% positive feedback too so I'm not sure why Paypal held the payment in the first place.

[KalC]

It really is stupid. How are you suppose to ship the item when they are holding the payment for the shipping too?! Whats worse is that PayPal take their fee first, then they put the remaining funds on hold.

[Ulti]

Haha yeah that's really stupid. Thankfully I've only had one incident of a payment hold. I did email them straight after I saw it though and perhaps they though "oh damn this guy can read our terms and stuff, we better not just randomly drop payment holds on him" but seriously they had no reason to place a payment hold.

[littlepuppi]

Mate fair play for putting so much effort in, paypal always finds in the buyers favour no matter what evidence you provide, thats what sucks so much about it (IMO) I wouldnt mind so much if it was fair, but on a large transaction its a pain the the bottom...

Good luck with your claim..

[OilSheikh]

Any PC stuff I sell on ebay, I take pics of serial no stickers and also a short video that the thing is working.

[[GSV]Trig]

Agree with the dropped something in the socket comment.
I've got loads of stuff I neeed to get rid of soon and I relaly dont want to use eBay as they really do suck balls..

[azrael316]

I have recently sold items on ebay and paypal withold your funds for up to 21 days or untill posative feedback is left, in other words the buyer can try the item for up to 21 days and if they decide for whatever reason they do not want the item just damage it and send it you back. no ptoection for the seller at all.

REally, when did Paypal bring that in? Not seen anytihng relating to that with items Im putting up for sale on Ebay.

Got any links to the relevant info from Paypal or Ebay?