Just got screwed on EBay
Tch!
Just bought what I thought was a brand new PS3 slim for ?140.
It turns out it is clearly second hand.
I thought I'd done well finding it. I was determined to find a Ps3 slim rather than the super slim.
Brand new slims are increasingly rare now that they have been discontinued and I was willing to pay a little over the odds for a new machine that should theoretically give me 7 years plus of service as a media player (if I look after it).
A few polite, but firm messages to the seller resulted in ignorance and refusal to return. No acknowledgement of the fact that I am contesting its 'newness'.
Tch, opened a case, but have to wait for a while now. Very new to Ebay, only my third purchase.
The frustrating thing is, that it beggars belief that this person thinks they can get away with it? What sort of idiot is this person? Their confidence is unnerving. I hope it is just stupidity.
Hope everyone else had a good day :p
Just bought what I thought was a brand new PS3 slim for ?140.
It turns out it is clearly second hand.
I thought I'd done well finding it. I was determined to find a Ps3 slim rather than the super slim.
Brand new slims are increasingly rare now that they have been discontinued and I was willing to pay a little over the odds for a new machine that should theoretically give me 7 years plus of service as a media player (if I look after it).
A few polite, but firm messages to the seller resulted in ignorance and refusal to return. No acknowledgement of the fact that I am contesting its 'newness'.
Tch, opened a case, but have to wait for a while now. Very new to Ebay, only my third purchase.
The frustrating thing is, that it beggars belief that this person thinks they can get away with it? What sort of idiot is this person? Their confidence is unnerving. I hope it is just stupidity.
Hope everyone else had a good day :p
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I am always dubious of the 'new' or 'factory sealed' stuff I see on Ebay. In the end anyone can say something is new or get hold of a sealing machine and make a lot of money. Some sellers seem to specialise in the 'sealed' thing. It's a little suspect to me in most cases.
Not saying there aren't legit 'sealed' or 'new' stuff on Ebay, I'm sure there is, it's just it's hard to prove it is unless there's some watermark or logo on the sealed plastic.
Once I saw a 'sealed' copy of Spitting Image game - it was basically a piece of electrical tape stuck on the side..nuff said.
If it's plainly not new but sold as such, it ought to be an open shut "not as described" case and you'll be entitled to a full refund. It doesn't matter how awkward the seller is, as eBay will always find in your favour.
Also, if you got in touch with the seller and gave them a chance to resolve it, don't feel too bad about giving negative feedback.
This year I bought a used Asus motherboard, which turned out to be very obviously knackered. After being ignored over email, I had to open a case; the seller didn't respond even to this, so eBay gave me a full refund and I got to keep the item.
...I then sold it on as "faulty", with a detailed list of the faults, and got ?10 for it! ;)
My advice is, leave negative feedback as a warning for other buyers. When I checked this guy's recent feedback, I saw that I was only one victim in a spate of his cons. It was just after Christmas, so I reckon he was down on his luck and desperate for the money.
I have certainly left negative feedback. Surprisingly, it's the only negative they have had.
I paid when i won the bid and he had the nerve to give me negative feedback saying i had been aggressive (which i hadn't) i sent him a message asking what he was playing at but got no reply at which i point i just gave up an decided there was no point pursuing it any further.
The guy was a pure tosser!
Standard ebay bullsh?t delaying tactics. I hate it when people do that.
Buyers do it as well, usually along the lines of "Sorry I didn't pay for this item, but just after I bought it my next-door neighbour's pet guinea pig caught terminal cancer, but Fluffy is all better now so I can pay" (even though it takes seconds to look their name up in Ebay advanced search and see that they've been buying loads of other crap for the past three weeks)
The other one I love is "my 2-year-old daughter ordered this by mistake, please refund" (wow, you've got yourself a child genius there, call the Sunday Sport!)
Looking back, I reckon the reason I rarely have problems buying on eBay is that I usually buy from business sellers with excellent feedback, rather than private individuals.
They doing it on ebay now as well?