I paid for an item on the 1st of this month and did not receive it untill today. I had to open up a dispute in order to finally get the item. Postage as wellwas excessive. Anyway i left negative feedback as i had been treated badly with absolutely no communication as to what was going on despite sending several e mails to the seller.
He has now has given me a retaliation negative feedback. E bay should not allow this sort of thing. I had a 100% rating and if you looked at my feedback you would see that i am an excellent buyer and now i have my first neg and very unjustly. If you look at his you will see the same old thing time after time. If someone's service is bad you should be able to say so without fear of this sort of thing.
Anyone else suffered this sort of thing with e bay?
BTW steer clear of this seller!

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Sometime ago, I needed a reliable and relatively modern car and I was bidding on a lovely looking BMW 530i Touring (I know, I know, be gentle on me....) and the auction ran till the end and I won the item.

Keen to get my hands on the car I mailed him immediately to arrange payment and collection, but got no response till approx two weeks later where he said he had sold the car privately when the auction was still live, but had forgotten to end the item early on the auction.

I therefore left negative feedback on the basis of poor communication and timewasting which I thought was justified, but the he retaliated by giving me negative and called ME a TIMEWASTER..... eh? what?

I lodged a dispute with e-bay to have the negative removed, and it was removed on the condition I removed mine too.....(Compromised withdrawal I think they call it)

Justice? Non!!

I just put it down to experience now, I think the best way to assess someone's e-bay buying/selling trustworthiness is to study their past transactions and base your opinions on that, rather than just the odd negative feedback....

This chaps record for slow delivery and non communication is in his prior feedback.
With easter and weekends the elapsed time was about eleven wkg days.
His neg response to your neg was somewhat predictable.
Ramon

There is one sneaky way to avoid it

iirc feedback can only be left up to 90 days after the item ended. Just leave yours on the 89th day

Dont get me started on ebay, the one biggest failing with them is that its open to anyone! Lunatics murderes etc, and to be honest as a individual you are a very small cog in a huge wheel , Ive used ebays complaints dept in the past when one guy who I refused to sell a item to outside of ebay (but welcomed him to bid for it) lost it and started sending threatening and abusive messages. However their complains dept is all computerised and unless you follow there proceedure in a certain way then it just gets stuck and nothing is done

So from now on I ignore them, plus to be honest with the millions of pounds they make every year one discruntled punter is small fry, a bit like british gas (thats another rant!)

Way of the world unfortunatly, you cant take on the big boys and win! So act defensivly.

At the moment I am awaiting a declal I ordered 3 weeks ago which he claims must have been lost in the post twice!

K5 you can leave a reply to his feedback which all can see when they look at your rating .

Amazingly enough the item I wanted arrived the next day after I threatened to complain, strange isnt it!

This is rapidly turning into a nighmare purchase. I got my old stereo out and plugged in this new one and nothing! Totally dead. I plugged the old back in it was working perfectly. Now i have to wait for him to get back to me and argue the toss over this i suppose.

No surprise im having problems on ebay too.I bidded on a rover 3500 Single plenum.The listing was on ebay all the time.It kept getting re-listed due to bidders not reaching the reserve.It was listed recently and i put a bid on it about 20 hours before it ended.I was the only bidder(I suppose everyone else got sick of it(?)He lowered the reserve and I BET the reserve by £1(So technically he should sell it to me as policy)Moments before it ended he pulled the listing INCLUDING MY BIDS. I ask why and he said "he has relisted it".Where's the justice in that?It's bullshit!

COMPLETE TIMEWASTER!