C70 T5 GT with lots of goodies!

[saturnuranus]

It's rubbish - as a seller I hate eBay. Once you open your dispute you have to then give the buyer a certain amount of additional days to respond. If you sell the car in the meantime and your buyer does eventually repond before you can close out and get your fees refunded, he is (technically) well within his eBay rights to dump you with a negative feedback. Getting such a mark removed by eBay is nigh on impossible. They really have ruined it for private low-volume sellers in recent years.

[cookie]

There are so many car dealers that use Ebay to get stock, that chances of a genuine sale are probably well under 50%

Dealers will have 20-30 accounts all with 10-20 feedback (created by selling stuff to themselves for pennies) they then see something they want, decide what they want to pay (say 800 quid) and then put in max bid of say 8000 quid, they are then Gt'eed to knock everyone else out, and bids still go silly in last few minutes, making it look genuine (often they will put in a bid on another account for say 700 quid an hour or so B4 auction ends, If bidding goes above what they want, they just ignore, if it goes a bit over, they may turn up and haggle, if they get it for what they want (or less) they buy it.

Heads they win, Tails You loose, Ebay made the rules that no negative feedback can be left by a seller, so dealers just exploite it, and will leave you negative feedback if you dispute, usually something about car not as described, didn't say that xyz fault existed, (even though they have never even seen car) you then relist, people look at your feedback, are put off by that comment, he then wins auction for far less next time round, using a different account

[volvot5turbo]

Originally Posted by Tubby Doorman

Yea, I know what you're saying. In all fairness, I've always been lucky with PH. Never had any problems. I must admit, I think autotrader is a rip off these days. This is the 1st and last time I've tried eBay. What these idiots don't consider when putting fake bids in is that it costs the seller to list. I'm now £17 out of pocket. I also fail to see why they do it as it gains them absolutely nothing!!

On a brighter note I do have someone coming to look at the car tomorrow so fingers crossed. It needs to sell soon as I'm starting to get the 'why am I selling this car' thoughts!! Lol.

haha...had that with mine ( http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...=STRK:MEUSX:IT )

had offers of £1,000, £1,500 and £2,000........then i fell into starting to get the 'why am I selling this car' thoughts!! .....so delisted and best choice I have made....I cant sell it and wont....offer me £3,000 and i wont sell.....I just cant.....

[Tubby Doorman]

Well if my time wasting buyer wants to leave me negative feedback then that's fine by me. I think the majority of eBay users are clued up about how these strange people feel the need to bid on something they have no intention of following through on!

Anyhoo, just sold the car, taken a deposit and they're coming back on Wednesday to collect!

[AndysR]

Well done let's hope this time the seller comes and collects it :-)

[Tubby Doorman]

She's gone! ( Was a sad sight to see her drive away from me but onwards and upwards!!!

[steve howes]

well done !hope it's gone to a good home ,it was a beautiful example