eBay sucks
Posted: May 19 19, 4:04 pm
Especially for selling. Bought a new phone, sold my old one - I'd had it less than a year, and it was locked to Boost. The title of the item said this, and I made sure to mark it as such.
Sold it once, and the guy kept asking for weird things, like a video of it being turned off and on, before deciding, a week after the end of bidding, that he didn't want it any more. I got my fee refunded by eBay for that one, and the guy got a strike against him. Sale two - the buyer said he couldn't pay for two weeks, and said I could cancel if I liked, so I did. Sale three - after I'd mailed it, the buyer said "hey, it says it's locked to Boost. Is that right?" So I said yes, and the title of the item even said that. Quite clear.
It arrives, and the guy threatens me - "you'd better get this phone unlocked, or I'll make things difficult for you". I made sure to ask him if the phone looked and worked alright, and he said yes, because he's a [expletive] idiot who doesn't know how to play the game. I tried to get it unlocked, Boost refused (I'd not had it for a year) and that was that, I thought. But now the guy has opened a dispute saying the phone is faulty, saying that I changed the description, blah blah blah.
The sad thing is, despite it being 100% his fault for not reading the description, there's a very good chance eBay will side with him. If they do, I'm done with it. I'd rather burn my stuff than [expletive] with eBay again.
Sold it once, and the guy kept asking for weird things, like a video of it being turned off and on, before deciding, a week after the end of bidding, that he didn't want it any more. I got my fee refunded by eBay for that one, and the guy got a strike against him. Sale two - the buyer said he couldn't pay for two weeks, and said I could cancel if I liked, so I did. Sale three - after I'd mailed it, the buyer said "hey, it says it's locked to Boost. Is that right?" So I said yes, and the title of the item even said that. Quite clear.
It arrives, and the guy threatens me - "you'd better get this phone unlocked, or I'll make things difficult for you". I made sure to ask him if the phone looked and worked alright, and he said yes, because he's a [expletive] idiot who doesn't know how to play the game. I tried to get it unlocked, Boost refused (I'd not had it for a year) and that was that, I thought. But now the guy has opened a dispute saying the phone is faulty, saying that I changed the description, blah blah blah.
The sad thing is, despite it being 100% his fault for not reading the description, there's a very good chance eBay will side with him. If they do, I'm done with it. I'd rather burn my stuff than [expletive] with eBay again.