Don't you just love eBay and its members....

[enfieldspares]

So there me with trying to sell an old Parker Hale catalogue from 1945 on eBay for £14 plus postage at £5 to cover Recorded Delivery at Large Letter Rate and I get this message...

"I am very interested in the above item. Would you accept a personal cheque in payment? The reason I ask is that I was phished when using Paypal and am therefore very reluctant to use it."

Indeed thinks I. It's a wicked place is eBay. Best to be careful. So I've replied back this...

"Yes I am happy to accept a Postal Order but not a cheque as I too have had issues with cheques."

Let's see what the reply is! Doesn't trust enough to pay me by Paypal but wants me to trust him paying by cheque?

I need a brick wall to bang my head against! Sometimes you get to think that when having a clear out of the attic that you'd be best off just chucking the stuff in the dustbin and saving the aggravation of it all.

 

[Roedeer 1962]

There fees are getting expensive aswell

 

[starr shot]

Just tell them a cheque is fine I’ll post the item once funds have cleared.

 

[mel b3]

As above .
We have a few customers that pay by cheque on ebay , especially older customers that aren't tech savvy. Just make it clear that you'll send the item once the cheque has cleared.
We've also had potential customers ( quite regularly), that have offered to pay with USED , postage stamps . My good lady just points out that the offer is fraudulent, then blocks them.

 

[cjm1066]

Sold a scope, everything was last minute including rejecting it as faulty. Eventually they returned it, well just an envelope with junk mail in it which I didn't register at the time.

Luckly the postman supported my claim, PayPal funded my money ant the buyer was suspended.

 

[HonestJohn]

Sold a scope, everything was last minute including rejecting it as faulty. Eventually they returned it, well just an envelope with junk mail in it which I didn't register at the time.

Luckly the postman supported my claim, PayPal funded my money ant the buyer was suspended.

That’s about exactly what you should expect from eBay, it’s the dark web of common uneducated scum screwing over the cash needy, old and desperate

 

[eldon]

Sold a Ford Mondeo headlight after breaking a full car 10 or 15 years ago. I put collection only.
Buyer contacts me and asks to post at his risk.
I naively agreed, he paid and I sent it.
It arrives and he complains a tab was broken off.
Well it wasn't when I sent it and he accepted postage risk right?
Wrong!
Ebay found in his favour and he stated he wouldn't send it back as postage was too expensive.

A proper scammer, I did a bit of digging and he was blackening the lenses and selling them on for the boy racer brigade. Even the process instructions, which he was also selling, were stolen from someone else as they had the originators car in the pictures.

A total shower of 5h1te.

 

[Stuart Mitchell]

So there me with trying to sell an old Parker Hale catalogue from 1945 on eBay for £14 plus postage at £5 to cover Recorded Delivery at Large Letter Rate and I get this message...

"I am very interested in the above item. Would you accept a personal cheque in payment? The reason I ask is that I was phished when using Paypal and am therefore very reluctant to use it."

Indeed thinks I. It's a wicked place is eBay. Best to be careful. So I've replied back this...

"Yes I am happy to accept a Postal Order but not a cheque as I too have had issues with cheques."

Let's see what the reply is! Doesn't trust enough to pay me by Paypal but wants me to trust him paying by cheque?

I need a brick wall to bang my head against! Sometimes you get to think that when having a clear out of the attic that you'd be best off just chucking the stuff in the dustbin and saving the aggravation of it all.

What was the issue you have had with accepting cheques please?

 

[HonestJohn]

Rule No. 1 with eBay. Lots of pictures
2. Full description
3. No private messages or text
4. PayPal via eBay only
5. Always used tracked couriers
6. Never sell anything you don’t mind being defrauded for,,,it will likely happen, so don’t sell anything expensive or items that are Meaningful, fragile, etc.
7. Never use eBay

 

[enfieldspares]

What was the issue you have had with accepting cheques please?

Cheques can be reversed even when they appear to have cleared. In some cases a week or more after you've banked them. As at time of being paid in neither you nor your bank can verify if the cheque is all correct. It a paper promissory instrument is not the same as an electronic transfer of funds. Plus of course I have the botheration of either posting it to my bank or since my local branch closed driving into Leicester and paying to park my car.

The other eBay cheque thing was the successful buyer "accidentally" sending a seller a cheque for the wrong (greater) amount and asking them to accept it, send the goods, and refund the difference to the buyer by a bank transfer from you to them. I am not saying this is the case and it won't be as noted as I've said Postal Order only.

 

[Stuart Mitchell]

Cheques can be reversed even when they appear to have cleared. In some cases a week or more after you've banked them. As at time of being paid in neither you nor your bank can verify if the cheque is all correct. It a paper promissory instrument is not the same as an electronic transfer of funds. Plus of course I have the botheration of either posting it to my bank or since my local branch closed driving into Leicester and paying to park my car.

The other eBay cheque thing was the successful buyer "accidentally" sending a seller a cheque for the wrong (greater) amount and asking them to accept it, send the goods, and refund the difference to the buyer by a bank transfer from you to them. I am not saying this is the case and it won't be as noted as I've said Postal Order only.

Thank you.

 

[chriswjx]

Plus of course I have the botheration of either posting it to my bank or since my local branch closed driving into Leicester and paying to park my car.

Interesting, would you be willing to share which bank you are with? Both of mine (HSBC and BoS) have started to allow cheques to be banked in using their app. App takes a picture of the front and back of the cheque.

 

[enfieldspares]

HSBC for cheques. I don't do "Apps" for banking I never have and never will.Online yes from a laptop in my house an a keypad device with my other bank but also no "Apps" with that either. I worked abroad for twenty four years. Too much risk if your device is stolen or even not stolen but compromised with "Apps".

 

[Tim.243]

So there me with trying to sell an old Parker Hale catalogue from 1945 on eBay for £14 plus postage at £5 to cover Recorded Delivery at Large Letter Rate and I get this message...

"I am very interested in the above item. Would you accept a personal cheque in payment? The reason I ask is that I was phished when using Paypal and am therefore very reluctant to use it."

Indeed thinks I. It's a wicked place is eBay. Best to be careful. So I've replied back this...

"Yes I am happy to accept a Postal Order but not a cheque as I too have had issues with cheques."

Let's see what the reply is! Doesn't trust enough to pay me by Paypal but wants me to trust him paying by cheque?

I need a brick wall to bang my head against! Sometimes you get to think that when having a clear out of the attic that you'd be best off just chucking the stuff in the dustbin and saving the aggravation of it all.

Only had one seller pull the race card regarding an item with the Ebay Admin finding in their corner.
However I got around it as some time later as they chose to send me my £48.00 back on condition I removed the x 2 negative feed back on 2 small items I had brought from them ......Small victory but very sweet.

 

[Bowland blades]

I get enough elderly folks wanting to send me real folding money by post , normally i just find another way to do things . Anyone who has run big pay- rolls will be away that there is a fair amount of the population who still cant gain a bank account and it generally ends up in the employer having to collect and use cash ! As they might well be in positions that are hard to fill!
Sometimes the best most honest customer , just overthinks things and it gets far too complex but there always is an easier way .

 

[enfieldspares]

The cash needy, old and desperate

How rude! I resemble that remark!

 

[opticron1]

I used to use e-bay a lot and still do to purchase motorbike service stuff. Had some very good deals and good folk to deal with in the past, but has become more of a cheap rip off scenario now and I approach it with caution. I'm sure there will be some genuine folk on there, but once you've been scammed, you do get a bit wary!

 

[HonestJohn]

How rude! I resemble that remark!

ok there are also normal sellers, but not many

 

[Pedro]

I've found Ebay isn't full of scammers, but there's certainly a fair few on there. However, if you really want to look for scammers, look on Facebook Marketplace. Chock full of 'em.

Recently I was looking at some VW Tiguans on there. Maybe 4-7 years old. So prices generally in the £15,000 plus region. There were a few for £5,000 and one for £3,600. Bargain! High spec low mileage ones too! However as you would think, too good to be true. I took a look at other things for sale from these upstanding citizens and found a good few more cars, all seriously under priced. What happens is that you contact this good Samaritan of a motor trader and enquire about the car of choice. No, you can't actually see it at present, it's up in Glasgow (or Portsmouth, or somewhere remote from you), but for a deposit we'll hold it for you and when it's back, you can see it. Needless to say, they then disappear. Tell-tale signs when you look at their list of cars for sale is that they all have different backgrounds and not recognisable buildings. Images taken from adverts where those cars had been for sale at one time or another genuinely.

You'd think most people would click that they are dodgy. But they wouldn't be doing it if nobody fell for it.

 

[chriswjx]

I've found Ebay isn't full of scammers, but there's certainly a fair few on there. However, if you really want to look for scammers, look on Facebook Marketplace. Chock full of 'em.

Recently I was looking at some VW Tiguans on there. Maybe 4-7 years old. So prices generally in the £15,000 plus region. There were a few for £5,000 and one for £3,600. Bargain! High spec low mileage ones too! However as you would think, too good to be true. I took a look at other things for sale from these upstanding citizens and found a good few more cars, all seriously under priced. What happens is that you contact this good Samaritan of a motor trader and enquire about the car of choice. No, you can't actually see it at present, it's up in Glasgow (or Portsmouth, or somewhere remote from you), but for a deposit we'll hold it for you and when it's back, you can see it. Needless to say, they then disappear. Tell-tale signs when you look at their list of cars for sale is that they all have different backgrounds and not recognisable buildings. Images taken from adverts where those cars had been for sale at one time or another genuinely.

You'd think most people would click that they are dodgy. But they wouldn't be doing it if nobody fell for it.

Similar chancers are a plenty on Facebook - Just need to see the sheer number of folks who some how have 30 cars to sell, which all have had 1 (or 2 max!) "careful" owners and have "genuine" reasons for sale...