Michael Hodgson Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 If I so much as look at a listing on ebay and decide it's of no interest, I am now getting hassled with messages telling me to bid for it because the listing is about to finish. All very well to remind me about something I might be watching, but it's just plain nuisance to tell me about stuff that I dismiised out of hand as soon as I looked at it. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hayfield Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 Michael Not just an eBay issue, Amazon and other online businesses seem to be as bad. I can accept it for items that one buys regularly, but for one off items Bits have a lot to answer for 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold teaky Posted March 9, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 9, 2023 2 hours ago, Michael Hodgson said: If I so much as look at a listing on ebay and decide it's of no interest, I am now getting hassled with messages telling me to bid for it because the listing is about to finish. All very well to remind me about something I might be watching, but it's just plain nuisance to tell me about stuff that I dismiised out of hand as soon as I looked at it. Have you tried deleting your Recently Viewed items to see if that cures the problem? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 3 minutes ago, teaky said: Have you tried deleting your Recently Viewed items to see if that cures the problem? Yes that does work, but its easier to delete the spam than to delete the viewed items every time you look at anything. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium mezzoman253 Posted March 9, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 9, 2023 Not sure if this a new trend or not, but I've seen several listings recently (not the same vendor) that say, for instance, " Bachmann OBA wagon EWS x 3" in the header. But when you go to the description it's "3 available", each, at the price shown, not 3 for the price displayed. Also purchase history has changed format, and I'm getting ad's in between my watch list items, doesn't sit well with me. Fine at start or end, but not interspersed between my list items. Will they ever stop tinkering. 😒 Rob 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hayfield Posted March 27, 2023 Share Posted March 27, 2023 The thing that really irritates me is when eBay inform you that the item has been dispatched, when clearly someone has just bought a postage label from them Yesterday afternoon I bought some wheels, I suppose in theory in the afternoon they could have found a local Post office open (ours in the village CooP did open on a Sunday, but last night very soon after paying I got confirmation it had been dispatched (I did not pay till 7:51pm Hopefully both will be in the post today and arrive Wed or Thurs which is fine by me. But why can't they just say postage label supplied ? 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted March 27, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 27, 2023 It is really annoying but if you check the status it should say ‘accepted into the postal system’ once the seller has taken It to the post office and it’s been scanned in by Royal Mail 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John M Upton Posted March 27, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 27, 2023 When I post something, I mark as dispatched as soon as I have put it in the post box which happens to be almost outside my front door which has been two in the morning on the odd occasion... When it is actually collected by the Postie, well that requires the usages of séance and a Ouija board to work that out.... 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hayfield Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 11 hours ago, John M Upton said: When I post something, I mark as dispatched as soon as I have put it in the post box which happens to be almost outside my front door which has been two in the morning on the odd occasion... When it is actually collected by the Postie, well that requires the usages of séance and a Ouija board to work that out.... Our post boxes do not accept parcels, up to large letters only!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold RFS Posted March 28, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 28, 2023 22 hours ago, hayfield said: The thing that really irritates me is when eBay inform you that the item has been dispatched, when clearly someone has just bought a postage label from them. I've been sending parcels recently using online postage and have the postie collect the parcel from me. I use the Tracked 48 service, and when I purchase the service online I immediately get a tracking number. So once the parcel is packed up and ready to collect I add the tracking number to the item which marks it as dispatched. If the seller wants to track the item they can look it up on the Royal Mail site, which will say "seller has advised they are sending the item to us". Once the postie has picked it up (which is usually the following day) it will then get scanned again when he gets back to the depot at which point the status will show "we have your item". This process all seems fine to me. I do see a problem when the seller is not using a tracked service, and the item is marked as dispatched almost as soon as I've purchased it. It then arrives 5-6 days later .... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 Quite often these tracking services fail to record the delivery, so if you enquire on the tracking it still says it's en route, even though you've got the goods. If they haven't got some other evidence of delivery such as a photo or a signature this is potentially open to dishonest allegations of non-delivery. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 2 hours ago, hayfield said: Our post boxes do not accept parcels, up to large letters only!! There's quite a bit of variation in the size of pillar box openings. I can't get a large letter into the cast iron one at the end of street unless the documents bend a little, but I can get much wider small parcels up to about 22 thick into the one opposite the community centre. And of course during the IRA letter bombs period, they plated over many of the boxes so you could only post a very thin letter. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold RFS Posted March 28, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 28, 2023 17 minutes ago, Michael Hodgson said: Quite often these tracking services fail to record the delivery, so if you enquire on the tracking it still says it's en route, even though you've got the goods. If they haven't got some other evidence of delivery such as a photo or a signature this is potentially open to dishonest allegations of non-delivery. I use Royal Mail Tracked 48 No Signature. Proof of posting is a picture of the parcel being delivered. Not had any issues at all using this service over recent months and I've sold quite a few items this way. One issue I have had is with deliveries from Evri, where the parcel is just left on the doorstep. On several occasions the the tracking result shows a photo of our parcel on someone else's doorstep! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 Royal Mail are equally bad , signed for by recipient but picture of wrong parcel! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hayfield Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 1 hour ago, RFS said: I've been sending parcels recently using online postage and have the postie collect the parcel from me. I use the Tracked 48 service, and when I purchase the service online I immediately get a tracking number. So once the parcel is packed up and ready to collect I add the tracking number to the item which marks it as dispatched. If the seller wants to track the item they can look it up on the Royal Mail site, which will say "seller has advised they are sending the item to us". Once the postie has picked it up (which is usually the following day) it will then get scanned again when he gets back to the depot at which point the status will show "we have your item". This process all seems fine to me. I do see a problem when the seller is not using a tracked service, and the item is marked as dispatched almost as soon as I've purchased it. It then arrives 5-6 days later .... I am not talking about people buying online postage BUT THE MESSAGE FROM eBay THAT THE ITEM HAS BEEN DISPATCHED. What has happened is that eBay has supplied a postage label. ( I have no problem with this at all). But at 7pm on a Sunday the item could never be dispatched unless the seller has put the item into a letter box, very difficult to achieve with a 4mm scale kit built loco especially within 15 mins of paying The message should be postage label supplied Once the item is in the postal system, then the buyer should confirm its been dispatched Please do keep buying postage labels via eBay if you wish, even ask Royal Mail to collect. But please don't think the item has been dispatched if all you have done is buy a label 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium mezzoman253 Posted March 31, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 31, 2023 (edited) Odd occurence this morning. I go to my saved searches, the 1st of which is Bachmann class 158. I'm getting all sorts of DMU's in that search instead of just the 158's. Next one is Bachmann class 37, and get variuos diesels including 37's. Same for class 47, but the other searches are OK. See grab of the 158 pages. Are they changing the searches gradually, or is it a glitch? Edited March 31, 2023 by mezzoman253 Spelling Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hayfield Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 6 minutes ago, mezzoman253 said: Odd occurence this morning. I go to my saved searches, the 1st of which is Bachmann class 158. I'm getting all sorts of DMU's in that search instead of just the 158's. Next one is Bachmann class 37, and get variuos diesels including 37's. Same for class 47, but the other searches are OK. See grab of the 158 pages. Are they changing the searches gradually, or is it a glitch? I think they alter the criteria over time and of course they promote the lots where sellers pay extra to promote them I have found searches are far less focused these days as they add extra things in. If I ask for a "p4" search than as well as p4 items you will get other items with p or 4 in which have nothing to do with p4. Its something you will have to live with 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium mezzoman253 Posted March 31, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 31, 2023 23 minutes ago, hayfield said: I think they alter the criteria over time and of course they promote the lots where sellers pay extra to promote them I have found searches are far less focused these days as they add extra things in. If I ask for a "p4" search than as well as p4 items you will get other items with p or 4 in which have nothing to do with p4. Its something you will have to live with Thanks for the reply. I looked at nthe eBay forum and see loads of complaints similar to mine and other gripes. Whereas I had perhaps 100 or so hits for a particular search, it's now showing over 5000. If I try and narrow it down by using speech marks for the exact wording I get no hits at all. 😒 Hey Ho! Rob 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bucoops Posted March 31, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 31, 2023 An annoying one I've started seeing is I regularly search for Markits. Which it started changing to Markita with no option to override. Now it finally does allow me to change it back, but if it gets results why does it even change it! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John M Upton Posted March 31, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 31, 2023 Another recent change with ebay searching in the last couple of weeks is my default of presenting my search results with the newly listed first is now all over the place with other listings being put up top or in among the new ones. I now have to go to advanced search settings every time to put it back to what it should be. Also recently I have found ebay to be very slow using the proper website version and with the categories I am trying to search within wavering off on a tangent in completely the wrong direction. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Rich_F Posted March 31, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 31, 2023 6 minutes ago, John M Upton said: Another recent change with ebay searching in the last couple of weeks is my default of presenting my search results with the newly listed first is now all over the place with other listings being put up top or in among the new ones. I now have to go to advanced search settings every time to put it back to what it should be. Also recently I have found ebay to be very slow using the proper website version and with the categories I am trying to search within wavering off on a tangent in completely the wrong direction. ebay on the mobile app defaults to closest recongisable word closest to my search. So instead of searching "HO GP7" for example, it will default to "HP GPU" & then give me computing results instead of locos. No way to get rid unless I use the full blown desktop site 🙄 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talltim Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 (edited) It doesn't for me. It sometimes autocorrects to the wrong thing, but I can change it Edited March 31, 2023 by Talltim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bucoops Posted March 31, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 31, 2023 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/325592373192 Ok, it's Falcon so potentially unbuildable. No tender etches. And HOW MUCH?! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium uax6 Posted March 31, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 31, 2023 And only the etches, no castings to go with it... I wonder if Dart Castings would supply them from the Falcon masters that they look after? Andy G Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bucoops Posted March 31, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 31, 2023 1 minute ago, uax6 said: And only the etches, no castings to go with it... I wonder if Dart Castings would supply them from the Falcon masters that they look after? Andy G The last I recall is the moulds and or masters were a right mess. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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