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2 minutes ago, Enterprisingwestern said:
I'll not hold my breath then?
Mike.
Possibly not. But on this occasion the seller's infraction would potentially cost Ebay money...and that tends to get them out of bed even if nothing else will.
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3 hours ago, John M Upton said:
...and I just reported it for attempting to sell items outside of eBay.
This is fun!
I've reported him too...again. It seems the screw is just a placeholder that gives him an Ebay page that he can then use to advertise what he's really got for sale on Facebook Marketplace. I told this to the Ebay rep on LIve Chat and this is what she said...
I have finished my investigation and I guarantee you that we have documented the details you’ve shared regarding the item and I have forwarded this to concerned team for investigation. They will take action on the seller.
The action we take may include formal warnings, temporary account restrictions and indefinite suspension, depending on the severity of the policy breach.
The schadenfreude overfloweth!
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2 hours ago, Bucoops said:
An auction starting at £5.00 for a f**king SCREW!!!? This guy goes in the Mendacious Chisellers' Hall of Fame!
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He's back again. I've really got under this bloke's skin...
Car breakers do it, list a photo of the car, say all parts are for sale elsewhere, winning bidder will receive a bolt if they Bid on the listing. Saves creating multiple listings.
Two wrongs don't make a right chummy and I referred him to the fact that Ebay had agreed with me when I reported it.
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1 hour ago, NHY 581 said:
That one made me see red. I messaged him...
Your listing is "00 Gauge Model Locomotives", There are pictures of six different locomotives. But despite all that, you're auctioning a SCREW?
This listing is downright misleading and I'm reporting it to Ebay as such.
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This listing's been pulled too. I'm on a roll today!
He's responded...
Not as such. I showed Bachmann & Hornby model locomotives for illustrative purposes, clearly stating they weren't for sale.
I said on listing, to look at FB (Facebook) marketplace.
To comply with Ebay, any winning bidder would receive a Bachmann body screw as shown in the photo.
However, I have now ended the listing.To which I replied...
Oh come on!! If you'd thought the way you'd advertised A SCREW was just fine, you wouldn't have pulled the listing the instant I told you I was reporting it. I actually did report it using the Live Chat feature before I realised you'd pulled it and they agreed with me when I sent them the link.
He responded again with an incredible explanation of what he'd done...
No one else has had a problem with the listing.
I purely used it as a different means of advertising....to which I further replied...
Well Ebay wasn't impressed with your "different means of advertising" and it's an interesting defence. If this were anywhere but online I doubt the Advertising Standards Authority would have accepted it.
Definitely a mendacious chiseller grasping at straws whilst drowning in his own mendacity.
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11 minutes ago, MrWolf said:
As it's got a hole in it, I'd guess it's Polo Mint condition.
I've messaged him and now the listing has been pulled "because of an error".
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Here's someone else who doesn't know what 'mint' condition means:
Take a look at the roof of one of these and then tell me it's mint!
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And here it is. Finished at last! From this:
To this:
And this is the original:
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13 hours ago, John M Upton said:
Contacted the seller for this one, picture of the box, no sign of any pictures of the contents!!!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/385494124206
If all he's going to do is give you a picture of the box, I'd offer him the price that's written on it. £2 15s 0d
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19 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said:
Talking of which, what's that Murdoch bloke got?
Is he attracting women with irons?
Not irons. Money. Simples.
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9 minutes ago, The Johnster said:
Any proposed change to the law in favour of the buyer will elicit vociferous and powerful lobbying against it on the basis that normal business will be irreversably damaged by such legislation, in the same way as protests against raising minimum wage or establishing tenants rights. Call me cynical, but...
Absolutely. Such arguments were presumably levelled at those who wanted to abolish slavery. "How am I going to run my business at a profit if I have to pay these people". Arguments for 'deregulation' are nowadays being peddled by those on the right of politics...and for the very same reason...because it's more profitable to destroy our environment than it is to do the right thing by our children and grandchildren. How these laissez-faire capitalist sociopaths sleep at night I have no idea.
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6 minutes ago, Weeny Works said:
As expected, selection of my old OO vehicles Halden Yard bought & has now "rusted up" & is selling for an extortionate amount!
They've not done a very convincing job of turning them rusty either. A classic example of weathering done from the imagination rather than photographs. Those prices are very silly too.
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They're certainly a law unto themselves:
Mendacious chisellers - they're not interested.
Counterfeit goods - they're not interested.
Misrepresentation - they're not interested.
Dishonest statements of origin - they're not interested.
The only thing they are interested in is raking in the cash and if that means accepting business from sellers who espouse one or more of the above vices, then so be it.
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8 hours ago, The Johnster said:
I suspect the problem here is that he will be aware that there is no actual legal or contractual obligation conferrred by the term 'brand new'; it's meaningless in that sense. G will no doubt claim that he is using this term to describe an item that is, in his opinion, in the same condition as it was when it was new. He is entitled to claim this as his opinion, just as I am entitled to consider him a prince (well, the first three letters are the same) among mendacious chisellers.
I cannot see why anybody on this site, where we know pretty well what he's like, bothers even looking at his stuff any more (and he's not the only one!). It seems a waste of time beyond the 'look at what that idiot G is doing now'; there's a degree of entertainment value, but the joke is stale now, and to be honest, I'm just tired of him and his shennanigans. We have, I contend, a duty to make newcomers aware of him and his ilk, but I'm bored with people apparently being constantly surprised at his attempts to sell junk at inflated prices. It's what he does, don't give him the oxygen of publicity, or any more of the oxygen of oxygen that you have to...
You may have a point. Go$tude's antics are as predictable as tomorrow's sunrise.
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He's either going to belt up now, or report me to Ebay for being disrespectful. If he does that, I'll be reporting him for being a mendacious chiseller!
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20 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said:
I've got my popcorn at the ready!
Mike.
He did finally get back to me with this nonsense...
Unfortunately at this occasion we cannot sell this for £12.50, our price will not be reduced further.
Age certainly adds value to collectives. Specifically when the item is rare or difficult to find.He also seems not to know what the correct word for 'collectables' is either, on top of everything else. I respond, this time, rather pissed off at the man's ludicrous justification for a stupid price...
Age has no effect on the price of a model if it's still available to buy from the manufacturer. This wagon is not a "collectable", it's a current model, in the catalogue, neither rare nor difficult to find as you pretend; your example is simply old. I have, in fact, now bought one from Finecast for the correct price of £12.50 plus £4.00 postage*, itself half of what you're charging. Your wafer thin justification for the scandalous price of £79.50, therefore, is hogwash. The real reason is far simpler.
You're greedy, preying on the ignorant and expecting to get away with it.*I lied.
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This is the finished interior. I found out that there were curtains that came about one third of the way up the windows in the saloon that gives a quite distinctive look from outside so I added a strip of 10thou plasticard on each side of the interior painted in the correct colour to represent them.
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8 minutes ago, SteveyDee68 said:
“I have taken the item off eBay because of your comments”
As if was your fault he was too lazy to get the thing looking the part before he listed it!
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1 hour ago, Enterprisingwestern said:
I've got my popcorn at the ready!
Unfortunately he's not come back to me. I wonder why!
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On 16/03/2023 at 21:16, John Mat said:
Or this:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/304838235272?
You can buy this, or phone Squires (the present owners of SEFinecast) and buy 10 for the same price 🙄
I contacted the seller at the time to tell him this and he seemed to be genuinely concerned because he asked me if I could send him the Finecast pricelist so he could get it right. I did so and he took the information contained therein really seriously and reduced the price from £129 to £79.50. A fine upstanding gentleman* he must be. 😎
*mendacious chiseller looking for an ignorant mug to rip off.
EDT:
I re-contacted him on the back of this "reduction" and said to him that I didn't know why he'd bothered asking me for the correct price. He responded five minutes ago:
Thanks for the message
We have carefully looked into this and reduced our price however we cannot sell this for £12.50 and that’s because the item we have is at lease a decade old and also it is not easy to order this item directly from the website or if it is we suggest you to order directly from them if you are interested in the item.
This listing had a lot of interest from the start of the sale therefore we think this price is a fair price although we may be willing to increase the price further in the near future.I have therefore further responded:
Just because something is old doesn't make it worth more than one which is available now and its 'difficult' availablity from the manufacturer's website has no bearing on the price. The fact that you've had 'interest' only proves those looking at it were ignorant of its actual price. What you're doing is attempting to capitalise on that ignorance and it's contemptible.
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18 minutes ago, Rowsley17D said:
Sale now pulled. Item now lost or broken... no kidding.
BUSTED!
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11 hours ago, Jol Wilkinson said:
Described as "Rare", this could be correct as the chimney is missing and the dome about 1 or 2mm off the boiler, there is probably not another like it. Presumably being sold by someone who doesn't know what the model should look like or is a complete charlatan.
There are more pictures of the box than the model!
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13 hours ago, The Johnster said:
My suspicion would be that he does not actually own the models he is advertising, but will acquire them to order.
Caveat Emptor, just don't buy anything off him.
That sounds very dodgy! I got no reply to my question about whether he had photos of the actual item for sale. This guy's definitely not kosher.
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EBay madness
in Ebay Topics
Posted · Edited by Swissrail
If you open this link...
https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/contact_us?id=4009&st=10
...and then click on the "Chat with our automated assistant" heading in the top left-hand corner of the page, you can put in a summary of what you want to discuss in the chat box that appears in the bottom right-hand corner of your screen and the automated assistant will pass you on to a human being.