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·Just yesterday, I picked up a eBay purchase ( a second hand transmission for my Ute)
I payed the seller in cash, as requested by the seller, it was also in my interest as if it wasn’t up to scratch, on inspection, I would’ve just walked away and not gone through all the palaver on getting my money back.
Anyway by the time I got home he’d canceled the sale with eBay, stating the the cancellation was due to a cancellation request by the buyer.
I had made no such request, and as I’d paid and taken the thing away with me. I’d say the sale is final.
Now obviously ol’ mate was doing the dirty on eBay by not paying fees, and not having a go at me.
The moral of this story is dodgy shit goes on all over eBay all the time, sometimes it’s aimed at the seller, sometimes it aimed at eBay and sometimes it’s aimed at the buyer. Some would argue that eBay aims dodgy shit at everyone.
But they have to calculate a win/loss ratio to come up with a formula of protection of both sellers and buyers without making the platform unworkable and overbearing for it’s users. They also have to protect themselves and their profits. ( I must add that they seem to do a better job at this) 😁
Now I don’t feel sorry for eBay having to go to all the trouble ( I’d take that sort of lucrative trouble on any day of the week and twice on Sundays)
But they’re never going to achieve perfection or anything vaguely near it, their machine is too big and unwieldily for this, but at least it is profitable! And that’s all they really give a shit about. Let’s face it’s that’s all most of their customers care about too.
It may not be just or fair, but the reality is that greed rules.
One bright note is that the transmission is already in the Ute and it runs like Phar Lap!
( all you non Aussie members will have to look that up)
I payed the seller in cash, as requested by the seller, it was also in my interest as if it wasn’t up to scratch, on inspection, I would’ve just walked away and not gone through all the palaver on getting my money back.
Anyway by the time I got home he’d canceled the sale with eBay, stating the the cancellation was due to a cancellation request by the buyer.
I had made no such request, and as I’d paid and taken the thing away with me. I’d say the sale is final.
Now obviously ol’ mate was doing the dirty on eBay by not paying fees, and not having a go at me.
The moral of this story is dodgy shit goes on all over eBay all the time, sometimes it’s aimed at the seller, sometimes it aimed at eBay and sometimes it’s aimed at the buyer. Some would argue that eBay aims dodgy shit at everyone.
But they have to calculate a win/loss ratio to come up with a formula of protection of both sellers and buyers without making the platform unworkable and overbearing for it’s users. They also have to protect themselves and their profits. ( I must add that they seem to do a better job at this) 😁
Now I don’t feel sorry for eBay having to go to all the trouble ( I’d take that sort of lucrative trouble on any day of the week and twice on Sundays)
But they’re never going to achieve perfection or anything vaguely near it, their machine is too big and unwieldily for this, but at least it is profitable! And that’s all they really give a shit about. Let’s face it’s that’s all most of their customers care about too.
It may not be just or fair, but the reality is that greed rules.
One bright note is that the transmission is already in the Ute and it runs like Phar Lap!
( all you non Aussie members will have to look that up)
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