Comments on: eBay customers

By: Lesley Bonney

Lesley Bonney — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:36:25 +0000

Unbelieveable but at least he didn’t pay you with only a fiver…

By: Melissaria

Melissaria — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:04:24 +0000

You think that ebay attracts nutters? You’ve clearly never used Freecycle. This is where you list some old shit that’s not even worth attempting to sell, on the basis that giving it away is less effort than arranging for the council to collect it/taking it to the tip yourself. Invariably you receive 100 sob stories about housebound one-legged children, but decide, on the basis that the stories are probably all bollocks, to give it to the person who will collect and get out of your way soonest. For some reason, this person is almost always a huge, bald, tattooed individual in an enormous white van. And her husband.

Perhaps I need to try the Hampstead Freecycle group instead. I hear you can get a Aga and the contents of last season’s Boden catalogue for free on there…

By: xl

xl — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:14:50 +0000

Having seen the Borat film, it seems like the fellow would have made his wife carry the washing machine.

By: James

James — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:44:50 +0000

@Vikki et al:

As a follow up…

I grassed them up to the powers that be at eBay. They suggested I informed the police, which I didn’t do. They suspended provisuals account, then for some reason unbeknown to me, reinstated it soon after. The guy contacted me asking to mutually withdraw the feedback which I also ignored. Just recently, so maybe 3 months down the line, I was sent another email by them asking to withdraw the feedback, which again I ignored.

The thing is, so they could deliver I obviously gave them my address, which is where my mrs and bambina are right this second.

By: gnarlyswine

gnarlyswine — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:43:09 +0000

“From this point forward, all my subsequent eBay auctions will explicitly dictate a maximum of one single five pound note”

So everything you sell on ebay will have a buy it now option for a fiver?

please let me know when you are selling anything else, it would probably even be worth the international shipping – or Ill ask you to help carry it – across the Atlantic.

By: Lin

Lin — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:17:34 +0000

Having never bought anything on Ebay I think I will stick to the shops.

By: Mr Angry

Mr Angry — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:28:28 +0000

Keef – Yes, I am also worried that he will never be able to install at his end and I will get the blame…

Pete – swap them on a 1:1 ratio? Deal.

James – These items have been an gone I’m afraid, I rarely blog ‘real time’… and having read that post, my only advice is that you really should stop posting pictures of your penis on the Internet.

Vikki – I agree, it deserves some sort of follow-up post.

Billyo – I pay all service industry people with loose shrapnel. They love it.

Keef – I would like to see him extend his repertoire of insults though, don’t you think?

By: Keef

Keef — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:07:54 +0000

Wow James, your own personal nutter, I’m impressed

By: Billyo

Billyo — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:07:35 +0000

Five pound notes are great. Never any problems with Taxi and Bus Drivers taking sharp intakes of breath when you bull out a tenner.

By: Vikki

Vikki — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:37:27 +0000

James – That is unbelievable (yet scarily funny) Did you take it further with eBay?

By: James

James — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:27:02 +0000

1. We need your eBay ID – do you think your readers don’t need to know what you’re selling?

2. Read the lunacy I encountered last year when trying to buy a TV on eBay:

http://jamesspratt.org/blog/2007/10/01/warning-leaving-negative-feedback-on-ebay/

Thankfully, I am not dead yet, but it was on the cards.

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:13:35 +0000

Hey, don’t knock five pound notes. I’d happily swap your fivers for my tenners.

The thing is, you can always get hold of a ten pound note by just going to a cash machine. But what do you do when you need a fiver in a hurry?

By: Keef

Keef — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:12:33 +0000

He probably had no idea what to expect, A washing machine in Kazakstan is most likely a plastic bowl and a pair of bare feet.
Ww sold a dining room display cabinet on eBay, about 7ft wide, 6ft high, 2ft deep made of solid mahogany with a glass front, it weighed a ton. The guy who bought it turned up in a 4×4 but rather than put it in the back he wanted to put it on the roofrack.
It took me, him, my son and my neighbour (who was dumb enough to come out of his front door at the wrong moment) to lift it up onto the roof rack.
He seemed confident though that he was going to lift it off on his own and I found myself wondering if I could be held liable if he ended up crushing himself to death underneath it.