Hello everybody, I joined this forum just so I could vent about ebay before my head explodes.
I recently tried to sell a PC but found the pages were spammed by companies selling literally thousands of similar items burying my item so even though it was competitively priced i knew it wouldn't sell.
Okay, since I had sellers fees to pay when I had no chance of selling my item I wanted to complain but of course ebay make it impossible to actually do that in a meaningful way.
I was already amazed at the 10% final value fee and then they charge you again for selling and again if you use Paypal which you have to offer. What a rip off.
Never mind, I decided to sell privately and got a buyer immediately who wanted to pay through paypal - they sent the money and delivery address -Nigeria!
I wondered why they were offering £80 shipping and I replied that was far too much, doh!
My stupid fault for assuming they were in the UK so we had a chat and I was to find out the cost of shipping and they would send the extra money or we would cancel the transaction if it were over £80 more.
All this happened last night so this morning I awoke ready to get to the post office and get the exact cost of shipping but before doing so checked my email.
What I found was this nasty little email from paypals accountants;
"This is to notify you that funds has been made available to your account from name withheld Any failure to respond to this notification you will be liable to a fine of £2000:00 GBP. Also your account will be BLOCKED in line with PayPal New Anti Fraud Policy"
This came with a link that didn't even work where I was supposed to send the details of postage.
I wanted to climb in the monitor and grab these little chicken necks by the throat since I had been up until 2AM in the morning trying to help my buyer including letting them know I would pay any cancellation costs if I couldn't deliver. So basically they were threatening me and giving me a 12 hour deadline even though the payment was on hold until the transaction was completed and it was the first hour of the first working day I had sent the invoice.
That was enough for me to convince me what a third rate bunch of [problem] artists ebay and Paypa are (one and the same - just another way to fleece people)
So I went immediately to ebay to close my account and after jumping through hoops got to the final confirmation to close my account only to be told that since I just paid the fee for NOT selling my item I had to wait 30 days to close my account! Paypal samee thing, have to wait before I get rid of these parasites too.
I guess ebay must still work for some private sellers and good luck to them, I, quite literally, can not close my account quick enough!
Good riddance ebay and Paypal.
