Came across this eBay listing, and was struck by the terms in the first block of text in the blue box - where the seller outlines his terms & conditions. What do you guys think?
What’s your point?
no big deal. I read it to say that it will cost more to ship internationally and you’ll need to wait for an invoice.
I’m no expert on HOn3 but $42 seems pretty steep for a set of trucks.
It’s actually 6 pairs of trucks - 12 in all, and probably 6 more than I’d need. What I was getting at was the attitude in the piece - ‘I’ll ship by my schedule, don’t give me negative feedback, etc.’ - I’ve never seen anything like it on Ebay. It’s like he’s telling off his buyers before they bid.
I think it is not worth thinking about. I’ve got real mysteries to solve.
Great looking trucks.
tbdanny,
apparently, your stomach is trying to tell you something - otherwise, you would not have posted the question. Just stay away from the offer!
Simply put,I would pass this seller by…There’s absolutely no reason to hold shipment after the item is paid for.I have ship the following day after receiving payment.
Up to you if you want to do business with a person who come across as being preemptively aggressive/ defensive. I guess it depends on how bad you want whatever he is selling, and your assessment of the likelihood of anything going sour during the transaction.
Me - nah - I don’t want soup bad enough to want to deal with a “soup nazi” .
Smile,
Stein
Wow, this ebay seller is within his rights…but what a self-absorbed block head!
I’ve been in your situation before: Hard to get item that you may have been looking for and the one seller that has it acts like a government bureaucrat! This guy sounds like he’s been chewing on rusty screws. I’d pass him up as chances are sooner or later that type of item will show up again with a “reasonable” seller.
What a bonehead…If this is ‘relaxation in retirement’ leave me out of it…
When I first read your post and checked the eBay listing, I thought you were referring to the first paragraph of text in the blue box and didn’t get your point. After reading through the responses to this post, I went back and read the entire text in the blue box. As I read the first few paragraphs, I thought what’s the big deal. As I read on, I fgured the seller must have been burned in the past and wanted to be sure that all bidders understood his terms and conditions. Pretty typical for seasoned sellers on eBay. But, by time that I finished reading the text in the blue box, I was laughing my head off. Not a business, just a retiree listing some stuff, doesn’t need your bid, take it or leave it on his terms, doesn’t care if you bid or not. In my eBay experience, that is pretty unusual. But, hey, to each, his own.
Rich
O M G !!! What a self righteous little git! If he really doesn´t need to sell, then why does even EBAY let him be a seller when he makes his own rules!
Retired? Bah, I think he misspelled retar¤…
I sometimes have a hard time understanding people on this forum.
The seller has 3559 feedback posts, and they’re 99.8% postive. Clearly there are over 3000 folks who have dealt with him, successfully. Call me nutty, but maybe there’s a bit of an over-reaction going on here.
I’d order from him.
While this guy is a bit blunt, I don’t find his terms unreasonable. It also sounds like he is not in a position to visit the post office or the UPS/FedEx depot every day. I can understand the insistence on trackable shipments.
As a StarWars character might have said “Buy. Or buy not. There is no whine.”
The guys probably been burned before and knows how he wants to work. Get over it, bid, don’t bid, move on.
Seriously, what is your point? You are just giving him free advertising. Which seems like an odd way to register disapproval.
I think it’s time for people to stop posting complaints on these forums about what appears on e-Bay – if you don’t like it, ignore it.
OK, nothing new here. The guy is within his rights to set terms and conditions and as a previous poster put it I guess if the fellow has over 3,000 people happy with him he must be doing SOMETHING right—[sigh][:-^]
I guess someone always has to be on a grump about something or other[|(]
MRGS makes some very fine HOn3 equipment, including passenger cars and trucks that are accurate models and are somewhat sought after. If you follow the links to his store, you can probably order the quantities you want at retail instead of going through an auction.
As a part-time eBay seller, I generally don’t put such discouraging words in my listings. But I know sellers who do because of problems they have had in the past. When an auction ends, I have had folks pay before I could send them an invoice (usually within 2 hours), and then I have had those who don’t pay for a week. A very few of the early payers have sent less than the advertised shipping costs in hopes (I think) that I will relent and charge them less. Not a pleasant follow-up e-mail to write.
Nor is it pleasant to have to send a follow-up e-mail requesting payment a week after the invoice. I always wonder, especially if the auction concluded at a good price for me, if buyer’s remorse has set in and the buyer is looking for an excuse to renege - such as claiming he never received my invoice, or having the e-mail bounce.
The bright spot has always been my foreign buyers. I am thankful for them; the transactions have invariably gone very well. Unfortunately, if I select flat rate shipping within the US, eBay listing software preselects flat rate for international. International flat rate is always higher than other means, so I have to invoice any foreign buyers with computed actual shipping after an auction win. For small items to Canada, shipping is often no more than in the US. Most of my interested foreign buyers contact me for shipping costs during the auction.
just my experiences
Fred W