ebay just doesn't stop ripping me off

[red240ne]

1. The Turbo

2. SAFC-- We decided to put it in tonight. We wired everything correctly, we were %99 sure. When we turned it on, the light behind the buttons came on, but the display didn't come up. We rechecked our grounds and everything seemed fine. Then we called a friend up(who has an SAFC) and tried hooking it to his car.....same result. The SAFC is burnt out. woo-hoo

3. Injectors-- I bought some Top Feed 444cc's over a month ago, and I still haven't received them. But the thing is, I didn't buy them through ebay. I bought them straight from the person, and they ended the auction. I don't think the person has even shipped them. They keep emailing me, saying that they shipped them, but haven't given me a tracking number. I received an email saying that they will be out of town for 6 weeks, so whoopee I got screwed again.

Sorry for the dysfunctional grammar, but I just felt like ******ing and moaning.

curt

[C-Kwik]

I've never bought anything from Ebay. I do not plan on ever buying anything from Ebay.

I will say though, I know plenty who have had no problems with Ebay. So it's a shame that you have three bad experiences.

[JohnI3laze]

I've done dozens of EBay auctions and have been burnt only once, to the tune of $50 so I guess I should count myself lucky. I would absolutely NEVER spend more than a couple hundred bucks on ebay. Thats me though. A good general rule for ebay i think is, never spend more then you can afford to lose.

[tl1000sga]

Yeah, I've done a LOT through ebay, buying and selling. I've never been screwed, but you do have to learn what to watch out for. I bought a short throw shifter for a friend of mine for christmas who's civic I built, it broke within 30 min. of installing it. I could've sworn I heard the civic screaming HARDER, HARDER.

The seller is working with me though, so it should get worked out.

Those injectors.....did the auction say you had to be an approved bidder? Why did the guy want to make the deal out of ebay?

[LongIsland240]

I did the majority of my project with ebay parts- fuel pump, fpr, turbo, intercooler, bov, oil fittings, gaskets.....sold well over 1K of stuff off my old car (fund the turbo project) and bought at least that back, never got screwed once. The only issue i ever had was a non paying bidder for a $30 item which i relisted and got $45 for....ebay is great- just be careful and check feedback before you bid.

[MarkEmark]

I've had better luck on ebay than I've had with fellow 240sx owners!

It's been 2 months since Tibor Pazera (fellow 240sx owner) (I posted a buyer beware int he classified section on him) promised to refund me for wheels that he fraudulently advertised-still no payment. Now I'm stuck with wheels I don't need, and I KNOW i'll lose at least $200 when I got to sell him.

The sr injectors I just got had a cracked pintle cap that the buyer (fellow 240sx owner) swears wasn't there when he shipped them out; the other 3 were fine so I have to pay for a new injector...

Where's the 240 brotherhood?!?

[Checkered-Member]

I've done dozens of EBay auctions and have been burnt only once, to the tune of $50 so I guess I should count myself lucky. I would absolutely NEVER spend more than a couple hundred bucks on ebay. Thats me though. A good general rule for ebay i think is, never spend more then you can afford to lose.

I don’t know...I have spent hundreds and hundreds from springs to amplifiers $300+ each... never been "burned" because I do my homework...read the sellers feedback, even the positive ones, see if there is a pattern of late/slow shipping item not exactly as described...and so on...the rule is....never buy from anyone that has 0-10 feedback

[aleph1]

I never understood the whole "never buy [or sell] to any one with a low amount of feedback" I mean, I can see where they are coming from, because its so unsure of their honesty, etc...but thats just retarded. How are people new to ebay supposed to take part if nobody will buy their stuff or nobody will sell to them????

[red240ne]

Yea, I've actually made like 25 ebay purchases/sales, but I only have 6 feedback. A lot of people don't leave feedback. You basically have to be on ebay for a living if you want good feedback.

[Jonny 290]

Quote »How are people new to ebay supposed to take part if nobody will buy their stuff or nobody will sell to them????[/quote]By selling and/or buying low-buck items to get some good feedback and a decent rep. You can't just hop on and sell a 600 buck turbo, for example, with 0 feedback, and expect people to just implicitly trust you.

Would you feel comfortable buying a $5k turbo kit via mail order, for example, from a business who opened up yesterday and nobody knows? Not many people I know would.

[cwc2k1]

ebay definately has it's ups and downs. It can be great for selling a specific item but horrible to purchase the same item. One thing I will 100% recommend AGAINST is selling a vehicle on ebay. I don't doubt that it's been done without problems but unless you have money laying around that's completely disposeable, I would NOT do it (again). I sold a 2-300 dollar car a total of 3 times. Non paying bidder each time. I reported it, filed non paying bidder claims, and had my final value fee refunded each time. My insertion fee however, was NOT refunded. This is a 40 dollar fee that is required to sell any vehicle. Quick math 40*3, ebay ripped me for $120 and I still had the p.o.s. sitting in my driveway. I clearly stated in all auctions that non paying bidders would not be tolerated and even that legal action would be taken against them. I guess no one cares.... OK, sry guys, didn't mean to hijack, just wanted to educate/inform anyone about a small part of egays well hidden dark side and was thrusted into the past filled with bad memories and anger in the process.

[cwc2k1]

Oh yea, egay also has the worst customer service in the world. If you ever have problems and need them, I hope for your sake it's a situation that is easily resolved because even over something simple you have to search for an email address, and when you find it it's back and forth with the emails. This can get quite frustrating with long complicated replys, and half the time the person who'd "helping" you is usually a few fries short of a happy meal. Ebay's customer service has no phone number, NONE, and is almost worthless if you have a real problem and need real assistance. Worthless walstreet f**ks, if another plane hits a building I hope that it's only inhabited by these worthless ****s that sit around and ponder how to screw the average hard working american out of his doller. god damnet I hate corporate america....

[MarkEmark]

Oh yea, egay also has the worst customer service in the world. If you ever have problems and need them, I hope for your sake it's a situation that is easily resolved because even over something simple you have to search for an email address, and when you find it it's back and forth with the emails. This can get quite frustrating with long complicated replys, and half the time the person who'd "helping" you is usually a few fries short of a happy meal. Ebay's customer service has no phone number, NONE, and is almost worthless if you have a real problem and need real assistance. Worthless walstreet f**ks, if another plane hits a building I hope that it's only inhabited by these worthless ****s that sit around and ponder how to screw the average hard working american out of his doller. god damnet I hate corporate america....

I smell communism.....I bet the old Soviet Union's lookin' pretty good right about now, eh? Or even China? lol...jk

That sucks about your cars. And I totally concur with you that a major deficit in a LOT of businesses today is their lack of communication or the complicated avenues they set up to diffuse the communication process. It seems to me that a lot of businesses today are slowly getting away from focusing on the consumer, from whom they gain their profits. It seems any company I call I always get some unknowledgeable salesperson or never get through to anyone at all, and those that prefer email communication rarely respond, thoroughly anyway.

Wow, gotta stop hijacking this thread...

[Turb0wned]

i cant really say ive bought to many things on ebay but i know people that always buy on ebay and i dont remeber anyone getting ripped off...... but yea it is kinda hard to trust which is i guess why i dont buy from there to much even though they got some real good prices

[Cap2501]

I have always found their reputation system fairly reliable. If someone has put the effort into getting 1000 positive feedback they obviously do alot of buisiness on ebay(sometimes as their only job) and It would hurt them more to get negitive feedback(or even lose their account) than to screw you out of a little money.

[Jonny 290]

ebay's feedback system would be so much more worthwhile if i ran it.

each positive feedback is worth 1. each negative feedback cuts your total feedback score in half.

let's see them screw that 1 percent they always do THEN.

[barrigas14]

it isn't ebay's fault it is the sellers and buyers faults. if ebay could check over every thing that is sold on that site it would take years for a auction to be placed.

[andrave]

you gotta be smart, check the feedback, don't be afraid to call the seller and get a confirmed address on expensive parts...I got screwed once and the seller returned my money, and the second time I just had to call the cops to get the mother****er to send me some springs, and it turned out he had really good feedback (like 1000's) and decided that about the time I and about 30 other guys bought Tein springs from him was a good time to start ripping us all off... once about 20 of us posted negative feedback on ebay they shut him down, and once the cops started calling him we all got either springs or refunds.

Anyway right now I ordered some bov's from japan and paid out the *** for EMS shipping (I wanted to give one to my brother for shipping) and they still aren't here, its been like 20 days...I'm more than a little pissed.And I'm sick of all these ****ing sellers telling me they will leave feedback after I leave them feedback...NO thats not how it works, I pay you, I complete my half of the deal. When I sell things, I leave feedback after you pay me. Its the buyer's choice to leave positive, neutral, negative, or no feedback at all... you have to EARN that feedback, its not something that should be dependant on your feedback for the seller.

[aleph1]

I ordered some car speakers off this one pesudo-ebay-company, and it took like 2 months to get. I kept emailing them if they shipped or not and the like and they just stopped responding after and while, when they did the information they gave was incredibly vague.

Long story short, I finally got them and i left negative feedback, and he had this response to my feedback that basically blamed me and called me an idiot. Thats another problem with their system, ever notice how when seller gets negative feedback, they always have this response like its always the buyers fault...It makes me think twice about those responses when i evaluate what I went through, I was fine, I paid on time and everything.

Alot of the time I dont think they are aiming to rip people off, its more often than not they are very inefficient and the customers get lost in their "system".

[BoostFab]

if you feel like being rip by the seller, notify ebay and they can help resolve the issue. i had done numorous business on there, never had a glitch.

[LongIsland240]

ebay's feedback system would be so much more worthwhile if i ran it.

each positive feedback is worth 1. each negative feedback cuts your total feedback score in half.

let's see them screw that 1 percent they always do THEN.

K...but what about- One of my 80+ feedbacks is a negative (with no comment even posted) as a retaliaton from a non paying bidder that i left a negative for after 6 weeks of no communicatiion- and it can NEVER be removed from my profile....would be even worse if it cut me from a 99.5% positive to a 50%.....

[andrave]

yeah I hate how you are afraid to leave negative feedback for a bad bidder cause you never know if they are going to "retaliate" against you...BAH

[BookS13]

i hate ebay ive won silvia headlights from someone that had a postive feedback and never shipped them after he recieved my money and ive won couple items off ebay and they never responced after the auction ended

[BoostFab]

i hate ebay ive won silvia headlights from someone that had a postive feedback and never shipped them after he recieved my money and ive won couple items off ebay and they never responced after the auction ended

I normally use PayPal to send money to Ebay auctions. I can always reverse the payment through their fraud protection department.