turboman786

Recently, Ive been selling a few things via the For Sale section of scoobyenet, most recently, a set of 19" Scooby alloys...I was amazed at the number of totally immorral people who think nothing of making an offer, taking my details, promising to either pick the goods up, or post a cheque......you wait for them and guess wht , they never turn up........this happened an amzing FIVE times in one week witht these wheels alone.....these 'enthusiasts' do not even have the courtesy to tell em that they are no longer interested and allow me to re advertise....

Im selling a CD player on here at the moment, bloke agreed to buy, promised to send cheque....4 days later still no cheque..emailed him 3 times ..no reply....( he may have a genuine excise, but y do people go all silent)...lack of manners/decency perhaps??

Im going to be very cautious about selling on scoobynet in the future,,,,this place sure has a lot of timewasters...anyone has similar experiences...by the way I have also had good scoobynet buying/selling experiences but these bad experiences tend to sour evrything...

nigelward

Scoobynet is a public bulletin board there is no restriction on who can and can't register.

For Sale will be no different to putting an advertisement in Exchange and Mart.


[Edited by nigelward - 3/15/2003 11:03:55 AM]

turboman786

True to an ectent Nigel...but Scoobynet is a n ENTHUSIASTS BB and hence you would expect a higher standard of conduct amogst supposed enthusiats than when dealing eith Joe Bloggs from the exchange and mart......or not as the case clearly is..

ChristianR

iTrader: (1)

I have had the same for some of my things - shame really, but plenty more buyers to sell too

P1Fanatic

Touch wood, but Ive had no problems buying or selling stuff so far. It pays to check out how long people have been on SN i.e. I trust a 4000+ post member who I see regularly posting on SN to one who registered last month and has posted twice.

Simon.

turboman786

Good advice there Simon...I'll look out for the number of posts etc in future......

Rasher

Ive never had any probs selling but as Simon stated they were genuine Scoobynetters with alot of posts behind them

springbok

Tru to an extent, but just because the user has 4000+ posts to his name doesn't mean he won't mess you around as well.
We all know how some people get posts up that high, sit in the muppet forum for a week or 2.

super_si

i had a similar problem with buying 2 books off someone.

Fair enough he had a suppossidly valid excuse, but i was still rather pissed off.

Si

-=Buzz=-

I had NO problms getting a set of wheels, or selling a dumpvalve.

So far so good, but if you go by the "number of posts" option, then if you are buying/selling to me add 1100 to my post count please


[Edited by -=Buzz=- - 3/15/2003 5:42:08 PM]

*Sonic*

I bought my Scoob a few months ago from someone who had only about 6 posts

the first posts this person made, where about 2.5 years ago when he sold the alloys from the scoob that I bought

but i have been pi**ed around by ppl who have had posts in the 1000's

Luck of the draw i guess

turboman786

Yep..pi**ed around is just the expression Im looking for.....

ukbob

maybe time for a good/bad private trader section.partner uses this system for trading beanie bears,it saves a lot of grief at times