brooks

Any of you people had good or bad experiences of ebay?

Thanks

Simon

carl

Both good and bad, purchasing only though.

Won a bid for a Gucci watch (wasn't for me -- it was for the missus) which was dirt cheap (it was over Christmas and not many people bidding). E-mailed the guy, no answer. A week later it was readvertised so I sent him a snot-a-gram. He claimed to have e-mailed me twice and got no reply (all the other mail arrived fine...). I suspect he wasn't happy with the price it went for (I think it was 40 quid...) but he got his come-uppance as it went for even less next time around.

Also bought a NIB DDS-2 DAT drive for 51 quid with no problems. Works fine, was shipped within a few days.

YMMV, etc.

JackClark

Bought the Shower from Big Brother, no problem, dirt cheap. Also seen a lot of Go-Peds traded safely.

camk

I've bought a few things bike rack(fine and cheap),Nav CD's for GPS(3xal Good), Winter tyres and wheels for my car(OK but wheels had a few scratches that were not mentioned but still cheap) and a Sony Playstation. Fix a price you'd be happy to pay then put in a max of 50% of the difference and see if anyone outbids it, if they do then put in next 25% if same punter comes back then either put in your wack or back away. There will always be another offer.

cheers
Cammy

Wheelman

Using a combination of e-bay and Yahoo auctions I flogged nearly £2000 worth of CDs, books and computer parts this year (and spent half of it back again on more computer bits etc.!!!). Never had any problems but I always stipulate I will not post sold items until cheques have cleared.

E-bay is a well established site and seems to attract genuine punters who will play by the rules. Yahoo (perhaps because it is free) despite having a similar mechanism of feedback and ratings seems to attract the less reliable bidders and sellers. Hope this is helpful.

mole

Have only tried it recently and have had 2 good experiences.

The first item was shipped from USA, within 8days using PayPal to pay.

The second took about 2 weeks from USA.

I think E-Bay provide free insurance on items over £15? Incase you never get the items. See if you can find out about that.

mole

brooks

Thanks all. Useful info. I have placed bids for a number of different items on ebay, though none so far successfully.

My luck will change!

Thanks again,

Simon

ptholt

I've bought qquite a bit on qxl - http://www.qxl.com and ebay both from uk and abroad.

Only ever had a problem once when a rockford amp took 4 months to arrive, other than that had some great bargains.

Saying that, someone moaned at me the other day as i kept bidding against them for an item (surely thats the point?) made more depressing by his impreza style username made me wonder if he was on here.

NM

We are currently auctioning an apprentice off at work, check it out on

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1654376187

Cheers

Neal