I have tried to sell my F1-2 on ebay over the last few weeks.
First ebay withdrew my first auction with one day to the finish because I had asked for part paypal and part cash payment.
"Circumventing paypal fees"
Seems that if I only asked for cash it would have been ok.........go figure.
Now paypal get nothing!
I lost some good bidders that were very close to my reserve.
I relisted and last night the car sold, or so I thought.
2 hrs after the sale I got an email to say that there was "un-authorised use of the account" so I did not have a sale after all.
What a waste of time ebay is turning into.

Problem is ebay is easier and cheaper than selling in a local paper or magazine

Some of ebay's rules are getting ridiculous. That circumventing Paypal fees one is ludicrous!!! Paypal is supposedly a secure online payment service which you may use if you wish isnt it?? They dont have a god given right to handle all ebay transactions!! I thought it was normal to expect a small paypal deposit and the rest in cash / bankers draft for cars - Paypal only offer cover up to £500 dont they so why should you be forced to use it for large transactions??

Personally i'd complain to Ebay very very strongly and certainly demand my listing fees back. Can you contact the highest bidder at all still or has it all been wiped??

You have my sympathy mate anyway - i'll never sell a car through there myself after reading that.



[Edited on 6/3/08 by Paul TigerB6]

Use the e-bay Classifieds. All the exposure of ebay without p1ssing about with auctions, non-paying bidders etc. Just an advert, on ebay, where you sell a car as if it were in autotrader.

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/f-ad.html

for me, the biggest problem with buying a car on eBay is that I'd want to see the car before buying but I'm not going to travel perhaps a couple of hundred miles, decide I like the car and then go through a bidding process.

Watch out cos ebay may well charge you for each auction they have stopped. If they do them email them and complain till they drop their charges.

I sold my capri on there last month and it didn't sell the first time, so I "relisted it for free" which means if it sells then they don't charge you. The second time i dropped the reserve and it sold - to a non existent bidder. SO i did a second chance offer and sold it to the next highest bidder. Then ebay charged me another £20 as the car didn't sell!? Money grabbing grrrrrrr not allowed to swear.

What’s wrong with the main kit car mags? Right away you have the correct audience and less numptys

damn if I had the room I'd buy it

I have relisted it in the classifieds here
Then it will be Detling

small world :-P what you doing in this neck of the woods? buying a nuva capri yet? u know u want to



ps sorry for thread hijack

snake