Yup and agree, she told me to wait even though I explained to her my reasons for doing so, she also said after 8 days EBAY would automatically issue a returns label...... all taken with a piece of salt of course [emoji848]
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Yup and agree, she told me to wait even though I explained to her my reasons for doing so, she also said after 8 days EBAY would automatically issue a returns label...... all taken with a piece of salt of course [emoji848]
If ebay does send a shipping label, does the seller realize that she'll be paying for that label? Ebay will take the funds from her (or add it to her ebay invoice).
hi there, the etiquette of not making an offer on a buy it now listing, is that stated somewhere on ebay?? TIA
No, it's a matter of personal preference. Some sellers are bothered by contact from buyers asking if they will accept less than the BIN price if Best Offer isn't enabled. (Check out the eBay Pet Peeves thread -- this is a frequent Pet Peeve.)
Other sellers don't mind at all. In my opinion, it can't hurt for a serious buyer to inquire with a reasonable offer. As a seller I'm happy to respond to inquiries asking if I will take a lesser amount, even though I don't have Best Offer enabled on my listings.
In fact, there is a way for a seller to respond to a request for a lower price, even if they don't have Best Offer enabled. They can send a private offer to that buyer from a link in the message.
http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/private_offer.html
You quoted a post from 2010. If there was a policy, chances are it would be different now. Different sellers have different reactions to an offer when they haven't set up their listing to accept offers. Some will be offended and can possibly block you. Others will be happy to work with you. If I have had an item listed for awhile, I'm usually fine with receiving unsolicited offers if they are reasonable. However, in my experience most people who send unsolicited offers offer ridiculously low amounts.
To answer your question, while some sellers will not appreciate unsolicited offers, ebay knows it does happen, and has added a feature to facilitate this. If a buyer sends an unsolicited offer, or a message of any kind, to a seller, the seller has the option to respond with an offer.
Will she be charged if I don't use the label would you know?
The seller has been bombarding me with daily demands, One day I had 6 messages over a 30 min period. I reported her at the same time I was told about the label. Honestly this seller worries me, which is why I'm paying for the return. Her very first message to me about the haters in the world just didn't sit right and all I said to her was that I wasn't convinced the shoes were new and unused and even if they were display ones I wouldn't expect this much evidence of wear.
There's not enough miles between me and her for me to antagonise her further for the sake of £2 - I truly believe she is unhinged
I believe if ebay sends the label, the funds to pay for the label will come from the seller. (Perhaps someone else can confirm.)
I recently sold a bag and was paid quickly via Paypal. I printed the shipping label and shipped it off to the confirmed U.S. address. Later that day, when I went to my Paypal account, I saw that I was charged the higher (3.9% + $0.30) fee for receipt of an overseas payment, though the confirmed shipping address was here in the U.S. I now realize I was likely dealing with an intermediary here in the U.S. who will then ship the item overseas to the ultimate buyer. Is there any way to tell up front that a potential buyer is simply an intermediary and that I'm going to end up paying the higher international Paypal fee? If I had paid a little more attention to the shipping address, it probably would have jumped out since it looks like a business type address but, then again, I've also shipped to people who simply wanted their item sent to their office and not their home.
I tried communicating with Paypal via email about this but hit a brick wall as usual. They simply quoted their fee schedule and sent me a link to it, but didn't actually answer my question of why I was paying the international fee when I shipped to a U.S. confirmed address. (I guess because the money did come from overseas.) It's not a lot of money but I'd just like to know up front so that I actually know what the fees are going to be and factor that in my decision to accept an offer.
I tried communicating with Paypal via email about this but hit a brick wall as usual. They simply quoted their fee schedule and sent me a link to it, but didn't actually answer my question of why I was paying the international fee when I shipped to a U.S. confirmed address. (I guess because the money did come from overseas.) It's not a lot of money but I'd just like to know up front so that I actually know what the fees are going to be and factor that in my decision to accept an offer.
Sometimes when you look at the ebay profile page of the buyer, it will show their location. It usually doesn't bother me if I have an overseas buyer who uses a shipping service. To me, it means my buyer isn't going to ask for a return.
Oh, I'm not too unhappy. It isn't a lot of extra money, just 1%. I was more wondering if there was a way to tell up front that I wasn't aware of.
I suspect that the buyer didn't pay in USD so the extra charge was the conversion rate.
To follow up on BB's post I think there is a setting for the payment to be in USD.
I have been considering a Dior bag on eBay by a seller who had the item listed as being in France. Whilst I was debating it, seems to be QC issues with this style, the listing ended. It's just popped up again for sale with all new photos but the same model and the bag is now listed as coming from Italy and the seller is different. Is this fishy? TIA
If it is different photos, a different seller, and a different location, it is probably a different bag, totally unrelated to the first. What seems fishy?