eBay, etc. General Question/Answer Thread

[holiday123]

The listing does exist. I was able to open it. Sometimes it can take an amount of time for the sold/completed/ended listings to index and show in completed.

Try going to paypal and "send money." Go to goods and services and put in the ebay item number. That should work and should also show on your ebay purchases and transaction page.

ETA: BTW, you know it's not vintage, right?

Thank you, I'll try via PayPal.
Vintage - Yes lol I do know it's not accurate. I have the same one in magenta and it's not very old, but super useful.

Hmm so PayPal only gives me the option to enter name, email or mobile number. Ebay still shows I didn't win on app and won on PC, but no pay now. It's not under purchase history or bidding won/didn't win. So strange.

 

[BeenBurned]

Thank you, I'll try via PayPal.
Vintage - Yes lol I do know it's not accurate. I have the same one in magenta and it's not very old, but super useful.

Hmm so PayPal only gives me the option to enter name, email or mobile number. Ebay still shows I didn't win on app and won on PC, but no pay now. It's not under purchase history or bidding won/didn't win. So strange.

Is your feedback number 4309? If so, perhaps you can email the seller (through the listing as shown in your history) and ask what she's seeing. Perhaps she'll be able to send an invoice.

(The "send invoice" button shows in the seller's sold item and as long as it hasn't been paid for, she should be able to send an invoice. In my experience with my own sales, if the buyer has already paid, I get an error message when I try to send an invoice and it tells me that the service can't be done because the item was already paid.)

 

[holiday123]

Is your feedback number 4309? If so, perhaps you can email the seller (through the listing as shown in your history) and ask what she's seeing. Perhaps she'll be able to send an invoice.

(The "send invoice" button shows in the seller's sold item and as long as it hasn't been paid for, she should be able to send an invoice. In my experience with my own sales, if the buyer has already paid, I get an error message when I try to send an invoice and it tells me that the service can't be done because the item was already paid.)

Done and received an email to pay. Thank you for your help!

 

[houseof999]

IDK what happened. I am the only bidder but the app doesn't say I won. It was not in my "Didn't win" section either but the listing showed it ended yesterday. @holiday123 I just looked up the item number and now it said I won and pay. So I just paid now. I still didn't get a pay now notification anywhere either.

 

[holiday123]

IDK what happened. I am the only bidder but the app doesn't say I won. It was not in my "Didn't win" section either but the listing showed it ended yesterday. @holiday123 I just looked up the item number and now it said I won and pay. So I just paid now. I still didn't get a pay now notification anywhere either.

Are you saying the same happened to you? I usually see the "pay now" button right away. This time it took me emailing seller in order to pay.

 

[houseof999]

Are you saying the same happened to you? I usually see the "pay now" button right away. This time it took me emailing seller in order to pay.

Yes I think so. I didn't email the seller. I assumed the seller ended it because it may have been sold somewhere else. I thought my second bid 5 min before the auction ended must have reminded the seller to end the auction. I was really bummed and got over it last night. Thank you for your post otherwise I wouldn't have checked and probably would've gotten a ding for not paying.

 

[BeenBurned]

IDK what happened. I am the only bidder but the app doesn't say I won. It was not in my "Didn't win" section either but the listing showed it ended yesterday. @holiday123 I just looked up the item number and now it said I won and pay. So I just paid now. I still didn't get a pay now notification anywhere either.

It could just be a glitch.

A while ago (more than a couple of weeks), I tried to pay for something but couldn't. I went out, did some errands, ate dinner and came back several hours later and it went through.

 

[holiday123]

Yes I think so. I didn't email the seller. I assumed the seller ended it because it may have been sold somewhere else. I thought my second bid 5 min before the auction ended must have reminded the seller to end the auction. I was really bummed and got over it last night. Thank you for your post otherwise I wouldn't have checked and probably would've gotten a ding for not paying.

I thought the same - that the seller ended it. I was a bit annoyed, but yes must be a glitch. Yay for both of us that we got our items

 

[Straight-Laced]

I've got a potential situation with a buyer that might come to nothing (fingers crossed) but i want to be prepared just in case.
I sold authentic NIB Christian Louboutin shoes to a buyer in the US and she's received them and says there's something a bit off about them and she's going to have them authenticated. I responded along the lines of they're definitely authentic as stated (which I know them to be) and naturally you should have an authorised and independent assessment of the shoes (by someone familiar with older styles which these are) for your own peace of mind, and if you don't want them you need to let me know and return them ASAP unworn with box and dust bag and heel taps.

Funny thing, when she bought the shoes I looked up her items for sale on ebay and there was nothing, but when I googled her ebay name it came up with a store on eBay US - and she's primarily a reseller of Louboutins, which is perfectly OK with me but she should know the designer well enough to know that my shoes are authentic.

Before buying she'd been making lowball offers for weeks and weeks (even though it was a BIN listing without BO) and I almost blocked her but then forget. So I'm a little concerned now that she may be a bait and switch buyer. The style I sold was heavily copied back when it was first released so ...

Anything I could do to prepare myself for a problem? Or just forget about it for now and hope all goes well?
Thanks!

 

[BeenBurned]

I've got a potential situation with a buyer that might come to nothing (fingers crossed) but i want to be prepared just in case.
I sold authentic NIB Christian Louboutin shoes to a buyer in the US and she's received them and says there's something a bit off about them and she's going to have them authenticated. I responded along the lines of they're definitely authentic as stated (which I know them to be) and naturally you should have an authorised and independent assessment of the shoes (by someone familiar with older styles which these are) for your own peace of mind, and if you don't want them you need to let me know and return them ASAP unworn with box and dust bag and heel taps.

Funny thing, when she bought the shoes I looked up her items for sale on ebay and there was nothing, but when I googled her ebay name it came up with a store on eBay US - and she's primarily a reseller of Louboutins, which is perfectly OK with me but she should know the designer well enough to know that my shoes are authentic.

Before buying she'd been making lowball offers for weeks and weeks (even though it was a BIN listing without BO) and I almost blocked her but then forget. So I'm a little concerned now that she may be a bait and switch buyer. The style I sold was heavily copied back when it was first released so ...

Anything I could do to prepare myself for a problem? Or just forget about it for now and hope all goes well?
Thanks!

I don't think there's much to do to prepare.

She may have been testing you; may not realize that Google is one's friend or she may just not be sure of authenticity of the shoes.

Keep notes of her selling ID and previous sales and history to be used if needed. (Is the selling ID on which she sold items the same as that used to buy? If so, that makes things easier and is a good thing in the event she either accuses you of selling fakes or if she does a switch. There are back door ways to find her purchase if she bought fakes of the same style.)

 

[Straight-Laced]

I don't think there's much to do to prepare.

She may have been testing you; may not realize that Google is one's friend or she may just not be sure of authenticity of the shoes.

Keep notes of her selling ID and previous sales and history to be used if needed. (Is the selling ID on which she sold items the same as that used to buy? If so, that makes things easier and is a good thing in the event she either accuses you of selling fakes or if she does a switch. There are back door ways to find her purchase if she bought fakes of the same style.)

Ok thanks.
Same ID for buying and selling.
I’ve just checked all of her feedback and from 131 sales and buys she has three false positives plus another carefully worded negative. One of the false positives was from a seller who said she made false claims about the item and they wouldn’t sell to her again.

Anyway, I’ll just sit tight I guess.
Thanks again BeenBurned - appreciated.

 

[Addicted to bags]

Ok thanks.
Same ID for buying and selling.
I’ve just checked all of her feedback and from 131 sales and buys she has three false positives plus another carefully worded negative. One of the false positives was from a seller who said she made false claims about the item and they wouldn’t sell to her again.

Anyway, I’ll just sit tight I guess.
Thanks again BeenBurned - appreciated.

Good luck!

 

[doloresmia]

OK, i did a search and generally believe I might be out of luck, but any other ideas helpful....

I bought an H scarf from France two weeks ago. The tracking shows it was delivered this morning by USPS. Since it didn’t come to me and I was at the delivery address, I requested a proof of purchase. The Proof of Purchase signature is not mine, the address, scribbled looks like mine. Knocked on a few neighbor’s doors to see if they accidentally signed for something, and either not home or no package. The name is not one I recognize nor did the people who answered their doors

Called USPS, and they said they would try to call the mail carrier, but I don’t have a lot of faith in that.

Unless someone notices they have an Hermes scarf that isn’t theirs and returns it back to USPS or is in my neighborhood and gives it to me, do I have any options with eBay or PayPal or CC?

Thank you!

 

[BeenBurned]

OK, i did a search and generally believe I might be out of luck, but any other ideas helpful....

I bought an H scarf from France two weeks ago. The tracking shows it was delivered this morning by USPS. Since it didn’t come to me and I was at the delivery address, I requested a proof of purchase. The Proof of Purchase signature is not mine, the address, scribbled looks like mine. Knocked on a few neighbor’s doors to see if they accidentally signed for something, and either not home or no package. The name is not one I recognize nor did the people who answered their doors

Called USPS, and they said they would try to call the mail carrier, but I don’t have a lot of faith in that.

Unless someone notices they have an Hermes scarf that isn’t theirs and returns it back to USPS or is in my neighborhood and gives it to me, do I have any options with eBay or PayPal or CC?

Thank you!

Unless the total cost to you (including shipping) was $750 or more), all that would be needed for the seller's protection would be tracking showing delivery to your zip code. (SC is only required for seller protection for $750+.)

Does the delivery scan show that it was delivered to your zip code?

 

[doloresmia]

Unless the total cost to you (including shipping) was $750 or more), all that would be needed for the seller's protection would be tracking showing delivery to your zip code. (SC is only required for seller protection for $750+.)

Does the delivery scan show that it was delivered to your zip code?

Unfortunately, the proof of purchase lists the correct zip code... am I down to hoping that whoever signed for the package will realize it was not addressed to them or their address. Or maybe they open it and realize it isn’t anything they would have bought.

this neighborhood has a lot of elderly non-native speakers, so I still have some hope maybe...

ugh, it was my bit of retail therapy to deal with grief.