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Ordered an item on ebay. Best price I could find was China. Asked about express shipping. Given reasonable DHL quote. 3000+ feedback. Seemed legit. Decided I was in no rush I went with standard shipping and told "a couple of weeks"
Couple of days later I log into ebay, look at my purchases, and a similar item was there, not what I actually purchased. When I looked into the page history the seller has blatantly changed the add and removed the manufacturer branding from the original ad.
I messaged them...
"Hi friend,
Thanks for the message.
Our this item is aftermarket high copy made in China by professional factory with good quality, not expensive original spider farmer. Could you accept that?"
No. No I can't accept that. Give me my money back right the second or I'm going to start using upper case.
" Ok,dear friend, we will ask the financial supervisor to refund you money tomorrow when we come back to company. So sorry about that. "
Annoying too, I can't do anything via ebay but "contact the seller" until the fake item arrives and I report "I have received a fake item" in however many weeks this darn thing might take to arrive. Then claim a refund.
C0ck.
Not as much of a fin de cloche as the ebay seller who sent me a faked electrical widget, and then when I said "my good man, this here widget is faked" proceeded to abusively accuse me of replacing the widget with a fake widget which I must previously have owned, in order to defraud him (or her) by claiming a refund.
Nevertheless, after the passage of several days time, they now accept a refund must be made. They have also, (a) refused to provide a return postage label, so I now have to wait and fanny about with Ebay customer service, and (b) relisted the fake item, with no attempt to correct the second listing, before I have posted the thing back to them.
I fully expect them to claim the faked widget was never posted to them, or to claim the thing they receive is a fake and actually not the "real" thing what they sold me in the first place, or some other bellendery.
Not as much of a fin de cloche as the ebay seller who sent me a faked electrical widget, and then when I said “my good man, this here widget is faked” proceeded to abusively accuse me of replacing the widget with a fake widget which I must previously have owned, in order to defraud him (or her) by claiming a refund.
Nevertheless, after the passage of several days time, they now accept a refund must be made. They have also, (a) refused to provide a return postage label, so I now have to wait and fanny about with Ebay customer service, and (b) relisted the fake item, with no attempt to correct the second listing, before I have posted the thing back to them.
I fully expect them to claim the faked widget was never posted to them, or to claim the thing they receive is a fake and actually not the “real” thing what they sold me in the first place, or some other bellendery.
Just tell ebay it was fake, they'll sort the refund and tell you to destroy it.
Had this with a Nintendo DS game that wasn't apparent it was fake until you got to a point in the game where it wouldn't save.
Yeah I'm hoping Ebay will do that. We'll see.
Similar happened to me (don't think it was Chinese though), my mum wanted an external DVD writer, so I ordered one off a seller with good feedback. It turns up and it's a DVD reader. Contact the seller - usual apology bullshit - check the ad and they've changed the pic to a reader, and description is now generic reader/writer or something. (I still had the ad open on my Ipad, so could screenshot the original pics 🙂 )
Complained - they refunded. End of.
No point in them not refunding, as they won't win a dispute.
I got complained about (falsely) by a buyer once, and ebay froze my Paypal account until it was resolved - I bet they don't do that when there's a dispute against these types of scammers.
I bought a cycling jersey off a site that looked American but turned out to be Chinese. Sure enough when the jersey arrived it was obviously a fake. Couldn't be bothered sending it back so I stuck it on EBay, only for EBay to remove my ad and send me a bollocking for selling fakes.
Is this even possible? I thought once an ad was posted you couldn't change it for exactly this reason, otherwise I could sell an iPhone change and then change it for a bag of Granny Smith's.
You can change an ad but not once it’s been sold I don’t think. I am not sure if there’s a loophole whereby if you list more than one of the same item you can sell a few then change but eBay will undoubtedly have a change history.
I suspect that they sell say 5 of said item, change and email a few people and hope that at least some can’t be arsed to follow it up.
No they changed the ad after I purchased the "original".
Logged in to look at my purchases and it showed a generic likeness but no branding. Not what I bought. The ebay email they sent saying "you've made a purchase" showed the original. Plus their lovely email saying it was "a good likeness".
They refunded me though as they promised. And ordered from a legit seller albeit a few bucks pricier