ebay and paypal - relationship

akoushla said:
Euro Money Transfers by Barclays are free if you do it online, you must have a Barclay account of course. I have done it a couple of times. The only complaint I have is that you have to act fast or their exchange rate will change and you have to star over.

Much better than a trip to the bank and fees of between £10 and £25.
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have to look in to that i have to pay with natwest, which is why i have been using other methods.
 
Sarah Winfield said:
Thank you, I did think anything bought on ebay could be paid for by paypal.

I now have a situation where the seller requires a transfer but I can't find out how to do it. I follow all the rules and answer the questions but still cannot resolve my issue.

All I want to do is to pay for my item, how difficult can that be?

In another transaction the seller agreed to a paypal payment which was simple.

I'm still trying to pay for my item!

SW
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Most banks now have international transfer available on their online banking sites but you have to pay a fee which varies between banks, typically £10-£20.
 
If you use other eBay sites other than eBay.co.uk you have to read the term and conditions to make sure they will ship to the UK and what payment method they take. You also have to watch which country they are in as outside the EU you will have to pay import charges. On eBay.de you have to watch items that seem cheaper as often their location is Switzerland and you have to pay VAT on the parcel, which adds over 20% to the cost. Sometime other non-EU countries sell on eBay.de such as Ukraine where you also have to pay import charges.
 
Caveat emptor, I’m afraid. The seller of the item obviously knows more (but not necessarily everything) about it than the potential buyer, so it’s up to the buyer to find out what they need to know. It’s not practicable, or sometimes, possible, for a seller to volunteer everything the buyer might want (or ought to want) to know, so the position must inevitably be, subject to any relevant consumer protection legislation, “let the buyer beware.” Apparently, this originally applied only to land transactions, but spread to everything else.
 
Sarah Winfield said:
I appreciate all the comments but there should come a time when "right" prevails and not concur with innocent people being ripped off.

Sometimes, I have to fight the urge to inform the seller.

SW
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Sarah you need to accept we live in an imperfect world, and people are driven (amongst other things) by greed, and as an individual you cannot fight the world or even all of ebay!
 
I'm not a Playmobil expert but isn't 4052 a locomotive which, when shipped new, included 2 engineer figures?

I wouldn't buy the loco as it's not something I collect, but if I was looking for one I'd be checking exactly what this listing is for. It's possible the seller has simply mixed up photos and shown one of the engineer figures instead of the loco itself (we all make mistakes), and the price doesn't seem that far off for the locomotive based on what other sellers are asking.

No, I'm not related to the seller. I'm just pointing out that when there is this type of disparity in an eBay listing it can be down to an error by the seller rather than pure greed.
 
Looking at the other listings..
My guess would be that this item is 'out of stock'.. Rather than deleting it, and having to create a 'new' listing, the vendor has just put the price up to a 'silly' figure, so people will not buy.. Once he/she has the item again, the price will be altered to reflect a sensible amount.

ECR used to do this a lot in their early trading days, and got some 'stick' in the Forums, until it was reallised what they were doing..
 
Thanks Phil. I hadn't appreciated this was a tactic sellers used in such situations. One more thing for me to watch out for when buying on eBay!
 
Ralphmp said:
Thanks Phil. I hadn't appreciated this was a tactic sellers used in such situations. One more thing for me to watch out for when buying on eBay!
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To be fair, most sellers who do this would not sell you the item.. - They have not got one to sell, hence the reason they do it!
It would also probably generate negative feedback, which is the last thing a seller wants.
 
I tend to agree with the theory this is a case of the wrong photo. 4052 should indeed be the 2-4-0 tender loco.
The descripton is very sparse, simply "Schlepptender neuwertig" which would be a tender loco as-new.


I like the Playmobil locos like the diesels and Steaming Mary, but not that one - the proportions just don't work for me.
 
That figure is stated as Euro30 further down, so an obvious mistake. ebay is a shop just like any other, you don't buy a telly without checking the prices, so you shouldn't buy from ebay without checking the price.
 
I'm still not convinced ebay is fair and honest.

For several weeks now I have been bidding on painted figures,

Each time I seem to be beaten by just a few pence and when I check the bidding history it always says, "private listing - bidder identity protected". My last bid on the latest lost item was made on 3rd September. The unknown bidder made the same bid on the 31st August.

It seems to me I could go on bidding higher and higher not ever knowing whether I'm actually bidding against a real person?

As someone on here said an item is worth what a buyer is willing to pay. I think I bid a fair price for 6 figures.

SW
 
If you have been to traditional auctions you will sometimes be bidding against someone in the room but at other times you will appear to be bidding against the auctioneer. He has a list of all commission bids placed hours, days or weeks previously and will raise the price in the standard increments until either you or the commission bid wins. The person who beat you by a few pence might have actually placed bids several pounds higher but eBay will only go up in the stated increments until there is only one bidder left. If you had bid another pound you might still have lost it.

Paul
 
Seller's information is always available however buyer's information is only available to the seller. It's part of the eBay security.

Paul
 
Thanks for your comments.

How do I know the "private listing - bidder identity protected" isn't the seller or some such person moving the price upwards.

SW
 
You cannot bid on your own item and other bidders will be bidding against you, that has always been the nature of auctions even before eBay.

The practice of the seller or seller's associate raising the price to get higher prices is called shilling and is banned by eBay although they have difficulty managing that ban. It has always been present at old style auctions but the seller risks going too far and selling to themselves at which point they will have to pay the commission charges.

If you go to a bricks and mortar auction or use eBay then fix the price you are willing to pay and accept that if it goes higher it's not for you. Auctions are not for everybody as some people don't like the uncertainty that comes with them. Me, I love them!

Paul
 
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