Testing eBay after years of not using it

[chred24]

Trying eBay after years of not doing it cause of bad customer interactions. Friends who buy off It say its the most streamline and safe place to sell. Just had a bot buy two of my items and now there is no easy way to repost them after I canceled their order. Seems like same bad scenarios just for new bad reasons. If anyone knows that eBay is figuring out a way to keep bots and bot chat off here I may be interested in using it again but seems still not worth it as of now.

[chapeau-noir]

@chred24  What tells you that a bot purchased your item?

[chevymontecarlo88]

This may help with dead beat bidders/buyers.

Immediate payments 

[bonjourami]

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'Bots' cannot buy items.

[nobody*s_perfect]

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@chred24 wrote: .... Just had a bot buy two of my items ...

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Why do you think it was a bot?

[inhawaii]

How do you know a bot bought 2 of your items?

Do these bots have a name and physical address or did the order details just say "bot"? 

Even if 2 bots DID in fact buy your items and you cancelled the sales, it's super easy to relist them.

[a_c_green]

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@chred24 wrote:

Just had a bot buy two of my items and now there is no easy way to repost them after I canceled their order.

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@chred24 : Why would you do that? (...and not that it matters, but what leads you to think that your items were bought and presumably paid for by silicone-based buyers instead of carbon-based?)

[sumsum70]

Bots absolutely CAN buy and pay for items. It happens in the CPU category all the time. List a desirable part below a certain price threshold and it will be bought and paid for within seconds of listing. The buyer will likely be using a forwarder in OR, DE or FL.

[powell-memorabilia]

Was the buyer’s name Hal?  

[inhawaii]

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@sumsum70 wrote:

Bots absolutely CAN buy and pay for items. It happens in the CPU category all the time. List a desirable part below a certain price threshold and it will be bought and paid for within seconds of listing. The buyer will likely be using a forwarder in OR, DE or FL.

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So it's a human being buying the item, just having a bot doing the bidding/buying  for him?

[chred24]

It was bought and never paid and it had me text a number in Texas acting like they had questions about the products. through text it was obvious it was not a human. Blocked number and when I checked on my laptop eBay had already canceled the purchase. No direct way to repost the listing since eBay canceled the buyer but not the purchase.

[chred24]

Bought but never paid then sent a text number to a non human chat.

[chred24]

bought never paid. then eBay kicked them off. had questions about products and had a chat with a non human about the listing.

[chred24]

not easy to relist if eBay kicked them off and then makes me cancel the order. Would have to relist from scratch.

[chred24]

bought but didn't pay. Had me text to ask questions about the products and was definitely not a human. couldn't tell me what the product was and couldn't curse. haha