The title of my post says it all. I accidentally entered an incorrect
shipping weight into my product description. When I click on “Revise
listing” it doesn’t allow me to change the shipping weight. (The buyer
won’t care about this, since I’m offerin...
Earlier this week I was the winning bidder on an eBay auction. I paid
within 15 minutes after winning the auction. The next day, the seller
cancelled the sale and refunded my payment in full. The reason given for
the cancellation was “Out of stock or...
What’s gratifying is that because eBay allowed the seller to violate its
own rules, both the seller and eBay made less money. Sometimes ethical
behavior is good business.
As an epilogue, here’s the latest on the seller who refused to honor my
winning bid and started a second auction. My winning bid a week ago was
$402. The winning bid for the second auction was $295. That’s assuming
the seller honors the new winning b...
I stand corrected. It’s easy to see why eBay doesn’t care about this
sort of thing. After all, if the seller succeeds in getting a higher
price on the second auction, then eBay makes more money. And eBay can
afford losing a trickle of disgruntled buy...
What’s weird is that eBay has clear evidence that the seller cancelled
the sale under a false pretense and is re-listing the same item. Yet
they’re allowing this to happen. In fact, eBay is making the evidence
available to potential buyers in the new...
