eBay problems, resolutions, shenanigans, questions and info (not bike finds)

I have a guy in Norway who wants to buy an item from me. To be sent international tracked. He's asking if I mark it as a gift and the value as £30 even though it's £150 worth.
I understand he'll get stung with taxes otherwise.....

his request so as him to take on responsibility if it gets lost... I sent a 100-odd quid package to Norway via royal fail international signed that way and it was fine tho. We have this hassle to look forward to very regularly if Brexit hits...

Thats the buyer’s problem - not yours.

Do it and it will become your problem should it vanish in transit.

What @Howard said.
Even if the buyer says will take responsibility, it would still be your responsibility to get your item to the buyer as described, so if the parcel gets lost in transit or damaged beyond use, then you (eventually eBay/Paypal if you refuse to do so) will have to refund the buyer £150 and will leave you with the £30 compensation or the value you have declared.

^ this is how it becomes your problem :)

I buy stuff from Japan auctions and use a forwarding agent that allows my to write my own custom labels should I want to. They are very clear - the onus is on me as I am making the declaration of value. If the parcel gets lost I am only covered for the value on the label. Same applies to you if you mark it down. If it gets lost you might be out of pocket.

A buyer just opened an ‘item not received’ case a day or two after I’d posted it. Should be a fun transaction!

Edited! Post was all back to front

Ebay user ‘orangeraccon’, wins my 2 auctions for hubs clearly labelled as 100 x 15 and 142 x 12 through axle in the title and description with bids placed with a day to go.

Realises 3 minutes after the auctions end that they are not qr.

“...can I cancel bids on both the rear and front hubs.”

Fuck off and have an unpaid item strike for each you muptard.

I'm selling something on Ebay for the first time in years, just did a standard auction which has six days left to run. I've received a message asking if there is a buy it now price.

Shall I just leave the auction as is? Is there a way to add a buy it now price (and any benefit to me of doing so)?

If you get the buyer's contact details you can sell it at a price outside of eBay, therefore not incurring eBay seller fees :)

oh, but I would in no way encourage you to avoid giving eBay any more of your money.........

Shall I just leave the auction as is? Is there a way to add a buy it now price (and any benefit to me of doing so)?

Just leave it.

You can do this ^ but eBay's AI / Drones are very good at spotting it and you'll get a wristslap.

If you respond to the message you will have the option of 'send offer' which gives them a one time chance to buy it now. If you don't have this option you'll have to end the auction and re-list as a fixed price (buy it now) auction.
Be careful with contact details. ebay algorithms are shit hot at detecting this stuff now.
I was selling some wheels a while ago and a buyer wanted to look at them before committing. I tried sending my phone number and got an instant warning. I then sent my house number and post code and got banned.
ebay were cool about it but was a load of hassle.

Be careful with contact details. ebay algorithms are shit hot at detecting this stuff now.

Pro-tip. Put the details in an image then attach it to the auction...

If you want to be super naughty

Yeah I did that photo thing a few weeks ago and it worked.
The seller still wanted to go through ebay and paypal though even though he'd been to my house and I lived 5mins away!!

Pro-tip. Put the details in an image then attach it to the auction...

Haha yeah, this works - I now have a screenshot of my email/paypal address stored on my phone to make things easier.

Cheers all. Item isn't worth that much and I'm not really sure how much it will go for so I've just left it as an auction and will suck up the fees.

I bid on an item last night, I went in with my max bid with only a few seconds to go. The item already had one bid at the starting price, I got the confirmation I was the highest bidder at £107 (starting price £95). The auction then ended and confirmed I won the auction at my highest bid £127.70.

The confirmation email confirmed there were 3 bidders, so did the other bidder happen to go in with a max bid of £127.69 ? I’m just interested in how it works ?

Have you looked at the bidding history? You can often work it out from that. I’m not sure how ebay works out the minimum bid increases but it may be that someone (or their software) tried to snipe you right at the end with a few pence on the current high bid.

Oh yeah, thanks. Bidder number 2 had a max bid of £127.00

(never bid round numbers, amateur!)

I sold something on eBay.

I don't like how much the winning bid was. Not sure if my ad. was crap, or the going rate for the item is just low. Worse, I have to post the bloody thing.

I'm half tempted to cancel the transaction. I've never done that before.

Somebody stop me!

Bad karma

Yeah i know it would suck balls. euuughhhhhh

The crosslight? Was half tempted at the price it was going for but would have felt bad.

Nah on reflection I thought that was fair - ten speed bits, really well used wheelset and whatnot, small frame.