eBay peeves!

[Kouen]

As of recent I have been buying UMD's on eBay (as you can imagine) for use on my PSP, but there's always a few sorts that always annoy me.

Now I can understand the first ones flip side of the coin here. But this has happened twice in under a week and brought my piss to a boil.

I Spot a game (Games that this happened on Jaxter and Monster Hunter Freedom 2) and I go and ask if there willing to ship to where I am (In Norway). Now I can understand this can be a little annoying for some sellers but as far as I know Norway doesn't have its own true eBay (from what I can see ours just lists all that have Europe in the shipping part). Now I have Perfect Feedback in almost 100 Transactions and soon to go over 110, and I ask these people "Sorry to ask as I know it can be annoying, Would you be interested in shipping to Norway? I Have Perfect feedback and I'm a Speedy Payer" now if im told no I normally reply nice like "OK thanks anyways and good luck with your auction" now in both of these cases I was told "Sure thing! it will cost xx in shipping though" then I Respond "Could you please adjust your Auction to allow me to bid please?" and boom I don't hear from them again and I cannot bid Missing out on Monster Hunter Freedom 2 for only £2 jerked my chain. Its like if your not interested in shipping my way just let me know?! dont string me along like a puppet common curtsy is becoming very less common

The other one which all eBay buyers probably hate is the SOB who wont respond to you >.< one listing I recently won was for 3 UMD's Unboxed (World Snooker 05, Virtual Tennis WT and PES6) and I send off a request for Shipping costs, This was about Friday Night. Not one word. By Sunday I calculate there costs for them including a reasonable overhead for any packing material and even fuel to get to the post office! Nothing Just a few mins ago I sent them another message asking for them to get in contact with me.

That's not to say eBay is that bad I've had tones of great transactions on eBay but ones like these annoy me to no end, as a side note if i dont hear nothing by Wednesday shall I contact eBay about the 2nd one?

Edit: also an extra thing that drives me mad... why is it such a taboo to click the dispatched button when you ship an item xD very few sellers do it xD

 

[brtshstel]

I hate people who are just selling games to make quick buck, and do so by trying to trick you into buying a game for a lot more than it's actually worth. They will put any older game on there and put RARE on everything they sell, in all caps no less. Super Mario Bros. + Duck Hunt is not "rare" when you see six thousand more of them listed on eBay, most of which go for one cent with free shipping.

I also hate people who put up misleading descriptions with a stock photo of a game, and then when you retaliate with negative feedback, they, in all caps, will put a response to your feedback saying "ITEM AS DESCRIBED. SCAMMER. DON'T UNDERSTAND SOME PPL." (Looking at you, "Mastergame") The game was described to be in good condition, but it came to me in a broken case with pages missing from the manual and there were stickers all over it.

I had a similar deal with a purchase of an N64 cart. The description said "MINT" on it, but it had scribbles in black marker on it. I emailed them, and they said "oh we meant that it plays like mint" which is total bullshit. I left negative feedback, and they responded "scribbles have nothing to do with game play."

I hate it when people sell a PlayStation game, and the photo is a black label game, but when I get it, it has that ugly green "Greatest Hits" on it. I automatically give negative feedback for that, no questions asked. There is no excuse for that.

I also hate people who use all caps, as stated before.

 

[Kouen]

I hate people who are just selling games to make quick buck, and do so by trying to trick you into buying a game for a lot more than it's actually worth. They will put any older game on there and put RARE on everything they sell, in all caps no less. Super Mario Bros. + Duck Hunt is not "rare" when you see six thousand more of them listed on eBay, most of which go for one cent with free shipping.

I also hate people who put up misleading descriptions with a stock photo of a game, and then when you retaliate with negative feedback, they, in all caps, will put a response to your feedback saying "ITEM AS DESCRIBED. SCAMMER. DON'T UNDERSTAND SOME PPL." (Looking at you, "Mastergame")

I had a similar deal with a purchase of an N64 cart. The description said "MINT" on it, but it had scribbles in black marker on it. I emailed them, and they said "oh we meant that it plays like mint" which is total bullshit. I left negative feedback, and they responded "scribbles have nothing to do with game play."

I also hate people who use all caps.

Aye the 2nd case I mentioned after a strongly worded message finally got back to me... can you believe it... asked for MORE MONEY!

I already checked it up 3x UMD unboxed no booklets is 40 Grams which airmail from UK to Europe is £1.31 i passed em £3 that more than covers a single mail padded envelope... not to mention a Boxed new game from eBay costs £3 to ship and weighs more and needs a bigger envelope xD

 

[Strain42]

YEAH, ALL CAPS SUCKS! (sorry, couldn't resist)

I've had problems like that too, especially with the marker bit. My grandparents recently had their 50th anniversary and to celebrate the golden anniversary, I ordered a copy of Pokemon Gold version. The description said it plays great, sticker is in-tact, everything is great and it's like new.

Except the name "Kyle L." scribbled on the back of it with sharpie...

 

[Kouen]

YEAH, ALL CAPS SUCKS! (sorry, couldn't resist)

I've had problems like that too, especially with the marker bit. My grandparents recently had their 50th anniversary and to celebrate the golden anniversary, I ordered a copy of Pokemon Gold version. The description said it plays great, sticker is in-tact, everything is great and it's like new.

Except the name "Kyle L." scribbled on the back of it with sharpie...

I've never understood the peoples need to use markers on game cd's and carts its damned annoying