Ebay listing pulled

BobbyR · Apr 9, 2008

Ebay must have serious problems, a listing which just showed up yesterday, five Nikon motor drives, has already been pulled.

I have bid in over a half dozen auctions that have been pulled or voided since Nov. and a few others I just put in favorite places have been pulled also.
Some thing, seems foul.

Jim Noel · Apr 9, 2008

I suspect this is more a matter of questionable dealers than a problem with e-bay itself. I have known them to pull listings which were by vendors who have had serious problems in the past.

David A. Goldfarb · Apr 9, 2008

Probably a fraudulent auction that was reported. Not too unusual lately, and good that it was pulled.

cmo · Apr 9, 2008

The only auctions that eBay will never pull are those from chinese dealers that sell rare, minty collector items like Zunow lenses, fake Armani ties, falsified Rolexes... or russian auctions with black Wehrmacht Leicas, boxed, with 1.5/50 lenses.

ehparis · Apr 9, 2008

eBay pulls a lot of auctions, mostly due to possible fraud. I wouldn't worry about it other than as a reminder to check out the dealer throughly (not merely feedback, but what items sold before, etc.).

thuggins · Apr 9, 2008

I was watching two Pen F lenses that just "disappeared". It is very doubtful that evilbay pulled them. They consistently prove that they are not interested in protecting buyers from fraud. The only reason they police brand name knock offs is because they are afraid of being sued by the trademark holders. It certainly has nothing to do with protecting those unwitting schmucks that might buy them!

Vonder · Apr 10, 2008

I'll echo the anti-eBay comments. If you think eBay is interested in being fair or protecting buyers, give my horror story a read at http://www.wolfeyephoto.com/badebayer.htm - long story in short, I bought an item, never received it, and was left with negative feedback.

ehparis · Apr 10, 2008

I'm not an eBay fan and believe comments about they're not being that active in anti-fraud are generally true. They have, however, and on two separate occasions, removed listings when I notified them of obvious fraud. They confirmed in both cases and removed the listing. One was for a 200-400 Nikkor lens, rare and expensive, where the guy claimed to have five to sell. The other was a listing for a Nikon F3HP for a "buy it now" price that was exceptionally low for the condition stated and the photos provided. As earlier stated you have to use a little common sense and check out sellers. With all the millions of advs. placed you'll be foolish to trust eBay to catch even a small part of them .... even if they wanted to.

Snapshot · Apr 10, 2008

Wolfeye said:
I'll echo the anti-eBay comments. If you think eBay is interested in being fair or protecting buyers, give my horror story a read at http://www.wolfeyephoto.com/badebayer.htm - long story in short, I bought an item, never received it, and was left with negative feedback.

Some people are just born jerks. It's too bad you had to go through his monkey business.

Vonder · Apr 10, 2008

Indeed

Snapshot said:
Some people are just born jerks. It's too bad you had to go through his monkey business.

He told me that he "knew I was going to be trouble when I asked if the item had shipped" - the truth being he never shipped it, which is why the tracking number came up lame and he was able to "cancel the shipment" so easilly. Yeah, right dude, like you ever shipped.

If I ever find out I have a terminal illness, mister bizzytop will be getting a visit.

Snapshot · Apr 10, 2008

Wolfeye said:
He told me that he "knew I was going to be trouble when I asked if the item had shipped"

Maybe he was confused and was referring to himself?

Absinthe · Apr 10, 2008

I have been dealign with ebay for some time now, however, mostly in and around the "locksmith" areas (being a locksmith )

They have some very specific rules against certain things that they define as lock picking devices that include key machines and the such. However, they will not police them, merely respond to the "report" of one such item and investigate it. However, people have learned that 1 day auctions on the weekend, or BIN sales tend not to get reported-investigated before they are done and over.

magic823 · Apr 10, 2008

Wolfeye said:
I'll echo the anti-eBay comments. If you think eBay is interested in being fair or protecting buyers, give my horror story a read at http://www.wolfeyephoto.com/badebayer.htm - long story in short, I bought an item, never received it, and was left with negative feedback.

I had a regular poster here do almost the same thing. I won a ebay auction, paid for it, and then never heard from him for weeks. When he final emailed me he told me that it was out of stock (he makes the item himself) and then said it would ship within the week. I waited two weeks and then emailed him and he gave some other excuse. After close to 5-6 weeks I left him negative feedback. He then left me negative feedback that I was hard to deal with, but he finally sent the item. I complained to ebay that it was a retalitory freeback, but they don't care. My other negative feedback is the guy didn't sent the item. I left negative freeback and a ebay dispute. Ebay kicked him off the system, but not before he left a retalitory negative feedback, that ebay wouldn't take off.

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