anotherrick
Member Since: 16 Feb 2020
Location: Burnley
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So I've had my car for sale on everybody's favourite auction site several times and now have listing fee's equivalent to a small bottle of hand sanitiser and yet no sale.
Now dont get me wrong I don't need to sell the car, I don't need the money but for f*#k sake the people and questions I've had to deal with is both amusing and annoying.
The auction started at £1200 so que the several offers of £500 cash today, what's your best price ect.
Yeh I'm blagged and yeh I'm having a rant haha
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 26th May 2020 4:50 pm |
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darrind
Member Since: 04 Jul 2008
Location: In A World of My Own!
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Ohh the pain of Ebay and car sales, put MILs old Honda Civic on there and sold it twice - both times buyer didn't show 
Only positive is they will refund fees if the buyer messes you around Must stop buying shiny toys....
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| 26th May 2020 4:53 pm |
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pagoda
Member Since: 13 Aug 2009
Location: Not London Anymore (or the US for that matter)
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Had nothing but bad experiences with it - it's swamped by fraud and criminals; it's not a safe platform and the buyer is always ALWAYS right. Sold an expensive Nikon D-SLR last year. 5 months later the buyer made a claim saying the item was not as described (i.e. was NOT in perfect working order) as it was now broken.
Paypal refunded her the $1K+ after she was kind enough to send back the camera that she had dropped and broken.
It's a site that's only interested in the bigger sellers now and nothing like it was in the late 90s/early 00s. It was great then. PAGODA
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| 26th May 2020 5:04 pm |
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JMack
Member Since: 02 Aug 2014
Location: Edinburgh
Posts: 1517
 
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I've sold vehicles on Ebay, one a van the other a Jeep.
Van sold to a courier company and a very smooth transaction for the full cash amount.
The Jeep Cherokee had a couple of time waster buyers who were going "home to bid now" for an agreed price. Neither did. But the third viewer turned up had a quick look and left a deposit and paid my higher Buy It Now price than bidding. Best thing is I got more for the Cherokee than I paid for it 2 years and 40,000+ miles earlier! And it didn't cost much other than fuel! (4.0L i6)
So all in all I have no complaints about selling on Ebay, though both were a good few years ago.
I have also bought a couple of cars through Ebay and both were very easy transactions.
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| 26th May 2020 5:22 pm |
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anotherrick
Member Since: 16 Feb 2020
Location: Burnley
Posts: 33
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darrind wrote:Ohh the pain of Ebay and car sales, put MILs old Honda Civic on there and sold it twice - both times buyer didn't show
Only positive is they will refund fees if the buyer messes you around
Funnily enough this is a honda, a prelude. Must be a honda thing haha
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| 26th May 2020 6:52 pm |
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paul123
Member Since: 22 Mar 2020
Location: norwich
Posts: 236
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just sold the wifes 300tdi disco on there , had a few of the i will give you a stupid cash offer and collect today types . plenty of sensible questions but no bids till the last day . it sold for more than i was expecting buyer collected it the next day no problems .
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| 26th May 2020 7:28 pm |
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anotherrick
Member Since: 16 Feb 2020
Location: Burnley
Posts: 33
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I don't mind the questions, but when it's already in the ad so they obviously ain't read the description I find it hard not to be sarcastic haha
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| 26th May 2020 8:08 pm |
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JackNorris
Member Since: 06 Jul 2012
Location: Beds/Bucks Border
Posts: 1879
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I ended up selling via Facebook
Got fed up with eBay MY2023 Discovery 5 R-Dynamic 3.0
MY2020 Discovery 5 Landmark 3.0 - SOLD
MY2005 Discovery 3 V8 4.4 HSE - SOLD
MY2019 Discovery 5 SE 3.0 - LR Replaced !
MY2005 Discovery 3 S 2.7 - SOLD
MY2016 Discovery 4 Graphite - SOLD
MY2015 Discovery 4 SE Tech - SOLD
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| 26th May 2020 9:27 pm |
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Grunders
Member Since: 30 Apr 2011
Location: Manchester
Posts: 2329
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I’ve sold a number of cars and motorbikes on eBay and never had a problem, In fact I’ve got a Mini Convertible for sale on there now, 
you do get the stupid questions and bids, but the site does have a big audience, If it ain't broke... Take it apart anyway, how else you gonna find out how it works
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| 27th May 2020 1:30 pm |
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paul123
Member Since: 22 Mar 2020
Location: norwich
Posts: 236
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anotherrick wrote:I don't mind the questions, but when it's already in the ad so they obviously ain't read the description I find it hard not to be sarcastic haha
thats how i react when the question is how much will you take for it i can collect it today ?. the reply is its an auction you place a bid if its the highest you get it .
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| 28th May 2020 7:24 pm |
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carbore
Member Since: 06 Apr 2016
Location: Cornwall
Posts: 545
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Not just eBay.
Had wifes S2000 for sale while back for about £5k. Chap came round to view and siad something like £2500 to "take it off yer hands"
He siad this to me, as the car was parked in its barn, (not the one I keep my Lotus in, or my vintage Fergie) on the yard of my big farmhouse, in 5 acres of land, overlooking StIves in Cornwall, with my D3 HSE shining in the background.
DO I LOOK LIKE I NEED YOU TO TAKE IT OFF MY HANDS!
I put it back in the barn and sold it a year or so later for 5k Disco 3: Lotus Elise S1: Ferguson T20: Audi A2
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| 31st May 2020 3:08 pm |
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Moo
D3 Decade
Member Since: 13 Aug 2010
Location: UK
Posts: 14428
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If I’m selling anything or even shipping stuff, I never do it from my home. Luckily I have a few properties they can come and look at stuff at or have it collected from. Maybe I’m a cynic, but I’m not convinced some of those coming to have a look are necessarily there for legitimate reasons. D4 HSE EU6 (Known as Jeeves)
New Defender L663 110 SE (known as Noddy!) Sold
Sold Volvo XC90 R-Design (known as Basil)
Sold - D4 HSE (Known as Gerty)
No longer the Old Buses original owner 
231,000 miles and counting
05 S manual owned from March 2005
D4 Face lifted
Still original injectors and turbo
V8 Front brakes
BAS Remap, Allisport Intercooler and deCat
EGRs blanked
T-Max split charge
Hanibal Expeedition rack
Prospeed ladder
Duratrac tyres
IID BT
BAS FBH control
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| 31st May 2020 4:00 pm |
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Aerialmark
Member Since: 21 Jun 2015
Location: Burnley (Where the M65 is cobbled)
Posts: 5192
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Its a good idea fella as you never know these days unfortunately  The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything;
They just make the best of everything they have.
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| 1st Jun 2020 6:31 pm |
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