winning a car on ebay

Let it go, move on.
Probably a rust bucket anyway.

I won some alloys a while back and the seller refused to honour the bid / auction

Pretty annoying as the buyer doesn't get sent the address etc, only the seller does to 'send' the item.

I contacted Ebay to report the seller for not honouring the auction, they couldn't care less and told me to simply buy another item. Not what I wanted as they were rare wheels at a good price, sent the seller a load of messages asking to pay / collect etc with no reply.

Ebay then refused to release the sellers contact details to me, I said the auction was a legal contract and the seller was legally bound to for fill it. Ebay said that is correct however the contract is between the seller and buyer and nothing to do with them. So again I asked them to give me the sellers address and contact number so that I can complete the sale of the contract they had created on our behalf. No luck they refused, said it's against their privacy policy.

waste of time!

The other way round - a mate sold a car on ebay the other day, then the buyer contacted him to say they thought they'd bid too much and would he drop the price.

When I sold my caravan the guy rolled up to collect it in a car without a towbar fitted. These are the kind of muppets that inhabit the world of ebay.

I sold some heaters a few weeks ago and the guy asked for my phone number so we could arrange collection - only ebay now blocks people messaging phone numbers via their message facility. So how are people meant to make the necessary arrangements.

I rarely use it these days, and never ever ever for buying selling cars.

Alert ebay - send them the mail chain.

If you are feeling particularly spiteful report him to the police for racism.

I would be phoning eBay
I’m sure you can get them on the phone??
That seller needs banning

unfortunately ebay is full of none paying idiots I only use them to buy not sell use scpock or gumtree etc

I won a set of wheels a couple of years ago, £24 for four all terrain tyres on suzuki rims if I remember correctly. Seller never answered my messages so I called in the Ebay police and after reviewing the case they refunded me. Sadly that was not the outcome I was looking for as I really wanted the tyres.
About a week later I went to show a work colleague who makes a living selling stuff properly on ebay and the sellers ID had been revoked. The work colleague said that happens on the third or fourth offence if they refuse to complete the deal or continually ignore messages.

I used to sell quite expensive gaming controllers that had been refurbished or repaired by myself, always played by the rules. Stated very plainly that I would NOT ship outside the UK in about four places on the listings, said that removing any item from the UK would invalidate the warranty I gave. So one bloke used a false UK email address, had it sent to a 'shipping agent' and four weeks later got in touch to tell me that a bit of it was broken by the 'courier' and demanded a spare part. I had a spare so sent it to the same shipping agent - not my problem anymore. Paypal froze the funds twice during the course of this until I sent them all the ebay message content.

It has gone downhill recently though and there are some proper numpties too.

It is a minefield on ebay but on the other side of the coin i bid and won a fiesta last week and the car was under described, way better than the advert said and i got it for the same as a 3 year older motor i was bidding on (and lost).
Only modern tat bit it was one the most pleasant transactions i've ever had, even got a decent cup of tea and he put half a tank of fuel in so i could get home (even though i live 3 miles away), TBH i may give up buying on ebay right now as it'll all be downhill form now on

It does annoy me cos i allways go the extra mile for a buyer, IE changing post type, extra packaging if it's going abroad ect ect, shame most ebayers don't actually give a stuff about thier feedback, i've spent years keeping my 100% feedback but it has been a struggle, then there are the huge feedback sellers who turn over so much they also don't give a stuff!

Pesonly i'd be making not a fake account and never ever messing with that sellers other future auctions

it has become a PITA to view things before you bid on them on ebay. After all, Good condition to me could be a immaculate to someone else and vice versa.

That said, I am one of "those" bidders ATM.

I won a car, albeit cheaply. It's been almost two weeks. I was going to collect it this weekend, but something has come up. While the buyer has been understanding I know I'd be funny about it if I was waiting for 3 weeks to get a car sold! I've put a deposit down to be fair. I've been on it on the other side mind you but generally with people fully settling up the bill (i.e, paying by cheque).

I remember once selling a car to a Red Bull Tyre fitter. I am amazed that he managed to somehow juggle the time between the races to make it back, even if it was a week later than he said!