eBay: more miss than hit

[Tenex]

This has nothing to do with eBay directly. It's more of just a rant about the shady sellers. I won THIS lot of 8 point sockets for $35. I paid shortly after the auction ended on 4/7. Expected delivery was 4/12 so I was pleasantly surprised to have received them today.

I messaged the seller prior to bidding and it went as follows:

Me: I'd like to know if all of the sockets are made in USA. Please reply at your earliest convenience.

Seller: Three of the smallest ones do not have any manufacturers names on them. I couldn't tell you where these were made. But the rest are definitely American made by Husky, J.H Williams and Craftsman as stated.

What I received today was 6 no-name sockets, 14 are Chinese Craftsman or Husky, and only 11 are American made(2 Wizard, 4 Craftsman, 5 Williams). Let us not forget that the title of the listing states there should be a 1-1/16", 1-1/8", and 1-1/4", but the largest socket is only 13/16". I requested a refund a few hours ago and got it, but I see the seller relisted the lot again HERE even though eBay sent me a message stating that I didn't need to return them.

 

[JRC3]

I knew it was a pawnshop when I saw the pics and the items. Seller probably has boxes of old sockets sitting around and just puts a set together from all the randoms. Probably reuses the same listing text and pictures. (Probably clicks "sell same item" with each listing.

 

[Eric29]

Sorry you had to go through this. I recently had to cancel three orders on Amazon because the things I ordered were never going to ship. The sellers relisted the items at higher prices. Too bad our legislators aren't interested in laws for consumer protection. If they were, EBay and Amazon could be held accountable and they would have an incentive to stop this.

This has nothing to do with eBay directly. It's more of just a rant about the shady sellers. I won THIS lot of 8 point sockets for $35. I paid shortly after the auction ended on 4/7. Expected delivery was 4/12 so I was pleasantly surprised to have received them today.

I messaged the seller prior to bidding and it went as follows:

Me: I'd like to know if all of the sockets are made in USA. Please reply at your earliest convenience.

Seller: Three of the smallest ones do not have any manufacturers names on them. I couldn't tell you where these were made. But the rest are definitely American made by Husky, J.H Williams and Craftsman as stated.

What I received today was 6 no-name sockets, 14 are Chinese Craftsman or Husky, and only 11 are American made(2 Wizard, 4 Craftsman, 5 Williams). Let us not forget that the title of the listing states there should be a 1-1/16", 1-1/8", and 1-1/4", but the largest socket is only 13/16". I requested a refund a few hours ago and got it, but I see the seller relisted the lot again HERE even though eBay sent me a message stating that I didn't need to return them.

 

[G-ManBart]

Sorry you had to go through this. I recently had to cancel three orders on Amazon because the things I ordered were never going to ship. The sellers relisted the items at higher prices. Too bad our legislators aren't interested in laws for consumer protection. If they were, EBay and Amazon could be held accountable and they would have an incentive to stop this.

The difference is eBay isn't the seller, where Amazon normally is...quite a bit different. If you receive something you bought on eBay that doesn't match the description you have a fair amount of protection as a buyer on eBay. eBay sellers actually complain that buyers have more rights there, so it's all relative.

 

[Davefr]

Too bad our legislators aren't interested in laws for consumer protection. If they were, EBay and Amazon could be held accountable and they would have an incentive to stop this.

There are no safer sales venues then Ebay and Amazon. Each have tons of consumer protections built in.

I'm not sure what more you're asking for.

 

[Gmonkee]

Honesty. Integrity and maybe a little QC to make sure the righr address was put on the right set sold?

That said after some very expensive fun with Mercadolibre I have a 600 peso tv remote worth locally about 150 pesos.
And it would have cost more yet to get any money back.

I didn't want a remote, a bluetooth keyboard is what I ordered.

From that point on only buy and sell hands on the merchandise.

Not worth the hassle and the extra time spent hoping for the best when the alternative is a deal or no deal within minutes, merchandise in hand.

 

[smuro04]

Seems to be my experience lately. I just bought a Subaru part off eBay the other day, item gets here and heat shields are cracked. Wasn't apparent by the pictures, and you had to look VERY close to spot it. It was definitely repaired, so the seller knew about it, complete negligence on their part.

It's getting harder to find honest people anymore. Everyone just wants to make a quick buck.


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[BDT/NWMN]

Free sockets. Looks like You came out ahead on that one.

 

[Rarified27]

There are no safer sales venues then Ebay and Amazon. Each have tons of consumer protections built in.

I'm not sure what more you're asking for.

^Agreed.

I had an item which sold 5 times to bidders with 1 or zero feedback, each one not paying each time. While it took almost 2 weeks, each time for the unpaid case to be opened investigated and closed, the site never charged me any fees and relisted the item for me each time.

 

[woody 73]

Not to be a kill joy but why not buy your tools from the GJ and skip the ebay ? Heck I have tools that I would love to sell and I am sure we must have 10,000 other members that would love to sell you some tools.

 

[zendriver]

Sorry you had to go through this. I recently had to cancel three orders on Amazon because the things I ordered were never going to ship. The sellers relisted the items at higher prices. Too bad our legislators aren't interested in laws for consumer protection. If they were, EBay and Amazon could be held accountable and they would have an incentive to stop this.

Stop what?

Maybe the OP's seller was too busy/lazy, to sort through 30 sockets, to determine the exact COO, of each and every socket.

Ebay does 1 billion transactions - per day.

We don't need the Government's "help" in protecting both buyers and sellers. Ebay already does a very reasonably good job in doing so, IMO.