MNteractive

About a year ago, I was burned by eBay. We had purchased an item online only to find out it was a dropshipper that really had no care whether or not any of the items they were selling was actually in stock. As such, he, with the help of eBay and PayPal, held our money ransom for 2 months before we finally got it back.

I thought I was through with eBay, but then I ended up with a Sony Cyber-shot camera that I wanted to get rid of (Canons are SO much easier to use), so I thought I’d give eBay one more chance.

Well, after spending an hour figuring out their interface to get an item listed, I got it listed. It sat there for 5 days. In that time, I got 6 emails asking about the item. 5 from Nigeria.

In the end, though, it sold for a tad higher than I thought and I was happy. Except that 2 minutes after the auction ended I get an email from eBay stating that the listing has been deleted as the winning bidder’s account had been hijacked.

Another 2 minutes later I get the supposed email from the winner asking to ship to Nigeria.

This is all ridiculous as it is (c’mon eBay…WTF? How hard is it to put in a Nigerian filter!?) but the real kick in the pants is that eBay states that ‘we’ll refund your listing money within 7 days and, oh…btw, we can’t relist the item for you…you’ll have to jump through all the same hoops again a second time.’ Yea, right. Just want…MORE email from Nigeria.

Well, that’s it. No more eBay.

Anyone in the cities want a slightly used Cyber-Shot? It’ll be up on Craig’s list shortly…