What has happened to 2 Major online selling sites

[kiwi_2005]

Originally Posted by Reece

Late last year I purchased a second hand Icom receiver on Oztion (like ebay) over $600, after a lot of chasing paper work for claims etc I never got it or my money back! Have a fraud claim lodged with Police, still waiting on that!
However I still use eBay and my wife is a Power Seller there! (100% positive 1151 star rating) Yes I have lost a little but overall very happy with eBay!

Does Aussie have its own main auction site? We have TradeMe full of kiwis, Aussies and even American retailers have started up. I couldnt think of any reason to want to buy/sell on Ebay nothing to do with the site itself its the distance that puts me off.

We occasionally have the ripoff, one seller recently brought some fog lights for his 4WD, soon as he paid the $90 the guy canceled his account and changed his email thinking hes just got a cool $90 out of this sucker he apparently did this to 5 auctions all at once after they paid up. Tm told the buyer they dont give out personal details unless ordered by the courts & cause its only $90 they suggest he wipe it off as a bad deal and blacklist the seller
So he traveled 200 miles to get the court order then visited TM office and they had to give him the guys address details.

Turns up at the guys place that day & got his fog lights. Spent more money getting it back than what he paid for but he said seeing the look on the guys face was priceless

good on him i dont know though if i would be that deterimined over $90.

[Reece]

Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

Does Aussie have its own main auction site? We have TradeMe full of kiwis, Aussies and even American retailers have started up. I couldnt think of any reason to want to buy/sell on Ebay nothing to do with the site itself its the distance that puts me off.

We occasionally have the ripoff, one seller recently brought some fog lights for his 4WD, soon as he paid the $90 the guy canceled his account and changed his email thinking hes just got a cool $90 out of this sucker he apparently did this to 5 auctions all at once after they paid up. Tm told the buyer they dont give out personal details unless ordered by the courts & cause its only $90 they suggest he wipe it off as a bad deal and blacklist the seller
So he traveled 200 miles to get the court order then visited TM office and they had to give him the guys address details.

Turns up at the guys place that day & got his fog lights. Spent more money getting it back than what he paid for but he said seeing the look on the guys face was priceless

good on him i dont know though if i would be that deterimined over $90.

Through eBay you are guaranteed to receive your goods by PayPal, but no such thing with OZtion. https://www.oztion.com.au/
I don't use them any more, wonder why!

[Jimbuna]

I've never had a problem using Amazon or eBay but remain wary as I read more and more peoples negative experiences.

[Dowly]

Some fricking idiot who happened to have same name as I do sold a bunch of old NES games on the finnish version of Ebay (huuto.net). Of course, the git didn't deliver and the next thing I got an angry call from the mom of the kid who had bought the games. I explained that it wasn't me and that eventho there's only 5.5 million peeps in Finland it just might be possible that someone has the same name as I do.

We let it go at that, until she called me again the next day with the same whine whine whine. I explained again how I haven't owned a NES in years let alone would have many games to sell. She said that they have my bank account number they paid the money to and would contact police. At this point I was rather pissed (was at work then and really had no time for her BS), so I "kindly" said to her to call to the ****ing bank and ask if they could get the sellers phone number or something as she's yelling at the wrong guy. She hung up.

The next day, I get a call from the local police, asking me to come over. I quered if this had something to do with a scam on Huuto.net and sure it was. I told the nice policeman what I told the bitch, check bank for the contact information of the other git and if they still get my phone number, I'm willing to confess the murder of Olof Palme too. Fortunately, I didn't have to go over to th station and the police said that he'll look into it, but that I should be in reach just in case.

Well, haven't heard from them since. Would not have minded an apology call from the ****, she weren't very nice nor polite to me.

[Wolfehunter]

I haven't had any problems with amazon but I rarely buy stuff from them.. But I quit Ebay years ago.. They change there policies back in the earlier 2000s and It violated our original agreements. I didn't like the path there where heading so I refused to accept the new conditions.

I've heard it got worse over the years...

[FIREWALL]

I didn't get mad, I got even. Well better than even.

I contacted Visa and cancelled payment.

I then contacted seller and told him I cancelled order as it's been 7 days with no shipping notice and his ad states "Ships within 24 hrs"

Immediately I get a email that item has been shipped. Right.

I responded ... Good for you but, a little to late.

I got emails from Ebay and PayPal with contact ph#'s

After talking with both they saw it my way and asked me to send it back to Seller.

I said sure as soon as he sends me a prepaid shipping envelope.

edit: He has 7 days to do it too.