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Been ripped off when buying on eBay?
+Chimpy+
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Have you had a bad experience or been ripped off buying goods on an internet auction website such as eBay, eBid, Tazbar or CQout? Maybe you’ve tried to buy something that turned out to be faulty, the item wasn’t what you expected, or didn’t arrive at all.
How much money did you lose? How did you react? What did you try to do about it?
If you’ve had a bad buying experience, TheSite.org is looking for someone to interview for an audio podcast on buying rights when using internet auction websites.
If interested, please send me a private message with a contact email and a short description of your bad experiences.
Many thanks,
Chris Chapman.
How much money did you lose? How did you react? What did you try to do about it?
If you’ve had a bad buying experience, TheSite.org is looking for someone to interview for an audio podcast on buying rights when using internet auction websites.
If interested, please send me a private message with a contact email and a short description of your bad experiences.
Many thanks,
Chris Chapman.
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Refurbished mouse. Cost £17 (RRP £35 so thought I was saving a few quid), postage £10. Arrived, very very obviously broken, it was rattling inside and it would not connect to the PC citing corrupt device. Sent back (for £3), only received a partial refund as they claimed there was a restocking fee and did not refund the postage either way. I ended up around £15 out of pocket.
Other than that, I rate eBay and I've been using it since year 2001.
I've only ever bought one thing of eBay, that was a pack of 50 tounge bars and 5 flashy vibrating ones :P I thought I was being ripped off, because it was about 2 weeks after the date I should have received it.
http://www.thesite.org/homelawandmoney/money/budgetandbuy/internetauctionbuying
Download the audio and listen to my very camp sounding voice.