AuctionCut

Hi I don't know if anyone can help with this one?
I posted an item for auction (7 days) and all was going well it reached about half the expected selling price at £1100 then I started gettind abusive e-mails telling me that my item was a facke and that it was advertiside slse ware? and that they had posted on the forum tellend every one that I was a scammer and to stay well away!
From that moment on there was no action on my item at all for the rest of the 4 days remainning.
I reported this to e-bay and they just kept saying the same thing over and over "the e-mails did not come from e-bay" Well I know they did because I replyed to them and got more abuse back from those who answered?
I'm now in dispute with e-bay and they have suspended my account because I'm not willing to pay the £40 odd pounds for the aucion fees as they have not given me a chance to sell my item or a satisfectory answer of how my aution was stolen, now they are threttening debt collection.
Any ideas of how I can avoid this? I don't care about my account I would rather sell my items in the pub rather than trust this usless lot again. What a waist of good broad band space!

Do you have the item number handy?

k700 wrote:Do you have the item number handy?

Hi yes I do it's 220130506466 It was a gold chain do you have a sujestion?

Hi,

Can you clarify, was the auction ended early by eBay?

Do you also know which forum is was, where your item was discussed.

Hi I never found out which forum it was and no they didn't end the auction they didn't do anything at all

If you received e-mails outside of eBay, why did you even care what they said?
Its not like he/she could hurt you, and if he/she were posting in forums, that couldn't possibly affect sales that much.

I would pay off the fees, because eBay although it might be unfair, has more power then you do at this moment. Then just take the item and sell it else where, you don't have to sell it on ebay.

I agree with FelletV. How are eBay liable for what other people have said - Of course they will be unable to answer for others.

Also, if it didn't sell couldn't you have simply relisted the item as eBay didn't pull the auction?

why is the fee so high? seems odd.

jumble wrote:why is the fee so high? seems odd.

It will be the non-refundable reserve fee - if the item didn't sell, then the cost of the reserve fee is still payable. I estimate the reserve was around £2k, the item was started at 99p with 3 pictures and I would assume a Gallery, so the standard insertion fee is less than £1.

£2k is a reasonable figure to expect for a cain of this weight - 9ct Gold does not tend to sell for less than £7 per gram on the UK site.

In retrospect it would have been more cost effective to start the bidding at the reserve fee, the Insertion Fee would have been £2 + extra pictures & Gallery, and although this would possibly reduce the number of bidders.

If it sold at £2000, the Final Value fee would have been £43.03, so adding the reserve fee on top of this makes it close to £85 in total fees and then receiving payment via paypal would add another £68 in Fees.

I have sold a few items in this category in the past, although not to that value, and found it quite competitive and a little murky. There are a fair number of Powersellers featuring in the category and having looked at the bidders on the items, they all seemed to be bidding on many similar items over a long period of time.

This suggests to me that they are either semi-pro traders buying cheap stock for resale, or circles of auction-spoilers or shillers. Regardless of the quality of listing or pictures, £7 per gram is pretty much the minimum selling price, and it is rare to see unsold items.