Is selling on adverts.ie a joke?

MilesMorales1 · 03-04-2016 09:55AM

I've had to cancel a sale on someone today, (well at 1am last night) and I'm afraid to log back in now cos of receiving some sort of feedback/irate message

Shouldn't be allowed on these sites when your in a bad mood.

ScouseMouse · 03-04-2016 09:57AM

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

I've had to cancel a sale on someone today, (well at 1am last night) and I'm afraid to log back in now cos of receiving some sort of feedback/irate message

Shouldn't be allowed on these sites when your in a bad mood.

Unreasonable feedback can and does get removed if you report it.

Captain Flaps · 04-04-2016 11:46AM

ScouseMouse wrote: »

Unreasonable feedback can and does get removed if you report it.

Nothing the poster said suggested negative feedback wouldn't be warranted in this case!

martyc5674 · 04-04-2016 01:05PM

Smidge wrote: »

Silverbling wrote: »

I will never sell using PayPal again. I'm not a business, just sold 3 things privately. Used PayPal the 3 times. All 3 things were immaculate and sent perfectly. Same thing happened with all 3.
Too many scammers out there wanting stuff for free.
They simply say, not as described.
PayPal gives them their money and they have my items.
If PayPal want to continue as a viable form of trading it will have to consider a big style review of their practice.
In essence, I have been robbed and can't do a thing about it.
And also to say, I have friends who run online business and they are being taken left right and centre with people doing the same thing.
No one can do business like that. They are all considering dropping paypal, they are losing hand over fist.

Were you using Ebay?...Or some other contractual site to sell on?

I once received an item "not as described"..it was an MP3 player a few years back.
The guy i bought it off in China went quiet and that really pi**ed me off.
Ebay said the only way they could get my money back was if I returned the item to him using registered mail...i did just that at great expense to myself (i was really miffed because he ceased communication once i told him the unit was dead on arrival).
Anyway...long story short i got my money back but only once he had signed for the returned package.
Sounds to me like you didnt get anything back?
Marty.

Captain Flaps · 04-04-2016 01:12PM

I've bought and sold with Paypal for years but yeah, you do hear plenty of stories where they'll side with the buyer no questions asked. I often wonder do they compare transaction history, like if you have a seller with immaculate records and then a buyer who claims back every purchase is that taken into account when settling a dispute?

Sleepy · 04-04-2016 01:35PM

What I think is a shame is how the free ads section is over-run by professional scavengers.

We've regularly put stuff up for free and occasionally picked up some freebies ourselves but the last few things we listed were all collected by guys in vans who were clearly planning to flog what we'd given them at some market or other at the weekend.

Captain Flaps · 04-04-2016 02:41PM

Sleepy wrote: »

What I think is a shame is how the free ads section is over-run by professional scavengers.

We've regularly put stuff up for free and occasionally picked up some freebies ourselves but the last few things we listed were all collected by guys in vans who were clearly planning to flog what we'd given them at some market or other at the weekend.

For free stuff if I'm in nor hurry to get rid I'll pick people who don't have 1000 comments in the free section, and who've put more effort into the post than 'me pls'

eamonnq · 04-04-2016 02:45PM

Or put it up for sale for a small amount and just give it to whoever wants it when they come to collect !

smash · 04-04-2016 02:49PM

dudara wrote: »

Recently I put up an ad for a Moët Vintage 2006 display box.

Will swap for 3 limited edition cans of 7 up.

Just the cans though, I drank the contents.

Menas · 04-04-2016 02:53PM

smash wrote: »

Will swap for 3 limited edition cans of 7 up.

Just the cans though, I drank the contents.

Are they unoopened?
If yes - Swap you for anything in my adds. ie a withered daisy picked from my garden last spring.

smash · 04-04-2016 03:02PM

Menas wrote: »

Are they unoopened?
If yes - Swap you for anything in my adds. ie a withered daisy picked from my garden last spring.

Opened.
Will swap for two daisies. Possibly 1 Tulip.

Menas · 04-04-2016 03:06PM

smash wrote: »

Opened.
Will swap for two daisies. Possibly 1 Tulip.

Opened - ok - not what I was expecting? You throw in €15 and we have a deal.
Can you deliver to Skibbereen?

smash · 04-04-2016 03:09PM

Menas wrote: »

Opened - ok - not what I was expecting? You throw in €15 and we have a deal.
Can you deliver to Skibbereen?

Feck off.

/Writes bad review...

wally79 · 04-04-2016 03:21PM

smash wrote: »

Opened.
Will swap for two daisies. Possibly 1 Tulip.

I've just seen 3 non limited edition opened cans on ebay for 1 daisy.

I'll give you 1 daisy for yours when can you deliver.

sportloto86 · 04-04-2016 05:24PM

Never had problems selling on adverts. My beef is actually with sellers themselves. The ones who can't be bothered to conclude the sale. Oh, I'm rarely on here. Oh, I've no internet so didnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t see your offer. Oh, I've had it on hold for your lad so kept everyone hanging there even if they were offering asking price.
Recently had my day, birthday present plan and my health ruined by such seller. Offered what he wanted and saw him on adverts but no reply. Asked if item still available and saw him logging in. Guess - no response. Asked again and some time later, finally, getting response that it is. Will you take my money then and I will drive for 2 hrs to collect it? Yeah, make me an offer. Telling him that I already did yesterday, him accepting, going through motions of sending my fecking thanks and pm'ing and sending another message telling that I pm'd only for him to disappear again for half a fecking day! Then at dawn he calls and says - yeah, are you coming? Coming WHERE?!
Oh, I can ship it to you tomorrow but I need PayPal payment first.
Sure...
Now I'm waiting on another one to grace adverts with his appearance...

Is it just me?

Shannon757 · 04-04-2016 06:34PM

sportloto86 wrote: »

Is it just me?

I'm afraid so.

ScouseMouse · 04-04-2016 06:43PM

Captain Flaps wrote: »

Nothing the poster said suggested negative feedback wouldn't be warranted in this case!

Of course, it has to be explained why its unreasonable.

Paulzx · 04-04-2016 07:49PM

sportloto86 wrote: »

my health ruined by such

How can you have your health ruined by a spanner on adverts?

sportloto86 · 04-04-2016 08:07PM

Shannon757 wrote:

I'm afraid so.

Please discuss.

sportloto86 · 04-04-2016 08:10PM

Paulzx wrote:

How can you have your health ruined by a spanner on adverts?

Was wondering myself. Blood pressure, shortness of breath, couldn't sleep until 3am, indigestion and other stuff I will not be describing here. I guess some of us are just too sensitive to any kind of injustice.

Muahahaha · 04-04-2016 08:13PM

biko wrote: »

I've no particular issues with Adverts, but then I always meet in person, deal in cash and just ignore the idiot comments on my stuff for sale.
Tbh donedeal eejits does my head in more.

I'm the same, I think Adverts is grand. I especially like the feedback system and the way its easy to get extra info on the item before making an offer. When selling you just gotta learn to ignore the lowballers and swaps offers which I'd imagine are mainly from broke teenagers with more time than money.

Donedeal on the other hand I find has a lot of people setting unrealistic prices and also a lot of time wasters. I tried to give away 2 free sofas a few years back on Donedeal, I specifically stated I needed them both gone together and wasn't splitting. What do I get but some scummer showing up saying he would only take one of them. I ran him out the door but for a moment it felt dodgy, there he was inside my home arguing with me. I haven't used Donedeal since because they have no feedback system to filter out the crud and you just don't know what or who is going to show up.

ButtersSuki · 04-04-2016 08:19PM

I've had good and bad.

Put 3 bedrooms and a landing and stairs worth of carpet up for free if collected. All in excellent condition, all less than a year old (the boss changed her mind.....).

Woman from Athlone asked for them. I said ok. Then she asked when can I deliver. I said they were collection only (I live in Dublin). She lost her shlt completely saying I accepted therefore it was up to me to deliver. Series of abusive messages and phone calls before she gave up. Called me every name under the sun. Complete idiot.
guy who eventually collected them however gave me a box of chocolates - only a small box of roses (prob less than €4) but it was the thought that counted.

Some amount of tyre kickers on it though.

MarkY91 · 04-04-2016 08:31PM

A guy posted me a game 2 weeks ago and it never arrived until today. I got it myself brand new 1o days ago as it never arrived. I never paid him in the first place and he felt hard done by (by an post) so it arrived today and I posted it back to him with my own money. When I could have sold it to CEX for a free €40

Just thought id share that to show that there are hnlonest people on adverts. Half of the dodgey people have loads of negative feedback anyways.

Dard23 · 04-04-2016 09:01PM

One thing that winds me right up on Adverts or elsewhere is people way overvaluing their second hand stuff! Seriously some of the prices are a joke, look at anything Apple for instance. IPad 2 is an ancient tablet now and people are still looking in the hundreds for them! It's so irritating! I often have to hold back commenting on Ads because it's not really my place, but I hate to see people who know nothing about technology getting screwed! Maybe that's just me and yes it is the sellers right to sell their stuff how they want but fair is fair.

Korvanica · 05-04-2016 08:47AM

martyc5674 wrote: »

I love pressing the nearby button to see whats for sale nearby .

? I cannot seem to find this.

Edit: Found it. Its in the app. I was looking on Web.

Keplar240B · 05-04-2016 08:59AM

Found some great deals on it and sold a few bits.

If you set a minimum price offer and a fair price and write a proper full description title and good photo . It dramatically cuts out stupid and good questions and low offers.

Many ads are very poorly written I find
Title and description sparse and poor photo. A sparse title makes it hard to find things. Poor description and photos almost forces buyers to ask questions to figure out what the took the item actually is.

TrustedApple · 05-04-2016 09:08AM

For a strange reason for selling higer ended stuff like phones and the likes I find done deal better.

Basicly any time I get a phone call I would goggle there number or look it up on Facebook Eg type it into it and find out who's profile it's link to if they look dogey you say sorry I sold the phone to them but other then that from past experiences I allway's meet people from adverts or done deal somewhere public like a coffee shop.

But on adverts now I be looking at the games on it quite a lot makeing offers what I think is the ture valve Eg go to cex see what they are giving trading in and add 5 euros to it. People just get so upset that I offer day 15 euros for a game and there like I paid 60 in gamestop and used it only once. I am like it's still 2nd hand. There like it's not only used once ......

I miss the days of the car boot sales been the places for cheap games.

Dard23 · 05-04-2016 09:18AM

TrustedApple wrote:

For a strange reason for selling higer ended stuff like phones and the likes I find done deal better.

I sold a laptop two years ago on done deal. I arranged to meet the guy at my local leisure centre. All went well, he was happy with the laptop and paid the agreed amount. The next day my ex went shopping and tried to pay with one of the fifties, turns out all the money was fake! Went to guards for whatever pointless reason, nothing ever came from it obviously. That's the problem with done deal. It is full of con men, no accounts and no way to find them. At least with Adverts you don't have that problem.

MarkY91 · 05-04-2016 10:39AM

Dard23 wrote: »

I sold a laptop two years ago on done deal. I arranged to meet the guy at my local leisure centre. All went well, he was happy with the laptop and paid the agreed amount. The next day my ex went shopping and tried to pay with one of the fifties, turns out all the money was fake! Went to guards for whatever pointless reason, nothing ever came from it obviously. That's the problem with done deal. It is full of con men, no accounts and no way to find them. At least with Adverts you don't have that problem.

I would never use donedeal again.

I had an iPhone 6 up for sale and I had 2 very dodgey people contact me through the mail system and by text. They were clearly located outside of Ireland and wanted to pay like %20 MORE than my asking price. I just felt too afraid to accept their offer as they were obviously doing it to scam me and would do a complaint to paypal or something.

I often use PayPal for buying and selling on adverts and never had a problem. Depending on the persons feedback, I would send them the money without a single worry.

smash · 05-04-2016 10:53AM

MarkY91 wrote: »

I had an iPhone 6 up for sale and I had 2 very dodgey people contact me through the mail system and by text. They were clearly located outside of Ireland and wanted to pay like %20 MORE than my asking price. I just felt too afraid to accept their offer as they were obviously doing it to scam me and would do a complaint to paypal or something.

It's very very easy to spot this kind of crap. I'm surprised you're even admitting to contemplating the offer.

Is selling on adverts.ie a joke?

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