I got a stern email from eBay telling me off this morning and threatening to suspend me for 7 days.
The reason? I put an offer in on a listing for a set of alloy wheels and some bodywork parts that was automatically declined. I then sent the seller a message via eBay saying I was only interested in the wheels , we went back and forth a few times and made a deal on the wheels only. We also made arrangements for me to collect the wheels and I gave the seller my mobile number for him to contact me if there were any issues as I had a four hour round trip to pick the wheels up.
Apparently I 'made a deal outside of ebay' and buyers are not allowed to give phone numbers to sellers', although sellers can give phone numbers to buyers.
The first reason is totally garbage, it was all done within eBay, totally transparent from my end. If the seller cancelled the listing subsequently to save on seller fees (I have no idea if he did, I paid cash as per listing, the rest is up to him) then that's hardly down to me.
If buyers can't give phone numbers somewhere in the small print then fair enough, although I fail to see why this wouldn't be allowed.
No doubt an automated email triggered by specific words in my exchanges with the seller. Another example of automation getting it completely wrong.
Here’s just one as an example, search his other stuff for loads more
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/324048920041
Here’s just one as an example, search his other stuff for loads more
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/324048920041
I have put a bid in.Here’s just one as an example, search his other stuff for loads more
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/324048920041
Ooh, even the interior lights in my crappy old Fiat go off automatically after 5/10 minutes or so. Come to that so do the lights in my VW.
I’d take it back it’s obviously faulty.
My own fault for leaving the door not quite shut even though I had locked it, its a 99 yaris that has no automatic anything, it don't even have a cd player, which resulted in a long & confusing discussion about tape players with my 8 year old granddaughter
I read somewhere that tape cassettes were coming back. Why...?? Is it some sort of conspiracy created by BIC and the pencil companies to boost their sales...??
Alarm clock went off so I had to get up for work.
Got out to the car & scraped the ice off.
Drove to work stuck behind a twat who’d no idea how to drive on an icy road.
Got to work, my usual parking spot was taken.
Got into work, my usual set of keys were not for issue so had to get another set.
My morning went ok after that.
Dinner time decided to catch up on my emails, just taken a bite of my fruit bread when the phone rang.
Psychologist on the phone “hyee, I’m ........, can you tell me how Cat A ..... ........ has been over the past week?”
“No I can’t as I’ve just had ten days off, why don’t you put the phone down & get off your lazy backside & come up & ask him yourself, but do it after 1300 hours when I’m not on my dinner break”
“Oh, oh, ssssorry”
Colleague (laughing) “do you feel better now?
It’s worth pointing out here that Beaker is a slap head and what little hair he does have is, being a Sweaty Sock, ginger.
Yes... ...and this gives a good representation of your relapse over the next six months.
Now go away - this is a bike thread (or used to be!).