So sick of lame people on eBay

[Dylan]

Every time I read one of these thread it amazes me that I've never had a bad experience on ebay. I must be the only person in the world.

ha!
irony in the making!
You are going to buy something uber-valuable and it is gonna be shipped in tissue paper, covered in dog hair and basement.

To be fair, I generally don't like spending a whole lot of money on ebay at one time. However, thinking about stories like this kind of puts me on edge about each purchase.

[17DaysOlderThanNES]

you think that's bad, I had some num nut ship a LASERDISC PLAYER in BROWN WRAPPING PAPER (in other words, a large sheet of recycled hand drying paper). Not only did they commit that complete act of retardation, but they did it after I told them my last Laserdisc player was broken in shipping from inadequate packing and they even replied "OK, we'll use extra packaging!"

WHAT THE FUCK!

Needless to say, when it arrived, the front was all smashed, so bad in fact the tray couldn't eject completely. Fortunately, I only needed it for the laser, which was still good, as a backup in case the player I fixed with a paperclip and superglue ever crapped out.

here's the one I fixed with a paperclip and superglue:

[Breetai]

Also most of the games (any system) I buy and come in good condition and are packed the shipping is only $2.95-$3.95.

A box of 50 games is NOT only going to be $3-4.

A lot of sellers are idiots... but it goes two ways, especially when we have people saying that $20 shipping is too much on the weight that 50 NES games makes. Sucks that they packed them so horribly, though.

[MentalMan]

I once had a ebay guy ship me two spare Dreamcast's. It was in a small cube-like box, and he just put the dc's in there, on top of each other. That was it.

Luckily the japanese unit was on top of the pal one, so only the pal one suffered some severe scratching. To make matters worse, the pal one didnt even have any screws in the casing. Not even inside, oh but wait! There where those two loose screws rattling around inside.

Both are fine working units as well, the pal one is now refurbished sitting at my pal's home, modded with internal vga, a access LED light for the gd-rom drive as well as a reset switch. Oh and the Mainboard has been flashed to NTSC/J region. Still, it just hurts thinking about how they arrived.

Other then that, ebay was okay to me, I guess. But then again, I dont use it all that often. Especially not for sales, after I got ripped off with tons of fees and pulled auctions without a word of explanation. Still baffled, lol. Well maybe they just didnt like gamecubes back in 2004

[Jerkface Killah]

Guy shipped it in paper! Just wrapped it up and shipped it like that. What go's through peoples heads when they do this shit?

I recently bought 2 Saturn games on Ebay. Cheap titles, Myst and Mansion of Hidden Souls together for $5.99. Shipping was $4.00. They arrived in a white paper mailer with zero protection! Really, seller guy!? The most fragile game cases in existence and you're shipping them in paper!? wow. I have bought tons of games though, usually its fine.

JFK

[videogameexperiment]

Guy shipped it in paper! Just wrapped it up and shipped it like that. What go's through peoples heads when they do this shit?

I recently bought 2 Saturn games on Ebay. Cheap titles, Myst and Mansion of Hidden Souls together for $5.99. Shipping was $4.00. They arrived in a white paper mailer with zero protection! Really, seller guy!? The most fragile game cases in existence and you're shipping them in paper!? wow. I have bought tons of games though, usually its fine.

JFK

The seller still probably paid extra money out of his pocket to ship it to you like that so you can't really blame him, especially on how cheap the games were. Plus if they were shipped in an envelope they usually won't incur as much abuse as it would if it were laying with a bunch of differently shaped boxes and thrown around by people. Netflix and Gamefly ship discs with even less protection. I know renting and owning are mean different things but if Netflix feels confident in shipping their property around like that I have confidence in most sellers that sell it that way too.

[RyaNtheSlayA]

Then you get someone who charges $2 for postage and it comes in a fortress.

I love the people that do this.

[csvo2000]

Ok heres my story.

I purchased a minty mint Sega CDX from a seller on Ebay $179.00 plus shipping. The auction advises that he does not have the power supply for it. Thats no problem since the CDX is Minty I will deal with having no box or power supply just to get a great CDX.

Seller finds the power supply and lets me know he will be sending it along with the CDX. I offer to send him more money for packing materials cause I want CDX to arrive safely. Seller tells me that he doesnt need more money that he will pack it well.

Ok in a nut shell:

1. CDX was at one time Minty.
2. Seller packed everything in newspaper shreds which settled.
3. The power supply was a piece of shit with cut cord. It was not the right one for the CDX plus it scratched the back of the once minty CDX.
4. The seller accused me of trying to rip him off and gave me an attitude.
5. I ended keeping the CDX and purchased the right power supply from a nice seller here.

But it still pisses me off to have a blemish on what is truly a nice Sega CDX.

[Snickerd00dle]

Every time I read one of these thread it amazes me that I've never had a bad experience on ebay. I must be the only person in the world.

to be honest, I have never had a bad experience either, I mean i'm only buying, but the worst thing that has happened was a disc being in worse condition than the description said, which wasn't really even that bad

[Droid party]

My best so far was my HDDVD player. It arrived wrapped in a bath towel and stuffed into a cornflakes box (not an actual cf box but the cartons they use to ship the boxes to stores in). It had crunchy nut corn flakes written all over the box and didn't even think to send me some in case I was hungry.