WWhat are your Ebay pet peeves?

[disorderlyvision]

I hate it when a seller uses a stock photo of a game case when their auction is disc only! happens all the damn time.

what irritates you about ebay?

[Ack]

When someone posts a bid that's higher than eBay says it is. I was starting bid on a copy of X-men: Children of the Atom. Bid .50. I expect someone to come and bid higher, so when it happened, I wasn't too let down. So I wait another day, and try bidding over what eBay says I have to bid over. And I get the message "You have been outbid," and eBay's required minimum has raised to fifty cents higher than what I bid. So I do it again, adding a dollar over that minimum, just in case. Same message. I do it a third time, with again the same message. It's now asking for a minimum bid of six bucks, but I doubt it's even there. I was extremely pissed at this point. And I know nobody else was outbidding me, because I checked the bid history, and it listed me as bidding less than the other guy for those three times.

After getting a bit mad, I looked up another copy and bought it.

[Flak Beard]

Stock photos in general, especially with used games. If a seller is too lazy to photograph their own product, then they don't get my money.

[The Apprentice]

Listing a game as "mint condition" when it's disk only.

Listing system accessories without telling whether or not the parts are first or third party.

Seller lists all their policies, but gives no information on the condition of the game.

Seller has their own skin for internet explorer, or uses screen wipes.

Seller lists a game but has a description for another game. (sega parts auctions are terrible about this.)

[dlmvii]

When someone posts a bid that's higher than eBay says it is. I was starting bid on a copy of X-men: Children of the Atom. Bid .50. I expect someone to come and bid higher, so when it happened, I wasn't too let down. So I wait another day, and try bidding over what eBay says I have to bid over. And I get the message "You have been outbid," and eBay's required minimum has raised to fifty cents higher than what I bid. So I do it again, adding a dollar over that minimum, just in case. Same message. I do it a third time, with again the same message. It's now asking for a minimum bid of six bucks, but I doubt it's even there. I was extremely pissed at this point. And I know nobody else was outbidding me, because I checked the bid history, and it listed me as bidding less than the other guy for those three times.

After getting a bit mad, I looked up another copy and bought it.

um...this is how the bidding on ebay always is, it just shows that some *has* bid above someone else's maximum amount, it never tells you how much they've bid.
So if you bid 20$ on something, then someone bids $30, it'll say bid $21 or more. If I then bid $22, since your bid was higher than that, it will say bid $23 or more. It will do this until I've gone over your bid amount. If I then bid way over the top of you and go $50, it will say bid $31 or more, since that's just above the previous maximum bid.

[Pingfa]

Same as you guys, especially Ack's. It's just not cool. Not cool at all...

Another one is when they provide a photo what they are selling, and you can't see what condition it is actually in. Now this in itself would be OK, but when all they have to say is "as shown in picture" which I can barely see, it's not too helpful.

Then there's, if you count this as just a peeve, the liars. My brother once bought a copy of Everything or Nothing for £20-30 if memory serves me correctly, which was described as being in "excellent mint condition"
It worked, but the description was far from the truth. Negative feedback for him.
As you might expect, the picture provided was not of his product.

Here's another which happened to my mother: Bid on an item; got outbid; later decided she didn't want it for some reason or another that I cannot remember. The person who outbid her retracted the bid, so the item went to her.
Now, this would have been unfortunate but reasonably fair. She did bid on it, after all.

It's a different matter when you find out the person who was bidding to make her go higher and later retracted the big was NONE OTHER than the seller!

That's the most uncoolest of them all.

[Kevman]

THIS!

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=120985

[lordofduct]

When someone posts a bid that's higher than eBay says it is. I was starting bid on a copy of X-men: Children of the Atom. Bid .50. I expect someone to come and bid higher, so when it happened, I wasn't too let down. So I wait another day, and try bidding over what eBay says I have to bid over. And I get the message "You have been outbid," and eBay's required minimum has raised to fifty cents higher than what I bid. So I do it again, adding a dollar over that minimum, just in case. Same message. I do it a third time, with again the same message. It's now asking for a minimum bid of six bucks, but I doubt it's even there. I was extremely pissed at this point. And I know nobody else was outbidding me, because I checked the bid history, and it listed me as bidding less than the other guy for those three times.

After getting a bit mad, I looked up another copy and bought it.

But say you say "I'm willing to pay 10 dollars for this", but at the moment it is only at 2 dollars. Why would you want it to shoot up to 10 dollars? You want to get it for that 2 first off, but make sure that you will still have it if some one out bids that 2.


I don't like people who post emulator packs on ebay. Like a disk for the dreamcast with a SNES emulator and a bunch of games.

I also hate it when people say "Rare" when it most certainly isn't. "RARE - Sega CD model 2", the sega cd isn't rare gosh darn it! It's retro, it's old, it isn't in production anymore... but it isn't rare. I own 10 freaking Sega CD's that I FOUND!

Reserves - ok I'll agree with Ack, the outbid thing is annoying, but I understand the purpose of it. But the Reserve bullshit... if you want at least 40 dollars for this game... then start it at 40 freakin' dollars! I mean come on! That's like baiting, there is no way for me to find out how much you want for it with out bidding over the amount, and I don't want to pay 70 dollars for "Lunar Silver Star"... it's not that RARE!

When someone posts something at buy it now for 1 cent, but then charges 30 dollars to ship that 3 ounce book. I know it doesn't cost 30 dollars to ship a book, or a movie, or a video game. Stop trying to wriggle your way out of paying ebay fees.

How to use ebay disks, sold on ebay!? I don't need to say anymore.

People who post all kinds of weird stuff in the title to raise their search pulls. "RARE SEGA NINTENDO NEW SEALED USED SPECIAL EDITION SONY XBOX MARIO - duck hunt"

[RackGaki]

I have no idea why people use stock photos. You probably earn 10% - 35% more if you take a damn picture! That's just my guesstimate from comparing things I sold on eBay.

Things I hate in auction listings:

1) Stock photos (obviously)

2) Short, one line item descriptions (usually paired with stock photo)

3) Inaccurate description (no, your **** is not "mint" if it is scratched up)

4) Anything powered by Auctavia (again, lazy sellers who are too cheap to pay up)

5) Calling your item "rare" (if you have to point this out, it's probably not rare)

6) Automatic auction snipers (people who pay another service to bid in the last 3-5 seconds of an auction)

Now, while I hate automatic auction bidding, I have no problem with people bidding on something within 30 seconds of an auction's closing. I do it all the time, and it requires me to go out of my way to sit and watch an auction.

To Ack:

I believe the situation you have described is simply how eBay works. Let's say you start a bid on Game X for $1.00. I know that Game X is valuable, so I bid $70.00. My actual bid will only appear at $1.50, because it is set up so that an item requires multiple sources of bids to reflect it's actual price. You can bid at $10, $20, or $60, but until you post a bid higher than my mine, eBay will always bid for me.

The brilliant catch is, the moment you bid above me, even if it is $70.01, it's yours. I won a copy of Ghost in the Shell for the PSP with a bid of $6.01 - that means the other bidder's reserve was right under me, even though it only showed a bid of 0.99.

[Ack]

Here's another which happened to my mother: Bid on an item; got outbid; later decided she didn't want it for some reason or another that I cannot remember. The person who outbid her retracted the bid, so the item went to her.
Now, this would have been unfortunate but reasonably fair. She did bid on it, after all.

It's a different matter when you find out the person who was bidding to make her go higher and later retracted the big was NONE OTHER than the seller!

That's the most uncoolest of them all.

I'm glad I've never seen that happen. I do take the time to check who is bidding, but outside of looking at feedback, I'd have a tough time figuring out who they are.

I suppose a minor peeve I have about eBay would be sellers listing every game to ever come out as rare, especially when it just isn't true.