What Is Your Understanding Of The E-Bay Buying And Selling Policy?

Don't have a clue what you are talking about . . . I guess i have to be in your country to understand it.

Good Morning Darkwing,

I thought I'd pop over here for a minute to see what's going on and here you are.

I've been selling and buying on Ebay for years. No one should be able to contact you outside of Ebay and all transactions should be made through Ebay only. This protects the seller and the buyer from scammers. It is against Ebay's policy to do this and your daughter-in-law did the correct thing...no doubt about it. It's a shame she lost money but at the same time if this person for some reason or another decided not to pay your daughter-in-law, Ebay will step in to help. I myself, would have reported them. Have a great day sweetie.

Hi Sweet

I have been selling since the early 90's.

I never sell things that are loaded on ebay in an outside sale.

I send a short email telling them to bid if they are interested.

A friend lost her ebay account for doing this. I suspect someone from ebay asked to buy the item. She did it 3 different times. You know that greed will get you in the end.

xoxoxoxoxo

I would only report people being aggressive or unlawful on Ebay. Ebay try and make as much money as possible so they will obviously do their best to stop people trading off their site. They lose their commission you see. She could have withdrawn the item and then added it as 'buy it now'. Then that would be abiding by the policy, but then why does the buyer want to purchase off Ebay? Ehey would be protected partly with the feedback system so it looks odd that they want to buy off Ebay. Perhaps they just wanted a fixed price? I wouldn't report them anyway!

Hi Darkwing,

She did the right thing. It was wrong for anyone to contact her and ask her to end the auction early for an outside bid. It is also against Ebay policy. If they want the item that bad there is nothing preventing them from bidding their max on it.

It is my opinion that if a seller has an item on ebay and is contacted by a potential buyer to end the auction and sell to them outside of ebay is up to no good. Why would the buyer want to for go the ramped up protections Ebay now offers the buyers unless they plan on pulling something.

If you go on the Ebay discussions boards you will see threads from time to time about the sellers who have done this and the bad things that have happened as a result. Not saying it is bad all the time but it is something to be leary about.

Kudos to your daughter in law for doing the right thing and taking the other bidders into account.

no report to e-bay but should always put bunow tag on it then the one that goes the highest still gets it might have to have put!0 buy now or something like that. and I dont know why they couldnt buy it staight form you if ya had with held it.

I am not so sure about the Rules there I know when my Son put something on Ebay a couple of years ago he was contacted by this Person to my Son kept it on Ebay and this Person out bid them all the time
He wanted my Son to send the Item to him and my Son refused until he had the Cheque as I thought something was not right, he sent the Cheque, we put it in the bank 3 Days later my Son got a call from the bank as the Cheque was a fraud big Investigations went which involved Ebay to, so I really do not think that People should contact the Seller and yes they should be reported as soon as they do because of this sort of thing happening
Ok they only got £1.90 but it is safer that way
In my Sons Case we where talking more money then that as it was a Car he was selling

I have to say that as far as I am aware you are correct about the ebay policies and if your son and daughter in law had withdrawn the item and then sold it to one of these bidders they could have been banned from ebay forever. You can set a reserve so I may have withdrawn the item and then relisted it with a reserve price if I did anything but as it stand I definitely think they did the right thing! xxxx

I would have done what your daughter did. I feel it was unfair of the person who wanted it to ask for it in advance. I do not know the policies but the morally correct thing to do is what your daughter did. It may have been an Ebay spy and could have gotten her in a lot of trouble.
Your daughter did the right thing. Good job!

I used to sell for several years on Ebay and here's what I know. It is against policy to offer outside Ebay offers. The buyer making the offer should be turned in b/c they are violating the policies by offering to do so. If the buyer does agree to it and is caught (and they do set up situations to purposely catch ppl doing this) they can be banned from Ebay.

Your daughter in law did the right thing however she should also have sent the emails or messages from the two ppl to the Ebay staff so they know that these ppl are doing this.

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