Bad Ebay experience

[fowl]

I don't usually buy ob Ebay but have done some through the years and never had this problem before. I will explain and I wonder if any folks here have had the same experience. I buy Flight TUS35 ukes for my grandchildren when they have their third birthday. They have decent sound and are hard to break. I just try to find a different color for each child. The prices like everything else keep going up. While searching I found one on Ebay for $31 with free shipping and the seller had a good rating. It was a buy it now, so I bought it using Paypal. A few days later found out the seller had cancelled the order bacause we have a bad shipping address. The address is the home street address and we have never had trouble with getting any shipment. Plus the order was cancelled the same day I bought it. Tried contacting the seller with all of this information. All they will answer is "you got your money back." I checked and they relisted the uke for $108. Wierd, I don't see them selling it for that price.
This makes me thankful for the sellers on UU even more. I have bought on here before and it always a great experience. Just wondered if any of you can relate to this?

 

[man0a]

I don't use EBay much and that has never happened to me, but a bad transaction could have gone much worse. I would be happy that I at least got my money back.

 

[clear]

I don't think that'd qualify as bad buying experience in my book. A bad buying experience is when I paid for an item but don't get what's advertised and seller refusing to do anything about it.

It happened when I needed an old chess program and found one on ebay; turns out the seller just sent me a link to a website that teaches me how to use a pirated copy of the program. Ebay wouldn't do anything for me because their buyer protection doesn't cover services or something like that. I've not bought anything from ebay since.

 

[Doug W]

Steve,
They sound kind of rude, at the least. They could have said that they made a mistake in the original price and apologized.

See you at UWC.

 

[fowl]

Steve,
They sound kind of rude, at the least. They could have said that they made a mistake in the original price and apologized.

See you at UWC.

Yeah Doug, this seller did not have any other instruments in their store so I thought it was really odd to cancel a sale. It is getting more difficult to deals on these.

I will look forward to seeing you there!