I need your advice guys....

I sold some lotus elise brake disks and pads on ebay a few weeks back. I thought they where worth penuts but they sold for £184 as they are apperently rare as hell!!

Anyway, the seller came and inspected the disks, handed over the money and left happy.

Ten days later he emails me saying they are not the disks he thought they where and asked what I thought!!

I told him I thought they where the correct disks as the came off a car with a known service history (these where the orignal brakes).

So he's opened an ebay "not as described" case!!!!!

What do I do? I sold them in good faith - he calims they arnt what he wanted to buy....

Alex

 

if they werent what he wanted to buy he should have walked away at the time of purchase, accept the negative feedback and then respond to it explaining the situation.

State that he should have walked away at the time if he wasnt happy, ebay will take that into consideration

Sarah

 

What can ebay do?

He paid cash so LUCKILY paypal arn't involved.

 

do nothing; if he handed over the cash then sold as seen! -
take the negative feedback and move on; no loss at all

 

he cant do nothing Alex, wouldnt worry about it in the slightest; he wasnt forced to hand over the cash.

Respond to the claim and say he inspected the discs and handed over the money/ cash......end of claim

 

can't you just measure the disks and then find out if they are the correct ones?

 

fuck him, sold as seen

 

Respond with:
Item listed correctly, winning bidder happy upon collection in person.
It'll just make him look like an ebay messer then.

 

I measursed the disks and put the measurments on the advert!

They SHOULD be the correct ones as the car they came of had a fully documented history (all 25k miles of it) and they ONLY resons they where removed was to get rid of the MMC type disks as they are crap on track! Why would someone pay £600 to replace these "special" disks otherwise?

Alex

 

seeing as paypal werent involved i would do as above and the same in feedback for him

annoying thing is now you cant leave a negative for him doing this, with ebays new rules

Sarah

 

so what does he think they SHOULD be then? it sounds to me as if they were exactly as described, i can't honestly see his problem?

tell him to sling it, you've done your bit....he's living in cloud cuckoo land by the sounds of it.

 

He probably just doesn't want them anymore or they just dont fit the car he intended to fit them too.. wouldn't lose any sleep over it, aint worth worrying about

 

Thanks guys

 

he's a twat? with too much money? and not enough exprience?

you ain't halfords, or tesco, or john lewis where peole can say "sorry, bought as a presant, don't fit" and get your money back

if you've already told him to like it or lump it then fine, otherwise offer to refund his money, - 30% handling commision and he'll have to come and return the items in as good a condition as they were originally or no deal

but if you don't mind having a dirty consience tell him to get fucked

 

WOW I nearly spat my tea all over my keyboard reading your responce Will
how many time have we all seen you on here shouitng from from the tree tops,theres no such thing as sold as seen and PMing people to give them advice on how to take people to court
so which is it Will,as you seem to have changed your tune
sold as seen or a millions years warranty
I think I will save this responce just to remind you next time you offer your advice on how to reclaim your money.
AlexF
for the record the guy came and inspected he was happy at the time,so its his fault but then again you are a trader which in Wills eyes will always make you wrong

 

In this instance, the item being sold is clearly off the car it should be, the bloke came and checked them, and was happy. If they were warped to fuck on fitting then he has a right to ask for a refund as there is no way of checking them easily without special equiptment or fitting them to the car.

Bit different to selling someone a bent crank thats meant to be mint, for top money without even taking it to the engineering shop to get checked and polished, which costs about £10 to make sure you are not selling junk

Seems 95% of the people agree on this thread that Alex is well in the right. If I came to you and bought 2wd brake discs, then tried to fit them to a 4x4, i'm sure you would tell me or anyone else where to go if they asked for thier money back?

 

as I said Will,you soon change your tune

 

whatever mate, you always try to jump on the smallest thing , if you didn't sell shit in the first place you wouldn't have a problem would you?

 

I havnt had a problem my freind AlexF has I agree the guy inspected the items and took them,so that his baby personally I wouldnt have put it like you stated
"Fuck him sold as seen" words I wouldnt have expecting reading from someone who champions justice,but then again theres two side to a coin looks like there also 2 faces with certain people as well

 

just tell him to do one. Ask him what evidence he has to suggest they aren't correct he can't just say "they're not the right one's" i'd want solid proof!!!

 

As said, whatever mate, you are still sore at being proven wrong, just let it go ... you were wrong, you sold shit. At least you sorted it out (after much hassle), I thought we were cool after the 2 hour phone conversation, but obviously you still have a grudge to bear...... up to you

 

no grudge at all I was shocked at the advice you have given from someone who has suspose have high morrals,but then again eveyone can be wrong from time to time.

 

I am sure on your posts I have said you were right for not giving a refund. It depends on circumstance, as you well know it's not a black and white subject is it?

 

Where's Tiff when you need her?

 

It's ok mate, Pete must be back from his hols, thought it had been a bit quiet we love each other really, it's like Batman and the penguin

 

P.s https://passionford.com/forum/general-car-related-discussion/216411-buying-something-not-as-described-what-to-do.html

See Pete, I don't hate traders, they have as much right to buyer protection as anyone.