E-bay is an interesting thing
Feb. 15th, 2007 03:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
norsegirlI've received 3 of the bunch of things I've purchased on e-bay now. The dress I purchased whose condition was listed as "good" is FABULOUS! Fits like a glove, looks great on, very impressed with that little $10 purchase. The pants that arrived a few days later are also sensational. Also fit perfectly (who'd have guessed I'd have better luck picking sizes at random and hoping for the best than actually trying things on in a store eh?) and I have been wearing them since they arrived (should maybe consider giving them up for a day so I can wash them). The pants were also a great deal. For about $60 I got something that would have cost about $100 in a store this side of the border. And did I mention I LOVE them?
Then the coat arrived... and my little e-bay bubble burst. The seller had listed it as "condition: New: without tags" and in her item description indicated she'd "barely worn it before she grew out of it". I have things like that. Mostly summer clothes I bought at end of season, then put on a little weight over the winter and couldn't fit into come spring. Worn once, packed away, and never to be used again. Still probably wouldn't describe them as "new" if I went to auction them, but that was what I was thinking. So the coat arrives... it has stains in various places, is frayed around the bottom edge, and has a small tear in it. I'm not impressed. "New" it is most certainly not. I write to the seller to complain. She says something to the effect of "I can't help the fraying, I'm short" (that's nice and irrelevant, you should have described it in the auction and chose not to). Also indicated that since I'd bought it considerably less than retail ($80 retail, I paid $52 plus shipping to bring it to $67, so hardly less, and I've gotten better deals in stores on ACTUALLY NEW merchandise on sale) I should suck it up. If she hadn't ever described it as "new" I'd probably just suck it up, try my best to clean/repair the coat and maybe give it to a friend. But that little "new" in there just pisses me right off. No one in their right mind could describe this thing as "new". Have put in a claim with PayPal for an item being significantly not as described and am hoping for the best. Also took pictures of the offending spots/frays/tear to prove my case. Big ol' waste of my time, but don't want to let the liar get away with it. GRRRRRR.
It was bound to happen eventually I guess. Still, was hoping for the spree to go well a little longer. And I'd love to say "lesson learned, only buy things that are actually new", except that the sensational little black dress was listed as used and I could swear when it arrived that it was good as new, and if I skipped all used I'd have missed out on that one. Frustrating when you don't really have a way to evaluate someone's trustworthiness or a way to calibrate their definitions of condition against your own.
Then the coat arrived... and my little e-bay bubble burst. The seller had listed it as "condition: New: without tags" and in her item description indicated she'd "barely worn it before she grew out of it". I have things like that. Mostly summer clothes I bought at end of season, then put on a little weight over the winter and couldn't fit into come spring. Worn once, packed away, and never to be used again. Still probably wouldn't describe them as "new" if I went to auction them, but that was what I was thinking. So the coat arrives... it has stains in various places, is frayed around the bottom edge, and has a small tear in it. I'm not impressed. "New" it is most certainly not. I write to the seller to complain. She says something to the effect of "I can't help the fraying, I'm short" (that's nice and irrelevant, you should have described it in the auction and chose not to). Also indicated that since I'd bought it considerably less than retail ($80 retail, I paid $52 plus shipping to bring it to $67, so hardly less, and I've gotten better deals in stores on ACTUALLY NEW merchandise on sale) I should suck it up. If she hadn't ever described it as "new" I'd probably just suck it up, try my best to clean/repair the coat and maybe give it to a friend. But that little "new" in there just pisses me right off. No one in their right mind could describe this thing as "new". Have put in a claim with PayPal for an item being significantly not as described and am hoping for the best. Also took pictures of the offending spots/frays/tear to prove my case. Big ol' waste of my time, but don't want to let the liar get away with it. GRRRRRR.
It was bound to happen eventually I guess. Still, was hoping for the spree to go well a little longer. And I'd love to say "lesson learned, only buy things that are actually new", except that the sensational little black dress was listed as used and I could swear when it arrived that it was good as new, and if I skipped all used I'd have missed out on that one. Frustrating when you don't really have a way to evaluate someone's trustworthiness or a way to calibrate their definitions of condition against your own.
