WARNING: eBay UK - Keithley 2100

[PlainName]

when they have to say they don't have stock to fulfil the order

Or the postoffice must've lost it, so here's a refund.

[Astrodev]

Unfortunately being seller on ebay exposes you to a lot of crap issues from buyers which hardens you to not accept things very easily from sellers so now if a seller gives me a hard time I will use the rules to make things as difficult for them as possible but in a polite way.

I suppose at the moment I am a bit jaundiced with ebay purchases as I needed a particular power supply, so I found on used from one seller and bought it and when it arrived the next week it was damaged (25Kg power supply in a box of styrofoam peanuts was never really going to work when you add in a couriers delicate touch), so that had to go back and I had to source another but this time the seller had a few and this time they sent the wrong model (there were 3 versions and I needed the one they had shown in their pictures) so that one has gone back the next one was the right one but would not start up properly and had to go back so now I am waiting for number 4 and just hope this one is OK.

The trouble is that after a while you start to loose the will to continue and the only ones to take it out on are the sellers so excuses are just not accepted any more, another one today was a faulty toner cartridge for a laser printer with the supplier arranging to send out a replacement and collect the faulty one at the same time, OK the replacement arrived but the courier did not have a collection note for the one going back, this was annoying because I had been on an all day seminar on Industrial IoT and did not get back until late and had to get the faulty unit all packed up and labelled ready for collection and now it is sitting there by the door ready to be tripped over, it all just gets you annoyed, so if no one collects it tomorrow it can go in the shed until the supplier contacts me to try and sort out collecting it at my convenience.

Just thinking I am ending up doing a Dave type rant on ebay and online suppliers.

[Simon]

Unfortunately being seller on ebay exposes you to a lot of crap issues from buyers which hardens you to not accept things very easily from sellers so now if a seller gives me a hard time I will use the rules to make things as difficult for them as possible but in a polite way.

I avoid and boycott ebay if I can and buy direct. Even if it means finding it on ebay and then googling it to find a real seller. I bought a parcel lockup box this way, GBP 120 on ebay GBP 89 from the actual sellers site.

[bd139]

Not a bad idea. I’m buying and selling less and less stuff from eBay every day. Sometimes I just throw stuff away as it’s not worth selling. Sorry for the tangent but Shops as well.  Amazon too. Amazon are nasty fuckers.

Needed some folder dividers. This is the state of things. So it’s 20 min drive to Ryman’s locally and I get fucked for £4 for an NCP car park for the privilege of paying £4 for 10 shit paper ones. so bugger it and I went in Tesco to buy. £3.99 for 10 paper shit ones. Go on eBay, no delivery better than 3-5 days. Amazon min spend £20 as they’re all add on items or £5.50 on prime.

Then at 20:09 I checked RS. £1.92 delivered next day. Ordered. Arrived next morning at 09:10. Plastic good quality ones.

I hope everyone other than independent retailers like RS dies.

[Astrodev]

I had a problem a couple of years ago when I was trying to get hold of a particular Maynuo micro power supply non of the dealers who did Maynou could offer it at a realistic price if they could offer it at all the couple of European sources never seemed to have them, so it was back to ebay or Amazon, ebay sellers were from China and were quite expensive and you knew that you were likely to get hit with import duty and possible poor service in the event of a problem, so when some of these started popping up on Amazon from UK sources at a realistic price it was of interest, until (this is  where is sort of returns to the original thread here) it turned out that the sellers accounts had been hacked and a load of products from all sorts of categories had been uploaded, anyway these went through a cycle of order one and about 5 days latter the order would be cancelled without any explanation and this went on for several months as I just kept ordering in case I hit a genuine sale (never did but must have had 40+ cancelled orders at the end of it).

Ended up getting a used Rohde and Schwarz unit that would do the same job.

[Cerebus]

For the benefit of others, and to ensure my own sanity in reading it, here is a sub-editted version of Astrodev's post complete with sentences and paragraphs:

Editted quote from Astrodev:

I had a problem a couple of years ago when I was trying to get hold of a particular Maynuo micro power supply.  None of the dealers who did Maynou offered it at a realistic price, if they could offer it at all. The two European sources never seemed to have them in stock, so it was back to ebay or Amazon. Ebay sellers were from China, were quite expensive, and you knew that you were likely to get hit with import duty and possible poor service in the event of a problem. So when some of these started popping up on Amazon from UK sources at a realistic price it was of interest until - this is  where is sort of returns to the original thread here - it turned out that the sellers accounts had been hacked.  A load of products from all sorts of categories had been uploaded. Anyway, thus began a cycle of ordering one and waiting to discover that, about 5 days later, the order would be cancelled without any explanation. This went on for several months as I just kept repeatedly ordering in case I hit a genuine sale; never did but must have had 40+ cancelled orders at the end of it. [What's that quote about the definition of insanity being repeating things and expecting a different result? ed]

Ended up getting a used Rohde and Schwarz unit that would do the same job.

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