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Wow.

I was expecting an important call
"Hi, we're on our way to service your AC/Furnace"

so I turned off the shower and answered my cell
instead I got

"Hi I'm Judy from eBay. Can I tell you about how opening an eBay store will increase your holiday sales."

I said.

"Well I'm naked and dripping wet. What are you wearing?"



Seriously i've never gotten a call from them before. When I told her I didn't want these kind of calls, she says I have to go online to "My eBay" and change a setting. I'm certain I wouldn't have knowingly indicated that it was okay to call me. The only reason I would've given my phone number is if it was mandatory.

eBay makes a bunk-load of money from their share of auctions & paypal transactions, now they have to call me? Wow. Bad bad bad marketing ploy.

I loathe ebay. We had an issue with a seller who was selling defective/recalled items as new (with a warranty). Naturally, we receive the item, it doesn't work, we do some reseach and find out it has been recalled by the manufacturer. The seller refused to cooperate, wouldn't give a refund, wouldn't respond to our emails. We contacted ebay and they were NO help. Nada. They got their cut out of our deal, so they could care less.

So, we decided no more ebay. We contacted ebay and told them we wanted to discontinue our account. They said we would just have to keep the account "dormant" for a year or so and then they might close it out. We said, no, please close it out now. They refused. Lesson learned, no more ebay for us!

At least they haven't called us.....yet.

Simbagal23 wrote:I loathe ebay. We had an issue with a seller who was selling defective/recalled items as new (with a warranty). Naturally, we receive the item, it doesn't work, we do some reseach and find out it has been recalled by the manufacturer. The seller refused to cooperate, wouldn't give a refund, wouldn't respond to our emails. We contacted ebay and they were NO help. Nada. They got their cut out of our deal, so they could care less.

So, we decided no more ebay. We contacted ebay and told them we wanted to discontinue our account. They said we would just have to keep the account "dormant" for a year or so and then they might close it out. We said, no, please close it out now. They refused. Lesson learned, no more ebay for us!

At least they haven't called us.....yet.

Yeah you have to really careful who you buy from and what kind of merchandise you get.

If you really want to close the account, just go back on and do something that will get you suspended.

Put up a fake auction selling "jerk jerky" "made from actual human jerks", or something like that. I bet they close your account then.

If you pay with PayPal you can make a dispute claim and get your money back through them.

thrill wrote:If you pay with PayPal you can make a dispute claim and get your money back through them.

Nope. PayPal was of no help. I don't remember all of the details now, but it seemed like ebay was saying to go to PayPal and PayPal was saying to go to ebay; the seller wouldn't respond to our emails. It was a major circle jerk, when it shouldn't have been.

Statman-I may just have to try your suggestion. I'd consider it an honor to get banned from ebay!

I love ebay.

Fat_Bulldog wrote:I love ebay.

Me too.

Me too. Except when they call me for no apparent reason while i'm showering. Now i'm thinking it might've been a scam, because i checked my settings and it was set to e-mail only.

I KNEW i shouldn't have given my SSN and shoe size.

StatmanCrothers wrote:Me too. Except when they call me for no apparent reason while i'm showering. Now i'm thinking it might've been a scam, because i checked my settings and it was set to e-mail only.

I KNEW i shouldn't have given my SSN and shoe size.

They like you and wanted to talk to you.

StatmanCrothers wrote:I said.
"Well I'm naked and dripping wet. What are you wearing?"

I am SO using that comment on the next telemarketer that calls my house