I got a debt collectors letter for £50 for unpaid dues with ebay today.

 

I posted some wimbledon tickets which got "sold" for £1500. But teh ****er did not send the money as asked and wanted me to go up there on teh day and exchange. It said in the advert that the tickets would eb send by courir no later than 5 days before the day. As he wasnt prepared to do this I reported him to ebay, who did fook all.

I then re-listed the add but 3 days befoere teh evetn withdrew it for safety and went myself loosing out on teh sake because ebay would do nothing for me.

 

All I got was their automated form and replies, never from a real person or a telephone call. But here is the thing, I dont deny I owe them money for the listing, but £50 for 2 photo/s. How do they work that shit out. Id complain but who the hell too, all you ever get is an automated ****ing responce.

 

O top of that at teh very same time I had my paypal account attacked and the account closed.

 

So now I have no paypal because I dont trust it anymore and I have been told they are going to take me to court for non ****ing payment. Ill pay what I owe but not a penny more

It's a machine and one that goes wrong sometimes.

 

They're always after their cash though - they don't seem bothered about anything else.

a debt collector can't collect a debt wothout a court order, so it;s fair to say that ebay just pass on their debt to collection agencies who will attempt to collect them without any attendence (i.e. by letters only). They are legally entitled to send collection officers, but very rarely do as it costs money and they have no legal rights - so you tell them to **** off and they have to!

 

Stick to your guns - tell the collection agency that you dispute the debt as ebay breached their contract and go to court... there's no way they will take it further for £50... you'l just get your ebay account suspended. Ebay will no way risk a precedent on these kind of unpaid monies - they are clearly obliged to settle them through their associated company - paypal.

 

Really is nothing to worry about unless they take it to county court!

i got a debt collection letter off ebay and tbh ignored it, never got another, never heard another word and i check my credit file regularily and nothing is showing a year later

apparently they have refered this to a solicitors.

 

the reason teh could not get the money from me in teh first place was paypal susspended the account. I dont mind paying what I owe, but im not paying a bean more

Follow the unpaid item dispute and close the case. You get your fees credited back to you providing all was genuine. I recently had this over a car I sold.

Just to let you know it is probably £50 because of the final value fees, when an item sells they take a percentage! So a sale of £1500 will be a fairly hefty final value fee.

 

I would tell them to fook off, they should of just suspended you and left it at that, thats all they did to me a couple of years ago!

 

Defineately fight it - the robbin fookers!

If you open and close a dispute case, takes about 14days in total. the buyer who didnt pay for the tickets has to pay your fees!