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Selling on ebay - some people are thick as tulip

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    Selling on ebay - some people are thick as tulip

    Bought some concert tickets on ebay recently. Total of £120 or so.

    Noticed that the seller planned to post them recorded delivery. For a start, recorded only covers you up to £46 and it doesn't even cover tickets, cash etc. Special Delivery needed.

    So I asked the seller if they though this would be better. No need says them - recorded definitely covers it.

    I can just see what will happen if they get lost. Seller will tell me its not their fault, I'll claim on paypal, paypal will tell seller to get proof of deliver (which he wont have), paypal will refund me, seller will then find out his recorded delivery idea was pointless and will be pissed off big time.

    Well, I did try to tell him but some people are just too thick it seems.....
    Rhyddid i lofnod psychocandy!!!!

    #2
    Either that or they don't have the tickets anyway and are using a stolen paypal account, which they'll clean out before you complain and you'll lose out
    When freedom comes along, don't PISH in the water supply.....

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      #3
      Originally posted by TestMangler View Post
      Either that or they don't have the tickets anyway and are using a stolen paypal account, which they'll clean out before you complain and you'll lose out
      Bit cynical!!!! More likely the tickets come through and the OP goes to the concert & on return finds his house has been emptied!!!!

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        #4
        Originally posted by MayContainNuts View Post
        Bit cynical!!!! More likely the tickets come through and the OP goes to the concert & on return finds his house has been emptied!!!!

        That would normally be a plan for the seller, but he'll already know that the OP lives in Wales so will have wooden windows and **** all of any value in his house
        When freedom comes along, don't PISH in the water supply.....

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          #5
          Originally posted by TestMangler View Post
          Either that or they don't have the tickets anyway and are using a stolen paypal account, which they'll clean out before you complain and you'll lose out
          Ah. Good point.
          Rhyddid i lofnod psychocandy!!!!

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            #6
            My local postman has a habit of signing for the reordered delivery himself and dropping the mail through the letterbox.
            "A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George Orwell

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              #7
              Shakin' Stevens on tour again?

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                #8
                Originally posted by MayContainNuts View Post
                Bit cynical!!!! More likely the tickets come through and the OP goes to the concert & on return finds his house has been emptied!!!!

                But wife is going and Im not. So if someone comes to burgle they'll find a big fat sweaty welshman sitting there....
                Rhyddid i lofnod psychocandy!!!!

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                  #9
                  Funny enough I sold some concert tickets on eBay recently, I sent them recorded 1st class as they were only worth £35.

                  They took over a week to be delivered, the buyer thought I was a scammer.
                  Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by TestMangler View Post
                    That would normally be a plan for the seller, but he'll already know that the OP lives in Wales so will have wooden windows and **** all of any value in his house
                    Of course if the concert is outside the Wales the OP may get no further than the first street light in England! where he will be found cowering on the floor, pointing up and crying 'electrickery'!!!!

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