Oh the joys of eBay

[Dave]

So, I get an email from eBay stating that if I list an item via my iPhone between August 3rd, and 6th they will waive the final valuation fee.

I sold a Jennings Golf Ball machine on eBay a few weeks ago and it brought a decent price.

I was kind of in a gambling mood so I thought what the hell, put up one of my Caille Aristocrats with no reserve and a low starting price ($5,000) and see what happens.

So I did.

Anyway, when I listed it I was suspicious that they were still going to charge me a final valuation fee. I called them yesterday afternoon to confirm there would be no final valuation fee. The agent I talked to said she didn't know of such a promotion. I told her the details. She put me on hold and checked on it and said that yes it appeared there would be no final valuation fee. She said she would put a note in my file so that if there was one I should just contact them and they would refund it. Seems strange to me but whatever.

Later on yesterday the bidding starts.

At 11:03:32 PM I receive an email stating they don't like some of the wording in my listing and I should change it.
At 11:04:19 PM I receive an email stating they have removed my listing. Wow, they gave me 41 seconds to update the listing before they removed it.

I called eBay today to see if I relisted it would I still have 0 final valuation fees. The agent said eBay has never been any promotion where the final valuation fee was waived. I gave her the URL to the promotion http://pages.ebay.com/promo/august2012mobile/. She put me on hold and finally came back and said I needed to talk to another department and she noted all of the information in my file so I would not have to repeat it.

She then transferred me to another department. When I talked to the new department the agent must have been too stupid to read because she made me tell her the whole story again.

She told me that all my listing fees had been refunded when it was unlisted so what was the big deal. I explained to her that the issue was the FINAL VALUATION FEE not the $.40 listing fee.

She put me on hold and told me that it was policy for me to have to pay the final valuation fee when I relished. I told her it was my policy to not list it again.

Man, if eBay spent 1% of the time shutting down the jackasses who sell reproduction that they do on stupid stuff like that then eBay would be a lot better place.

I wish Google or Apple would get into the online auction game and give them some competition.

So, if you saw my Aristocrat for sale and then saw it disappear then that is why.

Dave