Just thought I would share this with all of you.
Its name and shame time.
"WHEELS-UK-2010" an ebay member selling wheels etc.
made an offer over the phone for a set of nearly new HSE wheels and brand new wrangler goodyear tyres. Agread a price with him and was all set to collect them this saturday from birmingham.
Ive just had a message from him say SORRY, THE WHEELS ARE NO LONGER AVAILIBLE FOR SALE AS THEY HAVE NOW GONE. What an arshole, Wheres the morals gone from people these days. BEWARNED, if your thinking of dealing with him and you have agreed a price it will me nothing if some one else offers a better price , you will be dropted like a stone.
Lets hope one day some one will do the dirty over on him, after all, what goes arround comes arround, rant over, still feel cheated though

This is a breach of contract. There does not have to be a written contract to be legally binding.

The authority is Storer v Manchester City Council [1974] 1 WLR 1403.

Lord Denning said "In contracts you do not look into the actual intent in a man's mind. You look at what he said and did. A contract is formed when there is, to all outward appearances, a contract. A man cannot get out of a contract by saying: 'I did not intend to contract', if by his words he has done so. LL.B (Hons) - University of Derby
LOT (Lord of Time) - University of Gallifrey

I recently had a disagreement with an ebayseller over something for an iphone costing less than a pound. It was obvious he was selling rubbish and then asking you to return it for a refund knowing the cost to return was greater than the item was worth. I decided not to let it go, and after many mails to him I took it to resolution and also contacted ebay by phone and explained what this seller was doing. He has now left ebay (or asked to leave) either way, its one less scumbag selling rubbish.


I would recommend you contact ebay and make it clear to them how this idiot operates and hope they do something about him.

wizking wrote:

I recently had a disagreement with an ebayseller over something for an iphone costing less than a pound. It was obvious he was selling rubbish and then asking you to return it for a refund knowing the cost to return was greater than the item was worth. I decided not to let it go, and after many mails to him I took it to resolution and also contacted ebay by phone and explained what this seller was doing. He has now left ebay (or asked to leave) either way, its one less scumbag selling rubbish.


I would recommend you contact ebay and make it clear to them how this idiot operates and hope they do something about him.

They just come back under another name.....  2002 Honda VFR800
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2004 Toyota Celica 140 Black - Gone
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superspark wrote:

Just thought I would share this with all of you.
Its name and shame time.
"WHEELS-UK-2010" an ebay member selling wheels etc.
made an offer over the phone for a set of nearly new HSE wheels and brand new wrangler goodyear tyres. Agread a price with him and was all set to collect them this saturday from birmingham.
Ive just had a message from him say SORRY, THE WHEELS ARE NO LONGER AVAILIBLE FOR SALE AS THEY HAVE NOW GONE. What an arshole, Wheres the morals gone from people these days. BEWARNED, if your thinking of dealing with him and you have agreed a price it will me nothing if some one else offers a better price , you will be dropted like a stone.
Lets hope one day some one will do the dirty over on him, after all, what goes arround comes arround, rant over, still feel cheated though

I'm afraid it is the way of the world now, no longer can you take a another man's word as his bond, he has more than likely received a better offer, hence they have now gone. As it was done over the phone and not through ebay there is nothing ebay can do, they do advise against dealing out of ebay which is what Superspark has done, and I suspect we have all done similar, but in my mind if I do a deal that's it no changing of minds just for another £1.
You just cannot trust everyone nowadays greed over rules morals in many cases.

had same happen to me, complained to ebay several times as they were still asking me to pay for items i had won. this a..e advertised the same item 3 more times, same pictures, contact and everything. ebay didn't seem to be able to stop it or didn't care Ian

Thanks for all your replies guys. I have complained to ebay, dont know what will happen if anything. I think hes using ebay and by not paying through ebay hes avoiding all their fees. Ive noticed that all his items are buy it now or best offer. when you call

[quote="simontThey just come back under another name..... [/quote]

True, but they cannot take their star rating with them.

Sorry if i sound unsupportive, as i don't mean to be, but it is possible that someone else has clicked on his ' buy it now ' before he could remove the item's listing. In which case, he is committed to selling the item to that person at the ' Buy it now ' price as they have followed correct ebay procedure . . . . . . . . .

pedro he had three days to remove it but it only disappeared last night, about 5 minutes after I saw that some one else had made an offer. the wheels were buy it now or best offer, I made an offer but he declined it and left a ebay message saying what he would let them go for and hi phone number to ring if i was still interested.I phoned him stright back and we made an agreement over the phone. I was all set to pick them up on saturday.
I think he took a higher offer after agreeing a price with me. Thats whats me off the most.

You would have had a bit of clout and ebay may have backed you if you had done the Best Offer via ebay and he had accepted it, but out of ebay you are on thinner ice. All flebay can do is a warning for circumventing the fees, but all he has to say is they were damaged or stolen and not sold, who can proove otherwise or had decided not to sell them. Could have beeen worse, look on the bright side, what if he hadn't bothered to let you know they had gone, its a long way Devon to Birmingham to come back empty handed.
Let it go, at least we on here now know who he is and know he is not to be trusted and avoid him.

simont wrote:

wizking wrote:

I would recommend you contact ebay and make it clear to them how this idiot operates and hope they do something about him.

They just come back under another name.....

This sort of thing is why I use ebay rarely, and with circumspection. Brian

MY11 FL2 SD4 GS
Extras to same spec as XS apart from the Satnav, plus Xenons.
Ipenema Sand, Ebony.

Agreed, I only use ebay with a know shop that I want something from, that way if there is a problem you get a little more comeback than Joe RipoffMerchant Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

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