MK5 Golf GTI

Ebay make enough money and the fees they charge are extortionate anyway (12% on anything you sell plus listing fees and they even charge the 12% on postage costs too!), I say email the seller and say, "I will cancel the transaction if you split the fees with me, he gives you £25, that way you both win!"   and ebay are not going to miss £50 from the £500 Million they made from UK alone  

Oh and I pay ebay about £35K per year and paypal another £9K per year so guess im biased against the robbin foo%ers ( I remember when fees were 5% for the same problems service!

Wow that's some spending! I'll see what he says. Thanks all.

Quote from: Nicole on February 20, 2012, 07:51:06 PM
Wow that's some spending! I'll see what he says. Thanks all.

nope thats not spending, thats me selling and the fees I pay Ebay for the priveledge

Dont forget if you agree to Cancel transaction, you will have no warranty and prove for item you bought.

Bit of a tough one, in my opinion I wouldn't cancel it.

If he had asked you beforehand to not go through eBay and pay cash on collection (as if you're buying from the adtrader, Gumtree etc) - passing on some of the saving to you - that's a different story. I've done that before when buying.
However, you're getting no perk out of his request other than losing the backup of a PayPal claim should you need it.

He might be covering his backside as it's a common scam to pay via PayPal and then go collect. PayPal often take the buyers side in a dispute as the seller can find it hard to prove it was 'dispatched'. Thus if the auction is cancelled, there's no comeback from the buyer.

Thanks for the help guys, I knew you guys would be more helpful than the young guys on some other forums.
I asked about paying £25 back to me but in the end he decided just to pay the fees, so no bother to me.

I'd already paid via PayPal before he mentioned doing this so could've got burnt anyway.

Thanks again, and I can offer some carbon parts at a discount for the help, have some mk6 bits and couple mk5 :)