PV should have to pay fees for canceled sales!
Very often I’ve read in reviews that PV cancels sales after the auction ends! The classic case: item broken/damaged while being packed. Especially when the item is bought cheaply, one can only hope that the thing doesn’t, after almost 50 years (usually with retro/vintage items), happen to break by chance while being packed!
If there were consequences for that, the likelihood that the item is damaged while being packed would be much lower.
I will never bid in PV auctions again! If you wouldn’t be happy about the item possibly selling for much less than you had dreamed of, then you shouldn’t enter 1 euro, but a higher amount, or sell it at a fixed price!
The willingness to destroy an item rather than let the buyer have it would certainly be much lower, or swallowed up by the earth!
If a person finds it hard to behave conscientiously, then they should pay for this vile behavior with their money!
hasjana
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who would deliberately destroy one of your supposedly more valuable items in order not to have to let it go cheaply?
either the item isn't broken at all, and the seller is just making up an excuse, or it's really not as described
the latter happened to me once too - I only noticed a damage when packing it ... I took a photo and then asked the buyer whether she still wanted the item, and yes, it was something for little money ...
... so it can definitely happen - however, a seller should be able to prove the damage, although the buyer may still be entitled to the item (or an identical one) anyway (which then matches the description)
e.b.h.a
OP1 year agoFines/fees for improper actions are not imposed because we can smell the actual wrongdoers, but to keep the damage as low as possible.
For example: fare dodgers get fined, and that has a justified reason, but it also hits people who simply can’t show their ticket for other reasons. A few years ago I lost my ticket on the train - I explained to the ticket inspector why I couldn’t show my ticket, but I didn’t expect that the fine notice wouldn’t be issued to me! Well, now they check twice and three times over and make sure that something like that doesn’t happen to me again.
To your question of who would deliberately destroy valuable items so as not to have to sell them cheaply, I can’t go into that any further here - I share such incidents with people around me.
But I can gladly report a little. First of all, I had no discussions whatsoever with the seller. It’s pointless to argue about it when I watched the whole sales process very closely. Good that I only won 3 items - I was still interested in 3 more items, but didn’t bid because I was sure the seller would be annoyed. The next day, all the items that had started at 1 euro in the auction were offered at very high fixed prices. Of course, they were ended auctions. I certainly don’t hold that against the seller, quite the opposite; seems to have learned from it.
For one person, a kitchen appliance from the 70s may be valuable, for another it may be junk. That’s in the eye of the beholder.
In my case it was so valuable because I wanted to surprise an elderly lady who lives in a retirement home. I would have loved to give her that joy. .. it is by no means rare for people to destroy things because they don’t want others to have them. The seller had already lost anyway: whether it gets shipped or destroyed for a measly
amount makes no difference to such people.