OT: How to get an Ebay address.

He could have provided it in his communications with you, email etc. He doesn't appear to have done this, so I think you should respect his wishes and not contact him.

Anyway, why would he want a faulty card?

OOI, was it marked as tested and working and returns accepted?

I ask because people (who know) often sell 'faulty' video cards as 'untested, spares or repair' because people (like my mate) can often repair them (re-flowing / reballing the GPU or fixing other 'known' faults)?

Cheers, T i m

On your Paypal account, for that transaction it should include the Paypal address to which your money was sent.* I only know this because in the past I've sent unsolicited extra P&P where I thought it was merited. Along with these payments there's also an option to send a message. Assuming he's still on Paypal you could send a token amount of say 5p along with a message explaining why you want his address. It used to be under the *Send Money* Tab and there's a dropdown with all recent addresses you've sent money to.

michael adams

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Possibly the OP is concerned that the seller might not actually believe his claim that the card was faulty.

More generally it could be called "winner's remorse"

michael adams

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Which usually means the at Ebay have had to refund many other buyers who have been ripped off with poor quality goods and have removed the seller.

He tried to screw you over with an ex-mining GPU, and *you* feel sorry for *him* ?

From what's been posted there's no actual evidence that the seller tried to screw anyone.

The seller could have been similarly difficult if he was convinced there was nothing wrong with the card; and that the buyer was trying to screw *him", with a substitute return if pushed

The bast outcome would have been for the seller to accept the return and refund the costs.

However it seems matters were taken out of his hands and DP was refunded by eBay without any need for a return.

Honest (one assumes) eBay sellers have long complained about this and how they're being screwed by dishonest buyers as a result of eBays overprotective policy towards buyers, That's possibly why some sellers simply give up.

michael adams

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I thought that too - but couldn't find it. Or on the original email from Paypal confirming I'd paid him.

That's a good bit of lateral thinking. If Paypal haven't thrown him out too. ;-)

After the last post I had another search through Ebay - and got them to phone me. Very helpful lady, but said she couldn't find anything about him as he was no longer a member. But said he could still contact them asking for me to return it if he wants it back.

It simply said 'as new' But the new box had been ticked too.

I'd not have paid £150 for a spares or repair one. ;-) £150 was about mid price for the new ones on Ebay. Used had a much lower starting price - but I wanted one quickly.

It did sort of work, but wasn't recognised by either Win10 or the maker's software. Meaning it wouldn't accept the correct driver - Code 43? I'm told it was likely the card Bios had been altered.

Yes. I'd rather it had a more satisfactory outcome for both buyer and seller.

Yup. A mate was running part of his (men's clothing) retail business on eBay and someONE complained that the fancy pants he was selling weren't genuine.

eBay suspended his account and it took ages to re-instate, in spite of

Cheers, T i m

Put it in a drawer for 6 months then bin it. Brian

Try to re-flash the factory firmware, if it works keep it as a spare, or flog it on eBay ...

Not only 100% genuine, but completely unused as well. No stains, nothing !

There's just no pleasing some people, is there ?

michael adams

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I thought it could be you. ;-(

Apparently not. I hope you are going to reimburse him for the lost revenue?

Cheers, T i m

Er no. That's how they could have been listed originally.

As it happens, I messed it up.

The listing should have read

michael adams

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I'd love to know what percentage of stuff on ebay is faulty.

Bought a laptop recently, a semi decent new-ish one, looks like new but there's an extremely odd issue with the touchpad where it occasionally doesn't track properly and moreso if you've anything plugged into the USBs. And something amiss with the screen that you only notice when there's dark solid colours, looks like patches of paint runs.

Obviously the previous owner knew nothing of these issues, must have occurred in transit!

I bought a 2nd hand rx460 GPU couple of years ago, it had a tendency to crash in Linux after several hours (whether under load or idle) informed the seller straight away, he'd only tested with Windows, I spent a few days investigating but concluded there was no fix, he accepted it back without quibble, he's still on ebay (with only 1 -ve feedback from someone who claimed not to have read "For parts or not working").

That's the only item I can think I had a problem with, there was one other item I purchased but eBay themselves cancelled it within minutes as a fake item and binned the seller.

Think it depends very much on category.

If it was described as parfect or as new etc, you'd likely have comeback. But if a good price, might be worth fixing it?

I did spend quite a bit of time trying to get this GPU to work properly. But instructions for re-flashing the Bios had so many warnings I decided not to try. As it would be just as immoral to return a card I'd fooked up by trying to fix it as selling it in the first place. ;-) Had it been a £20 purchase I'd likely have tried, and been willing to take the hit if it failed.