Edward
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eBay is a buyers market, so much so, that soon, there won't be any sellers.
It certainly seems these days geared to scare of the few units, small-volume sellers. Hardly surprising, though, given the memo that was leaked so sensationally some years back, when they said they were turning their back on the original model, and the aim now is to get the place full of high volume unit shifters selling new product: more profitable for eBay, especially since they also introduced the final-sale-gouge. There are, these days things I tend to give away rather than be bothered ebaying.... but none of the alternatives are really worth the hassle or the most part now either. Basically, the model has been shifted in a way where it's simply not much cop any mored unless you'red running it as a business.
I understand that buy it now and second chance offers are returnable within14 days if it was a ‘business’ seller on eBay UK. I wonder if eBay will use the same rule if requested against a private seller? Does anyone have experience of this?
In the EU anyone selling as a business is legally obliged to accept returns. Ebay can impose that on private sellers too if they want - they're in control of how they want their system to work. Course, eBay has long been looking to attract only high volume business players as sellers, so it's not really in their interests to maked life easy or those private sellers who don't fit the profile.
I suppose not because you can clearly select “no returns accepted” as a private seller.
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Seems they can. I would think it unfair for changing your mind, but there are plenty of legit reasons. TBH, were I on the fence about something, a seller making a big thing of "no returns, absolutely ever" and such would be enough to put me off, whether fairly or no.
My biggest bugbear are sellers who don't disclose that they're smokers and the items they are selling are infested with tobacco. My other half bought a Mary Quant leather jacket that arrived stinking of ancient cigarettes and talc - the seller had obviously doused it in something that she thought, wrongly, would cover the smell (reinforcing the oft-repeated fact that cigarettes destroy your sense of smell). It took more than a month to get the smell down to a dull roar - weeks hanging in the garage, sealed in a box with bicarb, repeated coats of Pecards, odour removing sprays etc - and even now, several years on, it still has a residual smell.
If I remember correctly, the seller apologised, said she didn't think it was that bad (again, sense of smell blunted by years of smoking) and offered a partial refund. Since then, I've been a lot tougher on this sort of thing: if it arrives stinking of smoke and can't be washed/cleaned easily, it goes back.
Brings back pre-smoking ban memories..... definitely something I don't miss!
Weren't they made in New Zealand or something as well?
Originally NZ, then the partners went their separate ways, and RM was made in Japan after that. The UK label seems odd. I can only guess if the jacket is a real RM, then it was relined somewhere in the UK by someone who added that label. I remember a line of jackets that AL made for Nigel Cabourn being labelled 'Nigel Cabourn Made in England', but I think that was just an oversight based on the jackets carrying the standard Cabourn label.
I think mentioning the ill fit was a mistake. That's precisely the motive that drove the buyer of my Vanson to shred one sleeve with a chainsaw when they couldn't find a legitimate reason to return the jacket. All the fool had to do was send it back and the $ was already his as soon as the PO marked it delivered.
That's nuts! How did they think they could get away with it???
So far we only know of two The Real McCoy's jackets that have those labels and the OP contacting RMC didn't bring any light into the matter.
I've never seen any label like that in the leather jackets at RMC London and I've tried a few of them and inspected them.
Also, let's see who is the smart kid that can spot failed or missing stitching in this picture. With all the shine the jacket has and without knowing it before inspecting the photo and zooming in looking for it I bet no one would have spotted it so the seller should have mentioned in the listing because he knew it was there and he decided not to say anything but in a cheeky way posted a picture of the pockets
I can spot something strange in the picture but only after the fact. Beats me how a RMC original jacket can loose stitching in the pockets area.
To be fair, there's no way I'd have spotted that myself. Easier to have repaired than mothed knits or a broken zip, I'd assume, though I would be ticked off if it hadn't been disclosed. Looks like either the thread has given way or perhaps been rubbed by a sharp edge - keys, credit card, whatever.
Selling stuff on on ebay if it doesn't suit is definitely a pain; everyone seems to think they should pay less than you did!