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Could it be listing fees? I know you get so many free but things like extra categories or better exposure carries charges.

So eBay sent me an invoice for last month, but I didn't sell a single thing during that time. I bought 2 things, and that's it. WTF is going on here? I looked for a detailed invoice in my account, but their version of a 'detailed' invoice has zero pertinent details that would help explain the bogus charge.I'm calling them tomorrow, but just wanted to check with y'all to see if I am missing something.

curry pervert wrote:Could it be listing fees? I know you get so many free but things like extra categories or better exposure carries charges.Edit: I figured it out. I made the mistake of trying to find the relevant information on my phone with their app, which apparently fucking sucks. The charge was a shipping fee that was for something I sold back in January. I'm done with eBay for selling stuff.

Global shipping program? Sucks. Another way for them to screw people over.

Got an old Rickenbacker amp for a very fair price that is similar to a tweed Bassman, but it s not working right. Passes sound, but intermittently makes a sound similar to disconnecting the guitar from the cable and touching the jack to something. The packing job is not the worst I ve seen, but it was far from ideal. It was a box packed into another box with a thin layer of sheets of packing material around the amp. The tubes were placed inside the combo in a smaller box, but for some reason he left the 12ax7 s inside their shields, which seems weird. Undecided whether or not to bring to a tech or just send the thing back to the seller. Return shipping will suck, since it s a combo. Thinking I might as well bring it to a tech for the money. Hopefully it will be something dumb. It wouldn t come on at first, then somehow I got it working for a few minutes before the noise started. Don t feel good about this. It did sound really good for a couple minutes.

llllllllllllllllllllllll wrote:Got an old Rickenbacker amp for a very fair price that is similar to a tweed Bassman, but it s not working right. Passes sound, but intermittently makes a sound similar to disconnecting the guitar from the cable and touching the jack to something. The packing job is not the worst I ve seen, but it was far from ideal. It was a box packed into another box with a thin layer of sheets of packing material around the amp. The tubes were placed inside the combo in a smaller box, but for some reason he left the 12ax7 s inside their shields, which seems weird. Undecided whether or not to bring to a tech or just send the thing back to the seller. Return shipping will suck, since it s a combo. Thinking I might as well bring it to a tech for the money. Hopefully it will be something dumb. It wouldn t come on at first, then somehow I got it working for a few minutes before the noise started. Don t feel good about this. It did sound really good for a couple minutes.Took it to a tech - he resoldered a couple connections and made one of the inputs higher gain - I got all fixed up for $50! Glad I didn t send it back Will probably try for a partial refund. He really should have packed it better. I would have paid more in shipping if it would have meant I didn t have to fuck with a busted amp on arrival.Also, he says this model is more similar to a tweed Pro. He thinks the power transformer might be replaced, unless Rickenbacker used Stancore xformers back then, which he thought was possible, though he was iffy about it.

llllllllllllllllllllllll wrote:llllllllllllllllllllllll wrote:Got an old Rickenbacker amp for a very fair price that is similar to a tweed Bassman, but it s not working right. Passes sound, but intermittently makes a sound similar to disconnecting the guitar from the cable and touching the jack to something. The packing job is not the worst I ve seen, but it was far from ideal. It was a box packed into another box with a thin layer of sheets of packing material around the amp. The tubes were placed inside the combo in a smaller box, but for some reason he left the 12ax7 s inside their shields, which seems weird. Undecided whether or not to bring to a tech or just send the thing back to the seller. Return shipping will suck, since it s a combo. Thinking I might as well bring it to a tech for the money. Hopefully it will be something dumb. It wouldn t come on at first, then somehow I got it working for a few minutes before the noise started. Don t feel good about this. It did sound really good for a couple minutes.Took it to a tech - he resoldered a couple connections and made one of the inputs higher gain - I got all fixed up for $50! Nice. Now, it's all...

I had a guitar listed for $750 obo. A guy made me a $650 offer, which is pretty fair for the guitar and I accepted. He just wrote to me asking if I could do $600 for it. This is a new one for me. Trying to knock the price down after buying but before paying for the guitar. Good grief.

elisha wiesner wrote:I had a guitar listed for $750 obo. A guy made me a $650 offer, which is pretty fair for the guitar and I accepted. He just wrote to me asking if I could do $600 for it. This is a new one for me. Trying to knock the price down after buying but before paying for the guitar. Good grief.Ridiculous. That would annoy the shit out of me.

Guy who bought my guitar and then secretly helped himself to a couple of my plectra: you are an asshole.