What to do if you sold tickets
Please contact your buyer by 17th July if you haven’t already done so. We’ll credit all associated eBay fees once the buyer has been fully refunded. These will appear in your 30th July or 15th August invoice depending on your billing cycle.
All sellers who have sold tickets will receive an email from us shortly explaining how to contact the buyer and when you will receive a refund of eBay fees.

What to do if you bought tickets
If you have not already heard from your seller we recommend that you contact them by 13th July to ask for a refund. If you have already received the ticket and you get a full refund, you should return the physical ticket to your seller. We also ask that you be patient and allow sellers time to process refund requests.
All buyers affected by this issue will receive an email from us shortly explaining how to contact the seller and what to do if you are unable to make contact.

We are not talking about ethics here.

That would be the same as saying “it’s a free world, so if I don’t want to employ women then I won’t”

Is that not what Ebay are trying to do ?. Free trade means just that.

Surely restricting who supplies your product adds an element of exclusivity and a resulting higher profit margin, surely free trade is just that, the manufacturer is ‘free’ to decide.

The suppliers are basically saying, ‘do as you’re told’ or sling yer hook, is that not what Ebay have been doing to sellers for the last few years?

This is a small time example, but years ago my dad had a fishing tackle shop in the North East of Scotland, right in the middle of prime salmon fishing territory, he agreed to retail a particular brand if the brand owner agreed to not wholesale to anyone within a 100 mile radius of his shop.

They agreed to that condition.

There are many factors involved in retail, it is not always the manufacturer that makes the final decision

You:
Hi
Louise – eBay:
Good evening how can I help you?
You:
Yes, I’d like to ask you out for a date
Louise – eBay:
Now where were we?
You:
Get your coat
Louise – eBay:
Please could you ask your question more simply?
You:
Lets go for a drink
Louise – eBay:
Which of the following best matches your question?
I want to close my account
What are the rules on offensive materials?

Close my account????

I logged a call this morning, someone is getting back to me. Now I just need to find the original CD??!!

what now then as its either ticket or refund according to ticketmaster. on my listing i said micheal jackson ticket NOT micheal jackson PERFORMANCE!

http://www.saynoto0870.com/

and don’t forget that 0845 and 0870 numbers are now counted into your rate plan with BT if you have an all inclusive plan, but NOT with other suppliers yet.

i have the option to reopen my account with ebay within 180 days.

i do intend to refund my buyers.

If I was a games seller, and sold an upcoming release. But the games developer changed their mind and didn’t release the game then I would clearly have to refund everyone as I haven’t sold anything.

Forget about eBay rules or Paypal rules. If you don’t refund those ticket purchases then in my book (I’m sure I’m not alone) you are a thief and should be pursued through the legal system.

Sorry but people are too hung up on eBay rules etc. What about the law, never mind just being an honest person.

In fact if you have done what you say you have done at the end of your message, then eBay is a better place for it.

Ebay say they will refund all sellers their listing fees and charges after the seller has made a refund to the buyer.

Another thing is everybodey seems to be taking about the 45 day time limit. “Ebay have extended this to cover all michael jackson ticket purchases.”

I think that is unfair. It is to save the ebay reputation and is a PR move.

Why do I think its unfair? After recieving payment from my buyers I had to wait 28 days for the funds to clear in my pay pal, and on top of this I waited until the 45 days were over so I knew I was in the clear for spending my money.

In my opinion I have kept my end of the bargain, anything beyond the 45 days is ebays responsibility if they want still to refund buyers in unusual circumstances.

If I cannot be sure that I am in the clear to spend my own money after waiting the specified period of time, when can I be sure that my money is ever going to be mine to spend? Is it up to ebay to decide that they want to dip into my bank and take some money back?

I think this is wrong and ebay will make many enimies this way.

I have gone into my ebay settings, changed my name, my address, my user name, removed automatic paypal payments, and closed my acount. I also went into paypal, sent my funds to my bank, altered my details and also closed this account. Just to be on the safe side.

Inevitably I normally end up searching Google for the answer and its normally out there.