Buying peafowl eggs on ebay/BYC:The good, Bad and scammer avoidance

[DAS]

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You can open up a dispute with Ebay. But I would do it very soon because I think there may be a time limit for filing a claim. Buying shipped eggs is always a gamble. You can buy them from the best breeders or just anyone and the results will vary. I had very good luck last year with peafowl and pheasants. This year I have no luck at all.

Good handling by the post office makes all the difference.

this is a little different.... the eggs were never received????
not a matter of bad hatch rate, or infertile eggs.... a matter of no eggs at all.....

people were discussing a certain seller who didn't even own birds, was buying eggs and selling htem before he even had the eggs in his hands... i'm hoping you didn't get taken by that person....

i'll cross my fingers that your eggs make it to you fresh and fertile and you get some to hatch....

Receiving no eggs is why you need to open a claim with Ebay. If you go onto the resolution page, Ebay will ask a couple of questions and ask you to describe the problem. Then Ebay will investigate the claim and let you know within a couple of days. If the seller wants to continue selling on Ebay, generally they will they will settle the claim.

 

[PintoPasoFino]

Thanks for the advice everyone. I know it wasn't the same seller that had the pictures of not his own animals, it was someone different. I will email again today, then file a claim after a day. I want to make sure I give her another opportunity to make it right. Heck, even if she had answered my last email and said, I will get them to you in a week or so, that's fine, but to not even answer makes me mad. Will keep everyone updated!

 

[PintoPasoFino]

I sent one more email through ebay. When I looked up my item numbers, guess what I found? This seller has had 10 negative feedbacks in the last few weeks. All the same complaint as mine, no eggs, no refund, no email. I emailed and said I haven't heard back, are the eggs on the way, if not, please refund my money. If this isn't taken care of I will file a complaint with Ebay and leave negative feedback. We'll see what happens, I am not holding my breath!

 

[chickenzoo]

Was the sellers feedback good up until recently? If so i would wonder if something had happened to them perhaps?

 

[Phage]

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I would persue your claim but wait on giving neg FB just incase there is good reason for a sudden exposion in neg feedback. Life events happen, and neg FB cant be erased I believe.