I fucking hate eBay. Had been on there for a few years and had a 100% positive feedback status.
I hadn't bought or sold anything since September 2008, when in February of this year got an email from someone who was asking a question about something I was selling. Strange I thought as I wasn't selling anything, and I just presumed it to be some dodgy phishing email.
Eventually curiosity got the better of me, so later on that night I logged on to my ebay account. Couldn't log on as it said I was typing in the wrong password. So to cut a long story short I changed my password and eventually logged into my account. I had fucking dozens of questions asking about items some bastard was selling using my account!
I was selling loads of jarg fancy pens and watermelon seeds. Watermelon fucking seeds!!! All the questions were about were the pens real, would I send them to the Netherlands and stuff like that. Fucking Hell I thought, so got in touch with ebay on some online help chat thing.
Fair play to the fella from ebay who cancelled the remaining outstanding auctions, he understood what had gone on and sorted it all out. He said some people had bought some pens with buy it now, so i checked my paypal account and there was nothing in there. Fuck knows where the money went.
Anyway, it all seemed to be sorted out when a few weeks later I got an email from ebay saying I had breached their seller non-compliance procedure or something and I should refund all monies to those who had bought these pens. Luckily no-one fancied buying the watermelon seeds... Got into a big long discussion with these c*nts from ebay who basically weren't having it. I mean how could I refund someone for something I wasn't even selling in the first place? The stupid bastards weren't having it though and just kept sending me these standard copied & pasted replies.
Eventually, they completely closed my account and said it wasn't up for discussion. They said I could email them all I liked and those emails would be read, but may not necessarily be replied to.
Bunch of fucking c*nts.
I even emailed BBC Watchdog about it. Heard fuck all back from them either.