ebay buyer is threatning to sue me!

[kidcusu13]

What is the name of your state (georgia)?
hello there. ok i put a picture for sell on ebay. i said that it was a picture a normal picture. a man bids on it for $700.00. and sends me the money and i sent him the picture. `a few days later i get a email saying that he is gonna sue me for selling him something not as described. what should i do?

 

[Antigone*]

What is the name of your state (georgia)?
hello there. ok i put a picture for sell on ebay. i said that it was a picture a normal picture. a man bids on it for $700.00. and sends me the money and i sent him the picture. `a few days later i get a email saying that he is gonna sue me for selling him something not as described. what should i do?

What kind of "picture" was it? What was your exact description?

 

[kidcusu13]

just a picture i took here at my house. i just wanted to see if someone would buy it. i described what was in the picture and then i said the picture was the only thing included.

 

[Antigone*]

just a picture i took here at my house. i just wanted to see if someone would buy it. i described what was in the picture and then i said the picture was the only thing included.

If some idiot paid you $700 for a picture you took at home, and that is how you described it. Tell the dork he got what he paid for.

Keep a copy of your ad just in case he sues you.

Some people are just so darn foolish.

 

[KnownOne]

BTW, what was in the photo? Was it something valuable, or just some trees?

 

[kidcusu13]

but do you think he'll try to sue me??

 

[Antigone*]

but do you think he'll try to sue me??

We cannot predict the future but, he certainly has every right to sue.

 

[HappyWanderer]

The OP is being..careful..in what happened. I suspect there is, at least, some "puffery" in the description of the photo. Fraud? Or, mere salesmanship? That's for a court to decide, but I bet I'd sue.

 

[KnownOne]

Understood.

OP, your actions were scum if what I think is correct. I stand by what I said originally though. Like I said, I sure hope I am wrong.

 

[kidcusu13]

but what would he be able to sue for??

 

[Antigone*]

The OP is being..careful..in what happened. I suspect there is, at least, some "puffery" in the description of the photo. Fraud? Or, mere salesmanship? That's for a court to decide, but I bet I'd sue.

Although the OP should not have offered a "picture" for $700, there has to be major accountability on the buyer.

I would never have forked over ANY money for anything sight unseen from a private party.

 

[KnownOne]

Although the OP should not have offered a "picture" for $700, there has to be major accountability on the buyer.

I would never have forked over ANY money for anything sight unseen from a private party.

This may be true, but courts have sided with the buyer in the past. Ebay is not the place to exercise word play in an attempt to defraud buyers.

 

[Antigone*]

but what would he be able to sue for??

His money back and court costs.

 

[KnownOne]

OP, post the text and title from your ad here. If I don't have an urge to drop $700, I'll know you're lying. Otherwise, HappyWanderer will be pretty happy to know what he said was true. I will be mortified.

 

[KnownOne]

Well, goodbye OP. I hope you have a huge judgment against you in the coming months.