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Someone won and paid for an item last night, and has messaged saying they don't want it, it was a mistake.
Understandable since it was a pack of 24 cans of Irn Bru for £100....
Do I have to cancel, or can I message them and say "agreeing to buy something on eBay is a legal agreement which I expect you to honour" and then just post them?
How much sugar is in it?
If you do post them, make sure you go totally by the book re. Seller Protection, as they'll find some way to wriggle out of it otherwise and you'll be down £100 and a crate of Iron Bru.
Found it on eBay, it's the old ("proper") stuff, hence the inflated price I guess!How much sugar is in it?
I'd cancel.[s]It's not worth the hassle of expecting payment for that... is it!?[/s] Here, misread that! They paid?! what a dope 😆
just cancel it.
or send it, buyer claims it's damaged on delivery. opens dispute you lose money and sugary drink.
your choice. £100 for iron bru 😳
If I post with full insurance, take photos of me packing it up etc then if they claim "damaged on delivery" I can claim my £100 off the courier?
Irn bru is mingin anyway.
Irn bru is mingin anyway.
Well, you shouldn't've bid on it then!
Haha, touche Debz!
How do you accidentally pay £100 for a pack of irn bru? Maybe they thought it was 24 cases? It doesn't seem worth the effort of trying to keep the money though, when you're screwing someone who was probably drunk or not paying attention.
Send the Irn Bru and 4 pairs of knickers. That should even it up a bit.
Just cancel it. They'll find a way of screwing you through Paypal if you dont
when you’re screwing someone who was probably drunk or not paying attention.
You just described my honeymoon!
they are probably just ****ing with the chancer asking 100 quid for 24 tins of irn bru.
what ever you do your going to lose - they are holding all of the aces here.
Is this a particularly cryptic Brexit analogy?
Either way, there's jack shit you can do and you're gonna have to suck it up.
But not all at once, it's quite sugary.
What the flip were you doing selling fizzy pop on ebay anyway and how did it get to £100?
It's the pre sugar tax stuff. Figured I'd chance it on someone paying a ridiculous sum for it.
Means there's at least one other prepared to pay £99 for it...
Offer it to the next highest bidder.
The only way here is to refund....
Although a bid is a legal thing and you could go down that route - they will then be looking for a reason to back out and cause you the grief of receiving the cans back. I cant see a case of cans making 2 journeys unscathed!
Hope this helps - I've done quite a lot on eBay and have the worry lines to prove it!
Make sure they cancel their bid, don't cancel it yourself. I sold a car and the buyer changed her mind - hadn't paid, so nothing I could do, but she refused to cancel her bid. I couldn't sell to the next bidder or relist it until she did, so had wait a week and raise a case against her. I assume she didn't want eBay putting a black mark against her for cancelling, so was hoping I'd cancel. I think she ended up with a bigger black mark in the end.
I did.
I decided not to be an arse and refunded them.
I am sure the world will somehow punish me for being nice
Donate it to your nearest scout pack. If they are like us then the leaders will be very grateful. Last camp us leaders got through 8 slabs.... I know not healthy, but necessary.
I'll sell it for a good price eventually.
Someone has sold one for £70 on eBay, and this one has appeared as sold in the completed items - so normalising the £99 price.
Highest price I saw for 24 cans over summer was ~£30, so the prices are heading up
What a mad old world.
I have to ask... Why are slabs of Irn Bru going for so much?
https://www.ocado.com/webshop/product/IrnBru/329083011
It isn't a coded message that old farts like me don't understand is it?
Slab of Irn Bru = Bag of MDNA
They reduced the amount of sugar because of the sugar tax on drinks now. And apparently people are prepared to pay a lot to give themselves diabetes.
I know not healthy, but necessary.
And what a great example for the kids! *facepalm*
They reduced the amount of sugar because of the sugar tax on drinks now
....and completely ruined it.
Original recipe cans have 32 g of sugar, new recipe cans have 16g.
They say it tastes the same but it just doesn't.
The problem is that they have replaced that missing 16g with artificial sweeteners which, to some people, like me, taste horrible.
It's not just Irn -Bru though it's pretty much every fizzy drink except Coke who have gone down this road. I can no longer drink any of them
They should have kept making a premium full sugar version and just charged more. I'd have paid it.*
* not £100 though. That's madness
I can no longer drink any of them
I suspect they would consider that it's working, then.
This sugar tax is great isn't it? Just replace the sugar content with lots of lovely artificial sweetners instead to get round the tax. Poison your kids with chemicals instead.
I suspect they would consider that it’s working, then.
Not for me it isn't.
They've legislated for the out of control biffas who're swigging multiple two litre bottles of the stuff a day and , in doing so, screwing over those who enjoy the products in moderation.
And what a great example for the kids! *facepalm*
Yeah, that's what I thought before I started, but if there was ever a time for a decent hit of caffeine and sugar, it's when you are looking after a big group of kids for a week with nary a sniff of sleep. Sod the example, stay awake!
Still got 48 cans of Orange Gold in my cupboard though. I'm looking at it as a 10 year investment
Can't you just buy the new stuff and stir in 16g of sugar before drinking?
£100 for iron bru 😳
It's made in Scotland from Guurduurs. Have you seen the price of steel lately?
I'm with perchy here. I don't normally drink much fizzy pop at all, but when I do I want the full sugar hit with no aspartame or other nonsense instead. I know Irn Bru is full of other stuff, but too much aspartame gives me a headache. Also see SIS products - surefire route to headaches for me.
Take a look at Soda Folk drinks. No artificial nonsense in those plus the root beer is lovely
Can’t you just buy the new stuff and stir in 16g of sugar before drinking?
No, because they put in 16g worth of artificial crap instead. It would have been much better if they'd just taken out 16g sugar and left it at that. The point should be to wean kids away from the sweet taste, not just the sugar.
This sugar tax is great isn’t it? Just replace the sugar content with lots of lovely artificial sweetners instead to get round the tax. Poison your kids with chemicals instead.
I suspect the sugar is worse than the chemicals, but the real problem is people seeing things like this as an everyday drink rather than an occasional treat.
Ration books and full sugar (come the revolution).
Poison your kids with chemicals instead.
Don't talk wet.
Can’t you just buy the new stuff and stir in 16g of sugar before drinking?
I don't care about the sugar, it's the aspartame I can't abide.
I think I might be an aspartame supertaster*, I can taste it in pretty much everything it's in and I don't like it.
*not sure if that's a thing.
£100 purchase of Irn Bru that is regretted, sounds like someone was severly hung over when they bid 🙂
I think I might be an aspartame supertaster*, I can taste it in pretty much everything it’s in and I don’t like it.
*not sure if that’s a thing.
If it is a thing, then I'm one too - once it's added to something, that's all I can taste.
This sugar tax is great isn’t it? Just replace the sugar content with lots of lovely artificial sweetners instead to get round the tax. Poison your kids with chemicals instead.
don't you talk under complete bollox.
Poison your kids with chemicals instead
Have you seen the amount of DHMO in Irn Bru?????
Have you seenthe amount of DHMO in Irn Bru?????
It's OK. They disguise it with food colouring.
Good night out/hangover. The purchase was at 8pm