Ebay Sellers - The Bad

[Tim]

Please post the names of Ebay egg sellers you have had bad results from and would avoid.

Please ensure that you are posting about a seller you have had a direct dealing with or whom you have met or seen their live stock.

Please:

• DO NOT BE SLANDEROUS
• Do not post here if your eggs weren't fertile or you had a bad hatch - there are too many variables - the postal system for example!

Examples of when to post a 'bad' seller:

• You have seen their stock and they are kept in poor conditions.
• There has been no communication when things have gone wrong and you have given them a reasonable time to respond.
• Your eggs hatched but were not the breed they should have been.

Please post in this thread for positive feedback.

Thanks

 

[chrisarvor]

pcootepheasantry
Not to be trusted
BAD SELLER

 

[Tim]

Could you elaborate a little Chrisarvor?... just a few facts about your experience - e.g. poor communication, poor quality eggs, etc?

Thanks,

Tim

 

[tygrysek75]

I have purchased 6 x CORONATION SUSSEX HATCHING EGGS. VERY RARE BREED! (160593253298)

Member ID the_happy_hen .
The eggs were very dirty(like laid in the manure),packed in polybox but eggs had very little wrap inside so you could hear them moving inside box,1 egg was with very poor shell-unsuitable for incubator.As theese eggs vere very important to me I had put all 6 in to the incubator.Candled them in 5th day only 2 were fertile but 1 embrio was dead allready.The seller not helpfull,refused exchange or refund,but got my money back thru e-bay .

 

[tygrysek75]

I had also purchased mixed eggs from
12 pure mixed hatching eggs SUSSEX IXWORTH VORWERKMARAN (150598395910)

Member ID smallholder_training_in_devon
6/12 were fertile to the final 4 from which only 2 had hatched my RIR and Salmon Feweroles from which I,m very pleased.The seller was very nice ,packing was great and most of the eggs clean just not very fertile eggs

 

[Tim]

So can I move this post for smallholder_training_in-Devon to the Ebay 'Good' sellers thread?
T

 

[tygrysek75]

So can I move this post for smallholder_training_in-Devon to the Ebay 'Good' sellers thread?
T

I gues you can move it,but 2 from 12 is not very good hatch rate-don't you think?

 

[Tim]

No, I agree, certainly not a good hatch rate...but that can't really be blamed on the seller :?

50% or 6/12 fertility rate is a bit low too but with the postal system, if they were thrown about, this would be understandable so again I would say it's not really fair to the seller to be posted as a -bad- seller?

I thought it was a 'good seller' because you said they were very nice and the eggs were clean and well packaged... ??

What do you think? Maybe we should have a thread for -indifferent- neither good nor bad!

 

[tygrysek75]

Yes this would be good .
I had crack each unfertile eggs to check if there was any life in them,and there was no way that have been fertile in the first place.Have you heard of them before?I had looked at they set up from pictures posted with listing and check their web page South Yeo Farm East everything looked really amaizing,so I was really dissapointed at the hatch time.I had recently bought on e-bay green legged partridge fowl hatching eggs and had 5/6 fertility rate,going to hatch on Friday,they also went thru postal system,so you can see the difrence.
I once heard somwere that the eggs are fertile or not and postage has very little effect on them,but it has on hatchebility later.Do not know if this is all true.

 

[tygrysek75]

I thought it was a 'good seller' because you said they were very nice and the eggs were clean and well packaged... ??

I'm always try to be honest if I'm writing stuff about others.Maybe other people were more lucky with they eggs than me.,but becouse I had very low fertility of their eggs will not buy from them again.

 

[Tim]

Yes, I believe fertility can be affected in the postal system, simply because I have posted eggs laid together from the same birds on the same day to people and had bad results from one box, going to one place but not other boxes.

Storage time is another factor that people often forget too - fertility drops after storing eggs, I -think- I read that commercially they lose 10 -20% fertility after a week so by the time eggs are laid, stored, posted, left to settle and then got started in the incubator, it's not unreasonable for it to be getting on for 5 days.

It's a tough one. Many sellers say they can't accept responsibility for eggs after they have gone through the postal system but many hide behind this as a reason for selling eggs from poorly kept stock and possibly infertile eggs too... Lets leave it here anyway - people can read our posts and make their own judgement.

 

[tygrysek75]

This is also I was thinking too, you can always blaim the postman for lack of fertylity.Unfortunytly you never can be sure until you start incubation.

 

[Anonymous]

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I bought these, candled on day 10, no signs of life, and shells very VERY porus, so i dont believe they were fertile in the beginning.

Wont be buying off ebay again, unless its a recommendation , ive spent a fortune on eggs and they never seem to hatch, i dont believe its postal, as ive bought off a member on another forum, and got brilliant results.

 

[pekinclub]

123paulab66

name : Paula bishop.
seller of chocolate orpingtons and pekins
don't trust her , she is very nice , but the orpingtons are very poor ...

 

[chrismahon]

P & T Poultry sold us 6 Buff Orpington Hatching eggs. The packaging was poor, the thin polystyrene box was too big for the eggs. The eggs were absolutely filthy so I can imagine the conditions of the parents. We stood them point end down to settle for 24 hours as they suggested and washed in warm water as they suggested. 2 were infertile, two died at about 6 days and two hatched. One was a cross breed, the other was a lovely, but very pale feathered, chick with club feet and 6 toes on one foot and 5 on the other which we had to despatch. Heartbreaking. We were too upset to discuss it with them!

We bought an R-Com Suro 20 from them. The pump didn't work and they assured me they would send a tested replacement. It arrived and was obviously well used. The flexible pipe was very short. When I looked closely it had been taken apart many times and one of the 4 pump wheel pins was missing. They refused to send a new item and wanted to charge for the old damaged one they had sent -£37 I think -so I sent that damaged one back. Managed to repair the original new pump but still need a spare.

 

[Northernplan]

Peartreepoultry. 06

We bought 6 Gold Campine LF Hatching Eggs (160788201426) on the tuesday. I couldn't believe my luck as we already had some from another lady local to us (also from ebay who I will pop onto the Ebay Sellers- The Good thread) I messaged to check that it would be ok to pick up and pay the following monday (as the seller was reasonably near to my in-laws who we were due to go to visit) and we lived about 80 miles away. This was all fine. We confirmed that we would be travelling over and would be there between late morning and lunchtime Through the week I had a few emails asking me to pay for my item with the postage costs taken off, the final one being sent on the sunday evening. I duly paid for the eggs. We arrived to collect the eggs and when we mentioned what we were there to collect we were met with "Oh. I sent you a message. I thought you had collected the eggs yesterday. I've thrown them out! But if you really want some campines I have some hens for sale" When we checked ebay he had indeed sent a message asking us to contact him. It was sent at 12.15pm on the monday, when we were well on our way over. He had also sold these eggs with the guarantee that if there was less that 50% fertility another 6 would be sent. Even if he had not thrown our eggs away the day before the would not have been able to fulfill this as he had sold his cockerel on the sunday aswell.