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Ebay Buyers Paradise ..Sellers Nightmare

  • 08-11-2007 12:49pm
    #1
    roughan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 426 ✭✭


    hi
    im selling computers on Ebay the past few years
    and this week alone i have had 4 non paying bidders
    1 thought they were bidding in Euros
    and 3 never bothered to pay costing me 20 Euros on listing fees per item
    im convinced that the entire ebay is totally geared towards buyer protection even though 1/5 of all the winners of my auctions are hacked into accounts and the buyer sends me a fake paypal email and then asks me to ship to Nigera....
    im a Powerseller with 99.5 % positive feedback
    you have to bendover backwards if somebody threathens neg feedback
    as it HUGELY affects sales if you have 1 person leave you a neg comment
    i have had people leave me neg feedback beacuse the computer got a virus 3 weeks after they bought it and blamed me its a complete nightmare the way its all geared towars the seller and honest sellers like myself are not protected in anyway at all
    i have had the lot scammers ,Kids bidding ,PayPal Chargebacks ,people threathing neg feedback because they got virus on machine

    VENT VENT VENT!!!!!


Comments

  • #2
    nazoil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 330 ✭✭nazoil


    Set a price with immediate payment requirement.
    Set Buyer Requirements in My ebay eg Require paypal account holder, don't allow buyers regd in countries you don't ship to, etc

    I've sold a few scammer prone items myself and only nearly got caught by a Lithuanian. Paypal copped the credit card scam.

    You should also check other items a buyer has purchased recently in Advanced Search. I was trying to buy a phone one day and was outbid by a guy who had won 30 phones in the previous hour.

    I'm convinced that it's actually in ebay's interest to have a certain level of scammers as you only get insertion fee credit once.


  • #3
    Nody
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,375 CMod ✭✭✭✭Nody


    roughan wrote: »
    and 3 never bothered to pay costing me 20 Euros on listing fees per item
    You should be able to claim this back as I recall. I remember having 153 euro in fees after having 5 fake bids in a month on a PC I was selling, disputed the amount with Ebay showing that they where fake bidders and got it dropped down to a tenner.


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