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makaveli8x8
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Ebay Sucks!
#14028838 - 02/26/11 02:53 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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So i go to list an item, when i make the ad it clearly says "ships to united states", then some fucking asshat from across the globe buys it and it costs more to ship it than the fucking item sold for not to mention ebay has shipping caps now so i could only put $4's to begin with on shipping
Low and behold, hidden deep within my "user account settings" i actually could only find it under the help center......is a list of countrys to prevent bids from
So i attempt to cancel the transaction, but this asshat seeing such a good deal "a free item just pay shipping" most likely won't accept such terms, so I will get stiffed with fee's from ebay and most likely paypal as well.
Obviously ebay does this shit on purpose fucking asshats, they don't even let you email them apparently, u gotta call them up and im sure ill be presented with someone from china that speaks russian with an italian accent
            
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Re: Ebay Sucks! [Re: koraks]
#14028890 - 02/26/11 03:29 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Re: Ebay Sucks! [Re: koraks]
#14028926 - 02/26/11 03:51 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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The way you make money on ebay, or pretty much any site like alibaba or tradekey, etc, is that you have to know all those stupid things like that and set it up perfectly to ensure you don't get fucked like everyone else. Like for that situation you probably said ships to US but forgot to exclude shipping to other countries or something (although ebay has definitely glitched on shit like that before). If you are including shipping to other countries and you have too restrictive of shipping caps on you shouldn't go with a fixed shipping price.
I wouldn't be surprised if ebay just fucked you over though, once a buyer had a dispute with me and ebay didn't even show that I had a new message (in my email or even in my ebay account) so I almost missed it entirely, then we kept sending messages back and forth but ebay wouldn't send em-seriously I would send it out like three times just to make sure and still they wouldn't get it. Finally we just communicated through paypal, but I still had to wait out the negative feedback
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makaveli8x8
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well all i know is i clicked on list item, clicked simple, and down at the bottom it clearly says ships to united states, and below that it says click here to add more destinations, so its completely fucked up that someone outside of that area got to bid on my item
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There is no protection for sellers on ebay/paypal. It's all about making the buyer happy. I lost a dispute on paypal and about $1000. When some asshat in asia used a stolen debit card to buy an item from me. A few days after I shipped my funds were locked and then a month of their pointless feedback just to have the transaction void - and me out of my product
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Re: Ebay Sucks! [Re: JT] 1
#14029023 - 02/26/11 05:51 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I'm always pissed off with buyers, always claiming their item never came and such bullshit to get refunds.
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makaveli8x8 said: and im sure ill be presented with someone from china that speaks russian with an italian accent

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Re: Ebay Sucks! [Re: Eshu]
#14029332 - 02/26/11 08:48 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Eshu said:
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makaveli8x8 said: and im sure ill be presented with someone from china that speaks russian with an italian accent


hahah, same, just try alibaba if you think ebay's bad though dude, seriously that shit's crazy "You want buy crack cocaines!, hundreds percentage purest we sells!!!!" I was considering trying to find a good supplier of led ufo lights on alibaba, because I have had such good results with them for weed versus hps or cfl I think they will probably continue to grow in demand, and now I get like ten messages a day about it,
one dude even sent me pictures of his fuckin sweatshop! that was some crazy shit
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You used to be able to make a nice living on eBay, one that was more lucrative than any normal legal professian short of CEO or SFO of a major corporation.
It was actually fun until they made the bidders name anonymous (cut revenue to about 1/4 what it was because bidders didn't know if you were shilling), made no negatives for buyers (increased no-pay transactions to roughly 1 in 5 up from 1 in 100 or so, and extended the PayPal renege period to 90 days (increased fraud by buyers to about 3 out of every 20 transactions), but left the FB period at 60 days. Last but not least is the 21 day holds on all CC purchases...
If your item is small, under a pound, just send it Int'l first class, just a little extra paperwork to fill out. As far as PayPal's seller protection, don't worry about it- I can say from experience there is NO PROTECTION at all, even on domestic transactions if the buyer pays with a credit card!
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i am not sure but I remember specifically making sure no one but people in the US could buy what i sold. I don't think it occured to me that I shouldn't expect my fixed shipping rate and price to deter me as i have bought plenty of things at really low rates....
i bought a chinese pc remote for 5.25 cents SHIPPED FROM CHINA, thats the total including shipping. it came fast as hell too.
its perfect, its cheap, it meets my needs, and thats what it cost total shipped to my door.
i also fail to see why you can't demand they take shipping insurance or at least figure it into the cost, and i don;t know if you have to tell them if you buy it for them, ya know? cover your ass, that's what i am saying. if the chinese can sell me an original product they manufacture to my door at that price, Walmart has a run for their money.
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nice1
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I agree - its a fucking joke...
They restricted me to £1 for recorded delivery that actually costs £2.50 and if you don't get the recorded delivery then the buyer can just rip you off an ebay automatically credits them the payment back 
So by the time I pay my insertion fee, final value fee and paypal fee and additional postage cost I cannot charge for - I lose £1 on the item I sell.
Needless to say I decided to just give away the rest of my junk I was going to sell. Theres tons of idiots on there as well that havn't figured out they are losing money through all the hidden fees so they still sell their shit at a loss bringing down the sale price for everyone else that did bother to add it up first.
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Re: Ebay Sucks! [Re: nice1]
#14029578 - 02/26/11 09:54 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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i'm not surprised they instituted the shipping charge. there were a lot of idiots that would list little things with like $30 shipping. instead of just letting the retard buyers get weeded out/frauds reported though, they put in ANOTHER plan to protect buyers while screwing over sellers.
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nice1
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Re: Ebay Sucks! [Re: JT]
#14029736 - 02/26/11 10:38 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Its unreasonable though to have a limit of £1 when the UK postal service charges £2.50 and you have to buy the jiffy bag to post the item in. No problem with a limit but they could of bother to look at the actual cost first. 
Realistically though if the buyer buys without looking at the shipping then who is the idiot? Its not the seller IMO - if you buy stuff on a whim without looking at the agreement and price of item + delivery then you are the stupid one.
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Re: Ebay Sucks! [Re: nice1]
#14029936 - 02/26/11 11:20 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Why don't you just increase the price by 1.50 pounds?
When I sell I always do "free shipping", but really just factor the shipping price into the regular price and it works pretty well.
I think ebay does increase visibility for free shipping and honestly IDK if people are dumb or what but I can usually make more overall offering free shipping than people who have say a five dollar shipping charge.
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