[Dr Kain]

What is up with ebay buyers lately? Is there no longer morals for the site? Do they not believe that if you buy/win an auction you have to pay for it? I had a guy buy my MIB Predaking reissue a two weeks ago and then when I sent him in the invoice asked for more pictures and decided he did not want it. On Saturday I had a person make an offer for my Transformers lot which I accepted. It is now Tuesday and I have sent them 3 invoices and 2 messages without any response. Then you get those people that will be $1000 on auctions and not actually pay for them when they win them.

What the hell is going on with this site? Why is ebay just letting people get away with doing this? Yet, because a guy in Greece has not received an item I shipped him, and the tracking number says it is still in transit, ebay is now up my ass and has put the amount he paid INCLUDING HIS SHIPPING on hold from my Paypal account to refund him if he does not get the items. WHAT THE ****?! So not only do I lose out on the $54 he paid me, the $54 worth of product, but they are also making me refund the $32 he paid for shipping even though I used that $32 to ship them to him, meaning I am losing out on double the amount he paid.

[GeekSummit]

Man, I feel you. Basically eBay is in the business of catering to ONLY the buyers and not the sellers. Plainly put, eBuyers are customers like any other... take them or leave them, let them change their minds... hell let them rip YOU off, eBay is still getting a percentage. as a seller, you are technically an employee, or self employed franchisee of ebay. By which you hold all liability of your items and shipping and any and ALL mishaps outside of the protection offerings of PayPal, that I can understand. eBay offers a platform for ANYONE to become a seller and make some extra cash, and pay fees, and have an I-9 Drawn up on your name and taxes.

As long as there are folks who need to make a little extra cash on the side... eBay will be there... Wherever there is Junk in a Trunk that needs to hit the road... eBay will be there... The demand for that platform draws in the unsuspecting supplicant to bear their home and expenses to the public in an effort to simply outsmart the present economy and feel like a wheeler dealer. Sound like a drag? That's the upside!!!

On the other hand you have the buyers... the aimless browsers, the needy collectors, the illiterate masses with an insatiable appetite for your stuff. They're everywhere, they are anybody, you have no choice basically who you are dealing with and that is the risk we take to try and make a buck. I listed nearly 100+ items just last week in an effort to dig up funds to make Christmas happen and for the most part it has been a surprisingly trouble free effort.

But then there's THAT guy... what a D¡@<. He outbids all my buyers on an item that ANYONE would have loved to have... And then like a fart on a beach... He was GONE!!!
I've sent a series of escalatingly less polite e-mails: "Hey Buddy"... "Hi There"... "Hello?"
to simply "Do you intend to pay for this item?" of course still no response. Then its not even worth pulling eBay into the mix to mediate. Their "forum" on resolutions is just about useless, their auto reply is absolutely incompetent, and then once everything is said and done... you get a survey on how you think things went. I always opt for the bottomless EXPLAIN-O-BOX.. (because I have a thing for lengthy e-mails) where I totally rip on everything that is wrong with their business practices and implied ethics. No follow up survey there.

THEN there's the neutrally imposing e-mails that you are "BELOW SELLER STANDARDS" which actually means 1 of 2 things (in my case). Either you haven't sold anything in a few weeks because your so FU@<ING disgusted with these *-Holes.. OR... your star count is less than 100% in the following fields:

•Breaking down item descriptions for MaMaw's understanding
•Sending e-mails that nobody reads
•Shipping BEFORE you are paid
•Giving honest shipping rates (I just give free shipping and eat the rest)
•OR the simple fact that some buyers don't care and Christmas Tree that entire empty rating system... why do they care? It doesn't make their rates go up!!

Yes, eBay... The Clamor to the Hammer... Playground to the greedy ignorant masses, The eHustle, I love it... There's something wrong with me.

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[PROVOST]

Sad that people do not have morals or principles to follow through with what is a legal transaction only differentiated from a brick and mortar store as it's all done online.

[ultraman zoffy]

I just sold a $13 DCUC Superman fig that apparently has the buyer scrambling to make ends meet before paying me... =\