EBAY sellers beware this Christmas season.

Thanks for sharing, very useful post. I think this issue might be solved by telephone, it will take one just to call to the customer service [link to www.contacttelephonenumbers.com] .

Wow! Thanks for this heads up. I would not have thought about this.

Bump for thanks

good to know.

I would thing most people would want to be in possession of said phone before refunding....and would test it if the seal is broken

IMO ebay is dishonest. They bait and switch. Beware of buying and selling on ebay.

Same goes for any site imo. I can't tell you the amount of times I look up reviews on Amazon and people are bitching about getting fake products.

It's unfortunate we live in such a dishonest world where people really work on the up and up. I realize sometimes shit happens and things do get lost in the mail, things get broken. But there's so many cheats on both ends. I bought this mini poster one time on eBay for a show I really liked at the time. I got it and I could tell right away that the seller had printed if off their own computer instead of it being an official promo poster. I didn't know what to do. I didn't want to risk spoiling my all positive feedback by leaving negative feedback so I just swallowed the losses. It was a painful lesson to learn.

Oh, and I'm looking up perfumes for that top part.

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Reviews are so fake. Competitors bash each other with fake reviews. Customers create fake reviews if their blackmail fails.

My ebay accts been hijacked twice over ten years. I was never held accountable but still it's scary.

They try to sell hi end crap on your acct then disappear.

Why would you think they would return anything at all. The scam you describe is for retailers. eBay buyer slap a tracking number on an envelope and return an empty envelope. BAM returned item. eBay doesn't give a shit.

What the heck is Ebay?? Oh wait you mean Ebay I forgot they are still around they started to suck long ago.

Ebay is full of scams just like its owner paypal.

thats why you use craigslist, you fucking morons.... face to face and they give you cash..... who the fuck still uses eGay???


meet up at a bank or police station if you are a scared little bitch and think they will stab you.

EBAY OWNS PAYPAL NOW WHICH REALLY SUCKS!!

ebay totally sucks now. They rip off the seller and never do anything about people winning bids and then not paying. They also keep your money in paypal for weeks until you beg them to GIVE YOU YOUR OWN MONEY.....THAT YOU EARN...I am done with ebay and the Assclowns that run it....

Can attest to this.

Only ever sold one product to an American.

Got scammed, never happened to anything ive sold to a european.

What the "#¤% is wrong with your country Americans?
Will never trust a American again, lesson learned.

Hows that immigration working out for you?

About as good as it worked out for you.
The guy i sold the product to was colored, my own fault i suppose, lesson learned there to, skin color does matter.

Ebay us evil towards sellers. If you are a seller, prepare for scams galore.

People also pull this with game discs.

Example
You scratched your new ps4 game? No worries.

Buy a copy from ebay
Put your damaged copy back in the case the seller sent you and claim the item is damaged.

Here's one example.

net profit to the seller, the cost of the transaction in the red. The buyer? They get a new game disc.


Smart sellers mark their items with uv pens that are undetected unless under a uv lamp.

This way damaged claims will be thrown out.

But eBay may freeze your account, take access away to just that money or suspend you entirely in this time.

Good luck.

Hey assholes hating on America. Here is another scam

Seller is in the USA, buyer is in Europe.

1. Seller sells a nice item. Say it's a $200.00 bag. It is sold to someone in Europe.

2. Seller uses usps to track it. Not ups or fedex.

3. Item gets an American usps tracking number and sends it.

4. BUYER CLAIMS ITEM ARRIVES

puts in claim.

5. Seller disputes and provides usps tracking number which happens to only show it getting to somewhere on the east coast btw.

6. Buyer states item not received. EBAY REFUNDS THE BUYER THE FULL PRICE PLUS SHIPPING.

why does this work every time to fuxk the American seller over?

Even if the item is tracked, it ends at the port of exit out of the USA.

It means that whether or not it gets out to wherever and even delivered, it seldom ever had any tracking and does not show delivered.

This works better in countries that have no carrier deals with the usps. Italy, Greece, Spain.

And eBay every time wants happy buyers so the seller will have the money deducted from his or her paypal.

what if the seller has a zero balance in paypal?

Then your account is debited with that amount and you cannot use it until you bring it to zero balance.

Your PayPal and eBay are super linked. It is very hard now a days to create a new account.

It requires credit or debit card or a bank account and can be done, but not by most normal people.

too bad about your negative experience with selling to an American Ebayer. I sell full time on Ebay and sell things to people all over the world and have had very few problems. I avoid electronics of any sort due to scammers. Certain products do attract dishonest people. For me Ebay helps me make a comfortable income working from home. Don't be discouraged but be careful about the products you sell. Phones are completely out of the question for me. Too many horror stories.

Lots of iPad scams too where they have fake addresses you'd send to, while paying with a stolen card, then the card owner disputes. Had that happen to me 3-4 times. Scammery is rampant.

I make a good part time income on ebay and online in a few other places.
It's great being able to work and be on GLP at the same time with no boss over my shoulder ....

The few hassles that I've had are few but the freedom to do what I want while working cancels that out.

Well there you go. Your average American isn't a scammer. It's just the darkies, really. And jews.

That is all just peachy till you get a nagative comment from a buyer through no fault of your own and ebay does zero to make things right. I mean zero. They suck. I will never sell on ebay again. I used to like them but have turned to disgust with their whole negative and sucky treatment of sellers. My advice - save yourself a lot of misery and financial loss and use other sites to sell on where sellers are treated with respect. Ebay sucks.

Ebay sucks. They treat sellers like dirt as soon as you have a problem. They really suck.

I dislike eBay. Make sure you have a secure pass word. Helps to change it often.

Beware of Sellers of Panda fake coins !!

Even Ebay screws with you, I got a message offer from them that if I sold a phone I would get a ebay gift certificate. I sold my phone in the window of time according to exact instructions, I never got my gift certificate, but I got my account frozen for selling suspicious stuff, (supposedly phones get you on some watch list?) I never sold anything of mine there again.