I used to sell a lot of various stuff on eBay. Mostly to buy food, at the time. Art glass, etc. I learned to say no returns and take lots of pictures, with defects clearly marked. I got into a little chat with someone who mostly sold dishes, she said a common scam was to report dishes broken, provide a picture of a broken dish, and get a refund - when she had packed stuff so it would have had to be unpacked to get broken. After a couple of times she could see they were using the same picture. I stopped selling on eBay because I was not a high volume store, and when they switched away from Paypal the fees were not smaller, and I would have to wait to get my money and eBay also had direct access to my bank account, with automatic clawback of money if a customer complained. Not worth the trouble for little sellers like me. I sold a lot of art glass, coins, and glass Christmas ornaments, it was fun while it lasted. Except for having to explain to someone what regions meant for DVDs. Even though I and eBay were were quite explicit about that in descriptions. Yeah the camera guy seems skeevy.
Yea I hit a lot of those walls too when I was ebaying and amazon years ago. And there's totally a legitimate place for selling for parts and no returns. But the guy above is not doing that. And it's clearly a whole class of activity. I could easily do this myself and ebay would totally side with me and delete negative reviews. Most people play fair in my experience, but objectively crime does pay.
I sold DVDs, games, toys, phones, books, and now cameras. Paypal works on ebay again. It was never fun then, it felt sad and hurtful, like I was being picked over by rich vultures. This time it was a little better, till i learned about texas foodcard logic and the legal fraud.
I'm so tired. Down to my marrow. The actual AI overlords (not banker turnkey tyranny chatbots) can't come soon enough.
I am truly sorry you have/had such bad experience. I never sold anything so complicated. Well maybe the coins and a few model train items. I got a little book and learned to grade coins, model trains were easy, I sold pins for someone else, all stuff I could just do a search in the sold section and price accordingly. I liked the instant gratification - list, bought, paid, mailed the same day. Does Paypal give you the money immediately? Maybe I will try again, I just need a supply of little boxes, Dollar Tree used to be good for that on Wednesdays and Thursdays when they restocked.
Now to look up Texas foodcard logic! I am sorry you are so tired. I am 79, some days I am weary to my bones, other days I am grateful for all the experiences I have had. Hope to have more.
I appreciate the kind words and no ebay doesn't pay super fast. It goes ebay paypal bank. It only pays fast if you sorta schedule it and plan your listings so that the day of bank deposits happen the day after sales complete. My funding cycle is weekly monthly scale so the speed is fine with me. I have no use for cash, I barely leave this room.
Basically any money i might make from trying to ebay for profit would be deducted from my foodcard benefits, and if i make more than 5 grand gross I'm instantly disqualified regardless of where that money goes. 10,000$ medical bill? Student loan? Too bad, shoulda bought rice instead pleb.
They should just put "Fuck you, pay me." on the flag.
I used to sell a lot of various stuff on eBay. Mostly to buy food, at the time. Art glass, etc. I learned to say no returns and take lots of pictures, with defects clearly marked. I got into a little chat with someone who mostly sold dishes, she said a common scam was to report dishes broken, provide a picture of a broken dish, and get a refund - when she had packed stuff so it would have had to be unpacked to get broken. After a couple of times she could see they were using the same picture. I stopped selling on eBay because I was not a high volume store, and when they switched away from Paypal the fees were not smaller, and I would have to wait to get my money and eBay also had direct access to my bank account, with automatic clawback of money if a customer complained. Not worth the trouble for little sellers like me. I sold a lot of art glass, coins, and glass Christmas ornaments, it was fun while it lasted. Except for having to explain to someone what regions meant for DVDs. Even though I and eBay were were quite explicit about that in descriptions. Yeah the camera guy seems skeevy.
Yea I hit a lot of those walls too when I was ebaying and amazon years ago. And there's totally a legitimate place for selling for parts and no returns. But the guy above is not doing that. And it's clearly a whole class of activity. I could easily do this myself and ebay would totally side with me and delete negative reviews. Most people play fair in my experience, but objectively crime does pay.
I sold DVDs, games, toys, phones, books, and now cameras. Paypal works on ebay again. It was never fun then, it felt sad and hurtful, like I was being picked over by rich vultures. This time it was a little better, till i learned about texas foodcard logic and the legal fraud.
I'm so tired. Down to my marrow. The actual AI overlords (not banker turnkey tyranny chatbots) can't come soon enough.
I am truly sorry you have/had such bad experience. I never sold anything so complicated. Well maybe the coins and a few model train items. I got a little book and learned to grade coins, model trains were easy, I sold pins for someone else, all stuff I could just do a search in the sold section and price accordingly. I liked the instant gratification - list, bought, paid, mailed the same day. Does Paypal give you the money immediately? Maybe I will try again, I just need a supply of little boxes, Dollar Tree used to be good for that on Wednesdays and Thursdays when they restocked.
Now to look up Texas foodcard logic! I am sorry you are so tired. I am 79, some days I am weary to my bones, other days I am grateful for all the experiences I have had. Hope to have more.
I appreciate the kind words and no ebay doesn't pay super fast. It goes ebay paypal bank. It only pays fast if you sorta schedule it and plan your listings so that the day of bank deposits happen the day after sales complete. My funding cycle is weekly monthly scale so the speed is fine with me. I have no use for cash, I barely leave this room.
As for the foodcard issue it's common, it's called the welfare trap. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_trap
Basically any money i might make from trying to ebay for profit would be deducted from my foodcard benefits, and if i make more than 5 grand gross I'm instantly disqualified regardless of where that money goes. 10,000$ medical bill? Student loan? Too bad, shoulda bought rice instead pleb.
They should just put "Fuck you, pay me." on the flag.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L4HHPTiZN8