Originally Posted by
DaveWC
I sold a lot of camera equipment on ebay and that's tagged as a potentially fraudulent item so they would always hold onto the customer's money regardless of my 100% positive feedback. So I'd sell the good, paypal would tell me the money was received but would hold onto it & tell me to ship. I'd ship and paypal wouldn't release the money until the customer gave positive feedback. If they were slow at giving feedback, or just didn't bother, I'd have to either wait another 2 weeks or convince paypal that the goods were signed for by the customer (which is much easier to do if you are a U.S. vendor). Overall it is a brutal system.
That's a hoot! They treat YOU like you're a crook, but yet, you're the one who is most likely to be robbed by a fraudulent buyer, enabled by Ebay's dysfunctional policies. Ebay has become the world's biggest grab-bag for free electronics/designer merchandise.
I would never sell anything of value on Ebay anymore. All a buyer has to do is claim that the item you sent is SNAD [Significantly Not As Described], and send you back their old broken one with delivery confirmation...or take a needed part out of yours and replace it with an old broken part...or send you back a brick....and as long as they have delivery confirmation, Ebay will snatch back their payment from you and refund them. Happens EVERY day. It's insanity. And that's just the tip of the iceberg- there are a million other scams.
Us former sellers have a saying: "Don't sell anything on Ebay that you can't afford to give away".