Trusting, or not, on ebay

It's better to complete the first transaction within eBay, and then deal with the seller through other channels, to keep from violating your user agreement. If you pay via PayPal, you will get their email address as a matter of course.

 

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If the seller’s eBay name matches the name of their actual store, and the store name is in the public domain, how is that breaking any agreements? Providing of course that the transaction and communications take place outside eBay. It seems that eBay has become a source of cheap advertising for coins. Even with fees it’s still a winning proposition for someone like myself who doesn’t have a BandM store. But for someone who already has overhead and then to add the eBay fees on top of that, it’s a different equation. It would explain why so many listings are way above retail.

 

Because that's how they wrote the user agreement? What you described is explicitly against the rules.

Here's an excerpt from the eBay User Agreement:

Buyers and sellers can’t:

• Engage in any action with a user on the site designed to complete or facilitate a transaction outside of eBay
• Share or request direct contact information prior to completing a sale
  • Exception: Sellers may opt to provide their phone number as part of the Ask a Seller a Question (ASQ) function to facilitate a sale on eBay
• In any communications with another eBay member, refer to or promote external websites that facilitate sales outside of eBay or other businesses
• Use any user information to contact another member to buy or sell off eBay
• List an item and then offer additional identical or related items for sale outside of eBay
• Offer catalogs or other items that are used to order items directly outside of eBay
• Host item descriptions or images outside of eBay

 

Here is the actual coin, please pardon my photos. In my limited experience and eyesight, I think it’s the same coin.

 

Rats.

I've had other sellers steal my images before. In the old days, people would sometimes be lazy enough to just copy an image URL instead of saving a copy of the image. THAT led to some fun times, since the person hosting the image could change it to whatever they wanted.

I'm pretty sure I still run across listings that have images inside the description, which I assume are hosted externally to eBay. If nothing else, the old-style third-party view counters worked that way. I'll try to remember to see what the situation is now.