eBay sellers: WWYD

Not to the honest sellers who take the hit for e bay making tons of money every second the clock ticks. They are a monopoly and by law should be brought down to size.

 

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It seems a bit of retribution is in order. When the system fails - justice is the one thing you should always find. I'm an honest guy, and I'd honestly use the system to obtain my own if Ebay won't.

 

I noticed how a lot of people said that they do not have a lot of trust in new customers on ebay, as someone who has never purchased on ebay before do you know how I can get my rating from none to positive? Also, what do you think about customers paying with ebay gift cards?

 

also, for those with an ebay account can you please post a link to your ebay shop so I can check them out if that's ok

 

This is one of the many reasons I stopped selling on ebay and started my own website ... I feel your pain.

 

First off, I don't sell anything on eBay that I expect to do over $300 or so (though sometimes it does - darn auctions ), so my experience may not apply much.

I've always had an open door policy where I accept all bidders. In 7 years I have had to refund 5 lost (or "lost") items: one to Canada, one to Mexico, one to Israel, one to a US buyer that did a charge-back and afterwards vaguely admitted they felt that they paid too much. All of those buyers had plenty of good feedback and no red flags.

Also had to refund a pricey multi-coin purchase to Russia when he claimed it lost after a month. The guy contacted me 3 weeks after he was refunded that the package arrived and re-sent the payment. The Russian guy was a new member when he bid on my coins.
Not drawing parallels or conclusions, just saying that stereotyping or being overly cautious may actually not be good for your long term bottom line. But I guess that depends on what you sell and you guys that use eBay for higher end stuff are more prone as fraud or mail theft targets.

That being said, I would in no way go forth with the transaction that the OP posted. It's possible that it's just someone that was looking for a specific coin, found it on eBay, didn't have an account and so they used guest check out.

Possible, yes. Probable, no.

If you collect coins and magically happened upon this place called eBay where you could find hundreds of thousands of coins and equally magically never heard of it as an internet using collector, I think you'd create an actual account rather than have a one night stand with it. The logic (or lack thereof) with this is just another red flag.

 

No way would I complete that sale.

 

Perhaps he didn't want to reveal his ebay ID?

 

To get started on Ebay buy little inexpensive things from different sellers to get you some positive feed backs

 

Thank you for the advice

 

Like.

 

Rather than post a detailed response adding to the chorus here, let me just say I agree. I haven't sold more than a couple thousand dollars worth of stuff on eBay in my life, but if this happened to me, there's no way I'd go through with the transaction.

 

We all started at zero. But it's easy to get up to five or so buy buying several small items. A $20 scale, some coin display holders, a couple lower value coins and poof.