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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsden, post: 1704636, member: 38010&quot;]For my part, I&#039;ve been buying and selling on eBay since 1999 and troubles were few and far between until the past couple of years.&nbsp; I&#039;ve sold several items in the $20K range too.&nbsp; The worst that would happen was non-paying bozos who were playing with their parents&#039; computers. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Nowadays it&#039;s well-known that (as another member observed) eBay is really a sale-on-approval venue and I&#039;ve had buyers of big-ticket items return them for no reason except that they changed their minds or misread the listing, weeks after the sale, and sellers have to refund the purchase price (which often includes shipping) no questions asked.&nbsp; This is separate from scammers who practice feedback extortion and without any way of rating buyers you are at the mercy of the worst of the worst.&nbsp; EBay lets you filter out only those who [TABLE=&quot;width: 100%&quot;]</p><p>[TR]</p><p>[TD]<i>&quot;Have received <b>2 Unpaid Item strike</b>(s) <b>within 1 Month</b> (or more)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;</i></p><p>[/TD]</p><p>&nbsp;[/TR]</p><p>&nbsp;[TR]</p><p>&nbsp;[TD]or[/TD]</p><p>&nbsp;[/TR]</p><p>&nbsp;[TR]</p><p>&nbsp;[TD]<i>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;Have a<b> feedback score of -1 or lower</b>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;</i></p><p><i></i>[/TD]</p><p>[/TR]</p><p>[/TABLE]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>which is an extremely low bar, set to enable scammers and eBay fees for repeat listings.&nbsp; Negative One or Lower???&nbsp; Who are they kidding?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not willing to risk my 14-year 100% feedback rating on these bozos, so I created a second account which I use for most things now.&nbsp; But with the &#039;no-questions-asked 45-day return&#039; policy, endless scamming on high-dollar items, and pointlessness of selling small-ticket items which cost more in fees and time than they&#039;re worth, I&#039;m just giving more things away instead of selling them.&nbsp; Not worth the hassle. </p><p><br /></p><p>It would be a different game if we had some way of rating buyers and weeding out scammers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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