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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Coinchemistry 2012, post: 2478211, member: 28107&quot;]My advice is:</p><p>(1) Use quality photographs;</p><p>(2) Always use private insurance rather than the crap they sell through eBay&#039;s printing feature or USPS (if you need recommendations PM me);</p><p>(3) You can save a lot of money by generating your postage labels online;</p><p>(4) Make sure that your terms of sale are ironclad and elaborate enough.&nbsp; If you are selling items that are expensive, make sure to use Registered Mail and state that it will increase delivery time.&nbsp; Yes, I had someone email me to wonder where their coin was three days after it shipped by Registered Mail after a tracking number had been uploaded as if I had a magic crystal ball and could see around Post Offices around the country;</p><p>(5) For higher value items, especially BINS, always quote a higher shipping rate and offer to discount it through the invoice.&nbsp; It keeps your buyer happy, but if there is a frivolous return, you can elect to keep the shipping money through eBay&#039;s new return feature (you don&#039;t want to short change yourself - you can still deduct full shipping value if you do it this way);</p><p>(6) Use eBay&#039;s bidding weed out features to limit buyers with no PayPal accounts and with two or more unpaid item strikes;</p><p>(7) Keep a separate bank account for PayPal transactions and leave only what you must in the account.&nbsp; If someone tries to rip you off and sends you an empty envelope on a return, eBay will likely side with them and PayPal will likely attempt to pull from your other accounts;</p><p>(8)&nbsp; I also keep a separate PayPal account for my buy and sell transactions.&nbsp; Even if a return is amicable (even if frivolous like returning an item because you refuse to renegotiate the agreed upon BIN price when the buyer agrees the coin is as described), PayPal will freeze the money in your PayPal account if it is above a certain dollar amount which is a PITA.&nbsp; They sometimes have difficulty unfreezing it without a two hour long phone session with the idiots at eBay and PayPal on an agreed upon return.&nbsp; As you can tell, I was bitter about at large value return (frivolous) that eBay screwed up&nbsp; Fortunately, I got through it without losing the coin or any money or an angry buyer; and</p><p>(9) If you are doing large value transactions or large volume, an eBay store (which gives final value fee discounts) may be in&nbsp; your best interest.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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