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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 1039767, member: 27832&quot;]I sold hundreds of items on eBay, some of it electronics going in the low to mid-four figures. I stopped a few years ago. Here&#039;s why I wouldn&#039;t think of trying it again.</p><p><br /></p><p>The last large item I tried to sell was a nice Nikon DSLR (for a friend). Closing price was around $1.6K. We got PayPal payment immediately, then -- within about an hour -- an &quot;item was not shipped&quot; complaint, with the PayPal money frozen. Then, a couple of hours later, an apology from the buyer, and confirmation from PayPal that the payment was clear and we should go ahead and ship. We did, to the confirmed address listed in the PayPal payment, with tracking.</p><p><br /></p><p>We watched the tracking as the camera went to the Texas address, then raised an exception -- &quot;recipient has moved; package being rerouted to new address.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Suspicious because of the early silliness, I called PayPal to verify the terms of their Seller Protection Policy. It was as I feared -- if the package doesn&#039;t get DELIVERED to the confirmed address, you get no protection, even if you SENT it to the confirmed address. They recommended that we recall the package, and we did, eating nearly $60 in packaging and shipping costs. (My friend had insisted on using a third-party UPS store, which socked him on both packaging and shipping.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s what I learned:</p><p><br /></p><p>PayPal&#039;s seller protection is next to worthless. I followed their policy to the letter, but if I hadn&#039;t recalled the package, the &quot;buyer&quot; could have said &quot;I never received it&quot;, PayPal would say &quot;prove that it went to the confirmed address&quot;, and I would&#039;ve been out $1.6K.</p><p><br /></p><p>With eBay&#039;s new feedback policies, there is no way to tell who&#039;s going to pull this sort of thing. Sellers can ONLY leave <i>positive</i> feedback -- had I fallen for this scam, I wouldn&#039;t even have had the option of leaving negative <i>or even neutral</i> feedback!</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s no way I would consider trying to sell a high-ticket item on eBay any more. It&#039;s just too scammer-friendly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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