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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;snip, post: 1142014, member: 29958&quot;]Hey all:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I was wondering if you could share with me any experiences you&#039;ve had selling at venues other than eBay/craiglist. I haven&#039;t had any bad experiences with craigslist, but I am not too keen on meeting strangers to sell items valued more than $50.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;m trying to get rid of parts of my collection that don&#039;t interest me and I&#039;ve sold about 30 items on eBay in the past 2 months. However, out of those 30 about 5 have been problem transactions that really become frustrating and have cost me a good amount of money. 4 of the 5 problem sales were with gold coins, which I think might be more prone to buyer scamming.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The 5 problems I&#039;ve had:</p><p>1) Buyer threatens not to pay unless I give him/her free express shipping</p><p>2) Canadian buyer claims the item never arrived and paypal forced a full refund. The USPS tracking has no info once the item was in canada <b>but the Canada Post</b> <b>tracking (using the same number) says the item arrived.</b> No headway with eBay yet...</p><p>3) Buyer claims a coin in sealed mint packaging has fingerprints on it (impossible) and demands a partial refund</p><p>4) Buyer actually got a coin from me at under melt value. He/she then sold it for scrap&nbsp; and claimed that the scrap dealer gave him money on only 80% of my stated gold weight. eBay/Paypal sided against me since I stupidly admitted to not having weighed the coin in one of my emails. This is because the coin was in sealed packaging and I wasn&#039;t going to open it - plus a government issued coin is not going to be underweight by 20% (foreign gold but still). Either this person is outright lying or the scrap dealer scammed him (gave him a lowball weight). Doesn&#039;t make any logical sense to turn around and sell something for less than you paid for it 3 weeks earlier...</p><p>5) This is just today and I feel like this is the last straw for me on eBay. I sold someone a coin that was PCGS certified AU55 and got lucky as the coin was bidded up above what I consider to be market value. The buyer then contacts me saying &quot;the coin is not the stated condition and is not worth what I paid so I want a partial refund&quot;. I ended up actually giving him a partial refund just to avoid negative feedback and since I doubted I would get the same amount if I relisted it. A few days later he asks for a full refund and sends the coin back. I give him a full refund and he gives me a negative feedback without ANY comment. This kills me since I have such low total feedback.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>All of this time I had an unconditional 10 day return policy.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I don&#039;t know if other people here are having similar problems...I&#039;m guessing a combination of bad economic times, the fact that I&#039;m selling gold, and that I&#039;m a new seller makes me a prime target for these people.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Sorry for the rant.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Anyway, like I said, I was wondering if you had any experience with other venues and how you feel they compare to eBay in terms of convenience, price achieved, and seller fees. One venue I&#039;m looking at right now is Teletrade. Anyone have any experience with them?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Thanks![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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