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Have you tried applying for County Medical Services? If you are in the US, its a good place to file a claim before declaring bankruptcy over medical costs. You have to do it quick though.
Sometimes interactions like this are your only insight into whether a potential buyer is unreasonable or not, meaning it is prime time to block them.
I used to collect magazines and have had luck selling them, but when it comes to “collectors items” its very frustrating how fussy people are about condition of them. I doubt this applies to hobby magazines, but I have had more returns and complaints from the people that buy old mid century magazines. Picky bunch just like comic book collectors. I now avoid buying them unless its for dirt cheap.
Weird. I just refused a return request that was 32 days old with no problems.
I use GSP, but have seen long delays of up to 2 months even just to Canada. Stuff is getting to the destination just taking a long time.
I’ve had this happen. Someone kept buying the same item (like a 5 dollar item), payment went through, then ebay said don’t ship it. The person “bought” the item 5 times. More annoying than anything else.
Yeah once I was selling a car online and was approached with a similar scam– some guy wanted to buy my car from overseas by paying 1.5 x the price. He would wire me money, then when it hit my account, a car pickup service would put it on a ship to overseas. The other shoe to drop was that the wire would be rescinded as a “mistake” 7-10 days after it was sent. This was a mid 90s ford explorer. Nobody needs that car badly.
I wouldn’t pass along the information as a seller and wouldn’t ask as a buyer unless it was a family keepsake or lost treasure or something. In the US at least, there are laws (which vary from place to place) guarding the privacy of buying and selling arrangements and I have no interest in putting myself in the middle. Its just a piece of jewelry. Leave it be.
Yeah, I am just discovering also that I don’t want to offer free shipping on an item as when it comes to returns (which I had set as buyer always pays), they can still falsely claim the item is not as described and then I automatically end up eating the postage cost without the ability to dispute it. Can anyone more experienced than me elaborate on this process? I’ve been struggling with it myself. I’ve been getting people who buy new, factory sealed items falsely claiming the items are “used” etc. I at least want to recoup my shipping costs and make them pay for the return.
I wonder if they get people who file returns because the 90% of bosoms weren’t included as shown in the photos 🙂
I just had this happen for the first time a couple weeks ago. I think it was a kid or at least judging by the behavior it was. He bought items from me, then immediately sent messages with tons of profanity criticizing my listings and prices (can’t be too bad if he bought them!?). I informed ebay and cancelled the order, banned them, then 2 hours later another user buys the same items from another account with 1 feedback on it in the same small town. I reported them and cancelled that order. Ebay seems to have locked both those accounts.
Sorry if this is thread hijacking, but what is the best way to keep the postage cost when it is the buyer’s responsibility? Send a partial refund on paypal? I changed my settings recently to “30 days, buyer pays return postage”, this being the case, are returns automatically paid for by the customer or do they try to charge it to me?
One of the positives of ebay customer service being email only is you can just send them a email and say I am reporting suspected fraud– here are the details. The rest is on them. I just did this recently. I realize ebay may likely do nothing at all, but then at least it makes them have to acknowledge receiving information for which at some point they could be held responsible for. Unfortunately, major financial institutions usually don’t get active until they get caught sitting on their hands about criminal activity (a lawsuit, a huge criminal enterprise is uncovered, a investigative news story). I’ve been told by friends in law enforcement that this is the best thing to do. You have a paper trail.
Very significant delays from my experience– tracking, scanning in and delivery are all 2-3 times as long as usual (first class is the worst). Buyers are mostly understanding, and I mention the delays in a dispatch email. I’ve also had Fedex items take weeks. Particularly Smartpost I have stopped using at all because it was taking so long. It seems to me Fedex is being more transparent about the problems than USPS, who still claims they are only minimally effected in transit times. I am mailing some supplies to my parents one state over, and First class takes about 10 days, Priority about 5-7 days fairly routinely.
