increase in scams and sellers not sending items | Buying

btecau · 2026-05-17T06:03:55.179000Z

Hi Allof late I am finding the eBay platform seems to have an increase of bad seller behaviour and scamsof the last 6 transactions i have made on the platform, 2 went through without issue where i purchased the item and they dispatched and it arrived intact.one arrived faulty so they sent out replacements, then wanted me to go to the post office and return the faulty items at my expense and then wanted to "fix me up outside ebay" I ended up contacting ebay to get a return label generated so it could go back properly so that the seller can throw the faulty products into his bin or more likely sell them to someone else.one seller closed his account 2 days after i purchased the hardware and never shipped it another one after about a week of waiting to dispatch the product I had to chase them up for to get a tracking number. and the other one that is one of the most expensive being over $1000 has not shipped the product in a week despite their listing saying they dispatch within 3 business days. so it should have been dispatched beginning of last week. so i reached out to them for the tracking number and got no reply. reached out again on friday again no response. and the delivery date is expected tomorrow. last lot of things i purchased where cisco phones and i had some negitive experiences there too, where i purchased 5 devices and he sent 1, didn't reply to communications so i ended up being forced to raise a dispute with ebay. he then ignored ebay until they where forced to step in. I then left negative feedback and he then successfully had that removed. I then had to reach out to ebay to get the feedback reinstated because it was accurate. so given most recent experiences on the platform have been sub par why is the platform going this way? it used to be a platform where had reasonable confidence that if I buy something from a seller with high feedback score i could reasonably expect a smooth transaction and any issues would normally be postage related. now its a platform where a large number of sellers act in bad faith to game the system eg using "buyer canceled the order" to bypass penalties for failures on their part. its now at the point where i am actually second guessing if i even use the platform moving forward or if i should call the platform scambay and move on.

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