topic Re: Ebay scam BEAWARE in Selling

Ebay scam BEAWARE

bradandnancyau — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 01:57:17 GMT

There is a scam that I have been burnt with and ebay is a part of.

We sold am item to the US from Australia, the purchaser paid surface shipping, (8 weeks), Australia Post doesn't offer tracking at this cost, buyer tells ebay hasn't been recieved, ebay givens them their money back and back charges you. I have proof of postage, reciept & photo of item after stamps etc affixed, but ebay didn't give a rats.

eaby customer service runs from scripts and when you say something not on the script, or prove them wrong, they ignore you.

SO BE AWARE DO NOT SHIP ANYTHIG WITHOUT TRACKING NUMBER, EVEN IF YOU LOSS THE SALE

EBAY DOES NOT CARE WHAT YOUR HISTORY IS, YOU ARE IN THE WRONG

Re: Ebay scam BEAWARE

joethenuts — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 02:10:11 GMT

how is ebay part of the scam , ebay states must have tracking or signature , for proof otherwise buyer has the right of way. sometimes they might let you go for 1 time only, but thats there policy , no tracking or signature, own risk.

Re: Ebay scam BEAWARE

digupatin — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 02:24:54 GMT

While tracking may not be available on surface shipping Insurance on surface shipping is and the receipt for that if not acceptable to eBay would have covered you for any loss via AP.

No scam here.

Re: Ebay scam BEAWARE

lyndal1838 — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 02:29:55 GMT

Paypal does not and never has offered protection for buyers or sellers on items shipped via surface mail.....the time it takes to arrive at it's destination is too long.

If you wanted seller protection you needed to use a qualifying shipping method and that is not surface mail.

Re: Ebay scam BEAWARE

bradandnancyau — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 02:57:02 GMT

But if the buyer doesnt pay for it why should the seller have to be further out of pocket?

Its a scam because there is nothing from stopping the buyer doing it repeatably is there?

Re: Ebay scam BEAWARE

bradandnancyau — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 02:57:28 GMT

But if the buyer doesnt pay for it why should the seller have to be further out of pocket?

Re: Ebay scam BEAWARE

bradandnancyau — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 02:58:42 GMT

But if the buyer doesnt pay for it why should the seller have to be further out of pocket? Buyers can keep getting goods for free and ebay doesnt care one toss

Re: Ebay scam BEAWARE

bradandnancyau — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 02:59:57 GMT

Where does ebay state that? Have bought & sold stuff since 2002 and never had a problem

Re: Ebay scam BEAWARE

lyndal1838 — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 03:08:09 GMT

@bradandnancyau wrote:
But if the buyer doesnt pay for it why should the seller have to be further out of pocket?

The buyer should not be given a choice. List your items with a qualifying postage method if you want seller protection...and that is certainly not surface mail for overseas buyers.

The buyer can only choose from the postage choices given by the seller.

Re: Ebay scam BEAWARE

247newdeals — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 03:30:43 GMT

@bradandnancyau wrote:
Where does ebay state that? Have bought & sold stuff since 2002 and never had a problem

If you have been selling items since 2002 you must realise some items will eventually go missing so you allow for that on small sales and a small amount of the profit from each sale goes to cover loses and that is the same for any business be it online or B+M. Larger sales you cover yourself by requiring tracking which the buyer pays for.

When I sold before I offered allmy stuff for overseas purchase all with tracking I can not remember the exact price but I think postage to the US cost about $28 the way I did it and I use to get people purchasing $10 items and pay the postage of course the 10% ebay charge will be a bit of a killer had a quick look and looks like it would cost about $40/$41 with about $6 fees from ebay/paypal now so for me I reckon it will not be worth selling overseas but I may put 1 or 2 items up later on.

Re: Ebay scam BEAWARE

digupatin — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 03:55:39 GMT

If you don't want to pay for insurance or tracking you have 3 options.

1) Don't sell on line, or make all sales pick up only.

2) Add the price of postage and tracking into your selling price.

3) Cross your fingers that the item doesn't go astray and that the buyer is honest.

Why should eBay care, they are only providing a platform to introduce buyers to sellers, they get approximately 10% for this.

Re: Ebay scam BEAWARE

bradandnancyau — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 04:27:57 GMT

Ebay put the postage into the total at the surface rate with no insurance or tracking, buyer paid for it as soon as it was over.

I had photos os the reciept and the item being posted, ebay didnt care

Re: Ebay scam BEAWARE

bradandnancyau — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 04:32:07 GMT

So after doing it for 13 years I have been doing it wrong?

How do you add the price in when you dont know where it is being shipped to? Thats a dumb statement.

What ever happened to buyer beware?

I have a 100% feedback.

No what I am mad about is that ebay didnt even what to know what had happened, they just decided to give the buyer the money back, ebay put the shipping pric onto the purchase price, thats what the buyer paid for, they stuffed up there and didnt even want to discuss it.

Re: Ebay scam BEAWARE

lyndal1838 — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 04:47:14 GMT

Ebay doesn't set the postage....that is up to the seller to either have flat rate or calculated postage.

Re: Ebay scam BEAWARE

imastawka — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 04:58:43 GMT

So after doing it for 13 years I have been doing it wrong?

49 fb as a seller in 13 years is hardly experienced IMO

You need to stop selling o'seas if you can't figure it out

I also noticed a fb that said the APost tracking didn't work

If you just drop them in the red box, that's not tracking.

They need to be lodged over the counter.

So many rules have been implemented in those 13 years,

You need to read up on them apparently

I'll repeat what others have said - no scam here

Re: Ebay scam BEAWARE

davewil1964 — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 05:05:18 GMT

Or "International buyers please reqest a shiping price before purchasing" in your description or payment conditions (neither of which will probably be read) and don't automaticall yy post international.

That way they have to contact seller for pricing before they can buy.

Ps: I didn't think AP offered surface mail any more?

Re: Ebay scam BEAWARE

bradandnancyau — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 07:03:10 GMT

Well apparently you have never posted overseas, and if you had read my post you would have seen that is said I photo of the reciept and of the parcel with postage and all the stickers on it,, ebay stuffed up, they adised the buyer that the shipping was $29.70 for air which it was not, see the attachement, but because of ebays stuff up, yes your employer I am expected to pay, well I know one thing, no two things, one they will never get a cent and two I will bad mouth them every day untill they wake up to themselves and stop treating people with contempt

Re: Ebay scam BEAWARE

bradandnancyau — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 05:12:14 GMT

No one reads that information, I have sold items that have required trucks to pick up and had people ask for posting.

Yes they do offer it.

ebay put a price of the shipping into the add, which was incorrect, which we never picked up on and unfortunatly I can attach a screen shot of it, but will put on the facebook page

Re: Ebay scam BEAWARE

bradandnancyau — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 05:14:05 GMT

Incorrect, ebay puts postage into the add and into the final price once the austion has finished, I have screen shots of both these deatils but cant put them on here, will put themn onto the ebay Facebook page

Re: Ebay scam BEAWARE

imastawka — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 07:03:54 GMT

Well apparently you have never posted overseas, and if you had read my post you would have seen that is said I photo of the reciept and of the parcel with postage and all the stickers on it,

Yeah, thanks for that! I did read your post.

YOU DIDN'T READ MINE THOUGH!!!

I said -

I also noticed a fb that said the APost tracking didn't work

If you just drop them in the red box, that's not tracking.

They need to be lodged over the counter.

which meant I was referring to feedback that had been received 6 months

ago.

I was trying to help you, but now.............

Happy New Year....not