I sold an item but my money is on hold! I need it to send and I NEED it before I send the item! Help

[fadab_0]

Ok so someone bought an Irma from my store! Great, however my item is made of order and I need the money (that's on hold in PayPal) to make the item and send it! PLEASE HELP! I have so many orders to make and I'm being held back 21 days to make the order my amazing buyers need!

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I thought it was an ermahgerd!

[lm-entertainment]

sadly stawks, those designer sneakers the OP sold were chinese fakes. the authentic ones go for 3 or more times those prices. 

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@lm-entertainment wrote:

sadly stawks, those designer sneakers the OP sold were chinese fakes. the authentic ones go for 3 or more times those prices. 

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I wonder if that's why they ended the rest of their listings? They've been caught out? I wonder if the OP knows they could face huge fines for selling fakes.

[lm-entertainment]

sounds very likely tippy! :] i think they would know.. but by the looks of it, they're a asia-based seller with their location set as "australia" for convenience. either that or drop-shipping.

there's big money in the fake sneaker game (much like any industry where high-priced items are replicated) but they still charge huge prices for these fakes, unlike other industries where the fakes are easy to spot by the price. sadly, as i'm sure you're well aware, it's the unsuspecting buyers that end up getting ripped off as they think they've found a bargain. 

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It's generally newer or low feedback buyers that get caught. Scammers like this rely on those people. The buyers have always been under the impression that eBay is the place for bargains, which couldn't be further from the truth these days. Sure, there are still some bargains to be had, but a lot of stuff sells for retail prices these days. They see the bargain price, assume eBay is where you get bargains, so snap it up. Then when it all goes pear shaped, they don't realise they can get a refund. They're then either without an item or got a dodgy one and the scam seller is laughing all the way to the bank.

It was surprising how many buyers got caught out with those 4 hour Wednesday night sales that ebay ran last month. I was shaking my head at the "super bargains" they had on offer. Thousands of items selling out within minutes of being advertised because eBay stated they were 70+% off. No, that seller always sells them for that price. You only had to go through their history to see that, so sucked in to those that jumped in. Probably the only real bargain I saw out of all of them was Micro$oft had Samsung laptops on a really good sale. Their normal selling price was more than double. The price went back up after the 1 hour sale.

[lyndal1838]

The first night of that Wednesday night specials was excellent but after that the items were not the sort of things that would sell like hot cakes without the ebay hype....except for the laptop.

I found it very disappointing.

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One that I recall was the doonas. All sizes were the same price, maximum of 3. People were snapping them up. The seller made a killing. They were listed at the same price they always have them for and after the hour was up, they relisted at the same price. EBay put the hype on by saying things like 70% off, when they weren't, they were the same price all the time. Whoever was selling the Playstations actually put the price up, looking at previous sales. 

I want to know how those sellers were selected. Not all of them were in Australia, which I found interesting. They all did well for themselves. One seller made $100,000 in 15 minutes. Not bad! Even a doctor can't do that!