Buying and Selling on eBay: Tips, Tricks, Problems & Questions - Page 154

Bottom line most of you sellers work your balls off for every listing. That hard work should, in an ideal sense, work out to a mutually beneficial transaction where the seller gets rewarded for his hard work and the buyer gets the item he wanted.

I do not blame VLSI for venting his frustration. Nothing is worse than seeing 1 hour hard labor (listing shirt, taking pics and careful measurements etc...) get flushed down the toilet by some whiney crybaby buyer who did not bother to check measurements. I am 100% on VLSI's side here. It is not like he screwed up or had an honest misunderstanding with his buyer. The buyer was a selfish and inconsiderate asshole who refused to take responsibility or man up to his mistake.

In reality, the buyer should have had the courtesy to ask the seller if he may return the shirt for a partial refund. Partial refund means covering the seller's eBay expenses and the seller postage costs (where buyer has to also pay for return postage).

I have done this before to a seller when I made a slight error. I emailed the seller explaining my mistake, highlighting I expected nothing from the seller given he covered his end, but I would in the event of a return cover all his expenses deemed out of pocket. I ended up getting around an 85% full refund and seller was quite happy to do this. Seller relisted and sold the item a week later for a little more than when I won the auction. I still deal with this seller today and he is more than happy to do "off eBay record" transactions. When I proposed the return he immediately said he thought I was an awesome buyer and he would be more than happy to proceed.

Bottom line, Sellers have to treat Buyers well, and Buyers have to treat Sellers well. The eBay world would be a much better place if this was observed.

Instead we have sellers shitting bricks with every transaction and a non zero percentage of buyers looking to exploit any loophole they can. At least 90% of buyers are fine, shame about the 5 - 10% of aholes out there.

Thanks everyone for the support. Realistically I shouldn't be calling anyone names, but I vent here so that I remain cordial in all dealings with the buyer. I've been called out before in this thread for being very blunt and forward about how I do business. It's just a hobby for me, so sucking up and walking on eggshells just isn't how I operate. If it had been my mistake though, I would have gone out of pocket to fix it. I think everyone has had the chance to say their piece, so let's move on and help the next seller with an issue

As an aside, besides for the razor thin margins, we often sell things at a huge loss too (and then pay a huge final value fee to boot). Carry on.

You 99% wont get feedback removed. Even if you are 100% right and the other person lied, ebay in my experience wont remove it. Feedback is their opinion on the transaction and from what I am "told" there are legal ramifications "1st amendment" if they choose what to remove and what not to remove. The only way to get it removed is if it breaks one of the rules which are posted. If they put personal info in, use curse words, try to circumvent the system, etc.

 

I had one person leave feedback with his email in it saying "contact me at xxxx before you buy from this scumbag". Obviously that one got removed

 

The best thing you can do is in your reply, put the tracking number of the package. That said, it is actually against the rules to have the tracking number in feedback, BUT the other person is going to have to check that you left a reply to their feedback and then complain to ebay. This is a simple easy way for other buyers to see you use tracking, shipped and if they want to check, see that it was delivered.

 

hmmm... why would anyone ever sell at a loss, especially a HUGE loss  Might want to start consigning stuff

PRO TIP: Hey guys don't forget. 

 

If you are running 10 day Thu-Sun Auctions, this week is the last Thursday to proceed and schedule as usual. For the next two weeks you may want to start scheduling them for an hour earlier start to compensate for Daylight Savings Time for items ending on March 10th or later. Depending on the time you choose to end them, you may end up with some late auctions. It's not a huge deal, but if you like to stay up and watch them all end (like I do)....

 

 

+1

 

But don't ask me. I'm not allowed to consign without a license.

I always forget this. Thank you!

Me too, but I marked my outlook calendar last year for this year. 

Had stuff at a very low starting bid to generate activity, but still closed at a loss.

 

My faith in humanity has been restored! Congratulations. I'll miss the douchebag's email attempts at getting his $50 back.

I'm always baffled why an item will get hardly any interest/watchers and end with no bids after ten days.....but then this happens only a few hours after relisting....

 

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Edited by capnwes - 2/18/13 at 8:37am

Ok, so tell me another power seller in here besides me has developed Tennis Elbow from a packing tape dispenser. Had to start cutting the tape with scissors to avoid the discomfort.

I cant say Im with you. Though my fingers have bled from typing!