Any Ebay sellers on here?

[BigMotherTucker]

I bought myself a new iMac Monday (the big boy 27") and attempted to sell my year old 21" on ebay after asking everyone I knew if they happened to be interested. Anyway, like I said... I listed it on Ebay and it "sold" within the first 30mins. The guy buys it, then sends me a message asking what my return policy is... I reply that just like my listing says, its NO RETURNS... Im not bestbuy. He then askes how much to ship to Brazil. I reply, my listing clearly says NO INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING. I tell him I'm cancelling the sale and he doesn't reply. I re-list my iMac. It sells again within 30mins. The guy messages me immediately telling me he is in DC and the money will hit my account the next day... It doesn't. He says well... Ship it anyway, itll show up eventually. I basically reply - Ummm.... No. He says, no thats how it works, as soon as I ship it the money will magically appear. Oooooook.... He's off his rocker.


I've cancelled a second sale and have re-listed it again. I buy crap all the time off of ebay but haven't sold anything in years... I dont remember it being this hard to avoid the idiots. Any suggestions?


/this post was part venting and part fact finding
//also, anyone on here want this thing? I'd sell it to a bulldog cheaper than a yahoo on ebay.

 

[thatsbaseball]

How much do you want for it ?

 

[BigMotherTucker]

$950 on eBay.. $900 to my extended bulldog family.

I've got about $1500 wrapped up in it.

 

[thatsbaseball]

Check your PM in a couple of minutes

 

[BigMotherTucker]

Ok

 

[MrKotter]

Next time you use Buy It Now select the immediate payment required option. If the buyer doesn't pay immediately your listing stays up and basically cancels their attempt to buy it.

 

[BigMotherTucker]

Thanks, thats a good tip. I found that option the third (and hopfully last) time I listed it. I hope to sell it outside of the ebay nightmare network. But Ive got it set up that way now incase it does sell aGAIN.

 

[Xenomorph]

Dang man.. even Cecil offered 10% off. **

 

[engie]

I've caught a niche market on there of late and been doing pretty well...

Mainstream items, especially electronics, have a lot more of this type thing happen.

- require immediate payment... Obviously neither of those guys intended to actually pay. Report nonpayers to help everyone else out.

- ship internationally with the global shipping program. You actually ship it domestically and then eBay ships internationally. I just did this for the first time. Shipped priority to Kentucky for $6.10 and really not even sure where it's going to beyond that.

- set up buyer restrictions. Mine currently blocks buyers with no PayPal acct, 2 unpaid item strikes in 12 months, etc...

The fees really are crazy though. By the time it's over, I've got more in shipping and fees than I did in the initial product being resold by far.

 

[121Josey]

Good info.

 

[MaroonNation]

They're scammers. I sell stuff on eBay all the time and it doesn't ship till I have get the ok from PayPal to send it.

 

[Uncle Ruckus]

Something like this happened to me with selling a four wheeler on Craigslist. I got blown up the first week from people in different states who wanted my pay pal info so they could pay for it without seeing it

 

[The Peeper]

Selling just about anything electronic on eBay has turned into a nightmare for sellers and a goldmine for scammers. I flip things all the time but they tend to be one of a kind type items and like everyone has told you don't ship anything until you get payment notification from PayPal AND check your account because scammers will send you a fake email with PayPal logo saying it's been paid but make sure you see it in your account first. Global Shipping is great too, international buyers ***** about about it sometimes especially Canadians because they say it makes items more expensive because of import fees and eBay marks up the shipping. Sucks to be them but sucks more to get scammed by an international buyer

 

[BigMotherTucker]

Thanks for the advice.