But the ring doesn't fit MY FINGER! I'm not happy! I wasn't partial refund, now!
You should take a look at the listings. Same item listed for $16.95 by a seller and $16.90 by a different seller. The $16.90 one has 882 sales while the $16.95 has 70 sales. They saved 5 cents! No one even cares to see the seller with $16.95 has much better feedback, as long as they save 5 cents. 
@banana-posts wrote:I don't know what it is here. I have never seen such a vast amount of low life desperate people in all my years on this planet.
Please sir, can you just give me $5. Come on how about $3 to make me go away. Tell you what, $8 and I won't leave you a bad feedback. My brand new item doesn't work. It's missing. The post office stole it. My dog ate it. My 6 month old infant bid on it, It's not green, it's orange...And somehow, somehow a couple of bucks is going to make it ALL...GO... AWAY.
What's wrong with these people? Is their station in life so low that they have no other choice but to slither through the muck to gain a few lousy dollars. Are they such life-losers that they have no dignity, no shame. No cognitive awareness of such a sad and embarrassing existence. Sometimes I want to give them money just out of sheer pity. Like someone begging on the street corner.
ebay really needs to clean up the garbage that has proliferated this web site and stop their liberal and seller abusive return policies. If you can even call them 'policies.' And bring plenty of trucks. You're gonna need em.
Rant over.
IMO the phenomenon you're talking about is directly related to ebay's liberal buyer policies with absolutely no investgation, or repercussions that is what created this situation.
I do not believe there are more low lifes, scammers, and bottom feeders in general. But with the availablity of the internet, and ways of researching the easiest places and ways to scam has brought scammers out in the open, and in greater numbers.
ebay's MBG, and lack of an attempt at enforcing policy such as "item must be returned in same condition as sent", automatically believing every thing a buyer says, and the absolute lack of even a cursory investigation by ebay has turned this site into a scammers paradise.
The MBG has little impact on sellers when dealing with "honest" buyers who want the item they bought, and only try to return if there's a problem. Those buyers are truthful about reasons for returns, and don't fish for partials that won't fix the problem.
Honest buyers don't need to threaten FB, because they don't ask for things they are not entitled to. If they made the mistake they own up to it and pay return shipping, then sell it themselves, give it away, or keep the item.
A little research on the web tells scammers that it is easy to steal from sellers on ebay, with little chance of any punishment and a huge chance of success.
This draws them here in greater numbers, and a scammer will buy much more per person than an "honest buyer will.
An honest buyer doesn't need a dozen iphones, so they will only buy 1 or 2, while a scammer may scam 5 or 6 or more sellers out of their items to resell themselves elsewhere.
An "honest" buyer will only purchase so much because they PAY for their items, while scammers buy steal much more because they either get it free, or reduced in price, leaving them the money to run the scam again.
Since ebay collects the FVF on EVERY sale, scam or not, and counts EVERY sale, scammers greatly contribute to ebay's profits, and the sales count they can show to the stock holders, ebay has very little incentive to try to slow them down.
IMO this will eventually be the downfall of ebay, because sellers will have to raise prices to cover losses. This will drive away "honest" buyers, the scammers won't care they're not paying in the long run anyway.
As "honest" buyers leave, sellers will experience more fraud because there will be proportionally more scammers vs. "honest" buyers. This in turn will cause more sellers to leave because the risks are too high on ebay.
Once ebay is populated with only scammers, and Chinese sellers, the scammers will leave because ebay makes it hard to scam a Chinese seller. Then when the Chinese sellers go because they don't make enough what has ebay got left?
I'm not saying this will happen in the next few years, but if nothing changes to stop the theft here, it is a very likely scenario.
ebay sells NOTHING but ad space, and research. Once the "honest" buyers and the advertizers (sellers) leave ebay can't sell ad space, and ebay has nothing to conduct research on.
@yuzuha wrote:
@kathieskorner wrote:Ebay's buyer base is little different from any other buyer base. Shoplifters and scammers do not discriminate.
I have to disagree, scammers, and shoplifters DO discriminate. They go where it's easiest to succeed, and where they have the least chance of punishment, or other consequences for their actions.
ebay provides both of those enticements in spades, and ebay's lack of even a rudimentary investigation makes ebay a prime location for scammers to ply their trade.
Most (not all) other places make some attempt to keep up with, and curb scammers, and thieves. ebay claims they do as well, but there is little evidence of it.
These things bring more scammers to ebay, where it's easy to steal, while scammers quickly learn to avoid places where thievery is made difficult.
While thievery is a problem all retail operations face, I believe it is more pronouced on ebay just because there are no checks, and balances.
This is not to say most ebay shoppers are scammers, I believe most are not.
But as I mentioned earlier a single scammer usually
buyssteals more often than a single honest buyer makes a purchase. And because of ebay's ease of refund/return abuse more scammers are attracted here.Nor do cheap people. Oh, the stories I could tell of people who come into the store where I work and try to talk their way into discounts or complain when a sale isn't high enough for their liking or that one thing is on sale while another isn't.
Of course you will always have people who TRY to get stuff cheaper anywhere. The difference is you aren't bullied into giving in to them, you can CHOOSE to say no, with little fear of retaliation.
On ebay you have to fear FB, or the return of a deliberately damaged item, or a return of some other junk when the cheapskate doesn't get their way. And if you attempt to stand up for your rights, ebay takes your money anyway, and slaps you with a defect to boot.
