High End Sellers BEWARE!!!! If you sell items for $5000, $6000, $10,000, you can easily be scammed out of your item and you money, Ebay will help the buyer do it. I bet most of you don't realize that a buyer has 30 days to use your item, change their mind, for any reason, and the you, the seller is responsible for return shipping. It just happened to me, I sold a new portable water well drilling rig, we manufacture, for $5400.00, sixteen days later, the guy put in for a return, claiming that it was damaged when he picked it up, even though he accepted it and used it for 16 days. Long story short, he heavily abused and misused the rig attempting to drill through rock, he drilled three partial wells, destroyed our equipment, and lost parts in the holes. Now, he wants to return it and wants us to pay return shipping, we declined, thought we were protected by the 14 day return policy, that Ebay display's at the top of all our listings, which reads: "RETURNS: 14 Day Returns, Buyer Pays For Return Shipping."
Even though the buyer admitted in his emails, in the dispute, that he used the rig, broke and lost parts, Ebay refunded every dime of his money, AND NOW, we are left to try to get what's left of our equipment back with absolutely NO HELP FROM Ebay. As you would expect, now the buyer is not answering phone, won't return our calls or emails. Call Ebay and get another idiot on the phone. PayPal just refunded another customer half of his purchase price, $2275.00, for almost exactly the same thing, only he had his equipment for four months . Their reasoning, they didn't receive my fourth response within their time limit. All this within one week. I'm a Top Rated Seller, 100% Positive Feedback, I've been a member for 12 years, I'm quitting. The only way that this outrageous **bleep** with Ebay will ever change, is when finally enough sellers get together and do something about it.
