Locked
Discussions in this board are limited to the original poster and Community Mentors
Purchasing from abroad sellers; the time it takes to arrive creates concern for the buyer,
How is buyer to know that the advertised item or seller's store even exist's? An individual could screen shot another stores item, create an ad and store,, and the delay from time of purchase to exspected time of arrival; at 30 days or longer, is long enough too collect intrest on the purchasers money. Do that × a 1000 and so called seller makes money on none existent store or product even though purchaser's recieve a refund. Good for fictious seller, but buyer has thee incovenice of waiting,,, and trying too find what he/she thought,, they had already found and purchased. Some intrest was lost in the money had it been in a simple savings account before purchase.
eburtonlab
Mentor3 years agoHow is buyer to know that the advertised item or seller's store even exist's?
In general, you can avoid a lot of headaches by choosing to purchase only from established sellers that have recent and past positive feedback as a seller for selling items in the same category that you intend to buy. If someone is selling a dozen apple watches, but has no feedback, or only has feedback as a buyer, or only has feedback for selling dress patterns or fishing lures (actual examples I have seen), perhaps wait until they have a track record of positive feedback for selling electronics before you buy from them.
You might miss out on a good deal from a new seller once in a while, and nothing can guarantee that you won't still run into an issue anyway, but you can avoid a lot of potential problems by choosing to do business with established sellers. Anyone can put together a listing that looks nice -- it is not hard at all to simply copy an existing listing -- but it is much harder to create a history of consistent sales and positive feedback.
For more experienced sellers, you can learn a lot about the sort of seller you are dealing with by checking the seller's feedback page to see where the seller is registered and to notice if the seller has any negative feedback. If you see negatives indicated in the table of recent feedback, you can choose to exclusively see each type of comment by clicking on the numbers shown in the table. Reading negative or neutral comments can often tell you if a seller has a pattern of problems with items not matching the descriptions, canceled orders, late deliveries or item location misrepresentation.
If a seller has a pattern of too many serious negatives -- or just not enough positive history -- it is often better to find another seller with a better track record to do business with.
gosimus
Mentor3 years ago@edlip_55
< so called seller makes money on none existent store or product even though purchaser's recieve a refund >
Every Item Not Received case or Not As Described return goes on the seller's record, and they're cumulative. After a seller gets too many of those – eBay doesn't tell us how many is too many – the seller gets restrictions or even gets shown the gate.