11-01-2019 11:07 AM
Has anyone heard of buyer arbitrage. That is the buyer practice of buying an item, paying for it and then canceling the order We have had a lot of buyers, buy an item, pay for it, which apparently removes the item from listings and then they cancel the order later for a refund. (In the old eBay you could add re stock fees, but not in the new eBay). These days there are a lot of apples and oranges clone type listings on eBay.
Some have said, that the buyers tie up the item to hold it while they going fishing for the same item at a lower cost by using all of the " see similar or sell similar items ads and listing around the eBay site. Arbitrage seems to be a common tactic on eBay for sellers and buyers apparently.
11-01-2019 11:29 AM
It is possible that what you've described does happen, but I don't think you would call it buyer arbitrage. Maybe you mean sabotage?
11-01-2019 12:41 PM
Buyer arbitrage would be the practice of buying something from a seller with the purpose of reselling it.