Do you agree its about time.............

[fabelous_records]

We - sellers of this wonderful credible selling venue include this footnote when listing our items -  "Scamming  Buyers not welcome to look, bid or buy at this store!"

[divwido]

If it makes you happy-Sure.  But it won't help.

What will help?  Be brutally honest about the items you sell.  Take a ton of pictures, write every single defect and learn to say Return the item for a full refund.

[emerald40]

If that is not an invitaton to scammers to mess with you.

[fabelous_records]

I will state it differently then. Scamming artist of all kinds, welcome to browse on my store. On sale here are excellent array of musical CDs and Stereo/Mono records vinyl where you can order new or used for your listening pleasure. After you are done making copies, please feel free within 30 days grace returning the items and I would be happy to refund your full amount including return postage. What? why are we being gracious? Well, I figure you cannot do your scheming ways at MACY's or COSTCO so we- here at eBay, we will give you everything free!

[orangehound]

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@fabelous_records wrote:

We - sellers of this wonderful credible selling venue include this footnote when listing our items -  "Scamming  Buyers not welcome to look, bid or buy at this store!"

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Messages like that make me want to buy from someone else.  I get your point, but it makes me feel as if you are sour and angry ... I don't want to buy from sour, angry sellers.

[marnotom!]

I have to agree with those who posted that comments in a listing like those you suggest are a real turn-off for buyers.  They'll just drive away the good buyers you want and leave you with the buyers who don't read or don't care.

If you're getting regularly scammed by your "buyers" you may need to take a good hard look at your listing practices compared to those of your competition and see if you can make any changes.

If you've just been scammed merely a handful of times in your years on eBay, that's the cost of doing business, just as brick and mortar retailers have to chalk up suspect buyers, damage or theft to the cost of doing business.  Not every sale is going to be a money-maker.  Some sellers have a hard time accepting that simple business truism, for some reason.

[fabelous_records]

I am not holding a gun towards your head. You are free to buy from anybody!

[dougsue123b]

I am pretty sure scammers aren't going to follow your "no scammer' policy.

[fabelous_records]

So far, most of those who had been so kind in ripping the bajesuslordylord out of me - someone who is only selling very low prices on musical materials are domestically bred. I cannot recall people from Switzerland, Netherland Antilles, Japan, Puerto Rico and even Spain have ever pulled a fast one on me since  I started catering to them in 2005.  Where else in the world will you find a customer from the land of Genghis Khan filing a case against 'CDs. not authentic' when all this fine gentleman needed to do is read the fine print.  The fine print stated it was manufactured in the USA under license from Philips Records.  Where else in the world where you as a seller, selling a brand new item is forced to accept a return that is now a "USED" material?  Yes, I for one will play the devil's advocate -  Hey yo scheming scam operator, you are forbidden from entering my store.

[ohnojoey]

"Do you agree its about time............."

I agree this is about time.................

[coolections]

So for a loss of a $4 CD you want to alienate all your buyers and basically not get any sales from here on out. All the negative wording in a description just because of a single low priced incident. The best and easiest thing you could have done was to tell the person to keep it and forget about it. When selling on line, especially world wide you need to accept that things like this could happen. You also have no way of knowing a person bought just to copy. In fact the odds a very slim that actually was what happened.

[fabelous_records]

That's easy for you to say. What if the item I sold is worth $7,000.00 which I stopped listing, should I just sit on the corner and sing....Lonely Teardrops?  BTW, the CD in question was valued $22.50+ shipping.

[futuretomorrow]

1. Are you trying to get all sellers banned so you can rule eBay? LOL... are you sitting on a copy of the Art Of War?

2. Seriously though...this is a turnoff in my opinion to good buyers who have no such intention.

3. I guess this bothers me because I don't think it's how you want to handle this problem and in reality it does nothing to mitigate the problem? We can't tell eBay as a defense "but I clearly said no scammers on my listings"

[dilo-8873]

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@fabelous_records wrote:
I will state it differently then. Scamming artist of all kinds, welcome to browse on my store. On sale here are excellent array of musical CDs and Stereo/Mono records vinyl where you can order new or used for your listening pleasure. After you are done making copies, please feel free within 30 days grace returning the items and I would be happy to refund your full amount including return postage. What? why are we being gracious? Well, I figure you cannot do your scheming ways at MACY's or COSTCO so we- here at eBay, we will give you everything free!

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I’m sure this is a tongue in cheek post and I have to say I really appreciated the good laugh to start my day! I get your point!

[tunicaslot]

But it seems you're holding a gun to your head. Hey - we get it - we all hate scammers and are frustrated - but as said in many of the replies - many of us will look for another seller if a similar message in in the listing - so you're lowering your chances of getting sales from buyers who feel like us. Never a good business practice.