Thanks - both responses helpful. I may need to check out local auctions for selling these items. I understand the holds & selling anywhere requires fees and percentages to the house. The possibility of security breaches causes concern over ssn use to sell items totaling under 1k. Do not understand scamming methods - guess that comes with experienced selling. Scammers should put equal effort into honest gains instead of wanting to benefit from the hard work of others, keep their hands in their own pockets on each end. As a buyer l have learned the futility of outsourced CS - a nightmare-and confusion accompanying returns. How is 'item not as described' the one hope for a refund ?
Returning an item arriving in shards - marking broken, damaged or not working, reasons which makes sense, is the wrong choice. Buyers have no clue how choosing the actual fitting reason for a return insures, unless you've purchased from an honorable seller, that there is no refund.
Risk abounds, huh? I'm grateful for a seller who is willing to accept returns of items broken in transit as package handlers throw, toss boxes carelessly. Insurance- the forms take time but must take some sting out of loss.
I've read the sellers and buyers guidelines. Knowing both helps. The unwritten application of the rules gleaned from experience, l guess, is the key to successful use of the site.
My hat's off to the many sellers who have walked into walls yet continue the search, purchase, transport, clean up, listing, packing, shipping of items and questions from buyers.
Good faith abounds. Buyers who deliver on their end.
Its a good thing when it works.
