eBay

socalboomer50 · ‎03-22-2020

In our current crisis with so many people trying to buy these essential items that they are ripe pickings for never getting their item. There are sellers now listing items they don't have and buyers aren't paying any attention to these new 0 feedback sellers or old accounts that have not sold in a awhile.

mtgraves7984 · ‎03-22-2020

We'll be reading posts from distressed buyers in the morning when the sales were cancelled.

sawithe-47 · ‎03-22-2020

Nothing new.

mam98031 · ‎03-22-2020

@socalboomer50 wrote:
In our current crisis with so many people trying to buy these essential items that they are ripe pickings for never getting their item. There are sellers now listing items they don't have and buyers aren't paying any attention to these new 0 feedback sellers or old accounts that have not sold in a awhile.

That actually from a seller's standpoint doesn't make any sense to do this intentionally.

OOS cancellations are a defect. A few of those and a seller is toast.

If a seller is cancelling after they buyer has paid, The PP keeps the fee and that just costs the seller money.

Maybe what is happening is this is on banned items and Ebay is cancelling the sale because it was against the rules of Ebay to even sell the item. I'm just guessing here. I don't see any up side to this behavior for any seller.

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nuclearomen · ‎03-22-2020

even if that is an issue, it's what YOU do that matters. I could care less if such sellers exist, listing things they don't have. I pay attention to what I do and how I conduct business. Everything I list I have, it's in stock and shipped quickly. I more worried about delivery services changing operation routines then anything.

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psylisa068 · ‎03-22-2020

I think you have it a bit backwards. There's no real seller fraud, because of Ebay's "buyer is always right", money back guarantee mentality. It's quite the opposite; buyers can commit fraud with zero (Ebay) repercussions. Sellers can't even leave buyers negative feedback.

Sellers that sell out of stock items or cancel listings will quickly get removed from the Ebay site. Ebay is very quick to clamp down on poor sellers. Buyers that don't pay, abuse the MBG, fake return items through SNAD, or any other silliness get to still utilize Ebay.