@steph-bagne wrote:
Basically every time I cancel and refund an order, The buyer's account becomes "no longer a registered user".
Before I cancel the order, The buyers account will show a completely different store front.
A storefront with a completely different name and usually something well established.
But when I cancel the order, that username will just default to "No longer a registered user"
Something isn't right here, let me say this:
When a buyer pays for a purchase it is the seller's obligation to ship that item to the buyer.
It is my suggestion don't go looking into that, doing things such as playing detective by googling the address is not going to work out in your favor. Also I am not sure how you are refunding these buyers but if you are cancelling for reason "problem with buyer's address" or even "buyer asked" ebay can impose severe defects if you're caught (and all it takes is a buyer reports you for "unwilling to complete the sale") and soon it will be your account that is NARU.
So again it is my suggestion simply ship anything and everything a buyer has paid for, don't question it, just ship it.
@steph-bagne wrote:
No, apparently before I started noticing the China boys scammers I let one ship to that 3rd party reshipper.
The same address I mentioned above.
That was December 22nd 2023.
The copy cat item listings are almost all new within a week ago.
I guess on the positive side, because I water marked all of my photos; they couldn't steal any.
That and that and they don't have the cars that I'm selling parts for so all all their photos are just CGI nonsense.
It's all so tiresome.
This I can relate to, I've had my original parts stolen before and the practice has become widespread.
There is however no way to truly stop it, that I know of.
Certainly cancelling sales is more likely to hurt us as sellers than it does them, so be careful there.
@steph-bagne wrote:
But, it looks like they haven't sold any so far.
Jokes on them, the community I make parts for is VERY small.
& Since The part is incredibly difficult to manufacture, they only managed to undercut me by 10%.
Usually the China boys can under cut by 1/2 .
I am actually glad to hear that.
Again I've been having trouble with this as well, so diligence on our part should pay off...
Watermarks is good, supposedly against ebay policy but I'm far past caring there.
Odd your item hasn't been duplicated onto the US-ship ebay, many a Chinese copycat have US sellers too... These are far more damaging than China-ship ebay sellers.
One thing I have found that helps is nowadays I sell way more one of a kind items than multi-quantity.
I have also included in my "description" (and item specifics too) a line that states "This item originated from (name of my ebay store)" and am waiting for them to copy that into a listing.
You may wish to check into DMCA takedowns.
Not VERO's, although if you can become a Vero member that would be even better, but DMCA.
Keep in mind most often these copycats are not just on ebay, but I've watched them take my items onto Amazon and Walmart as well (hence why I got into researching DMCA takedowns, have never actually sent one off but I may sometime in the future).
mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
