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I'm sorry this is happening to you. What is baffling to me, though, is why you would choose to sell on eBay when you're having such a great experience at Amazon. If selling on eBay is such a hassle for you, what's the point in doing it?
On eBay, Buyers rule, Sellers drool. There is little in the form of Seller Protection, and being successful in fighting for those rights we do have and availing ourselves of the few recourses open to us in order to do so is arduous, as @tunicaslot's response outlines.
The Money Back Guarantee has opened the floodgates to a deluge of unscrupulous buyers who are all too willing to lie and cheat the system to get a plethora of free stuff. There are plenty of honest buyers, but what you're describing points to the ones who aren't. Who knows why you're attracting them.
So, stay, and prepare to fight.
Or just keep rollin' on The River, where you apparently have a good thing going.
Lots of sellers are always looking to expand their WWW footprints. Just because you are doing well on a venue that you don't own doesn't mean it'll stay like that forever, as many, many eBay sellers have learned over the last several years.
The OP's story is the same one I hear consistently from sellers I network with who stuck their toe in the water at eBay during successful Amazon or Etsy runs- the scams are just off the hook here. Yes, once in awhile there are issues at all other venues but here they are just rampant and eBay seems to take extreme glee in giving away stuff that's not theirs. The habitual outright crooks are here because this is where they're catered to. Amazon doesn't tolerate it because Amazon owns and sells merchandise right alongside their 3P sellers. It's not profitable for Amazon to allow scamming buyers because unlike eBay, who just keeps the fees as a final kick to a seller after allowing a buyer to mug them, Amazon can actually lose money on scamming buyers.
How do you stay and fight when eBay holds you as your buyer slugs you?
Chaos is NOT an "industry standard".
