09-19-2017 01:32 PM
Well, I'm sure most of you feel it.
Your only remedy is to charge more, about 20% - 30% more but that is if anyone is finding your listing to begin with.
It's bad enough that there are 'how to get your ebay item for free' posts on the Internet.
Of course that is if they make a color dispute and the seller would just as well refund over paying to ship back trinkets at a additional cost to him/herself.
I quit selling heavy items 4 years ago. Quit selling overseas about the same time. Had to block non-U.S. funds from non-U.S. accounts in paypal to really get the job done and it is still a problem since I am the one who has to cancel the well termed sale when they can't pay, So I get the mark. Don't very often sell anything over $25 now.
I quit selling electronics since so many were either being parted out to fix buyers broken stuff (and returned as non-working) or they simply were buying beyond their technical comprehension to operate and broke it.
And ebay keeps reminding me that they want me to list and sell the 7 iphones I have laying around...
NO CHANCE...
So we get these NAD's for sometimes the only reason is the buyer did not read the listing.
Funny... how many camcorders are there listed as BAD-PARTS ONLY-DEFECTIVE that also include specs for a working unit. How could those specs be true if it does not power-up?
And I get the NAD's for somone claiming the color is not as pictured but BLACK and was clearly (large font) decribed as BLUE. My last color dispute is that it was a not particular panted color that I did not claim/describe. I just said it was GREEN. I told that I would accept the return but he/she had to pay for and ship it back to me in re-saleable condidion. I then get no additional reply. But it still looms out there till it expires or something.
Better just face it, you just need to build-in the price of handleing the return and some for the extra time. That is most of what I have been loosing.... TIME, then money.
I feel like I need a lawyer to understand what each bi-year update will mean to me as a seller and a buyer. But normally have to figure it out the hard way that ends-up costing me money.
If ebay is moving to a Amazon like platform, I should just cut the birth cord and list over there since, if they are doing the right thing, I should be with them.
They have a higher quality buyer group that give you much less hassles to begin with.
The best losses are the ones that never happen. This platform would have a problem if I were giving it away and it's getting pretty close now if you count my time.
But I might create my own web page and sell from it since If I have to do that much work to be seen and complete a good transaction, I might as well be able to control my own survival without the interference of others.
I have become a hobby seller cause that's all that's left that is profitable on this platform for me.
I reduce my listings near xmas since that's when most of the shipping errors happen and damaged goods, not to mention folks that do not 'read' the listing. Or worse, read more into it than was stated.
Everyone compares returns to a WalMart policy. Has anyone seen the **bleep** they put you through at times. While I have never done it, I have watched it many times from not so far.
I have a feeling if WalMart returns were controled by ebay, they would not have a return policy.
They say they take anything back for any reason but the reality is they don't always do that and not always without a lot of **bleep**.
But here, buyers are gaming the system in growing numbers now they are aware of how it works and I'm not making the mark-up those big retails make to afford such a thing or I would be a big box retailer myself. It's the reason people shop there and not ebay I guess. Value added services.
I can't afford 'try to buy/rent for free'.
So can someone from ebay or this forum give 1 thing to look forward to and not leave ?
cause I don't see it getting better, only worse. Perhaps I am missing something.
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