When it should apply (for sports cards >$250), the authentication
guarantee is not consistently showing in the listings. Sometimes it’s
added to my listings, sometimes it’s not and there is no consistency. If
I use authenticated listings as the templ...
I am trying to figure out the best way to deal with buyers purchasing
small dollar items using fake names and addresses. I assume the reason
for purchase is credit card fraud or building feedback for CC fraud. I
get several a day now, and they are ea...
Buyers should be wary of purchasing a presale item given the current
Money Back Guarantee policies. If the item’s release is delayed, the
seller can’t ship within 30 days of transaction, and EBay will not
enforce the Money Back Guarantee. There is no...
I have multiple eBay user names purchasing the same small dollar item
with the same buyer name and a reshipper address. Why are people
purchasing a $1 item to go to a reshipper?
The update is that this is still a problem. The fake accounts are
usually easy to identify because most use the same address or another
obvious fake address. All have either 0 or 1 feedback score. What I do
now is cancel the order for 99 cent orders ...
Thanks for all the new replies. Nothing has changed since my last post.
The fake accounts are easy to spot, and I just “purchase” an EBay
envelope for 60 cents (which doesn’t get charged until the item is
shipped), and I don’t ship the item. No one h...
Interesting. All of the items purchased from me use EBay envelopes which
is a very specific use on EBay and is only for items less than $20 and
tracking is pretty bad on these. I’m my case, best I can tell is they
are just either trying to build feed...
Yes I have had some success in reducing the problem, which got even more
out of control since I posted this. The fake buyers are very easy to
spot, it’s any buyer purchasing a 99 cent item who joined EBay in the
last several days and has 5 or less fe...
