EBAY Changes Feedback System- Sales about to Plummet?

And if there was no fraud you can simple get extra income. Just tell that you received brick instead of laptop or digital movie and the money will be taken from seller and returned.
Just you can not repeat it too often with same credit card but you can have many from different companies...
There is NO SELLER PROTECTION on ebay because by credit card purchase you can do something but by paypal never - the buyer is always winning because they are afraid of credit company action.

Quote from StockApprentice:

All I have to say is that per:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/15/1666i..html
when you make a credit card purchase online (over $50) your credit card it the counter party to the transaction (not the merchant). This means that if there was fraud the credit card company is liable... and they don't want to be liable for someone else's actions.

If you have a dispute and can't resolve it with the merchant then call the credit card company. Assert your 'rights' per US Federal Law.

I'm no attorney, but a little research can go a long way.
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Quote from TGregg:

If you ship tracked and insured (UPS has free insurance up to $100) the only bad things a buyer can do are not pay or pay fraudulently. And it's pretty easy to protect against most of that. I've seen many fraudulent sellers on eBay, even wrote to eBay a few times.

eBay didn't do squat.

I've even seen sellers go bad. And there is no way you can predict that. Nice feedback, lots of items, regular sales then something happens - they flip out, go bankrupt, get divorced, discover crack or who knows, but all of a sudden the negative feedbacks start coming. Thanks to eBay's resolution process, you are supposed to wait a month or more before posting bad feedback - so the auctions continue to run and the fraud rakes in the dough for a while.

I buy and sell on eBay, although not nearly as much as I used too. The vast majority of fraud on eBay is on the seller side. Most of the buyer fraud is easy for the seller to stop.
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The whole e-Bay feedback system is a joke. I buy and sell coins on E-Bay .
I notified E-bay on some sellers that were selling scam slabbed coins.
Anyone who knows anything about grading coins would be able to spot that the coins were improperly graded. But a novice would not have a clue.
What did E-Bay do ?? They sent me a link to the guidelines for selling coins.
Totally useless response.
 
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The whole e-Bay feedback system is a joke. I buy and sell coins on E-Bay .
I notified E-bay on some sellers that were selling scam slabbed coins.
Anyone who knows anything about grading coins would be able to spot that the coins were improperly graded. But a novice would not have a clue.
What did E-Bay do ?? They sent me a link to the guidelines for selling coins.
Totally useless response.
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In a similar boat i buy and sell modern comics on ebay all the time...one of the biggest problems with that is obvious over-grading by sellers. Sure you can ask for additional scans and an experienced buyer will soon become aware of certain sellers that purposely over grade hiding behind phrases like "we're not professional graders".

A lot of buyers will have a legitimate complaint about the item when it arrives but will not leave neutral/negative feedback simply because that slimy seller will quickly retaliate with a negative. I suspect a lot of these sellers feedbacks will drop from 98/99 to 90/95 or something closer to what it should be.
 
I am sure their are people on ebay who are selling things non-legit.

But saying that because items are 40-60% off they are stolen is very narrow minded and short sighted.

The problem is that major retailers have been screwing the customer for years with incredible markups.

With e-bay you have an economic system where consumers have access to 100% information online.

2nd there are plenty of reasons why items are discounted significantly.

Discontinued
Refurbished
Odd Lot
Excess inventory
Inventory closeout

As an e-bay Gold Power Seller who has been able to strike legitimate deals with wholesalers to offer the kind of prices that you balk at I speak from experience.

This sounds like the same group of people who thought google would never make money "giving away services and software for free". It's impossible.

The only impossibilities are the ones that we create between our ears.
 
Quote from Pholeuon:

Just for your information I ship more than 10 packets daily so
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I'll grant you that international dealings with eBay is a whole different ballgame. I've neither bought nor sold to even Canada, and would not consider buying or selling anywhere else. Further, I have no insight into the nonUS eBay, I know they are worldwide, and I would expect (but do not know) that the fraud outside the US is even worse than it is inside the US.

I suppose if you are outside the US, then selling to the US might be your lowest risk option. But it clearly has more risk than a US seller and a US buyer - so it's not surprising that you encounter more problems. What are you going to do, fly to the US so you can beat up some teenybopper over a Britney Spears video that she didn't like?

But the majority of eBay is still intraUS. And the bulk of that fraud is seller based, while the bulk of buyer fraud is easy (for US folks) to protect against.
 
I buy little things ($30 or less) a few times a year from Ebay. I would never buy something expensive because (1) the feedback system is a joke as others have pointed out, and (2) a lot of these stores will describe an item as New but when you read the fine print it's actually refurb'd. It's totally misleading. When I report them to Ebay, they do nothing about it. I guess those powersellers bring in so much fees , they won't do anything about it.

Oh yeah, a lot of stuff there is stolen or counterfeit.

Ebay = Buyer-beware.
 
Quote from GGSAE:

In a similar boat i buy and sell modern comics on ebay all the time...one of the biggest problems with that is obvious over-grading by sellers. Sure you can ask for additional scans and an experienced buyer will soon become aware of certain sellers that purposely over grade hiding behind phrases like "we're not professional graders".

A lot of buyers will have a legitimate complaint about the item when it arrives but will not leave neutral/negative feedback simply because that slimy seller will quickly retaliate with a negative. I suspect a lot of these sellers feedbacks will drop from 98/99 to 90/95 or something closer to what it should be.
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Oh please, the buyers are just as slimy and likely to leave negative feedback

To put all the power in their hands is just suicide
 
Incorrect. I do not have exact statistic now but I found information about 5 year ago when they wrote that USA is one side of transaction in 60%/. Now I strongly believe it is less.

If you consider US transaction when shipping is inside USA /so not USA-another country or another country USA/ than I am 100% sure that these transactions are less than half of total ebay volume.

Do not forget about ebay UK, Canada, China, Germany, Holland, Poland etc.

For your information I am large seller and what I am selling is hard to find in USA and it is collectible /or for price as minimum 2x higher even consider shipping/. I have about 36% export to USA what is about 3% more than to European union as total /long term, during last months EU is more than USA/.
Japan is bigger than any EU country but still only 16%. Btw, shipping to China is rising a lot, from few packets 5 year ago now it is about 8%

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But the majority of eBay is still intraUS.
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Quote from cstfx:
my personal feedback is at 40 comments (all positive 100%) because I REFUSE to leave you a feedback on your service BEFORE you do so for me when I have paid you FIRST.

This new feedback system I believe will create a more accurate picture of the vendor with which a buyer is dealing. I, for one, welcome the change. [/B]
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If you are not selling anything why would you care if your feedback is bad? Just rate the seller at what they did and do not worry about their negative feedback. You can always create another account just for buying. And keep the one with good feedback for selling.
 
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