rsmurano |
10-21-2024 10:02 AM |
I used to sell on eBay for over a decade and have been selling on many other sites now. eBay is a ripoff now, they charge too much now and when they demanded that I linked my bank account to eBay in order to sell, I stopped. Now I use marketplace, Nextdoor, Craigslist and some other specialized places that I sell stuff around the world.
Watch out when you are the seller, all the PayPal like pay systems are for the buyer not the seller, so protect yourself. For example, always ship with a buyer signature required when delivered. I have had a few buyers claim they never received the product when in fact I went online and showed them they or their wife signed for them. Also make sure you take a picture of the serial number because buyers will buy something that they already have that is broken and try to tell you that your product was broken and they will keep yours and send their broken 1 back to you which you are stuck with. I’ve caught a few people trying to do this and when I mention to them that the product they ship back must have this serial #, it never comes back. What happens if there is no serial #, I put 1 in myself inside the system and take a picture of it. Then when they think they can ship a defective 1 back to me, I tell them it better match the #? I have put in it.
A couple more things: PayPal friends and family isn’t as secure as it used to be.
I ship all over the world expensive stuff, so if I pay for tracking/confirmation, they will take your money but they don’t cover that overseas. So when i ship overseas, there is no return policy from me, I can’t track it after customs.
Also it’s best to meet the buyer at a firehouse or a rec center so they don’t know where you live and they are less likely to rob you when there are other people around.
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