Does anybody here do ebay?

[laundry_queen]

46. Used to love it

been on eBay since 2001. I've done both buying and selling. Stopped selling when they stopped letting sellers leave negative feedback. I have perfect feedback. Had great experiences selling. Mostly good experiences buying with a few exceptions...

I've only left negative feedback a couple of times. Once a seller tried to scam me with lying about international shipping. Essentially, they offered cheap shipping on the listing. When I purchased cheap shipping, they told me it was now unavailable and I'd have to pay more for shipping (like from $5 to over $25 for a $20 item). I told them they had to stick by the terms of the listing and refused to pay more...and stated I wanted the shipping I bought in the listing. They said okay, and marked it shipped. Then a day later they told me the package was returned damaged and that they wouldn't send me the package unless I purchased the more expensive shipping. I call bullshit that the package was damaged and returned in one day. So I asked for my money back. They didn't want to give me my money back so I instantly neg'ed them and filed a complaint with paypal (like, c'mon, I don't have time for this bullshit mind game stuff, just ship the goddamn package). Well, the seller went ballistic, started email stalking me, telling me I was ruining his business, I was costing him his seller status because my neg put him over the top...he replied to my neg in all caps stating he was not scamming me by trying to get more shipping money out of me, that I was some dumbass that didn't know how to read the terms and that I was a horrible buyer. Kept messaging me through ebay, and email. I had to block him eventually. I filed another complaint against him too. I eventually got my money back. But boy was I pissed. It was a Christmas present that my daughter ended up not getting in time for Christmas because by the time I got my money back and found another one and got that one shipped...ugh! It took a long time for me to go back to eBay after that.

I find now eBay has so much cheap crap from China. So, now I go to eBay for cheap crap from China. It used to be I'd go there if I needed something that was difficult to find where I live. Now, eBay almost never has it anyway. Gone are the days where you could find everything on eBay. Lots of the good sellers are gone now. So, I think eBay is okay for small, cheap things. I wouldn't buy anything larger than $50. Or from anyone with less that 99.5% feedback. But that's just my personal threshold.