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Re: Want to Understand What Ails the Modern Internet? Look at eBay

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Post by brokenmachine » Tue, Jun 26, 2018, 4:39 AM UTC

fyfy18 wrote: post #20

I’m not exactly sure what point this article is trying to make, but as a regular eBay user, these are my biggest issues when using the platform. I’m based in the UK, so some of these may not apply for other locations. - Delivery times aren’t accurate. When I buy something from eBay I expect it will arrive within a week, but if I want something to arrive in a shorter time I buy it elsewhere. There is no way to filter…

The thing that pisses me off is when you do a search and sort by price, then it shows a million listings that have multiple items in the listing, with the cheap unrelated items being the only thing available for the low price.

Re: Want to Understand What Ails the Modern Internet? Look at eBay

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Post by jonhendry18 » Tue, Jun 26, 2018, 6:19 AM UTC

steven2012 wrote: post #21

I use eBay frequently. I have only bought things, but I want to sell things, however I'm terrified of getting scammed. And eBay does nothing to ameliorate those fears. I got as close as taking pictures, writing a description, and stopped at the last step before putting my item for sale. Everything I've read suggests that it's simply not worth it to try to sell things because you have no protection from scammers. As a…

"I'm surprised Amazon or even etsy hasn't been able to destroy them yet"

About 8 years ago I used Amazon to sell a bunch of my old books. Worked great.

Last year I tried to start doing it again, and it's a giant pain. Yesterday I tried setting up a new account and they aren't letting me add anything for sale to inventory because of some supposed undescribed problem with my credit card (which works fine for purchases).

So.. Amazon has its own problems.

Re: Want to Understand What Ails the Modern Internet? Look at eBay

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Post by wetpaws » Tue, Jun 26, 2018, 8:43 AM UTC

brokenmachine wrote: post #140

imgabe wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've sold a few things on eBay and never gotten scammed. Maybe it's just random luck, but it's nowhere near the 100% scam-rate that posts like this lead you to believe.

Me too. I've sold maybe 30 items from $50-$1000 in value and not been scammed yet.

Key word here is "yet"

Re: Want to Understand What Ails the Modern Internet? Look at eBay

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Post by reaperducer » Tue, Jun 26, 2018, 4:07 PM UTC

setquk wrote: post #127

reaperducer wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

2. Sell only inside your region I wish this was possible. Any time I list an item, it doesn't matter if I mark it US shipping only, and no matter how many times I put in the description that I ship US only, I get flooded with people from other countries asking, "How much to ship to {$nation}?" After a while I got tied of telling them I don't ship to wherever they are, and just told them that international shipping ra…

There are buyer restrictions you can set up that stop this.

As noted in my original comment, it doesn't stop anything at all. You still get foreigners with US accounts asking for things to be shipped overseas.