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Would you really sell on ebay ?
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tkamiya:
1)  You go ahead...  I'm staying put.
2)  That may be so, but fruit cakes are in season.
james_s:

--- Quote from: tkamiya on October 02, 2020, 01:07:45 am ---I really don't have problems with fees.  But I had really bad experience with some buyers back 15 years ago or so.  Since then I have not sold a thing. 

The buyer contacted me at 45th day on 30day return guarantee.  No power cord.  Says doesn't work.  My posting said no power cable.  He argued over IEEE definition of cord and cable.  He says he won't agree to "your arbitrary" rule of 30 days.  He emailed to ISP, CIA, FBI, local sheriff, state attorney's office, post master general, etc, etc, etc.  Ebay was no help what so ever.  I just deleted my account and vowed to never sell anything there.

By the way, none of the agencies mentioned above ever contacted me.

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Sounds like the guy on this forum a while back who was trying to argue that an item that is missing any of the of the accessories that came with it or has any wear & tear or damage at all needs to be listed not as "used" but as "for parts or repair"  :palm:
Simon:

--- Quote from: tkamiya on October 02, 2020, 03:53:31 am ---1)  You go ahead...  I'm staying put.
2)  That may be so, but fruit cakes are in season.

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Fruitcakes and crooks are still a problem. I sold some sensors to a guy using the stock image of that series, it had 8 pins in the picture yes he was distraught that it actually had 6 as now all of his boards were wrong  :-DD. I was like how could you make boards without looking at the datasheet (that also had the 8 pin image) which shows the footprint and the number of pins.

Ebay were helpless, there was nothing they could do. The guy then decided it was OK and went on to buy another batch from my website.

Bearing in mind i sell them for about what RS buy them for so no one in the world can sell them at the price I do and I don't even bother to mark these up on ebay such is my margin on that particular part. H saved more than I made but was still trying it on.
CatalinaWOW:

--- Quote from: Simon on October 02, 2020, 07:07:30 am ---
--- Quote from: tkamiya on October 02, 2020, 03:53:31 am ---1)  You go ahead...  I'm staying put.
2)  That may be so, but fruit cakes are in season.

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Fruitcakes and crooks are still a problem. I sold some sensors to a guy using the stock image of that series, it had 8 pins in the picture yes he was distraught that it actually had 6 as now all of his boards were wrong  :-DD. I was like how could you make boards without looking at the datasheet (that also had the 8 pin image) which shows the footprint and the number of pins.

Ebay were helpless, there was nothing they could do. The guy then decided it was OK and went on to buy another batch from my website.

Bearing in mind i sell them for about what RS buy them for so no one in the world can sell them at the price I do and I don't even bother to mark these up on ebay such is my margin on that particular part. H saved more than I made but was still trying it on.

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Clear violation of the accurate description rule mentioned earlier in the thread.  How hard is it to take a picture or two of what you are actually selling?  Or add a sentence saying it is a stock picture and what you are selling is the six pin version?
Simon:

--- Quote from: CatalinaWOW on October 02, 2020, 01:20:19 pm ---
--- Quote from: Simon on October 02, 2020, 07:07:30 am ---
--- Quote from: tkamiya on October 02, 2020, 03:53:31 am ---1)  You go ahead...  I'm staying put.
2)  That may be so, but fruit cakes are in season.

--- End quote ---

Fruitcakes and crooks are still a problem. I sold some sensors to a guy using the stock image of that series, it had 8 pins in the picture yes he was distraught that it actually had 6 as now all of his boards were wrong  :-DD. I was like how could you make boards without looking at the datasheet (that also had the 8 pin image) which shows the footprint and the number of pins.

Ebay were helpless, there was nothing they could do. The guy then decided it was OK and went on to buy another batch from my website.

Bearing in mind i sell them for about what RS buy them for so no one in the world can sell them at the price I do and I don't even bother to mark these up on ebay such is my margin on that particular part. H saved more than I made but was still trying it on.

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Clear violation of the accurate description rule mentioned earlier in the thread.  How hard is it to take a picture or two of what you are actually selling?  Or add a sentence saying it is a stock picture and what you are selling is the six pin version?

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The part number was given, without looking up the datasheet he could not have even chosen the parts, it was a poor excuse to get some money off, usual old trick. Not that it's any justification but same picture other sellers use and the distributors I bought it from used the same picture it was in fact theirs, far better than any i could produce. If you are buying electronic parts on the basis of a picture you are an incompetent idiot!

Taking photos of small items nicely is harder than you would think. When I sold lots on Ebay i actually created my own illustrations using 3D CAD as it was easier than taking a macro photo.
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