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Would you really sell on ebay ?
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SilverSolder:

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--- Quote from: AndyC_772 on October 03, 2020, 06:37:56 pm ---I'm not sure people read those restrictions, or how enforceable they are, though.

I sold an AV amplifier a few years ago, a big, heavy beast. Collection only. Within 10 minutes of the end of the auction I had an email from the buyer saying "please post it to my address", and pointing out that she had already agreed to come and collect it in person didn't go down well.

Ebay, of course, places all the power in the hands of the buyer. I couldn't cancel the sale and refund it from my end - I had to talk her into requesting cancellation, which was a PITA.

I've had people buy things and then selfishly contact me to say they want the item but aren't in a hurry, and insist that I continue to store what's now their property at my own risk, indefinitely. Again, I can't reject the purchase and refund it because Ebay doesn't provide the option.

Just this morning I had an email from someone asking about another item I'm selling right now, wanting to know how much to post to his country - but I only ever ship within the UK. The ad is clear on that, and hopefully Ebay would have prevented his account from actually bidding.

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Ebay doesn't show your (UK) listing to people using other national eBays e.g.  dot com instead to dot co dot uk.
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However; there's nothing stopping a US resident from having a UK eBay account...

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I can see things I am selling and have sold on the www.ebay.com.au site. I have sold to overseas customers. IIRC you have to have had a number of successful sales before fleabay will let you do that.

I don't know whether paypal will get snippy about accounts and addresses in different companies. Currently they won't let me (and >500k others) enter a correct postal address; their CSRs' suggestion is to enter a false address of a "nearby county"!

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I guess that what happened to me was that seller must have restricted sales to one country only, so I couldn't see their listings unless located in the same country.

nctnico:

--- Quote from: Simon on October 03, 2020, 09:02:44 pm ---At the end of the day if you are doing regular business you self insure to a degree. Again this is why I mark up eaby stuff, ebay is far more likely to yield problems than direct sales from my site so the ebay cohort get to pay the ebay share of self insurance.

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That is the way to do it. When I sell something on Ebay I price it with the Ebay & Paypal fees added to the price.
CatalinaWOW:
That implies you are underpricing your material.  Hi
james_s:

--- Quote from: Simon on October 02, 2020, 05:04:10 pm ---Excuse me! I think i know a crook when i see one. You honestly believe someone designed a PCB based on a photo that gave no pin outs? Do you seriously use photo's on the web to guide your designs?

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I do rely on the photos to some degree and have been burned several times by Mouser using the wrong photo of a part. Digikey on the other hand has always shown the correct variant. IMO if the picture is not accurate then it is worse than having no picture at all, stock photos on ebay are less than useless. If there is no photo then I'll study the datasheet carefully and make sure the part number is exactly the variation I'm looking for, but if I studied the datasheet earlier and know there are a few different distinct styles of a part and I see the picture clearly shows the one I need then it's only natural to trust the photo. If you use a stock photo you had better say so very clearly otherwise you are sure to get returns.
nctnico:

--- Quote from: CatalinaWOW on October 04, 2020, 04:41:48 pm ---That implies you are underpricing your material.  Hi

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No. It means making the buyer pay for using a platform which offers the buyer a convenient one-stop-shopping experience. As a seller I'm not going to pay for that.

As a buyer: When I start at Amazon or Ebay I usually check if the seller has a webshop. In most cases the items will be cheaper but the shipping costs may be higher. The pricing on Ebay's global shipping program from the US to the EU is quite reasonable even for heavy items.
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