Hollow Log Flea Market & Ebay Sales

Good morning good people. I have a warning for you. Please read. If you use ebay your are going to get screwed. I have lost my item and my money FOR THE LAST TIME and the bad part about it is that the buyers are using ebay to strong arm money and items from YOU THE seller. This is becoming more and more frequent. After talking to ebay it is quite clear that they side with the buyer and not the seller however. They feel that the buyer is the one who is responcable for paying the fees even thou it come out of the sellers account and it is a percentage of the sellers money that pays for final selling fees that are not calculated in to the price of the item. Im sorry for the rant, but Ebay feels they are way too big and can do what they wish and there is nothing we can do about it.
I sold an item, I fully disclosed that the item had broke at one point and time and I had it repaired however the item no longer was the opposing side from its mate they were now the same side. I decided just to get rid of the item because I didn’t want to deal with having it repaired again so I listed the item on ebay with full description. I also listed the item for 30% less that it would have gone for being fixed in order to give the buyer the financial availability to have the item fixed and still get a good deal.
After the sale I shipped out the item right away I heard nothing from the buyer. After a month the buyer contacted me and told me that the item was miss represented and was the same side. I copied and pasted the description so that he could read it again and he claimed that it was trickery and started saying that I was scamming him. He opened a Ebay dispute. And I returned his money for the item.
Once a buyer opens a dispute with ebay they yank the funds from your account. Because ebay owns paypal. Talk about a conflict of interest. This means if you are playing in ebays play ground if you don’t do what ebay wants remember they are the prosecutor, judge and the jury aka (school yard bully). Here lies the problem. Once a case is open ebay always sides with the seller. My case was opened and the buyer still didn’t want to read the description. So, in order to save time. Issued the refund because once ebay is involved they freeze your account. With my work schedule I cant run and check the computer every day much less deal with a illiterate person. However I have to put my faith in ebay because I am at their mercy at this point.
Now that the funds were refunded to the buyer ebay was satisfied and closed the case with out demanding that the buyer return the item. Needleless to say the buyer does not have to return the item. Ebay does nothing to enforce that you get your product back. However they will ruin you if you don’t give a refund. I called ebay this morning and was less than satisfied with their responses. They basically told me to pound sand. They made it quite clear that if the buyer does not want to ship the item back then they don’t have to. There is nothing they can do in order to make the buyer comply… so in short Ebay took the sellers ability to leave bad feed back to the buyer so that the seller can warn other sellers about bad buyers and buyers who run scams such as this. This is called strong arming and with ebay owning both pay pal and ebay they have full control. Because of this bad business practice and dysfunctional policies I am deleting my ebay account that I have had for 15 years. I can no longer afford to give refunds and my product away. This would be like buying a new tv from walmart then going back the next day and getting a refund but in Wal-Mart’s case they have the right and the ability to say not until the item is returned, this is where ebay bullies the seller because they take away your right to do this. However ebay does not enforce the buyer to return the item so this is more like a bully at a school yard. I’m sure there is a another auction on line like ebay I think it is called Ubid or something like that. This is where I’m going. Ebay was such an awesome place however in the recent years they have seriously gone down the toilet.