Ebay Services of Texas

Ebay is an excellent way to learn about selling and fronting items off a WEB page, but it is seriously flawed as an actual selling tool and can result in some horribly costly lessons in real-​world business calousness and manipulation. I’ve twice been «scammed» by buyers on Ebay who purchased items (my postings duly described with multiple photographs of said items), and in both cases I was quite ignored and experienced utter indifference as Ebay acted as not only enabler to those scamming me, but charged my «Paypal» incidental charges associated with the malfeasance. I’ve learned how to use Ebay in a way that I can sustain their business model of shorting the sellers to up the buyers (they skim money from goods going and coming, so they have a singular, vested interest in «buyers,» not «sellers») and not be so badly burned financially when the thieves trawling Ebay target me. I only sell trinkets and cheap items on Ebay, never posting an item of any worth, and sell over the fewest days possible to avoid giving the Ebay bottom feeders time to zero in on me. Having lost some serious cash on a motorcycle part of which a «buyer» (trawler) took possession then abruptly filed a «case» with Ebay for a refund (he kept the part and his money when Ebay quickly obliged him, ignored me utterly), I’ve learned to use other services for more costly items, such as
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Below is a message (among several «tough luck, Chump» communiques) I received from Ebay, my first realization that money had been scooped off my «Paypal» account:
We issued a refund of $ 1**** on **** 2015 to xx******xx. As described in the eBay Money Back Guarantee program, the refund includes the purchase price, plus original shipping. When we refunded the buyer for this case, we charged your preferred reimbursement payment method. Any amount that we were unable to collect from your preferred reimbursement payment method has now been added to your invoice (as shown below).
I have learned since from reading about the company and through various forums that this is standard fare and operating practices of Ebay. Though I obviously chafe at their cavalier disregard for the «seller,» I should have been more interrogative, done my research on Ebay’s business and bad reputation among sellers, and not to mention learned my lesson the first time when I thought this an anomaly, before risking my meager means on their system, hence I blame myself more than some company like Ebay (which I believe is doomed, its staying power lost, when more savvy entrepreneurs rework and build credibility into a new model). Always «mind the pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves,» as Andrew Carnegie said. In the case of Ebay activities, that means pennies in when they pony up is great, but when Ebay shorts the seller mere pennies won’t drag down the pounds. With the Ebay model you can simply chum the waters with cheap bate, but readily know that you’re drawing in the «trash fish» as well and the trophy game fish, so plan for the inevitable losses.