All posts by : Robert Johnson

Sellers beware .
I’m now so through with ebay. . No more international sales no returns ..

I have been an ebay user from  the early days, in fact I was a great believer. No more.

Here me out.

I thought the old days the were bad. I called the 90’s era  the wild west. ebay was new ,and having to deal with fraud as ebay  got sea legs. –  But today they have virtually taken all sellers rights away and given buyers carte blanche to rip off sellers.  They have become an incompetent  service in facilitating international transactions  Here is why you should immediately no longer accept returns- and international transactions on ebay .

The fact they do not tell buyers which shipping service will make transaction compliant with their own delivery confirmation policies. Only about 16 countries have first class international tracking thruUSPS .

,Buyers will open Item not received cases and you will loose if you do not have proof of tracking.  Priority is country by country as tracking compliant. Prepare to lose money on Item not received cases.

The inability to make the first class label system function – Jan 21 2018 no longer has first class labels in system using USPS. This was an affordable way to ship small items. Now it no longer is functioning on ebay. Its not worth the cost to ship international as the cost likely will far exceed value

If you are a user you will realize they have buyer protection programs in place, sellers are required to pay for both shipping and return shipping.  But you likely  cannot make a return label  to countries outside the USA or whatever  country you are in.  I am in the USA.

Buyers are aware of the  way to get their item free  here is ow it works-  the New international ebay shipping return fraud scam sweeping ebay ..

This is the new fraud scam and sellers are getting burned, After reading other posts , blogs and reports this is an epidemic. If you sell internationally on ebay its the wild west again. ebay has no structured policy in place for a return or case requiring a return.

Here is how you rip off sellers from another country . Buy something expensive- ideally heavy as well, claim it does not work-item not as described- wrong color, shipped upside down –   what ever– just make up an excuse that requires the seller to pay for a return – You do not need to offer proof.   even if it works that’s fine, doe not matter just open the item not as described or defective-  case- – open a case then  stall – just stall – when seller opens a return your in luck since sellers cannot create a label and its impossible to actually get anything done out of country to get shipping paid in advance- you as the buyer win.  you can say it will cost  maybe 2 times or three times the actual cost to ship back to the seller, it doesn’t  matter you as the buyer do not have to offer any proof of shipping service or tracking in advance.  Some sellers might just pay you but don’t worry you will probably also get this money meant for the return as well and not have to send the item back.