Circumventing eBay Fees to Save Money

[RussUK]

8 minutes ago, paininthenuts said:

The clubs have arrived, and they are brilliant, almost like new. I use ebay all the time to sell and buy, but like I said, their fees are disgusting. They would have made about £8 from the seller, and it would have cost me about an extra £10. I am an extremely poor person, and this money may have been the difference between my children eating for the next week or going without. ebay don't care if my children starve to death, so why should I care about their profits ?

The wouldnt the money spent on golf clubs have been better spent on your kids?

[iacas]

26 minutes ago, RussUK said:

The wouldnt the money spent on golf clubs have been better spent on your kids?

Don't buy in to his trolling.

[14ledo81]

51 minutes ago, paininthenuts said:

The clubs have arrived, and they are brilliant, almost like new. I use ebay all the time to sell and buy, but like I said, their fees are disgusting. They would have made about £8 from the seller, and it would have cost me about an extra £10. I am an extremely poor person, and this money may have been the difference between my children eating for the next week or going without. ebay don't care if my children starve to death, so why should I care about their profits ?

 

But you don't like kids anyway... Or did you forget you told us that?

[jkelley9]

Paypal and ebay are garbage now. I started using both 13 years ago. They both have degraded over time (along with all the flip-flopping of responsibilities, acquisitions, and all that nonsense).

Fun story: I recently sold my Opti-shot 2 simulator because frankly I just didn't like it. It was literally in perfect condition. Sold it to a guy in Alabama. He was very good with communication about the transaction, had a couple questions, and then bought it for the BIN price. All good right? Wrong. Literally day 29 (of a "30-day" policy I did not know about at the time) he files a claim saying he got it defective. I got an email from the guy on that 29th day saying it's broken and that there was a sensor error. I responded and he never tried responding back to anything. He literally filed the claim minutes after sending his email, to get his money back and put on the claim that I never contacted him back... and he attached his email as a record of "trying to contact the seller." We're talking MINUTES after sending the email... Paypal said the buyer is ultimately protected for 30 days even though I said no refunds. What crap is that? He filed the claim and that money instantly was withdrawn from my Paypal account giving me a negative balance. So he was trying to game the system and he almost won. And he could have won had I not threatened to take him to small claims court. I told him he can send me the unit back and I will give him a full refund contingent on getting it back and I warned him that if he tries to give me a false package (happens ALL the time, people just send a box of rocks back to get a tracking number through paypal and a delivery receipt) that he would be hearing from my attorney and I would be taking him to small claims court. I gamed him in telling him I took pictures of the package being prepared at UPS and that UPS prepared the package and I "suggested" (knowing good well that he was a lying scumbag) that he do the same, taking pictures to (get this...) "protect himself." I gave him my lawyers name and number. Never heard from him again, I did end up getting my money back. But it was RIDICULOUS. 

It's VERY easy to abuse this policy. Even today, 13 years later, there's also all SORTS to way to fraud the monetary exchange system of Paypal. Poor sellers.

Now, if I use ebay, I go through the big-time sellers only OR someone with tons of feedback. This guy only had a few feedback ratings and I should have cut him off but I was feeling trusting, and he had a verified Paypal account (which used to mean more back in the day). When I called ebay they told me you can specify that a person have 'xyz' feedback rating to even be able to bid but I told them I didn't see that option. Maybe I just missed it. I'll surely use it in the future.

By the way, I don't agree with skipping out on ebay fees if you're using the service. I just don't like the state of the service between paypal and ebay to begin with. But I still pay their fees as should you.