Buzzetta

Conveniently that was also during a time period before many states enacted what constitutes online harassment. A couple of sellers tried to take my money and run. I was in college back then and when you are at that age you have no fear of repercussions. I did things twenty years ago that I would never do now

I got nothing to contribute here for now...

That's another reason I only use the Global Shipping Program. My responsibility is to get it to the eBay distribution center in Kentucky. Once it goes to another nation eBay takes the package from there. eBay also does not allow certain countries to participate in the GSP where they feel that the postal system is a liability or detrimental to the process. I forget where to find that list but it is there embedded in the terms. Basically, if you want to ship something to a country that is not on their pre-approved list then you cannot enroll in the GSP.

If you mean figure out the weight, I bought a postal scale for $20 at Staples a few years ago that measures up to 11 lbs. With the discount given by eBay and PayPal to generate labels through them it has paid for itself MANY MANY MANY times over. I just use regular clear packing tape and tape over the label to the box. I tape it down in even stripes. I have never had an issue with anything being scanned.

Because the USPS tracking number is not as tied to eBay as some would believe. If you take a look at a USPS tracking number it appears to track the parcel as it moves through each zip code but not the actual address. eBay is also aware of some scams that could very easily exist without printing the correct label from them. Remember, the address that the buyer enters is the address that is automatically submitted when a label is generated. I know from first hand knowledge that eBay can detect when you buy the label through them and also if something is changed in the buyer's address. For example, so long as you leave the buyer's self submitted address when you go to generate a label you will see a little message in your seller screen that says, "eligible for seller protection." If you want to verify what I am talking about add a character, something innocuous like a period, or erase a period if one was submitted. Maybe add a dash or capitalize a letter that should be capitalized that was not. If you manipulate the address in any way shape or form you will see that little message in your seller screen change to, "May NOT be eligible for seller protection." or something like that. There are many reasons that eBay safeguards their labels and encourages sellers to generate labels through them or PayPal. 1 - Let's say that a buyer submits an order and lives in New Jersey. It just so happens that I have relatives that live in the same town in New Jersey. I change the street address and send my item to my relative instead of the buyer. Now, if eBay did not distinguish between what is protected and what is not, I could say, look it landed in the correct zip code therefore the buyer got his item when in reality he did not. This is a great way to scam the system. Now before you say that is a slim possibility, let's make sure we understand that in real life, I live in the same zip code as three other board members, two of which are very active on these boards. I also work in the same zip code as a fourth board member. It's a smaller world than some think. 2 - Let's go the innocent route. If you do not buy the label through PayPal or eBay and choose to do it yourself and bring it to the post office OR buy it on the USPS site itself, (Which is kinda foolish given that you get a discount from eBay and PayPal), AND the package goes missing, even if you think you did the right thing eBay can assume that you made a mistake and perhaps you wrote 110 Main Street instead of 101 Main Street. Perhaps you wrote or entered Apartment 2b instead of 4b. No one knows what happened because you did not print the label out from them. If you don't follow the rules of seller protection then do not be confused when something goes south and you did your own thing and you are not longer protected as a seller.

No... I wish... last I saw you could only block buyers who has a certain amount of incomplete or cancelled transactions over a certain time frame. If you can block zero feedback buyers then I would be interested. The problem is that eBay has been glitchy lately. A zero feedback buyer may appear that way until you click on the zero and see that there might be hundreds if not thousands of feedback. I’ve called and asked them about this and tech told me last year they were working on it. I encountered it again last week.

Apples and Apples - same stuff - try not to get tunnel vision here. In the end you are both dealing with online transactions and poor behavior... figured you were tired of hearing first person narrative examples. So when you are asking as to why I am jaded with certain things perhaps it is because I’ve seen quite a bit of nonsense across eBay and related platforms. When you see someone who decides to take the initiative and enter the realm of selling off some of their own things on their own rather than consignment or selling to a dealer at a deep discount you want to cheer them on. Instead you watch them get taken advantage of or someone tries to and to me that is discouraging. Do you really want other personal examples ? I figure you and others might be tired of them. I have a saved email where I am being yelled at by a prospective buyer that I must be some socialist or communist because I would not sell him a piece of Disney art at the price he wanted to pay. I got nasty right back. such is life though...

Correct - he’s out even more than I thought.

I do not have a label printer. I use a regular printer then I cut the label out and tape it to the box. But if you did not print the label through eBay or PayPal you are out whatever the cost of the item was.

I don’t trust privatized consignment such as consignment with a dealer (sorry dealers). Saw too much funny business going on when I was helping store owners and dealers out when I was in college. If I am not selling it myself then I consign it to a platform where I can witness the sale myself like ComicLink.

A brand new bathroom - completely gutted and redone.

Call PayPal and tell them that it’s their job to vet buyers using their service to make payments. Cite seller protection but again this only works if you printed the label through them AND the transaction went through as goods and services.

I find it to be nothing short of a dump for things that you normally could not pay people to take away for you. Very bad experience I witnessed last week as well. Didn’t happen to me but it left a bad taste in my mouth. Older gentleman found himself in a bad way and until myself and another guy helped him out (and a third guy attempted to do something) people just passed him by. Given that situation combined with what the place actually offers... It leaves a very bad taste in my mouth. Given the fact that everyone is online or has access to fb groups and eBay I realize that things will never be like some of the New England flea markets that my parents took me to in the 1980’s but surely there is better than the Bellmore Train Station flea market.

Any other Long Island open air flea markets that are worth going to? Does not have to have comics at all. I just like looking for interesting things. Bellmore Train Station is no longer on the menu.

If you win, the boards have quit us.

Yes. This is what happened to me with a known scam address at 600 Market Street in Port Reading NJ along with several others. Eventually PayPal either ate the loss or denied the credit card company their money and the credit card company ate the loss OR the person whose credit card was stolen ate the money. In the end I kept the money. You have one of two situations going on. 1 - The owner of the credit card has had their card stolen and someone is using it fraudulently. Given that you have a 0 feedback buyer though with a nonsense username, I would say this is most likely in THIS scenario. 2 - The owner of the credit card has actually made the purchase and is now declaring that the card was used fraudulently in an effort to keep free stuff. I have dealt with that as well. This is what it will boil down to on PayPal. If you printed the label from PayPal without any changes in the address then PayPal can tell that from their end. If the transaction amounted to over $750 (or is it $500) then you should have gotten signature confirmation. Remind them that you should be covered by this in the event of seller protection. It will take a couple of weeks but anytime this has happened, a printed label shows that you did what you were supposed to and you should be covered by PayPal's seller protection. If you did not print the label from eBay or PayPal then you are most likely S.O.O.L.

It's not that. It's the whole scam game going on. My friend sees what I do and decided to start break up his Jordan collection so he has offered his sneakers online. This was his first time doing this. He was ready to box it all up and ship it out and he was confused about something so he called me. As I am going through how to print a label, he asked a question that did not make sense. After further prodding, we figured out he was being scammed into sending $1200 worth of sneakers to this guy in Miami. This was NOT an eBay sale. When I urged him to call PayPal and confirm my suspicions he was asked by PayPal to refund the "buyer" because what the buyer was doing did not sit well with them either and they also believed it to be a scam. There is so much nonsense going on both online and offline.

I do because I am becoming a jaded malcontent on eBay lately. Example: Let's make believe I have an item listed for $100 WITH a BIN Buyer 1: Offers me $60 - with some explanation that this is what they are willing to pay AND... hey nooooooooww.... they will pay me immediately ! I counter at $85 saying it is the best I am going to do. Buyer 1: Offers $70 I counter at $85 saying it is the best I am going to do. Buyer 1: Offers $75 telling me that I am lucky to get the offer that they are making... I counter at $85 saying it is the best I am going to do. Buyer 1: Offers me $80 telling me that I am robbing people but he needs the book for his dying grandmother who had but one wish... for him to get the book. I decline and then raise the price of the book to $150. Then, two months later I message the buyer when the book sells for $150.

Self manufactured outrage is a hell of a thing.

I went to the LCS just to take a glance at noon. already sold out fools! I said - I do not want to buy it I merely want to thumb through it! so... we took one out of someone’s pull bag and I thumbed through the last few pages.

So how does the whole series end? Let me know... please don't make me go to the modern section of the boards.

My level of What the just went through the roof... I was going to check out and buy something... I thought I applied the coupon... and it was not working... came here to see what's what... and... It's for the usual vendors that no one wants to deal with... Lego Mustang that normally costs $150 - 15% - eBay bucks would have been amazing... Oh well.

I just noticed that you wrote this... Pete Davidson had a fun and interesting take on separating the artist from the art. I don't know if I can link it here since he pokes fun at everyone from the Catholic Church to Henry Ford. It can easily be found though since the main topic is Pete Davidson on R Kelly. Essentially though it is okay to enjoy the art as long as you can admit that these were bad people or staffed with some bad people. Own it.

Seems to be an epidemic of people having items sent to "wrong addresses" "invalid addresses" or "insufficient addresses" or simply claiming they did not receive their item. Print those labels off eBay and PayPal as they will keep sellers safe from such problems. When I first got here @mschmidt called me a luddite (yes I remember this from almost 8 years ago ) as I liked to do everything by hand. He explained himself and I embraced it back then. He was never more right in calling me out for handwriting everything at the time and I adopted printing labels within a couple of months of that conversation and never looked back. Thank you Mike

Explain this please... Has the world gone crazy? Hope the buyer actually pays $1600 for this book. It's not even over. Two ASM 252's Old Label White sitting at $550 New Label OW-White sitting at $1600 Did someone accidentally slab cocaine with the $1600 book and the buyer wants to get it back?