Ebay is a great place to be a buyer. Absolutely fucked place to be a seller. Be nice to your sellers folks, they don’t have it that great.
Yea, eBay prioritizes the buyer, always.
But realistically, what other choice is there for a seller that isn’t Amazon to FB marketplace?
🌠 Craigslist 🌈
Actually for real, at least for the kind of aftermarket stuff I buy I usually do check CL first. I don’t use FB market because I don’t have an account and it’s a bummer how they’re a near-monopoly for local used stuff.
CL is great! I def go there first, but only for buying and selling local used stuff, I usually use eBay for things I don’t mind shipping wherever incl internationally
Maybe. As a buyer, I’ve had a few things never show up. Not stolen or anything, the tracking info says that they never showed up. But eBay still refuses to give me a refund.
I bought something that never shipped once. Seller just never responded to anything. Tried and tried to get in touch with eBay, scoured their site for contact info, but ultimately never even got to talk to anyone about it. No way to even ask for a refund.
So I called the bank and filed a charge back. And I got every penny back.
Last thing I bought from ebay never showed up. Ebay, the seller, and the delivery service all pointed at one another as the culprit. So much for buyers protection…
Never edit shipping after someone buys something, because they can screw you over and you aren’t covered by PayPal or eBay if you changed anything. You have to cancel and relist if they want to change anything like that
was wondering how the hell this benefits the buyer… if they can dispute the charge and the seller can’t refute it that makes sense
A lot of eBay buyers purchase a thing and either get buyer’s regret and want to cancel it entirely, or somehow get you to knock more off the price. This sounds like them trying to weasel out of a bid they regretted.
I’ve been permanently banned from ebay since I was 14.
Sold an original Alpha set of MTG cards for over $1k. Shipped it without tracking like a moron. Buyer disputed, claimed they never received it; ebay immediately refunded them and came after me for the funds. I said f that and walked away. They didn’t do much to try and collect (not sure they even can against a minor in Canada), but banned my account.
Since; I’ve tried to make a couple other accounts once or twice, and buy or sell stuff. Those got removed and orders cancelled within 24hrs.
Shipping without tracking is pretty dumb though. I can’t speak for Canada Post but in your neighbour to the south, USPS in my experience has lost about 3% of letters with handwritten addresses and about 1% of those with a computer-printed address.
Yup, that was really stupid. A hard lesson learned for literally the first package I’d ever shipped myself.
If I remember correctly though; ebay took the buyers side and refunded them before even informing me of the dispute. While I didn’t have evidence to refute it besides a receipt for shipping, they hadn’t really given me the opportunity to even try… Plus at 14 I wasn’t willing to lose $1k and the cards. :/
So… You got some more mtg alpha cards kickin around…?
That was well over 15 years ago now; I do not. I’d imagine the price has also risen a tad, not something I’ve looked into in quite a while. (I had sold at a similar price to comparable sets on ebay at the time)
Hindsight and all that.
It took me longer than I’d like to admit to start canceling/ghosting the idiots one meets from Craigslist and eBay encounters. These are the people who ask the dumb questions, want to haggle on something marked firm, want to meet at 123 Sketchy Blvd. at 2 AM, etc. One guy was fifteen minutes into explaining what he was using the hand truck I sold him for when I said ‘fuck it’ and closed the garage door on him.
Life’s too short for dumb people.
Is a hand truck a very small truck?
Edit: TIL, thank you for the replies.
I’m Mexican, and for some reason we call that “diablito”. Our more civilized Spanish speakers call it “carretilla de carga”.
It’s a small (often two wheeled) L shaped cart. Alternatively called a dolly.
Only the uninformed call that a “dolly”. That is a “hand-truck”. A hand truck features a vertical, L-shaped design with an upright handle, two wheels, and a small bottom ledge whereas a dolly has a raised, flat platform that typically has four wheels.
Thanks for cuming to my Ted talk
What is this, a truck for hands?!
You telling me a hand trucked this dolly?
It is a chest-high L-shaped metal tool with wheels at the corner so you can rest a heavy object on the bottom part and then lean the tool backwards to lift the load and wheel it around.
I created [email protected] for talking about selling on various online platforms and dealing with these kinds of issues. I would have told them to request to cancel or I would have to ship it within my handling time.
So you contact customer service and have it removed.
That’s a good idea, I was quite explicit in my messages with them so it might work lol
Good luck. I’ve been an eBay customer for almost 20 years and my recent experience with their customer service has been really frustrating. I’ve reached out at least five times about a manual refund request, and it still hasn’t been resolved.
Don’t get me wrong; when everything works smoothly, eBay is great. But when you actually need support, getting help can feel like an uphill battle.
“Make it look like an accident.”
‘The customer is always right’ … doesn’t mean anything any more.
Don’t get me wrong - actual customers will always have no power no matter what platform there is.
The problem these days is that sellers, competitors, marketers and salesmen have co-opted the idea of ‘customers’ to screw over the entire system for everyone - customers and sellers.
Whatever you do in online sales, whether it is selling or buying … never trust anyone and don’t promise anything beyond what you are originally expected to do.
Capitalism is like a cancer that invades, infects and destroys everything it touches. When you think it about the definitions for successful capitalism and cancer are exactly the same … runaway, unrestricted and unlimited growth is the goal.
The saying is : the customer is always right in matters of taste
Because it originally meant “… Right in matters of taste.” It should be legally required for everyone to work in food service and retail. Some people won’t change and those we can trebuchet into the sun.
Unfortunately, the “in matters is taste” line isn’t true and appears to have originated on the internet in about the last decade, being popularized on Reddit. The original phrase was “the customer is always right”, full stop.
The slogan has its origins in early 1900s retailers, as the previous predominant principle in commerce was essentially “buyer beware”, that the relationship between buyer and seller was inherently distrustful. In an attempt to gain shopper’s trust, retailers such as Sears and Marshall Field issued instructions to their employees to satisfy customers regardless of if they’re right or wrong. This led to a number of similar maxims, including the above.
Why so I care so damn much? Two reasons. First, I’m a stickler for facts and “in matters of taste” is entirely unsupported. Second, and greatest of all, is how it shifts the responsibility for encouraging bad customer behavior from the retailer to the customer, as if the customer is intentionally misinterpreting an element of the social contract for personal gain. The original intent, to require retail employees to satisfy customers regardless of their behavior, was driven by retailers for greater profits at the expense of their employees. It grooms customers toward bad behavior as they know acting out will get them a better deal or service. Sure, customers must choose to behave in such a manner, but it’s the retailers condoning and even encouraging such behavior that allows it to so easily continue.
Edit: I recommend the Wikipedia article for more info. While I don’t often suggest Wikipedia articles, I may or may not regularly curate that one.
It never meant what people think it means. It means “the customer” in the sense of "the people.” The customer as a whole, not on an individual level.
It means if you have a hat store and you sell red hats, and all of a sudden red hats are unpopular (for some reason) but purple hats become in style, stock some goddamn purple hats.
It does not mean, and never has meant: “since I am a customer what I say goes no matter what, your hats are now buy one get one free and bend over so I can stick my fist in your butt.”
“…in matters of taste” is the phrase you forgot, bud. The rest of your point is fine, but the rambling has no connection to the customer being right, just greed.
I’ve been orbiting the sun for more than 40 years and that’s the first time I’ve heard that, which doesn’t surprise me in the slightest, people will always misquote stuff for there own benefit.
I’ve been orbiting the sun for more than 40 years and that’s the first time I’ve heard that
It’s because it’s not true. It was always “the customer is always right”, full stop, originating in 1900s department stores as a slogan to encourage employees to be doormats for entitled customers. Gotta make the owners richer!
Then folks on the internet uncritically started repeating this “matters of taste” nonsense in the last decade or so, and here we are. It only bothers me because it’s demonstrably untrue and places the full responsibility for bad behavior on the customer, as if they’re intentionally misinterpreting a guideline, when it’s truly the retailer’s policies that encourage that behavior.
So what I said was right, people always change things
100%!
Dang, this one got me as well. I guess I was hoping for the good in humanity. Doing that gets harder every day…
“…in matters of taste” is the phrase you forgot, bud.
There’s no evidence of that being used originally. It was just made up by people or reddit/tiktok
On the base of the statue of liberty is a plaque that reads:
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
What that plaque should instead say, is…
Capitalism is like a cancer that invades, infects and destroys everything it touches. When you think it about the definitions for successful capitalism and cancer are exactly the same … runaway, unrestricted and unlimited growth is the goal.
Along with something welcoming immagrants to a land where immagrants are hated, and treated as less than second class citizens in a land filled with racism and hate.
I’m not saying I support or agree with these ideas. I’m just saying if we’re going to put a plaque on a symbol of our nation, it should at least be honest.
The poem wasn’t accurate even at the time.
