Note to people who sell on e-bay: tracking. Never send anything before it’s paid for, never send anything without tracking - and specify “no international sales” unless you’re willing to take the risk.
“Note to people who sell on e-bay: tracking. Never send anything before it’s paid for, never send anything without tracking - and specify “no international sales” unless you’re willing to take the risk.”
That is what I do when I do sell something. Cash in hand before shipment and no international sales.
That’s all true. And I would add - document the condition of anything you sell.
I once sold a used hard drive, and included with the drive as shipped a current condition report generated by a utility that spent all night testing the drive for bad sectors, etc.
A few days later the buyer sent me an e-mail claiming that the drive was defective; that I had not provided him with the “password” and for that reason his reformatting had failed rendering the drive useless.
I refused him a refund, he took it to eBay, I presented all the evidence, including proof that no drive has an “internal” password, that the drive was good when I shipped it, and that by his own admission his own ignorance had cost him the drive.
eBay saw things my way. This was the worst experience I ever had buying or selling on eBay - literally hundreds of transactions. And it really wasn’t that bad.