If so, you could put a shredder in the box to make confetti out of whatever you sold, and become the "Banksy of eBay." Nobody would even know you sold them crap. Doubt you are going to get $1.4million on eBay, though.
I'm trying to sell a handful of things on eBay. One Buyer successfully bid on an item and a week later there's been no payment and no response to my Messages asking what's up. No sweat on my part, as I haven't shipped. I've since found that the Buyer has an unusually high number of "Bid Retractions", despite a glowing approval rating. You'd think eBay would attach some kind of warning to Sellers when Buyers like this place a bid or perhaps provide a filter to reject Bids from habitual Bid Retractors. I'll give it two weeks. I wonder if I can annul the Buyer's bid on my own or if I have to contact eBay? What a waste of time.
Just contact eBay and they'll null the buyer's winning bid. Then add the buyer to your list of banned bidders and you won't see him again.
When FeePay stopped allowing sellers to leave negative feedback or even neutral, it inflicted more than a little harm on the sellers. Years back, when I was first selling things on FeePay, a seller still could leave negative feedback for a buyer. I had a prospective bidder send me a rather nasty message that complained about the shipping and handling for which I had asked. I had a gut feeling about him, as I was drawing on my experience with people. I checked his feedback and whaddayaknow? I was not off the mark. He had several negatives from sellers that he won an item, then sent a message that the seller had to reduce the shipping because he was not going to pay that. I blocked him iMMEDIATELY. I did not answer his message; I just blocked him. Back then, you could still contact a seller even if he had blocked you. He sent me several messages demanding to know why I had blocked him and demanding that I retract my block. I did not answer him. The feedback warned sellers away from bad buyers. FeePay concocted this story that sellers were holding buyers' feedback hostage, but it was, and still is, the other way around......................... What is worse is that FeePay allows buyers to make false statements about sellers and will not rescind those false statements even when you can prove that they are false. Much of the problem is outsourced Customer "Service" Representatives...........................ask Uber passengers about that one.........................
The bad eBay experiences can work in both directions. I have had a seller list an HO item as N scale and, when I measured it and showed him that the it had doors 12' high in N scale, plus the same item was listed by other sellers as HO scale, he just insisted that he declared it was N scale. So, I had to pay return shipping to get my refund. I don't buy from that guy any more. On the other hand, I have sometimes lost a bid on an item when I was not able to wait until the last few seconds to put my bid in, only to get a "second chance" the next morning, offering the item to me for my max bid. I don't know for sure, but I suspect that the seller may have used a shill bidding account to keep jacking up the bids until he exceeded mine, because the bidding went up in small increments from the same bidder until it exceeded mine by one bid increment. Too easy for the seller to figure out what my max bid is and then sell it to me for that, rather than for one "bid increment" above what the second highest bidder is willing to pay.
Reading your posts, there's more shenanigans underway on eBay than I ever thought and the rules do indeed seem to be loaded against Sellers. Yes, I aim to block Mr. Bid Retraction the instant I get this situation resolved. As with brokemoto, I blocked someone years ago and received a similar hate-filled raging diatribe from the guy. It's a weird world out there. On the upside, I've had several repeat eBay Buyers that have been kind with their communications and prompt with payment. I'd rather sell for less to people like this than eek out a few more dollars selling to some others.
Shilling is more common than most sellers or even FeePay would care to admit. I know more than a few people who use shills. Either they have a friend do it or they work the main account from the laptop or desktop and use a sock puppet account on a telephone. The sock puppet can conceal his real identity on the telephone because every time you turn the telephone on and off, it takes on a new IP address. I am actually aware of two sellers that FeePay banned for shilling who got popped precisely in the manner that @Maletrain mentions. I know a few who use shills who will let a couple of days pass before they offer the "second" chance, specifically to disguise the use of the shill or sock puppet. It is something that I refuse to do. I let the auction ride for what it fetches. Of course, I have a reputation to uphold there. I have had more than one buyer accuse me of being "too" honest about my offerings. Much of what is driving me to sell on FeePay is that a little while back, I realised that there was just too much junk in my house, in general, and it was time to get rid of it. Some of the stuff I can not sell, so I give it away to the Goodwill, Big Sally or whatever. The trains, at least, I can sell. I list the stuff as I find it. What I have up there depends on what I have found, lately. If I have found mostly junque, junque is what I list. If I have found mostly good stuff, good stuff is what I list. Usually it is a mixture. Most of this stuff is either equipment that I do not run any more or stuff acquired for projects that I suddenly realised that I would never even start. It took looking at much of this stuff for the projects and admitting that I had too much stuff for projects that I was not going to do. My directions changed, so I had stuff that I was not running any more, was not going to run, so it was time to get rid of it. In addition, there was stuff that had been superseded by better and more prototypically accurate models. I want this stuff gone, so I do not want something to come back because a buyer thought that he was getting something else. If I put up everything that I know about an item, the guy who bids can not state that he was not warned. What truly amazes me is the prices that some of my junque has fetched. In addition, I am amazed at the prices that some of my equipment that was obsolete but still in proper condition fetched. Meanwhile, some up to date stuff that no longer fit with my modelling priorities not only went just for opening bid, sometimes they did not sell at all. I have seen happen more than once another things that a recent poster to this topic mentioned. You can list something eighty times and not sell it, then, you list it for the eighty-first time and it draws eight bids in the first two days and a sniping war in the last hour and sells far above opening. What is even funnier is that I will find an item, list it, it sells for a good price. I find another one of the same, list it, it sells for a good price. I find a third, list it, it sells for a good price. I find the fourth, list it, it does not sell and does not even draw many views. I re-list it for best offer and STILL can not get an offer. I sit on it, list it, it gets few looks, but in the last hour a sniping war starts. I guess that you win on FeePay with perseverance.
Your situation equates to mine and I too am pleasantly surprised by selling prices. That's the big benefit of the auction process I suppose. Yep, if something is worth $100 based on a look at completed sales and I start with a price of $90, nobody bids. If I then reduce the starting price to $75, a frenzy begins and it sells for $120. Go figure. I too have reviews reading that my items were better than described and I purposely do that. I'd rather give up some money than have a problem Buyer.
I began following them, shortly after their start. I joined in during 1997. Over twenty years ago now. "...it inflicted more than a little harm on the sellers." Absolutely true. It made the entire process one-sided. As if all buyers were always innocent victims- which is simply laughable. An incredibly STUPID move on the part of that site. Life is a two way street. But they fail to comprehend the fact. Between this STUPID move, and making PP mandatory in 2008, they lost all kinds of sellers, myself included. It has been years since my last sale, and not much less since my last using them for a purchase. Meddle, meddle, meddling, constantly. While they are huge today, they could have been even larger by multiples, were it not for their constant meddling. Fools, they undeniably are....
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