Thread: Advice for Selling Straights on Ebay?

Make sure you spell everything out as to returns and conditions (of sale) and shipping and payments you will accepts. Most (I think) don't or can't read too well anyway but if there are issues after the sale you can refer them back to the conditions of the sale they didn't bother to read. Emphasize it's a used item and the photos (no matter how good) will not show every little defect.

You don't want to get victimized by the gotcha game where someone gets the item and goes over it with a 10X loupe and tries to claim defects you didn't disclose.

Once you start selling you will eventually run across a walking horror story.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Once you start selling you will eventually run across a walking horror story.

Speaking of horror stories. I once sold a razor that was shipped to a PO Box in Texas near the Mexican border and after I shipped it I got a message from the buyer that he wanted an invoice from me stating a lower cost/value of the item because he was going to have it transported across the border with a separate courier since he was currently there on business even though he lived in the US. Anyway since I already mailed out the razor I didn't send an invoice though I wouldn't have anyway. After the razor was confirmed with tracking to be delivered I got a message stating that the razor was never received and a complaint was opened up before I could respond. I told him that the tracking confirmed delivery and that he should talk to the courier that was suppose to transport the razor. He must have forgot he told me about the courier because after that I stopped receiving messages from him. Since he sent all the messages through Ebay they were able to check them and see he stated a second courier and they contacted him. The complaint was closed right after they contacted him. Can't stress tracking enough. You will always find someone that will try and cheat you. Granted there are many honest people out there, but once in awhile there is the one dishonest person.