[AceOfHearts]

Originally Posted by Sea_of_Roses

Greetings


I just made a E-Bay account and am selling a new jacket----does anyone have any experience with e-bay?

Assalmu alaikum,

I use Ebay, but I have had a very bad experience there (a scam) few months back. It was with an expensive and sought after item I was selling.

After the scam, I discovered under the fecade of reliablity and security advertised everywhere, PayPal are actually very unreliable when it comes to protecting you. I have now stopped using them and will not go back ever.

If you wish to continue using PayPal, I would recommend you do not leave any lump some of money in there, withdraw it into your account as soon as possible, as soon as a large some of money comes in. Dont leave it in there as they could 'freeze it' indeffinately and then take it off you with some reason.

Do not despatch a really expensive item to unconfirmed addresses, rather to confirmed address, if you want use PayPal, .

PayPalSucks.com is where you will learn about the PayPal Class Action Lawsuit, Abuse, Fraud & evil behind the PayPal system!
Paypal Problems, Information, Issues, Class Action Lawsuits - PayPal
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Keep a receipt of postage if possible, in case the buyer claims they have not received it.

Make sure you are charging sufficient for postage and packaging. Know roughly how much certain weighs will cost to send. Remember you have to package the item too and take it over to the post office, so charge enough postage money to cover all these costs, as you dont want to eat into the money you made for the item itself as this could mean you make no profit selling the item or even lose out.

Thats all I can think of for the time being. Generally, the cheaper the item, the safer the transaction.

[shadha]

I'm not a huge fan of it, I bought a few items off of there before though. I lost my first bid the other day, I was a bit upset. I totally forgot about it.


shadha-

[YOUSUFofSD]

sniping is what its all about!

[pure]

Originally Posted by AceOfHearts

Assalmu alaikum,

I use Ebay, but I have had a very bad experience there (a scam) few months back. It was with an expensive and sought after item I was selling.

After the scam, I discovered under the fecade of reliablity and security advertised everywhere, PayPal are actually very unreliable when it comes to protecting you. I have now stopped using them and will not go back ever.

If you wish to continue using PayPal, I would recommend you do not leave any lump some of money in there, withdraw it into your account as soon as possible, as soon as a large some of money comes in. Dont leave it in there as they could 'freeze it' indeffinately and then take it off you with some reason.

Do not despatch a really expensive item to unconfirmed addresses, rather to confirmed address, if you want use PayPal, .

PayPalSucks.com is where you will learn about the PayPal Class Action Lawsuit, Abuse, Fraud & evil behind the PayPal system!
Paypal Problems, Information, Issues, Class Action Lawsuits - PayPal
PayPal - Horror Stories, Lawsuits, PayPal Problems & Information - PayPal Account

Keep a receipt of postage if possible, in case the buyer claims they have not received it.

Make sure you are charging sufficient for postage and packaging. Know roughly how much certain weighs will cost to send. Remember you have to package the item too and take it over to the post office, so charge enough postage money to cover all these costs, as you dont want to eat into the money you made for the item itself as this could mean you make no profit selling the item or even lose out.

Thats all I can think of for the time being. Generally, the cheaper the item, the safer the transaction.

ive been using paypal for years and ive gotten no problems. those websites you posted are from people who have no idea how to use PayPal, nonetheless know how to protect it. it's so simple but people have problems, when you want to buy something log in and hit pay, when you want to withdraw money press withdraw, and easily log out.

[AceOfHearts]

Originally Posted by pure

ive been using paypal for years and ive gotten no problems. those websites you posted are from people who have no idea how to use PayPal, nonetheless know how to protect it. it's so simple but people have problems, when you want to buy something log in and hit pay, when you want to withdraw money press withdraw, and easily log out.

I did not have problems using PayPal for years either. It was only when I sold a really expensive item, the buyer 'reversed' the payment and PayPal 'froze' my money. After researching, the same buyer (scammer) was pulling the same scam on many other genuine sellers. I and others informed PayPal of this user, however they still authorised the reversal and took my money in the order of £500 or $1000.

I found many many cases such as mine on the internet, and PayPal seems to not bother much about taking money from the genuine seller insted of carrying out a real investigation and rejecting these money reversals from these known scammers.

I have just closed my PayPal account parmanently today and never see myself going back with them. I would still say for small transactions, such as a used jacket, chances of scams are very low on PayPal, HOWEVER: one advise for all would be not let your funds build up in your PayPal account. Withdraw it immediately when it reaches any amount not worth losing! If PayPal have hold of your money, they could simply freeze it indeffinately without giving you any reasons as to why (I have read cases of this). If you withdraw it, they cant do anything to your money.

All seems jolly with PayPal as it was with me. I never immagined PayPal would turn into such a nightmare all of a sudden. As a lot of people who have been ill-treated and scammed by PayPal will say, you will never think something can go wrong until it does with PayPal, then you're on your own.

[GOTFIVEONIT]

i used to buy and sell on ebay. i dont anymore because of the tough competition by the wholesalers. the wholesalers flood ebay with goods at dirt cheap wholesale prices that are often hard to compete with. Plus alot of thier goods i can find here in the stores if i pay just a few dollars more. so why should i wait when i can walk into a store and buy the item right away. What i have learned about ebay, is that its best for people who live in the middle of nowhere, where many things are just not available, like hijabs for example. Then they have no choice but to rely on mail order. So if you want to sell more than just hijabs, like say shalwar kameez, quran's, even on cd and dvd etc, then ya, you will have a good market there to sell too. You will be amazed at how many people from all over america flood into Chicago's devon avenue just due to the fact that many of the items there, that come straight from pak and india are not available in say, kansas city, or memphis, tenn.

[RestlessSoul]

my recent experience with paypal:

I signed my mom using her discover card to automatically pay her long distance phone line. I don't know how this even happened, but a guy in the UK used her account to purchase a cell phone worth ~440 british pounds ($880). at this point, we didn't even know this had occurred. in the meantime, something prompted paypal to investigate, with the end result being a reversal of the money. unfortunately, the value of the dollar had dropped by then, so my mom ended up losing $40 total after the currency was converted.

only after my mom received her discover card statement did she find out that all this had occurred (the initial charge and the reversal). i'm still trying to contact paypal to figure out what happened, but it makes me leery that someone could utilize her account so easily.

[Blue_Phoenix]

I don't have any experience with Ebay and God Willing I never will. I'm just not comfortable with the idea of online auctions. Not just Ebay, but other online auction sites too.

Ironically enough, these sites have been huge boosters of my writing. Many of the reviews I've written have found their way to auction sites, either through links or outright copy-pasting.

[Aryan_]

Originally Posted by Blue_Phoenix

Ironically enough, these sites have been huge boosters of my writing. Many of the reviews I've written have found their way to auction sites, either through links or outright copy-pasting.

You should sue them for stealing your description of brillo pads.

[curiousgirl]

Shipping and duty costs piss me off