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
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”.
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.
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
Hopefully, Flohmarkt will be widely in use in the near future (Press F to doubt 😢)
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.
‘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.
“…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.
“…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
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.”
The saying is : the customer is always right in matters of taste
That machiavellianism I never would have thought-of.
sigh
Thank you for telling us about it.
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