Sold ps3 to buyer with 0 feedback

pearl123

OP if you really don't want to take the risk then tell the seller that the item has been damaged. (I personally do like to honour transactions. You know - treat people how you'd like to be treated!)

You will probably have to accept that they will leave a negative for you, which could affect your selling abilitly for a while. But if that is less painful to you then perhaps that is the way you should go. I personally would have had the item off in the post buy now!

Any customer/buyer could turn out to be a problem. I just had one - "photo does not look like item!" If you can't afford large losses then maybe it would be best to stick to lower value items then at least if you do get stung it won't be so sharply felt.

The percentage chance of the other forum member saying Peterborough must be huge!

Crowqueen

Report them for what? They are only asking it to be sent securely - many people don't know the difference between special delivery and recorded if they don't sell - they have paid, send it properly insured.

pearl123

Crowqueen wrote: »

Report them for what? They are only asking it to be sent securely - many people don't know the difference between special delivery and recorded if they don't sell - they have paid, send it.

I would agree how can you report them. You don't have any evidence of wrong-doing! At the moment its just a buyer who's paid with no feedback.

It you don't want to send it - then accept the feedback negative.

soolin

Oh dear, I think it probably best if I say nothing much here at all.

However, I would just ask, OP, if you are worried about selling a £150 item on ebay- why did you list it there? Surely small local ads or facebook selling might have been better.

scorpianking02

Crowqueen wrote: »

Report them for what? They are only asking it to be sent securely - many people don't know the difference between special delivery and recorded if they don't sell - they have paid, send it properly insured.

Of course they would want it sent properly insured. Please explain the deal with the feedback and messages to me though. Clearly something's up. My buyer wanted it posted to East Sussex by the way.

pearl123

Who said the punctuation was the same?

soolin

43k_in_43m wrote: »

Just out of interest Soolin what would you like to say about this - some completely unrelated transactions months apart with common elements

1) Buyer has zero feedback
2) Item is same
3) Identical message (down to the poor punctuation)

I'm struggling to come up with an explanation - all I know is that my transaction worked

Many new buyers believe it is up to them to ensure that their goods are sent properly tracked- hence them wanting to make sure the seller uses some sort of tracking. I assume none of the messages are cut and pasted so it is merely a case of that is roughly what they said.

OK, we all know recorded is a poor choice for such an item, but there is a fair chance it will track to delivery which would mean a scammer losing a basic INR claim- surely a scammer would be wanting it sent completely untracked?

soolin

43k_in_43m wrote: »

My message is cut/pasted & believe the OPs is as well - coincidence ?

So the suggestion is, if i understand this correctly that buyers in dfferent parts of the country are somehow part of a network, that scams on these items and are given a basic English email to send?

Why ask for tracking, why move around the country?

It's up to the OP whether they feel they are able to understand how to protect themselves on ebay- but can can obviously discount any INR claims or 'bank chargeback' claims as they are easy to defend- which only leaves a SNAD scam.

Crowqueen

I'd wonder how people here would treat the same buyer if they had 100 or even 1,000 feedback. Just another reason to scrap buyer feedback entirely, proof that it messes with sellers' heads, and force sellers to sell blind - so people don't get the choice, like they don't elsewhere.

The time to do a risk assessment is before you list. After you sell and they pay, you cannot pick and choose whom to sell to. Full stop. I wouldn't sell an £150 item on eBay myself; with electronics I'd be worried about posting them, given that one false move in the post and your buyer ends up with a useless hunk of plastic and metal - but I wouldn't even list it and take a chance; I'd go down to Computer Exchange with it.

soolin

43k_in_43m wrote: »

I'm perplexed which is why I'm interested in others views - my transaction worked but it's interesting to see someone else agonising in the same way that I did.

My assumption is that it's done with duff credit cards and the buyer is then doing a runner

Then paypal suffer not the seller.

Your transaction was fine, I can't see why people are desperately trying to prove this is a scam- if a seller doesn't know how to protect themselves against an INR or bank chargeback then like Crowqueen suggests, selling on a different venue may have been a wiser choice. I'm not sayign this is definitely NOT a scam, but I see little evidence of a scam so far that cannot be avoided.

OP, out of interest what postage method did you actually quote?