Ebay Is Dead To Me
What is wrong with Ebay these days? I’ve tried to sell two items more than three times now, and every time the auction has been cancelled because of fraudulent bidding.
I’m at a loss, and for me it’s time to find something different. Six auctions and six fraud cancellations means there is something seriously wrong.
To top it off, if Ebay finds that someone has bid on your item with a stolen account – they will just delete the auction, so you lose the entire thing. There is no hope of you getting the content back, so you have to re-write it from scratch. That’s enough to put anyone off re-posting it.
I even make sure it’s perfectly clear that I would never ship to Africa or Asia, in the hope that it would stop some fraudsters. Of course that never works out.
Why don’t they just entirely block countries like Nigeria? It’s not like they have an “Ebay Nigeria” anyway. Perhaps that would be too harsh, but that seems the source for most fraud right now.
How has your experience been? If anyone can gladly point me in the direction of an auctioning site that isn’t riddled with fraud, I’d be happy to put my items up there.
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When you list an item to sell, I think there is an area near the end of the listing page under Additional Information called Buyer Requirements. You can check the box that will block buyers who are registered in countries to which you don’t ship.
No use Ken – I did that, but it made no difference, they just sign up with a US address and they’re in. Thanks for the help in any case.
Same experiences, Andy. And I’m also an ebay buyer, and this is the third time, I’m buying an item that doesn’t exist! And the sellers continue to spam me and trying to sell me other items out of ebay!
Selling or buying has become a stress full thing on ebay. Too bad that’s their business!
Nice day
Dixyt
PS :
one advice to new comers on ebay, create a specific email address just for ebay! It’ll save you some spam troubles!
I’m from Nigeria, and I find it offensive what you say about Nigerians. Nigeria has more than 100.000 people online, you want them all blocked because some 20 spammers are causing you problems? And you know most of them are from other countries?
You silly you. You think that your country has some preordained right to use the internet, and ours not?
Not at all Johnson, all I’m saying is that there is no Ebay Nigeria – so why would it make a difference if you can’t access Ebay at all?
I’ve no doubt that it is only an extremely small fraction of Nigerians causing an issue, but that small fraction causes many issues with a large fraction of people who do have Ebay in their country.