Jesse C.
Risky place to buy and sell
Risky place to buy and sell. Sold something on eBay for the first time in years and found it to be the most nerve-racking experience ever. eBay doesn't know how to police it's own website and it is scary. Example: I sold an expensive item via auction and the moment the auction finished I received and email from a "scam-user bot" asking me to send the item to a new address. Was given a sob story about why the address needs to be changed and nothing else. The "scam-user bot's" profile was created the same day as the auction ended and had zero information about the user. Luckily I had looked up what to watch out for, eBay was aware of this but do not know how to handle these scammers. eBay's customer service is only reachable via Twitter from what I could find and contacting them takes a day at a time per message. I was lucky that the payment went through and I sent the item to the buyer's correct address. I was also lucky that the buyer didn't decide to file a fraudulent complaint because I found out that it is common for scammers to do so. Buyers can get away with receiving the package, claiming the box was empty, and getting their money back on top of stealing from the seller. To safe guard myself for this, I recorded myself packing the item in the post office parking lot and walking it into the post office. Its that simple for scam buyers to rip off sellers.