I didn't mean to walk away from my own topic.
I don't usually hold back, as is probably obvious from my other posts. If anything, I overshare.
I'd say I have had a high rate of things suddenly not working on arrival but, to be fair, there were only a few of things I didn't list "as-is." With one of them, I was told they wanted a return because it arrived and didn't work. I asked them if the box looked damaged and they said, "Oh yeah" and sent me a pic of a hole the size of a hockey puck in the box, punching clear into the contents. Hard to believe they didn't see that when they received it. I sell lots of little, weird devices but I can't functionally test any of it for one reason or another. Some of it powers on, at least, and I'm feeling like I'm losing out on the upsell because I am mitigating my risk with the "as-is," concerned that if it gets jostled too hard in shipping I will get stuck with a loss, which seems to be a pattern. I wasn't sure if the Valet program would help smooth that over for me. But that's always the trade-off in playing close to the chest, that you lose out on the big wins.
Bookmarks