Can you make a profit on Ebay?

Originally Posted by webuyselltradestuff

WOW alloy, that SUCKS....I NEVER ship something that valuable except via fedex or ups WITH signature confirmation. I know if international that is not always possible...I think UPS is the ONLY company that has that for international (and it is EXPENSIVE). I had a cell phone "lost" like that once...so my policy went to the one 2 day international shipping that gave signature...no one has taken me up on that due to the shipping costs LOL.

Anyways, anything valuable, I only offer that sort of shipping and they MUST have signature confirmation...and the BUYER pays for that...period end of story. It is about the only thing you can do....because if I have sig confirmation, then I will go up the chain on Ebay if I had to...but I probably wouldn't with sig confirmation.

I have heard all the horror stories...ALL items I send now have pictures taken of the entire shipping process in case someone what to act like a jackass....plus I either put a non noticeable mark (with a pic) in case some yahoo tries to send me back something that was broken in place of my item. Just stuff people need to do to protect themselves...and it shouldn't be that way. EBAY should be HAPPY we sell and fair for both sides.

In fact, I had an asshat tonight "change his mind" on a purchase before I sent it...guess who is opening a non payment case on them tomorrow?? At least it will be a strike on the account (I already spoke with cust ser about it and they advised me to do go that route).

I once sold a very expesive camera back that attached to a large format camera giving the photgrapgher digital capibilitys along with being tethered to a computer buyer replaced working items with junk then made a claim against me for an item not as described.

I fail to see the benifits of leaving msyelf open to the mercy of others, I refuse to participate any longer in any situation in where I no longer have total control of my life. Whats the point of dealing with someone you can not trust and this mistrust that I have starts at the corporation head.

I'm well aware of the reasons behind this corruption, the credit card vendors warned paypal that if chargebacks were to continue they would sever their services. This put the excecsutives at PP into a frenzy as 90 percent of the money passing through paypal was credit card money.

Loosing the profit generated from all that credit card cash would have meant those executives would soon be collecting food stamps, easy way out was to create buyer protection and remove the sellers ability to leave negative feedback.

Bottom line is the buyer can have the gold, I'll consider the loss as tuition, but be darned if I'm going to repeat this insanity over and over again.

Siganature confirmation on foreighn sales I can agree with you on, bet this practice impacts a negative effect on your domestic sales.

I've been a power seller three times keeping that status for months on end, tiring of the cheer leading propaganda declined a fourth invitation.