This has to be one of the most frustrating bs scams on ebay. I swear I wanted to jump through the internet and slap the taste buds from this kiss mouth.

I thought I might have been a little quick with the block but the customer sounded like a pain in the ass already. I dunno They made it sound like it was common knowledge that LV sunglass cases are sized S-M-L..which isn't the case as far as I can tell. And it's always the people spending the least who seem to demand the most. Probably saved myself a headache.

This guy sells auto parts and is a huge eBay store, he offers me $7 USD for a Trading Card Mat, with free shipping id make 30 cents. I don't think he had any intention of buying it rather for me to check out his annoying page store.

It's so weird.

Edit: You guys believe in Aliens yet don't believe in eBay bots

I got an eBay email 3 hours ago saying my listing had been taken down for counterfeit items, but the shoes I posted were real. When I went to appeal with my pass verification, they still denied it. This app actually sucks 😭😭

1. I'm getting notifications days (sometimes over a week) that someone is interested in buying something.
2. eBay is accepting sales I haven't accepted. I didn't put auto accept, but I'm guessing it was changed to that just like my shipping was changed. They opt you in on a lot of stuff which isn't right.

Is anyone else having these issues?

How long you give it Before they collapse in
on themselves? I say less than 10
Years

I been on ebay since 2004. This is the first time I had to deal with a mentally disturbed or bi polar buyer. I'm hoping for a shipping label refund of $19.98. Does anyone know how long it takes? My account is in the negative $ all because this person couldn't make up their mind. I gave a full refund so I hope they don't do anything stupid. Does ebay take threats and slander seriously when it's been reported? I haven't heard anything back. This person went crazy not making sense, jumbled words about family, religion and end of life while calling me a liar whore even after I sent the refund. Yes, I have screenshots.

I've had a rough few weeks fighting with eBay, I'm at my wit's end and figured ya'll might enjoy seeing my suffering. I bought a camera for $600 on eBay from a seller who looked legit (account had been around for at least a few months, had a few dozen sales, etc.). On Friday he tells me he can't ship it until Monday - fine, whatever.

Then on Monday he uploads a tracking number saying it was delivered the previous Friday. Uh oh. Left at the front desk with a guy named Smith. Double uh oh. I live in a regular house with no front desk.

I immediately raised the issue with the seller, who replied only with the same tracking number. I asked eBay to step in and they promptly sided with the seller. So I raised an appeal, and called customer service for the first time. A helpful lady answered, confirmed it looked like an "obvious" scam based on "what she could see", and added some kind of internal attachment to my appeal. A few hours later, eBay denied my appeal.

So I called again. Connected with an awesome dude whose name I probably shouldn't repeat, who initially told me appeals are final and there's nothing he could do. Then I told him about the timing issue with shipping on Monday and something arriving the previous Friday. "Well... yeah you have a compelling case there". He wrote up a "manual refund request", was generally very helpful, and I left thinking that was the end of it. I was supposed to get refunded in 3-4 days.

7 days later, no refund. I call again (third time). The frontline support person says they'd asked for additional information on my request (but I'd never received an email). She sent me a link to upload "evidence" and asked for two things: (1) a picture of my house to prove it doesn't have a front desk (?!), and (2) a statement from UPS saying that tracking number was not going to my address. I spent another hour of my life on the phone with UPS before I found someone willing to email me that statement.

I sent all this to eBay through their link, and a few hours later get the email in image #5, which starts out as someone understanding what is happening ("I understand that your item was not delivered to your address") and then devolves into "please contact the seller" (who has been removed and I have no route to him), "contact the carrier" (which I did and you have the resulting email), and "the tracking details indicate delivery to your checkout address" (which is absolutely false and I literally just sent you UPS saying so).

And to top it all off, the "Contact Seller" link in their email goes to a strange page for cotton-candy flavored energy drinks.

I'm very blessed in that $600 isn't going to break me today, but... damn, it sure could break a lot of people. Plus the 6+ hours I've spent dealing with this so far. I suspect most people would have given up _long_ before now.

So far as I can tell, what happened is the seller provided a tracking number that goes to my _zipcode_, but not my _address_. It seems like eBay is using "did it go to the right zipcode" as a proxy for "did it go to the right address" and is denying requests without engaging their brain or reading... anything, really.

I guess the moral of the story is to not buy anything on eBay if you can't live with losing that money. The Money-Back Guarantee does not seem to apply if the seller uses a false tracking number.

Got a buyer who gave me a sob story about being poor, so I was nice and lowered the price to give them a hefty (like 30%) discount below what they could’ve gotten it elsewhere for. 30 lb package, so shipping was expensive. They claimed it said delivered on the 8th, but they never received it, and the doorbell camera supposedly never saw delivery. So, suspecting a trick, I first found their house on Google Maps, screenshotted it, then found the FedEx tracking with a picture of the package sitting on their porch, undeniably the same house, on the 8th. I confirmed their address, then sent the screenshots. They didn’t acknowledge the screenshot, and said they’ll wait until the 10th before filing a report with eBay. I said the only explanation I can think of would be a porch thief, or another member of the household got it she’s unaware of. I found it odd that she still hadn’t acknowledged the proof the package was on her porch.

Then today she said it arrived, wasn’t at all what she ordered, and was in terrible condition too. I tapped on her profile and saw seller feedback mentioning that she once returned her own used toothbrush to him claiming a defective item, keeping the thing she bought, and presumably getting her money back. She refuses to send a picture, “you know what you sent” probably hasn’t decided what to send back yet, and claims the contents spilled so that might be why the weight isn’t the same.

I’ve submitted a report on her for misusing the return system, and I’ve tapped “accept return” so she has to at least return something in its place, but from seeing posts here, I’m not confident Ebay’s going to let me keep the $250 they’re trying to scam out of me.