I used to do a lot of ebay selling a while back, started in around 1999. Thanks to the vast number of yard/garage/carport/etc. sales around here, and with the population here being pretty oblivious to technology, I was one of the few people in the area aware of ebay?s existence. I was making at the peak around 7k a month (not fucking bad at all considering I only did around eight hours of work a week getting the items and listing them) until 2k3 when the people here finally realized there was an interweb. At 2k3, the same amount of work only netted about 1k profit ? 7x less money, same amount of work. Was retarded to continue.
That said, I had fun and sold some amazing things on eBay. One Sasha doll (some European doll) I bought for a quarter netted me 200 bucks, giving a profit of like 80000%, was fucking insane. Most of the people buying were good, but I had a few bad apples who either didn?t pay (which like in your case) in which you pretty much just have to ignore and move on as it was an hassle to deal with them for such small amounts of cash. It?s not worth your time to worry about them. Then you had the assfucks who claimed to never received the item (which is why I started to require at a minimum they get tracking on their packaging), but honestly even those were easy going compared to some of the true scammers lmao.
I had a pretty good policy which worked for most people, any item DOA they could send back for their money back, if the item was different than described they could get their money back, etc. The absolute best scammers I ever got are the ones who will buy a fairly expensive item, get it, and try to claim it was DOA or otherwise not working and send it back ? when I get the package and see the items, sure enough they are broke. Thing is, the item(s) aren?t the same what I sent out. Turns out these crazy bastards were getting broke items on the cheap (probably from eBay), buying a working item from me (and others), and trying to ship their broken item back.
I bet they sure were surprised when I let them know that I UV-stamp the majority of my items with a unique identify as well as photograph serial numbers, etc. Most of them shut their mouths about getting their money back after that, only had a few try to get their money back through resolutions (guess they figured ebay/pp would fall for their shit). After I provided the info to eBay/PayPal, they always got rejected. I wish I could still find good deal like I used to, wouldn?t mind start selling again on the side? I really enjoyed doing it.
