I have been listing some phones on Gumtree and at the final step i get an offer from gumtree to post the item on ebay without paying any final value fee. Its amazing cuz im selling a macbook for $2000 and i wont need to pay the $200 fee to ebay.
Its limited to two listings per month and no time limit to it. So i dont need to wait for the weekend to list it.
Free is better than $1 though. This is Ozbargain!
actually free is better, dunno who negged you for disagreeing….here have a plus to cancel out your neg!
I see people say this a lot, but I never have anything in mind except the 40 free listings a month.
plus GST， so $1.1 or $3.3
i am usually busy on weekends so i prefer to do it on the weekend
Makes sense.
its 3:30am sorry i am a bit confused. i meant like during the week.
Selling $2k mac books on eBay is just begging for a scammer
Never sell what you aren't prepared to lose.
True but less likely than GunTree
If you meet in a safe place or use common sense (ie don't give it to them while they are in a car….) Gumtree is far safer.
Gumtree is a seller paradise. eBoy is buyers paradise
Can you explain further?
what do u need to know?
Selling $2k mac books on eBay is just begging for a scammer
Never sell what you aren't prepared to lose.
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Because then you would get lowballers…….because this is a bargain site so naturally any offers is to be assume automatic lowball…..unless the sell price is also already at a lowball offer, then they will call you out for scamming because obviously no sane person is gonna sell something at what a lowballer would wanna offer to get….
But I guess it's ok if you're giving away shit, because there's nothing to lose….and obviously the buyer will have nothing to complain about…….since they got it for free….and if they did, well they're an idiot for not reading any details that were on the sale page….unless there wasn't in which case that would be on the seller for failing to detail all faults if any…..
I have never had such issues selling similar items on eBay. As long as you do it properly you greatly reduce the "scam attack surface", so to speak.
The infamous 'item not as described'
Anyone can claim it didn't work, send you back an empty parcel and keep your item. Often swapping the item for another not working one, like a phone, isn't rare.
eBay will force the refund through regardless what you do.
Its EXTREMELY easy to be scammed. I myself haven't, however I don't sell Apple products (which are common targets due to their ease of being able to resell to unsuspecting people), Whirlpool is full of stories.
Sure, you can have great experiences, but nothing beats cash in hand.
Wow, never thought of someone swapping in a broken item. Make sure to document serial numbers, I guess.
@Lan Mandragoran: That's what I try to do, but a clever scammer will always get you, and eBay unfortunately ALWAYS sides with the buyer
You could even video yourself opening up their returned item and they still won't take your side…
As I've said, I've never had an issue, but I'm aware of many who have, and with eBay's buyer protection, you basically have nothing to stand on.
But yeah Apple products are a huge target for these, as are other expensive phones/laptops.
I was VERY careful with selling drives recently, actually sold many 4tb SSD's recently, took photos of the serials, also of the drive tests, luckily I was ok.
@scuderiarmani: Wth.. I film myself sending parcels off if I ever post in a street box. Does that want me to do a 1hr long video from packing to sending before they believe I sent a decent product. Does feedback not speak for itself with eBay? Actual questions, I know what are hella buyer biased but I didn't know it was this bad. Maybe it's time to not accept direct debit so at least I can have PayPal resolve things if any buyers try it.
@Bargainbeth: PayPal is the problem when eBay's 30 days expires.
Basically you just hope as a seller you don't get a scammer. There's literally nothing you can do if they know the system.
@scuderiarmani: I sold an expensive electrical shit on eSuck, buyer file "item not as describe" and provide photo of item(not showing it is not working), but I tested the item before sending off, asked the buyer to send item back, he didn't!
then..eSuck/PaySuck side with buyer, so he gets to keep the stuff & money refunded. I was shocked! Go figure!
From that point on: no more selling on eSuck, let it dies!
@scuderiarmani: I made multiple calls to eSuck/PaySuck, they said they understand but they cannot do anything as system sided & money refunded.
they are simply just: theft!
@davidl2: Hmm I'm thinking that if they withdrew the money out of your account and it had to withdraw money from your bank as a result of not having enough paypal balance, bank dispute that shit? It's so wrong!
@scuderiarmani: This sucks :(. I need to list a whole bunch of stuff and EBay* (phone auto-corrects to that/what when I'm lazy with Swype) is the quickest sell site. Not using that again after this!
I did call and ask them about this after reading the thread. Got "there's nothing you can do for prevention of buyer scamming" after I explained the scenarios that could happen. And then the rep relented and mentioned that a seller could buy insurance to prevent missing item complaints, and with auspost, shipping over counter, they weigh your item.
I thought, maybe to avoid their scamming, what you do is ship your item with another item of exact weight. If buyer says "I received nothing" or "I just got a phone that didn't work, nothing that in package",then they'll know the buyer was lying. But only that's if they neglect to mention the other item.
I am now also putting a disclaimer on my eBay listings that "if you want insurance, contact me to purchase, otherwise I'm not liable for missing items due to fraud after sending".
Does anyone have any thoughts in whether this works too adequately protect myself against fraud?
@Bargainbeth: the disclaimer is not going to help you…
eSucks wrote somewhere that seller is responsible for shipping insurance,
if item ever get lost or damaged, it's not the buyer's fault but seller,
and when you try to claim insurance with shipping company,
you'll know how slow, how bad & how helpless & time/life wasted you are…
eBAY has weekly event for $1 or $3 when you list and sell, unlimited during every weekend. No need to limit yourself 2/ month