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acadia11 Why does anyone even use eBay these days, it’s literally nothing but scammers. ..??? I’m surprised it’s still around? Reply
Dementoss Admin said: and carries a high risk of damaging the hardware. Why would the scammers care much about that, it's not like they are actually paying for it… As for eBay, I closed my account a few years ago, it's just not trustworthy. Reply
PEnns acadia11 said: Why does anyone even use eBay these days, it’s literally nothing but scammers. ..??? I’m surprised it’s still around? Exactly. It baffles me why people buy expensive stuff (or anything) there. eBay after all is an auction house, but now it's a wild west auction house for scammers. Reply
cknobman acadia11 said: Why does anyone even use eBay these days, it’s literally nothing but scammers. ..??? I’m surprised it’s still around? On top of that, for sellers, their fees are so high its not even worth selling on their platform. Ebay is just utter crap. Reply
cirdecus acadia11 said: Why does anyone even use eBay these days, it’s literally nothing but scammers. ..??? I’m surprised it’s still around? 100% I stopped using eBay because they removed all protections for sellers. I had someone send me broken SSDs in a return that weren't the ones I sold with completely mismatched serials. eBay didn't care, I footed the bill and there was no way to protect me as a seller Reply
King_V I still buy on eBay. Not a whole lot, and not pricey stuff. I've had good experience so far. Of course, the most expensive thing I've bought was around $200 recently, a used HP Elitedesk Mini, which I've been using for several days now, trouble-free. This is a bit of an outlier for me. But generally, inexpensive odds and ends, books, a CD, a 3400GE APU. I have purchased full-priced items, SSDs, but those were where the seller was either the manufactuer, or Newegg, and those were new, not used. I haven't sold anything there since about the turn of the century, I think. Reply
thrus Who wrote this? One of the examples was of a card with no GPU or memory and it was hard to detect without removing parts? And that was found after it went to a repair shop for running oddly? Um no that would be it didn't work at all. The description of that issue seems so fake I question any of the article is real or verified in any way. Reply
S58_is_the_goat cirdecus said: 100% I stopped using eBay because they removed all protections for sellers. I had someone send me broken SSDs in a return that weren't the ones I sold with completely mismatched serials. eBay didn't care, I footed the bill and there was no way to protect me as a seller Can't you say no returns on the auction? Reply
atomicWAR S58_is_the_goat said: Can't you say no returns on the auction? For tech gear ATM, you almost have to or your begging to get screwed over in the current market. Reply
txfeinbergs atomicWAR said: For tech gear ATM, you almost have to or your begging to get screwed over in the current market. Doesn't matter. You can say no returns all you want, but Ebay will still side with the buyer and over-ride that. Reply
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