27 Jun
2024
27 Jun
'24
2:57 p.m.
Buyers aren't stupid, quality listings where it
is clear that the
seller
has put time and effort into creating the listing are appealing.
I never said they were. In fact I argued the opposite that buyers are very savvy.
If I list an item as "used" under eBay then
I make sure it's clean, I
make
sure that I have tested it and I state this. I also provide as many
photographs as eBay allows and they are of good quality. If I can't
fully test it,
Great. That is all you need to know as a buyer. The seller's reputation doesn't
really work into it - i.e. a seller with 10K FB and 20 year history on eBay who takes
grainy photos and can't be bothered to say anything about the item is not about to get
more love just because they are established or their reputation.
I list it as condition "for parts or
repair" and state
what
I've tested and what I've not.
As long as you also price it as such (i.e. Pennies on the Dollar or lower). Many sellers
pull all that crap and list it as if they were selling a Kidney....
I see so many sellers listing stuff as "used" with poor photos and
often
some "as-is" disclaimer in the text body. I don't know why sellers do
this as eBay is going to force them to take an item back at their own
expense.
"Wired for Service" anyone? LOL. Yeah lots of crappy established sellers on eBay
(see above).
I don't sell much on eBay for entirely different
reasons; I find their
fees
to be BS.
Well they got to eat too. I don't buy as much as used to because of the total and
utter lack of CSR for the customer now a days. eBay seems to forget that the guy with the
cash is the customer to be catered to not the guy listing on twenty different
platforms...
-Ali