[Milsurplus] Fw: Beware this seller!

[Peter Gottlieb]

Ebay changed the game to strongly favor the buyer.  A seller can no longer leave 
negative feedback for a buyer; the only recourse is through the slow, labor 
intensive and cumbersome official complaint system.  But what's the surprise?  
All over the place ebay claims to give buyers all sorts of protection but I 
haven't seen anything from them promising to give a seller any protection.  It's 
interesting because although ebay has far more buyers than sellers and their 
marketing is geared towards attracting that large pool of market money, it is 
actually the sellers which pay ebay and from which ebay makes their profits.

They have a lot of temporary monopoly protection through questionable patents, 
but in the grand scheme of things those will run out in the not too distant 
future and they will be unseated.




On 4/3/2011 11:45 PM, KD7JYK DM09 wrote:
> : Actually, accepting a check or Money Order is not officially against eBay
> : policy.  You just can't say in an ad that you will do so.
>
> Many do, even go so far as to say a buyer will receive an automatic negative
> for attempting to pay via paypal.  I guess it's not enforceable since it's
> ebays policy and not the sellers and a seller can always prevent ebay for
> earning more money with such idiotic games.  It's in ebays benefit to
> suggest such a policy, then never speak of it again.
>
> : However, you must have some other way to accept electronic payments
>
> It makes it easy for ebay to debit you, so they can get their insertion fee
> and sales cuts.  You still don't have to use or accept online payments, but
> ebay will still want their money in some fashion.  I wonder if paypal takes
> a major cut when you pay ebay?  Used to be they'd send you a bill once a
> month.
>
> Of my other two accounts, I buy with no connection to banks, debt or credit
> cards or ability to pay online or receive payments online, no problems.
> Un-related user name, bogus address, fake phone number, no other personal or
> banking information or anything else actually required or verifiable to make
> or use the accounts, just a valid e-mail address so we can make contact for
> the transaction after an auction is won, no problems, ever.
>
> Kurt
>
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