Hit $5k gross sales this week.
Always hear about DVD/VCR player scammers.
Think it's completely absurd and there's no way that people in their 60's-70's actually make a living scamming people on eBay for old ass DVD players/VCRs
Sell old DVD/VCR combo.
Mentally ill retard targets me, and scams the FUCK out of me
what the actual fuck?!
5k sales in 1 week? What did you sell that is impressive. I stopped selling those DVD players because of buyers not knowing how to use them are the burner drive has failed. They are good money if they are sealed but theres always a risk some boomer will open it up and change his mind. My sales are some of the worst ever in many years.
How did you start and what'ya selling?
I sell sealed cards that are in the 200 - 5
1000 range. I have zero sales since January. Its over! Lucky for me i don't rely on this for main income
I just got hit by one too. I had already sold some to him previously without problems, but I knew since it's an Amazon reseller it was only a matter of time until he pretended one I sold him "doesn't work"
Was your scammer from King of Prussia by chance?
Imagine getting absolutely MOGGED by the DVD/VCR boomer Chad. KWABOTY
Add these names to your block list btw
bradsbookshop
klivent-0
smartbuysdeals
tiptop-trade
shenyon-0
shenyon-9
709394qm
mhua7243
If you sell a VCR/DVD combo and the person has thousands of feedback, especially 10k+, check their feedback and if they have a ton of feedback from buying VCRs, cancel the order for "problem with address" and block them
Nah, easy to fuck them. Take all the pics and a video of you inserting dvd and showing shit works. They will NOT win against you.
You should tell him from an alt e-mail that he won a grand prize and you just need his address to send it to him and show up and rape him hahaha that'd be really funny :)
Wish we could sell on eBay without being dependent on Paypal
2000+25
selling on ebay
You get what you fucking deseeve.
ebay fucking sucks dick anymore. i'm looking at buying broken lab/industrial equipment and fixing it but the costs of "for parts and repair" shit is 70-110% of the cost of a used, working condition model.
i live like 15 mins from kop. what is their address?
That might dissuade these guys from buying from you but it's not perfect. They can just make up any reason for their selective scam. And one of the guys who did this to me even somehow made the VCR produce an error message. When I received it back it worked perfectly just like when I had sent it to him. I tried various things to get it to give an error message and couldn't even get it to do it on purpose. I asked the buyer what he did to get the error message and they gave me a pic a related a Chinese messageu
Very broken deviceu error show up "randomry". I sold it again to someone else and never heard about it again
Buyer protection fee forces me to lower my actual price
"Simple delivery" retarded courier options with higher prices that force me to lower my actual price
No listing fee but if you don't enable >10% promotion your shit gets hidden
Copied Vinted shitty model of getting paid 3 FUCKING DAYS AFTER DELIVERY
Courier tracking not syncing with ebay? Wait till the EOM to get paid for your item, chud
Get scammed in an increasing amount of ways
I could sell anything on eBay once upon a time, the shittest of junk. Now I can't even sell quality items at a decent price.
a couple years ago i sold something on jewbay and the guy wanted to do a local pickup. when we were coordinating a meetup address jewbay threatened to ban me for trying to circumvent recognizing the sale on jewbay and paying the absurd fees.
ebay was awesome back in mid 2000s up until like 2015. now it's nothing but kikery.
sorry bro
i stopped doing independent selling of shit on amazon/ebay around 2010 after I got scammed from a fraud refund request which killed by bottom line for the quarter
The last time I did a collection, it was after the new rules where the person has to give you a code or scan their QR code to confirm collection and cash on collection was removed as a payment option.
I sold something to some boomer that just wanted to hand me cash and walk away.
He couldn't get his head around the idea he had to do something extra, I got him to pay online like he should, but after being stood with the boomer for 20 minutes while he fumbles around and calls someone, I just said whatever, don't worry about it and of course he got home and put a claim in (my fault I know!) and got his money back as well as having the item. Had no problem with any cash on collection in the past but the first and only time I use this new system it's a painful fuck up.
Scammed a few weeks ago after selling something which the courier lost, so I had to refund the buyer and make a claim with the courier. The courier then suddenly finds it and delivers it, meaning buyer has item and money now, and the claim with the courier closes but they have delivered the item.
Of course met with silence from buyer when asking him to do the right thing and pay up.
The jeets on customer support are powerless to do anything about the account, telling me to report him from within the chat as "fraud is very serious and his account will have consequences" , of course the account is still active.
Whats the point of their scam? How does it work
ebay was awesome back in mid 2000s up until like 2015. now it's nothing but kikery.
Oh that's crazy, 2015 is when I tried to sell something on ebay and got scammed because I rarely used it.
boomers randomly scamming people
I swear we're going to see a bunch of cases of boomers getting brutally murdered over the next few years and the cunts will have no clue why that's happening to them. Pieces of shit.
Can't say.
No.
Thanks.
?? what
Buy DVD player/VCR.
Steal parts out of it
Return it.
Or
Buy DVD player/VCR
Throw a tantrum for no reason claiming it's late/arrived damaged/whatever
Return something else.
I've read the whole thread and it feels like being ported back to 2003. Who uses VCR/DVD? Is this an elaborated joke?
Enthusiasts/Collectors
This 100%.
I bought an old VCR a while back to transfer tapes to my PC.
My best friend is an indie filmmaker who's currently producing a movie that's set in the 2000s, and part of the plot involves a video rental store, so he had to buy several functional VCRs off eBay to use in his movie.
Hit $5k gross sales this week.
What do you sell? I thought eBay was dead
They buy VCR/DVD combos (among other things) to resell either on Amazon or back on eBay. Since they're buying hundreds of them a month, they selectively scam a certain percentage of the people they buy from with false returns/defective claims, hoping you'll let them keep the perfectly working item for free instead of paying to have the "broken" item returned to them.
Either you call their bluff and lose the original shipping + return shipping, or lose the perfectly good item + shipping. They never get caught because they have plausible deniability and they don't lose anything by doing it.
Oh and like the other guy said, especially dishonest pieces of shit will do this but if you tell them they have to return it they'll take parts out of it, or keep the remote, or do whatever they can to steal from you. The "grey hat" scammers just return the working VCR back to you
Such an insanely jewish scam btw. It's not theft if they willingly let you keep the VCR right? So what if I lied about it being broken oy vey the Talmud said it's okay to lie to goyim
How do you fellas deal with taxes? Is it worth setting up an S-corp?
Not OP, but I a lot of my sales are Pokemon cards
I've been living off of ebay since I quit my job last year and have been doing fine until the last month. I sold one $40 item this month. What the fuck happened? Most of my shit is getting 0 views now. It's like I've been shadowbanned.
Are you tired of winning yet?
would like an answer to this too. i know they changed how billing works now, so they add a percentage to all your prices now, which they take, rather than taking a cut of your price.
I didn't know it was this bad for sellers. I've been using ebay to regularly buy shit for years.
DVD I don't understand because you can play that on any computer
but VCRs are getting more important because censorship and intellectual property rights are changing what content we're allowed to see now
they don't bump your listings automatically anymore, so people don't see what you list unless you pay to promote it. Basically they made their free service useless.
it's stupid bullshit and it's the reason people aren't using the site. Neither buyers or sellers like that shit. Makes it harder to find what you're looking for.
I still list stuff there, but if it doesn't sell in the first 2 weeks I remove it because it will never sell after that. Nobody will ever see it.
I've made $120 in sales since making this post. I guess I should complain more?
Is it worth setting up an S-corp?
The only point of doing that is to have payroll compliance and other related things. If you don't intend to ever hire anyone else, don't bother setting one up.
Just pay for the LLC setup and use a separate credit card for all your business expenses so you have use the year-end report for your Schedule C filing.
Can't say.
Then you're just larping.
Same.
The issue is that if you aren’t actively listing items they will completely shut off your sales. I took time off to take care of my kid and within 1 week they shut off my sales. I’ve got thousands listed so it’s the biggest bullshit. I’m like a listing slave to keep the sales flowing. There’s basically a rank system and certain things will keep your exposure in the search. List daily 5 items and always respond to questions. If you ignore someone’s question you will feel the effects in 24 hours. EBay called me last year and they gave me a promotion coach. We did about 2 hours of walkthroughs on promos and my listings got double to triple the exposure after setting that up. So they are really pushing that. The problem is some listings just stay dead I tried 80% ad rate and even pay $5.00 a day in clicks for max exposure. I still got 0 views!! I prefer Amazon because I still will get sales if I’m not actively listing shit. The sales there are steady. One example I sold 200 Christmas items in 1 month period on Amazon and I had the same items on eBay and sold 2 in the same tim period. Unfortunately Amazon can ban you at anytime or restrict a brand at anytime. I went deep into a product and I’m nervous if it gets restricted I’ll take a loss. I hear Walmart is good sales but they hate approving people to sell on their site. I’m a legit LLC with new household goods and they denied my app twice now. This month has been the first time in 10 years where I’m worried I could lose this job due to such poor sales. /end blog
I have 19 packages to ship tomorrow.
What’s your average price sold?
Agreed, keep listing 7 days a week. Not sure on not responding to messages, sometimes customers say "thank you" so it doesn't make sense to respond to that.
Probably $30-$50
I have 19 packages to ship tomorrow
Are any of them dvd/vhs players?
sell some of my warhammers on ebay to make some extra dough
3000 dollars within a week
what the actual fuck have I been spending my money on?