I'm late to this discussion, but you can say whatever you want in your listing. But the only thing the buyer has to do is play by eBay's official rules. eBay doesn't require immediate payment on auctions (as it's not really feasible). You can select to require immediate payment for Buy It Nows though. So I wouldn't go in with the expectation of immediate payment or anything else outside the official eBay policies in the future. Just file the unpaid item claim the first second you're able to.
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I really should have used the multi-quote function. Late to this as well, but as you found out it's 200+ transactions in a year and crossing whatever the dollar threshold is. PayPal is free to ask for SSNs and tax ID #s for security and/or tax purposes and they may put limits on your account (but never seen it in my experience unless you do cross both thresholds). I think they ask for it once you cross either of the thresholds so they have it on file for when you've crossed both thresholds and they can probably auto-generate that form for the IRS. If you do cross the 200+ transactions AND the dollar threshold, and you don't give them your tax info, then you'll probably get flagged for not reporting your online sales via that form as others informed you. I'd say you're in the clear for the most part based on what you've said. The IRS generally has bigger fish to fry.
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And now for what I lurked back to this thread for: A quasi-non-eBay question!
On eBay, it's easy enough to sort the "Sold" listings and see what things sell for, whether you're a buyer or a seller. Obviously Amazon Marketplace doesn't have anything like this for customers/buyers, other than seeing "this item is no longer available" if you had it in your cart (which may mean it sold on Amazon or it may mean the seller got rid of the item off-Amazon). But is there a tool like that for Amazon Marketplace Sellers to see what price items are actually selling at?
On eBay, it's easy enough to sort the "Sold" listings and see what things sell for, whether you're a buyer or a seller. Obviously Amazon Marketplace doesn't have anything like this for customers/buyers, other than seeing "this item is no longer available" if you had it in your cart (which may mean it sold on Amazon or it may mean the seller got rid of the item off-Amazon). But is there a tool like that for Amazon Marketplace Sellers to see what price items are actually selling at?
strawyleader997
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It's more that I spent $300 and know I won't be getting my money back for a week or two. Also, I'm annoyed because I know a ton of other people are falling for the scam.
Also...this is the ebay rant thread. The purpose is to come in here and rant about crap on ebay and hopefully some people won't go through the same experience. To be annoyed someone came into a rant thread...and ranted...seems rather silly.
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OK, so I shipped out a deluxe figure earlier this week. Tracking says it was delivered in the morning on 12/14 but is nowhere to be found and is hounding me to do something about it. She has already opened up an investigation with her post office. I did not have insurance and eBay's help menu is crap. Is there anything I can actually do?
If they filed a INR case, you will be covered by eBay and eBay will eat the loss.
As for helping your buyer, you can contact the nearest post office to the destination address and confirm if they are the office that delivers to your buyer's address. From there, you can ask about a certain package that was delivered with all of the information including the description of the package. If it was actually delivered by the main mailman, he/she should have a pretty good recollection of what happened. You won't ever get to talk directly to the mailman unless you're at the address and catch them on their route. So either you can call the office or have the buyer talk directly to the mailman if he/she is home at the time he usually makes his route.
You can call USPS customer service and they can open up a ticket but all that will do is get the post office's supervisor in charge to get involved and they will just ask the responsible mailman directly as well (which can take awhile).
I've also had some items marked as delivered but magically show up the next day. All carriers are working like crazy at this time of year. I live at an apartment complex and my mailman makes three trips to my complex everyday due to the sheer amount of holiday orders. It's crazy. My place isn't even that big.
As for helping your buyer, you can contact the nearest post office to the destination address and confirm if they are the office that delivers to your buyer's address. From there, you can ask about a certain package that was delivered with all of the information including the description of the package. If it was actually delivered by the main mailman, he/she should have a pretty good recollection of what happened. You won't ever get to talk directly to the mailman unless you're at the address and catch them on their route. So either you can call the office or have the buyer talk directly to the mailman if he/she is home at the time he usually makes his route.
You can call USPS customer service and they can open up a ticket but all that will do is get the post office's supervisor in charge to get involved and they will just ask the responsible mailman directly as well (which can take awhile).
I've also had some items marked as delivered but magically show up the next day. All carriers are working like crazy at this time of year. I live at an apartment complex and my mailman makes three trips to my complex everyday due to the sheer amount of holiday orders. It's crazy. My place isn't even that big.
That's a price tracker though, not necessarily what people are actually paying.
Wasn't annoyed, but thanks for playing. It was just baffling to me for someone to start ranting before there was any real evidence about what was going on. The seller has two negatives and they're both for "relisting." "Relisting" isn't a "crime." Relisting after making a sale but not delivering on that original sale is worthy of a negative though, but that buyer that left the negative feedback didn't bother to clarify if that's what happened or not. That seller could very well be a scammer given the way he's suspiciously burning through Wii U sales, or maybe a bunch "fell off the back of a truck" and people will get what they paid for. The item description for the Wii U's also says "Up for sale is a limited wii U we were saving for the future but we need the money for my medical bills" so maybe the dude was trying to sit on a pile of them to flip down the road, but now he's in a shit life circumstance so he's going to take a hit just to get some cash back in his hands ASAP since hospitals and bill collectors don't accept payments in Wii Us. Until it's pretty clear nothing is shipping and the seller is non-responsive, it's a bit too early to "rant" IMO. Definitely somewhat suspicious, but let's not go overboard here. That OP hasn't even given seller the chance to deliver.
Like the other poster said, you're covered under an INR claim. If the buyer gets dodgey and tries a SNAD claim, then that's a different story, but it's probably not worth worrying about that yet. There's a bunch of different possibilities here - it was scanned as delivered too early. It was delivered to a neighbor on accident. It was stolen by the package stealers that come out of the woodworks this time of year. Or maybe it was an inside job at the post office. If the buyer already talked to her post office, then there's not much more you can do. And really in these situations, it's easier for the buyer to deal with their local PO than you have to try and get info from them over the phone. The only other thing would be for you or her to file a report with the US Postal Inspection Service. If it's an inside job, or if they catch anyone with stolen mail, there's a chance the item might be recovered if someone files the report.
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You are just being way too optimistic, when you really know he will never deliver. I didn't need to wait to know he's a scammer, since no one that rarely sells has 20+ Wii u's(all with a damaged box) and 10+ component cables is involved in FOOT PORN. You can easily find this out by going on his completed listing to see his "videos". I also did a quick search and this was proven true. I have almost 10 years of eBay experience(buying & selling) and know how to spot a scammer. If the person's profile picture for eBay show's him wearing a marijuana hat, and sells his porn on eBay, he must not be that much of a credible seller. Another reason he might be selling a ton of stuff he doesn't have, is because he might need a lot of money quick (possibly for surgery).
You can see what people pay, or at least deduce what people likely pay, by looking at price charts and sales rank charts.
You might know less about eBay than you think you do. If sellers have multiple of the same item, rarely do they bother taking a new picture of each one. Sometimes there's a picture of one, sometimes there's a picture of the whole pile, sometimes it's just the stock picture. And they get reused, over and over and over.
As for his attempt to sell his home made foot porn on eBay... That's certainly interesting, but it doesn't mean he's a scammer just because you find it weird. Why can't some dude who tries to make foot porn also try to flip video game consoles? This is a serious question. People here on CAG flip shit all the time and they have all sorts of other jobs and hobbies and interests. So this dude may be a weird guy by many people's standards, but that doesn't instantly make him a scammer. There are a lot of things you can say about a dude who has the kind of profile picture he does, and it certainly may make someone feel apprehensive, but it doesn't instantly mean he's a scammer. You might be surprised by the number of people out there that walk around looking like this dude does that are incredibly rich and successful in their chosen fields. You've probably bought stuff from guys that look just like this guy does only you have no clue because they didn't upload their "sick" weed hat pic to their eBay profile.
The two negatives on the seller's account were from items sold on December 12. You brought this guy to our attention on the 13th. Shipping was described as usually within 3 days, sent via USPS First Class. So that negative feedback was apparently left the same or next day after that buyer made that purchase. How would anyone consider that valid feedback whether it was positive or negative or neutral feedback? I just had something delivered to me today from one state over that shipped Priority Mail 2 Day and it took an entire week to get to me. USPS is slow this time of year. This seller hasn't even had the chance to put a stocking of coal in the mail and have that delivered to scam people. That feedback just looks like some buyer got annoyed he relisted the cables. Again, it's quite possible the seller is a scammer, but he didn't even have the chance to even put anything in the mail for that particular buyer. Even if this dude is a scammer, that's still a bad use of feedback. Negative feedback isn't supposed to be a preemptive strike just because someone feels there might be a disturbance in the Force. And other than that preemptive negative feedback, the guy has nothing but positive feedback as a seller. In fact he apparently shipped other PS4 consoles to buyers and received positive feedback in return, so he's shown he has done legit sales in the past.
Again, I'm not denying this dude could be a scammer. Plenty of "good" sellers go bad and decide to try to scam people on their way down and out. Like I said, the number of Wii U's he's unloading at the prices he is unloadig them at is extremely suspicious. The fact he's seemingly admitting he needs money for bills or the holidays or whatever is also somewhat suspicious. The feedback he's received as a buyer in the past month is also suspicious, but since eBay doesn't let us see those exact listings anymore, we can't really say anything for certain. The guy could be a straight moron thinking he could do these relists, immediately spend the PayPal funds on gift cards and other crap, and then by the time eBay/PayPal catches him, there will be nothing left in his account so he'll make out like a bandit, being completely unaware that they'll try to get the funds from anything he has linked to his account or send it to a collection agency. And maybe by Christmas there will be a boatload of negatives on his account saying "No response, seller never shipped, BEWARE SCAM." But as of right now? There's a lot of circumstantial evidence here, but nothing yet that definitely says "This dude is a scammer" until he's not responding and/or not delivering what was promised in the time frame it was promised in.
And if you feel like it's such a scam, why not just ask to cancel the order and get your money back now? Someone left him positive feedback for cancelling an order they apparently made by mistake, so he's obviously done it before. That way you can see if the seller is even communicative or if he even intends on shipping it out or if he even has the money in his account to refund you.
strawyleader997
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I had originally contacted the seller the same or following day after I made my purchase, telling him that I don't think he'd be sending it (based on his recent sold/completed listing history) and I requested that he just refund me and cancel the transaction. I still haven't gotten a response, and when I sent him a question on his other items (not the item I bought) he did respond, so he was avoiding my request to cancel the transaction. Just so you know... I typically sell 300+ items a month on eBay, so I know all about using stock photos, "sell similar", etc. Almost all of the sellers feedback was from purchases, not sales, and the feedback from sales was months old.
God, eBay's so stupid. A buyer opens a return request and I accept it and give the buyer a shipping label and he sends it off. eBay now sent me a message telling me the item has been delivered to me and that I should refund the buyer now. Seems fine, right? It would, except the item is nowhere close to getting here! It's still in some other state, according to the tracking. So why does eBay think it's gotten here? Are they stupid, or do they believe that I'm stupid? This happen to anyone else?
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I hate 
ing idiots. So I sold something on ebay on the 9th, I had to cancel it though. I sent him a message apologizing and telling him I'm sorry and that was going to refund him. I refunded him that day. Fast forward to today, I see that he left a negative feedback "Never sent me the item and did not refund. DO NOT BUY ANYTHING from the seller!". Ok buddy. I just got off the phone with ebay and confirmed the refund and I was able to get the negative feedback removed. It was obvious he never looked at his messages or his paypal to see the refund. Great guy over at ebay that helped me though, I always like dealing with nice and helpful people.
Anyways, can he send another negative feedback after it was removed? It's already gone but I'm hoping he doesn't do it again.
ing idiots. So I sold something on ebay on the 9th, I had to cancel it though. I sent him a message apologizing and telling him I'm sorry and that was going to refund him. I refunded him that day. Fast forward to today, I see that he left a negative feedback "Never sent me the item and did not refund. DO NOT BUY ANYTHING from the seller!". Ok buddy. I just got off the phone with ebay and confirmed the refund and I was able to get the negative feedback removed. It was obvious he never looked at his messages or his paypal to see the refund. Great guy over at ebay that helped me though, I always like dealing with nice and helpful people.Anyways, can he send another negative feedback after it was removed? It's already gone but I'm hoping he doesn't do it again.
No he can't. And you're lucky he added the "did not refund" AND you found a helpful rep.I hate
Anyways, can he send another negative feedback after it was removed? It's already gone but I'm hoping he doesn't do it again.
Add the buyer to your blocklist and move on.
If you continue to list items for sale that you can't fulfill you will end up with negatives for those transactions more often then not regardless of how apologetic you are.
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First time I couldn't fulfill something, and will most likely be the last. Was just some weird stuff. I had a Battlefront dlc card that I was going to send but just tested it to make sure it worked and for some reason it didn't work that night. I let him know that was the reason too, doesn't matter cause he didn't read his messages. I got it from my deluxe edition and it worked before I listed it. I contacted ea support before I contacted him though to see if I can get it fixed or replaced
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Xbox was closed so that went nowhere. So that's why I just canceled/refunded him right then and there. Checked it a week later and luckily it worked again. I tried other codes I had and they ALL worked except this code. Made no sense. I already sold it to someone else so all is good because Xbox never even responded to me anyways.
That's why I'm glad I check my stuff before I send it, would have had a real negative if it didn't work when he tried it.
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I'm having my first ever issue with eBay. Been on the site since the late 90's.
Seller not sending the item and not communicating. I raised the issue with eBay last week and now I'm in a holding pattern until tomorrow. I was supposed to have it two weeks ago according to his listing, and the only time he responded he said he would send it two weeks ago yesterday.
Guess I'll be back on here to get y'alls advice on what feedback to leave after the situation is resolved.
Seller not sending the item and not communicating. I raised the issue with eBay last week and now I'm in a holding pattern until tomorrow. I was supposed to have it two weeks ago according to his listing, and the only time he responded he said he would send it two weeks ago yesterday.
Guess I'll be back on here to get y'alls advice on what feedback to leave after the situation is resolved.
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Did you buy a battlefront DLC card? If so, check your messages.
I'm just kidding.
You are actually in a good situation compared to most people that post problems here. If the item doesn't get sent and there is no explanation ebay will refund you. If the item is sent, then you'll get it. Either way, whatever feedback you choose to leave is up to you. You can leave positive, neutral, negative, or none. If I get a legit explanation I'm usually a nice guy and will still leave positive even if the experience is subpar.
I figure this isn't a major incident compared to what others go through.
His only explanation was finals, but again that was about two weeks ago, a week after I bought it now and paid. I didn't badger the guy because I understand, but no response from anything else after that, including starting an incident thingy through eBay I think Thursday.
His only explanation was finals, but again that was about two weeks ago, a week after I bought it now and paid. I didn't badger the guy because I understand, but no response from anything else after that, including starting an incident thingy through eBay I think Thursday.
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If I were you I would have started an incident report a couple days after the shipping deadline was missed. The seller has time to make things right for X amount of time after that report is filed. Sometimes it's just the motivation they need to get an item shipped out. My advice would be to file it asap.
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Sorry, I misread. I thought you were planning on starting the incident report this thursday. I see now that you did it last Thursday. I'd just sit tight and wait for the clock to run out. No point in wasting your time contacting ebay when they cant really do anything about it right now.
They said I can get a hold of them again on the 22nd if I've gotten nothing. I sent the guy another quick message (really being business-like and understanding in my messages, not a disgruntled ragemonster) letting him know / reminding him about eBay's deadline being tomorrow.
strawyleader997
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Just a heads up, but check your eBay account because you may have a 10% off (your purchase of $25 or more, up to $50 off) coupon expiring tonight. I just bought $500 worth of eBay gift cards (for $450) since I couldn't find anything I wanted that was cheap.
Alright, today was the deadline, got the message from eBay asking if the situation was resolved. I told them it hadn't, so they stepped in and ruled in my favor. Just got refunded.
Now, do I leave feedback? Neutral or negative? Like I said, genuinely the first time I've had problems with an eBay purchase, so this is new to me.
Edit: Just saw that he relisted it. Goodness, that's irritating. I'm way more inclined to ding him now, but I'll defer to your advice since this would be my first ever negative. Any risk of retaliation?
Now, do I leave feedback? Neutral or negative? Like I said, genuinely the first time I've had problems with an eBay purchase, so this is new to me.
Edit: Just saw that he relisted it. Goodness, that's irritating. I'm way more inclined to ding him now, but I'll defer to your advice since this would be my first ever negative. Any risk of retaliation?
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elessar123
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Ding him. It's his fault, plain and simple. No real risk of retaliation.
[quote name="elessar123" post="13115356" timestamp="1450805869"]Ding him. It's his fault, plain and simple. No real risk of retaliation.[/quote]
I'm going to give him until after Christmas to see if he wants to make any contact with me at all. I seriously doubt it, but I don't want to wreck this guy's ability to sell. However, I've wasted my time and lost out on my money for two weeks with little explanation, plus the relisting of the same item, so I do want to wake him up and warn others about dealing with him.
Thanks for the responses. I appreciate the help.
Edit: I gave him a heads up about everything, just letting him know I was not satisfied with the experience and that I would likely be leaving non-positive feedback next week. I'm giving him a chance to explain what went wrong, but he's definitely getting the negative if I hear nothing. Neutral if he does reply and it isn't total crap.
Edit #2: The guy finally got a hold of me. Said that the finals actually were the reason for everything, sorta. Apparently he bombed everything and then flunked out and got expelled. He took it all really hard and just shutdown. It's not the best excuse ever, but I really felt for the guy. He offered to let me buy it again, and also complimented me on how I responded to the situation, even with me creating the eBay incident. He apologized and said he would understand if I refused the second offer and if I left him negative feedback.
Yeah, it's a sob story, but still, I believed him and appreciated that he finally did get back with me and wanted to make it right.
In the end, I bought it again from him. It was a game code, and he sent it right away. Redeemed fine. Positive feedback left. Crisis averted. All is well. Merry Christmas.
I'm going to give him until after Christmas to see if he wants to make any contact with me at all. I seriously doubt it, but I don't want to wreck this guy's ability to sell. However, I've wasted my time and lost out on my money for two weeks with little explanation, plus the relisting of the same item, so I do want to wake him up and warn others about dealing with him.
Thanks for the responses. I appreciate the help.
Edit: I gave him a heads up about everything, just letting him know I was not satisfied with the experience and that I would likely be leaving non-positive feedback next week. I'm giving him a chance to explain what went wrong, but he's definitely getting the negative if I hear nothing. Neutral if he does reply and it isn't total crap.
Edit #2: The guy finally got a hold of me. Said that the finals actually were the reason for everything, sorta. Apparently he bombed everything and then flunked out and got expelled. He took it all really hard and just shutdown. It's not the best excuse ever, but I really felt for the guy. He offered to let me buy it again, and also complimented me on how I responded to the situation, even with me creating the eBay incident. He apologized and said he would understand if I refused the second offer and if I left him negative feedback.
Yeah, it's a sob story, but still, I believed him and appreciated that he finally did get back with me and wanted to make it right.
In the end, I bought it again from him. It was a game code, and he sent it right away. Redeemed fine. Positive feedback left. Crisis averted. All is well. Merry Christmas.
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[quote name="Ziv" post="13117096" timestamp="1450854353"]You're far more patient and forgiving than I am.[/quote]
After he finally got a hold of me, he made a good effort to do it right. Even though he definitely screwed up, he came through with the second chance. I'd want the same opportunity if it was me.
After he finally got a hold of me, he made a good effort to do it right. Even though he definitely screwed up, he came through with the second chance. I'd want the same opportunity if it was me.
NoLifeDGenerate
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I'm so tired of dealing with idiots who list things as "like new" and they show up in not even "acceptable" condition. Like new means it should be ing pristine. Instead, I received this. WTF even causes this!?
ing pristine. Instead, I received this. WTF even causes this!?
Sure you want to know the answer to that question?I'm so tired of dealing with idiots who list things as "like new" and they show up in not even "acceptable" condition. Like new means it should be
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That shit looks like jizz lolI'm so tired of dealing with idiots who list things as "like new" and they show up in not even "acceptable" condition. Like new means it should be
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Wow. I filed a complaint over that disc when the seller didn't respond, and Half/Ebay issued the refund within like 6 hours. I included a link to the picture, so it was a no brainer.
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I bought a 320gb Xbox 360 S from a seller with 0 feedback for $68 last week. It's been a week and he hasn't accepted the payment through paypal even though we have been in contact. Has this happened to anyone else before? If it's a scam it's not very effective.
strawyleader997
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So when you go on your PayPal account, it says that the money is unclaimed and that the email address (you sent it to) is unregistered? If so, their email that they input as their PayPal address in eBay is not the same as their email for PayPal to accept payments.
The Punisher
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That's why get from cag here. Shoot, tried to sell a Xbox one on fb and many quoted $150-$200
Had that happen to me a while back. I bought a gba sp and the guy never accepted payment but shipped anyway. A month later he started complaining he didn't get paid, but I couldn't send payment again for one reason because I had already sent it and it showed paid. It ended up becoming a mess and the guy loses his account
ferris182
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I've been selling on eBay for 12 years w/ 100% feedback and have an experienced buyer trying to return 3 NES games ($150 total) to me even though I cleaned and tested them before shipment. He said that all 3 games didn't work. Which is a lie.
I asked him to clean his console and possibly clean the games again and try them to work. But he keeps coming back saying the games don't work.
I am worried that he's going to return back to me different games that I shipped to him that don't work or he's going to swap out the boards of the games and replace it with broken boards.
I really want to tell him that I won't accept the return. At this point I don't care about the first negative feedback rating, I just don't want junk games returned to me that don't work and then be out $150.
I know that Ebay will be on his side since they don't care about the sellers.
What should I do?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.
I asked him to clean his console and possibly clean the games again and try them to work. But he keeps coming back saying the games don't work.
I am worried that he's going to return back to me different games that I shipped to him that don't work or he's going to swap out the boards of the games and replace it with broken boards.
I really want to tell him that I won't accept the return. At this point I don't care about the first negative feedback rating, I just don't want junk games returned to me that don't work and then be out $150.
I know that Ebay will be on his side since they don't care about the sellers.
What should I do?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.
Depends if you want to dare him about the return policy. If he's an experienced buyer that understands the return policy, he'll open the claim regardless of what you say and force you to pay the return shipping since it's initiated as a defective item. Sometimes, people never go that far and just want to see if you'll refund them while letting you keep the item for free. Once in a great while I'll run into some sleazy buyer attempting to scam me by threatening that the "item did not work" when I knew otherwise. I would play a game of chicken by telling them to return the item with tracking with the understanding that I'd refund them once I receive the item back and inspected. They would always back out and never come through with it.
Other than that, there's not much else you can do. As you know, you have to technically accept the return otherwise.
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In case anyone hasn't heard, as of today, USPS has increased their rates for priority mail.
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Anybody know what's with eBay's Print Shipping Labels page? Maybe it's just me. They're charging way more for First Class Shipping than they did before. 1 ounce to 8 ounce packages are a flat $2.60, and anything above that is between $2.60 and $3.60. I thought a rate hike happened, but this price scheme is too crazy for some random rate hike and while I have heard news on the rate hike for Priority Mail, I have not heard of one for First Class Shipping. Anybody know what's going on?
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I've been using Fed Ex an awful lot recently and it is a good amount cheaper alot of the times. Most stuff I mail out is media mail (TPBs and other books) but Fed Ex is almost always cheaper for anything above that.
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http://blog.stamps.com/2015/10/22/usps-announces-postage-rate-increase-starts-january-17-2016/
Postage rate increase, pretty straightforward.
Increases always suck - but the additional 3 ounces on first class mail could be useful.
Hrm well that definitely will add up if you do a lot of shipping for standard sized games/DVD's. I like the idea of increasing the first class postage limit to 16 ounces. Interesting that everything up to 8 ounces costs the same to ship. The USPS is more convenient due to their size but it will be interesting to see if services like FedEx SmartPost are still cheaper. I always found the 2015 USPS rates for parcels more than 1 lbs. to be too expensive. They've made the pricing more competitive for their Parcel Select service now. Even with the general price increase, I still feel like shipping a game across the country within a few business days with tracking for under $3 is a really good deal.
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