Scammers are sadly a big problem on Ebay at present time, both on the seller and the buyer side.
On the buyer side of the equation, Ebay is having a fit with new "sellers" registering with Ebay through the Ebay China site and listing hot ticket import items for half of what the legit Chinese sellers are offering them at. And just as you have now experienced, they'll sell a bunch of quantity this way via "Buy it Now" and then a week later close their account.
On the selling side (and I do sell a bit every month), issues are much rarer to encounter. Last year is the first year I can remeber not having a single issue arise with a buyer not attempting to pull a scam on me since I started selling on Ebay in 1998! But just within the last couple of weeks I had a issue with a buyer, sub-20 feedback rating, relatively new Ebay member, contacts me the day the package was delivered claiming condition issues with a couple of the items in the lot they'd won upon arrival. I consider myself to be a reasonable person when it comes to business dealings, so I factored the math on what each item in the lot of used items ended up costing them (
winning bid divided by number of items advertised in the lot times the number of items received with alleged condition issues) and immediately issued them a partial refund for the calculated amount. Then proceeded to reply to their message to let them know I was sorry some of the items had been received damaged and had refunded them accordingly.
Well this situation then turned sour. The buyer started sending me harassing messages claiming I wasn't being fair and that the five items out of forty were worth more than half the value of the lot and demanded I refund them $xx.xx amount. I then responded, again with a level head, and explained the facts, those being;
1. Items were sold as a lot.
2. Listing clearly stated that the items were A. Used, and B. sold as-is.
3. If hey searched completed listings they'd I could have easily gotten close to double what they won the lot for on the items not reported damaged had I taken the time to part out the lot into several listings.
4. They theirself could list the good parts from the items reported damaged on Ebay and easily get money for them, and since i'd already fairly refunded them for those items it would be pure profit for them.
And that was my final message to the scammer buyer. And for anyone wondering, it was a lot of kitchen type stuff I was selling on behalf of my mother. I have enough backlog to contend with getting listed without killing myself trying to list over a dozen separate auctions for someone else, so to save myself a good deal of time I asked her what she hoped to get for the lot of everything and managed to accomplish that easily selling it all, as a lot. Less of a issue to deal with that way, and my mother still got a bit more than she was hoping for out of it even after issuing the buyer a partial refund.
So this was when it got interesting though. The scammer buyer then proceeds to accuse me in their next message of altering the listing information post sale, which is not possible to do. Then they messaged me claiming they had received the refund but on their PayPal statement it said I'd issued a full refund, to which this scammer noted was the most reasonable thing I could do for them (C-R-A-Z-Y!), but that something must be wrong becuase the refund balance only showed hte amount which I had told them I had refunded in the first reply message they'd gotten from me. Then they go on to send another harassing message claiming I was scamming them by faking the full refund notification from Pay Pal!
Now please keep in mind that at no point throughout this entire ordeal does this scammer-buyer ever make request to send the lot of items back for a refund, that is always a red flag. So final straw was this scammer-buyer files a refund request with Ebay. Notice "
Refund Request", not a "Return Request" as this scammer has no intentions to return anything, they just want it all for free! I ended up having to file an abuse report against the buyer with Ebay, and thankfully whomever at Ebay reviews these cases was level headed and ruled in my favor. But this type of crazy bull shit is what has driven tons of Ebay Members away from selling on Ebay over the years, including the rest of my family.
Change of subject back to Vita games.
I don't know if Signature Edition Games (SEG) has specified anywhere exactly how many copies of Slain are being produced. We know the number must be greater than 1,200 as Sony will not take production orders for less than that amount. And, as other have posted in the last twenty-hours, it look like the number may be 1,800. And here's why I'm adding a extra 200 copies in to the current safe theoretical number of 1,600. SEG, Just like LRG, holds back a percentage of the physical production copies of their games to sell from their booth at conventions. And to go out on a limb here, they will probably opt for a nice even quantity production number, like 2,000. That's my two cents on that matter.
As for the pricing from SEG, $44-ish is fair considering currency conversion fees on their end, plus cost of international shipping. Consider how much Rice Digital rips off, I mean charges, international buyers for on international shipping if you'd like to claim the shipping SEG is charging is to high.
ing time), but I'm always on the lookout for potential issues, and I've canceled sales, or required money orders from those who appear shady.
