Ewwwwwww. I'd use the vomit smiley but that is one of my missing smilies!

 
There is a woman who goes round the bins every morning on our estate, she's been doing it for years with a shopping trolley. I went to a car boot sale a few years back and there she was, flogging all the stuff she'd presumably got. One of the other sellers there told me that she does 3 or 4 local car boots and the woman is always there.
Very enterprising of her, people chuck out all sorts of good stuff on our estate, why they don't take it to a charity shop I don't know. Convenience I guess.
But stained clothing!!

I've done ebay for years Cinds.

You have to look at the percentage of the negative to the positive. If they are fairly new with negative, don't touch!
But always go with your instinct.

I've had some right stinkers to deal with, but ive learned from it.

I've never bought or sold on Ebay cos it scares me 

but I have bought and sold a lot of books on Amazon and it's a real eye opener to those of us that just want to flog a few things that we no longer need compared to the cut throat types that sell as a business on there 

I had to start taking photographs and screen shots of what I was sending and what I was describing the book as.  This was mainly because some (and not everyone is bad on there) unscrupulous types would buy your product then complain that it wasn't as described.  You'd offer them a refund but when they sent back what you'd allegedly sent to them it would be a skanky old book not the nice hardly used one you'd sent to them with no way of proving it. Then the buyer would rate you lowly to affect your overall score   Some of the buyers would also lower your rating if they decided a book was good and not very good as you've described it.  It got to the stage where I would under describe my book just to sell it but that affects how much you get paid for it

Amazon almost always comes down on the side of the buyer and there is very little protection for the seller which is why I don't sell on there anymore 

I've bought off Amazon, but never sold on there.  I rarely sell on ebay, but when I have, I've never had any trouble.  Plus on ebay I only buy off sellers that accept paypal.

I sell a lot on ebay, I sell about £40-50 worth of stuff a month. I always ensure that my items are described correctly. I have only ever had to report one person for not paying and they shut down their account soon after so I never got the money in the end up. I have only ever had to leave one negative feedback as there was a rip on the dress that was not mentioned.

I hate people who don't leave feedback, I always leave it. I think its courteous if nothing else.  I luckily after 103 transactions have 100% positive feedback,.

I used to sell on ebay alot..  never had any problems apart from when we sell our old out of contract mobile phones on there.    I let hubby do those sales, cos the amount of scammers that you get is unreal.  

Learnt a few lessons... UK buyers only.   Never agree to end an auction early..   We got loads of people from Nigeria wanting our phones...   and our bank account details for payment (hahaha.. yeah right)..   also had a couple of people who were obviously using stolen credit cards (dodgy stories about needing the phone delivered to a different address to the one on the card cos of aunties sisters brother mustn't know about the sale as it was a gift blah blah blah).

Had to restart a couple of auctions cos of stupid bids....

But apart from that its still the best place to sell your old mobiles that are in good nick ...   better than Mazuma etc.  


Pengy - I have had that scam attempted on me...  when I used to trade old Dinky racing cars for my dad on ebay....    We only dealt in cars that were in Mint condition...    and had a bloke try to send us a crappy one back.   We resolved it through paypal.

Oh... & my dad once, and only once... tried ebay for his stamp trading...   that didn't turn out so well... so he only uses specialist auction sites now (the stamp he bought had been regummed... but it took 12 months away at some lab somewhere to verify this!)

The customer's always right eh

I've sold on Amazon for the past few months now and I haven't had too much bother re refunds and the like. Hopefully it'll stay that way *fingers crossed*

I do read the feedback and the seller's descriptions but there are too many "may have creases" "may not have CDs" I mean why bother

Paypal all the way!  
I like how you can phone any time if there is something your not sure of and speak straight to advisor.

Paypal

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LOL that is gross!  Stains on bikini bottoms!  URGH! 

I also used to sell on ebay a lot.  Up to about 1.5 to 2 years ago...  some months I would sell £100 of stuff a month, and sometimes £50 of stuff.  But I stopped in mid 2008.  I did actually get over 2000 feedback.  I did get just one negative around 2005, and that was from someone who gave me one because the DVD I sold them didn't have an inlay sleeve when I 'said it was new.'  It WAS new, but simply never had one in it. 

I was fuming but ebay wouldn't take it off.  Now though, it's harder to give people negatives as I think you have to prove that you tried to resolve the issue first.  My feedback showed as 99.8% positive for a while, then it changed to 99.9% positive and by early 2009, it changed back to 100%.    I always used paypal too.