What percentage of ebay buyers are just plain stupid?

[Fuddjcal]

I always painfully describe items though description and multiple pictures resulting in less money.... sometimes. As far as baseballs, it does irk me when sellers don't describe them and only take 1 picture. How hard is it to take a picture of the back? You just have to not purchase from numb skulls like that I guess.

I have a case with an idiot right now after paying for an item immediately like I always do, it takes the ass clown 8 days to ship, and the item is not to me yet after an additional 9 days. I just open cases with e-bay these days like I open a can of beans...I don't care anymore. I don't try to work it out with the seller. I'm tired of their B.S. Open a case and let e-bay sort through it. I especially open a case immediately when the jack asses love to put "NO RETURNS" in their auction. If it's not as described or damaged...it's going back no matter what their stupid ad says. When I sell, they can return the Item anytime, no questions asked if their not happy, I don't really give a crap.

This idiot tells me (only after I open the case) that he will "check with the USPS because it's a package and not a letter" and provides no tracking#. (good luck with calling the usps to track a package with-out a tracking number buddy) after the case is settled, he's going to get an accurate assessment of his performance which is negative feedback no matter what he does. Yes E-bayers are about 10-20% morons and losers, which is less than the average in our society today. look around, people are idiots everywhere.

[slidekellyslide]

My latest idiot was a buyer that bought something that required UPS shipping..they made three attempts to deliver to him and UPS finally called me to tell me it was on its way back to me. The buyer who made no attempt to get this item from his local UPS tells me that I have to pay to ship it back to him. No way in H E double hockey sticks is that going to happen.

[prewarsports]

Not trying to sound sexist here but if you have a Woman buyer you have a MUCH higher potential of them being pissed off. Sell stuff women dont want and you eliminate a lot of problems. What Scott said is also true, cheap stuff brings out the a-holes in large numbers. So if you have a $9 photo of a princess, you're screwed!

I have sold on ebay for 14 years and sold tens of thousands of items with only a handful of real problems. I only sell stuff guys want in general and I only try to list things worth more than 30-40 as my bottom limit and I seem to eliminate 99% of the items that bring the problems out of the woodwork.

Not trying to be an elitist/sexist jerk, but it works.

Now if I could just find a way to eliminate the EBAY caused problems, I would be able to live a Zen-Like existance!

Rhys

[buymycards]

Rhys, I agree with you on the $30-$40 limits. All of my problems and npb's come from sales under 5 bucks and bidders with feedback of under 20. I have been thinking seriously about bundling my items and not selling anything under 30 bucks.

Rick

[slidekellyslide]

I get a lot of buyers who fish for partial refunds, but my policy is flat out return the product for a full refund, I do NOT give partial refunds. Very rarely do items get returned by partial refund fishermen. I also don't give a crap about my star rating anymore since ebay has made it virtually impossible to get the discount so I am far less likely to cave into unreasonable buyers than I was just a few months ago.

[earlywynnfan]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

I get a lot of buyers who fish for partial refunds, but my policy is flat out return the product for a full refund, I do NOT give partial refunds. Very rarely do items get returned by partial refund fishermen. I also don't give a crap about my star rating anymore since ebay has made it virtually impossible to get the discount so I am far less likely to cave into unreasonable buyers than I was just a few months ago.

At the risk of jinxing myself, I have never had a buyer ask for a partial refund. What possible reason would they have for even asking?

I've had some knuckleheads who can't read, and in particular one SOB from Philly who returned items on a whim until I blocked him. But so far, that's the worst.

Ken

[RobertGT]

I agree with the statement that about 10 percent of eBay buyers are idiots. Most of the idiots I encounter are idiots who buy my stuff and then never pay. The vast majority of my buyers are great.

Every once in awhile I get an idiot who is also a jerk who must be immediately added to my "blocked buyer" list, like this clown who sent me this note after I had the audacity to turn down his UNSOLICITED lowball offer. I never had a "best offer" option on the card, which coincidentally sold a few hours later at my BIN price.

To: me

after a month shove it . thanks for the dumb comments, i dont care what you did in 13 yrs . what does feed have to do with covering a transaction..bye dummy"

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I got that response after replying to his offer with this:

I think I will hold out for awhile. If it's still for sale in a month or so email me again and I'll sell it. And I've never not sent a card in 13 years on eBay. Check my feedback.
Thanks,
Rob

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by earlywynnfan

At the risk of jinxing myself, I have never had a buyer ask for a partial refund. What possible reason would they have for even asking?

I've had some knuckleheads who can't read, and in particular one SOB from Philly who returned items on a whim until I blocked him. But so far, that's the worst.

Ken

Partial refund fishers will make up reasons to ask for a partial refund which is why they hardly ever return the item. I once had a buyer do that to me twice saying the item was damaged in shipping....the first time I gave the partial refund and just went about my business...when he purchased from me again a few months later he claimed the same thing..I recognized his name and asked him for photos...he never replied to me at all, so I just went ahead and blocked him. Then a few months later he tried to bid on another of my items and got pissed off that he was blocked. He sent me a nasty email and said the item would have sold for ten times what it sold for if he'd been allowed to bid. I just ignored him...Maybe a month or so later he requested my contact info from ebay. I sent him an email telling him if he uses my address for anything I would call his local police. Haven't heard a thing since then. Ebay is full of weirdos.

[jsage]

Looking for some advice as to delivery to buyers.
I always use US Postal Delivery Confirmations for all my sales.
As I am sure you have experienced, many buyers do not post feedback that acknowledges receipt of the item sold.
How long do you keep the post office "documnents" - just in case, at a later date, a buyer claims he did not receive the merchandise?
Thanks,
Jerry Sage