Am I Being Scammed?

[Gorditadogg]

Originally Posted by Directly

So both the seller and the buyer potentially saved 6%--- I can say making a claim for a lost item, with either the Post office or Shipcover Insurance can be time consuming making you jump through all kind of hoops with taking some time to resolve. I've been lucky so far with only 2 packages stolen in transit. Haven't had a to make a claim with PayPal sale so cant say what all is involved for documentation. -

Ebay charges 12.9% on the first $7500 and 2.35% on the rest. So on an $11-12k card the fees would be 8% to 9% range. PPG&S is 3% so the savings to split is only 5-6%, maybe $600.

To me it doesn't really seem worth it to do that deal directly based on those numbers. Look how it ended up. If they had gone through ebay, they would have kept both sides honest and made sure an authentic SGC 2 was delivered.

That all being said, if OP had to pay sales tax on an ebay, that could be up to $1000 on the transaction. That's a huge motivation to avoid ebay.