i sent two gocoax ethernet adapters to the guy. he emails me back saying i only shipped one in the box.. not much i can do.. so what i did is say ok.. send it back if you dont want it.. at least i get one of them back.. ā ā ā hole.
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I learned to get a picture before you seal the box.
Then I learned to just not sell on eBay. People suck.
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i do take pictures for expensive items.. i was too lazy on this one.. not that it would of mattered much if he insisted.
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I leave a small spy camera in the box w/everything I ship. 
I also slip in some moldy brie. 
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If I order something from you would you kindly send me some under ripe pineapple, that way when it finally gets delivered by Royal Mail it would have been totally consumed by insects and odour free
Thanks
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I had a case where I was selling a network switch. Correctly set the device, even matched it up with existing ones eBay had, so their system was able to populate the data. Someone buys it and pays it all at ~$250, which seemed low to me since most auctions were ending about ~$400 for this device, but that is what I got for letting it auction (is what I thought, since it did not show me how much shipping was getting added to it) and even ~$250 (less from eBay fees and such) was not horrible. When I took it to the post office they were completely confused because for the postage they set the weight as 50+lbs (~23kg), while the actual item was ~5lbs (~2.3kg). Since it was pre-paid the post office could not do anything about the already-paid amount but set the correct value for shipping. I got home, refunded the difference to the buyer (not their fault and I did not want a negative review), then contacted eBay.
They were completely useless. Would not acknowledge the error on their system's part, would not escalate the issue... and insisted my only option for a refund was to go through the post office (which had already informed me that I would have to work through who had done the pre-paid shipping). In the end, I got nothing back, so it was around an $80 hit... On a $250 deal for an item that was normally going for ~$400 at the time. They still took their full fees and everything... so my result was ~$100 if I recall... I would have kept it had I known I would only get $100. Heck, at that I would have been better off donating it for taxes.
Will not sell anything on eBay again.
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My wife or I never ever sell on e-Bay. Never have, never plan to. We do sell on MarketPlace or Kijiji on occasion, and use to have yard/garage sales. We pretty much gave up now on that last one and now donate most of our stuff at Habitat for Humanity. They pick the stuff up ant home, evaluate the itemsā values and give us a donation receipt for it.
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The last thing I sold on Ebay was a box of old computer cables mixed of SCSI, RS-232 DB25's etc. Just dumped them on the table and took a picture. My description of the sell was "assorted computer cables." The shipping was like $12 and someone bid $60 on the box. I got a negative review because I didn't include a inventory of each cable in the box.
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And here I thought weāre gonna say you wanted it for your pizza
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That time I decided to try to sell it since I had bought 2 on eBay as a pair but only needed 1. The only other time I sold something on eBay before that was maybe 10 years earlier... so it was not something I had any recent experience with. Lesson learned.
Our local donation places do not really seem to know what to do with electronics. The Savers is OK (they at least seem to know what types of things to group together), the Goodwill is a dump, and the closest Habitat for Humanity focuses on furniture, so never seems to have much similar.
I avoid Facebook, never heard of Kijiji... had sold some stuff at our old house using Craigslist and (outside of obvious scams reaching out) it went relatively easily.
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I think itās a Canadian version of Craigslistā¦ but owned by Google I thinkā¦
I had to look it up after you mentioned it... It looks very much like a slightly modernized Craigslist (as you said).
It is owned by parent company Adevinta, which is owned by private equity companies (hoorah) and eBay has 20%.
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Kijiji was originally started by eBay in mid 2000, for some reason Craigslist never really worked in Canada but when Kijiji started, it got very popular.
But for some reason Facebooks MarketPlace pretty much took it's place for most people although I'll never understand why, search is horrible, setting radius of search never actually does anything and it keeps changing by it's own (you don't decide, we do mentality). Once I saw an article that was interesting and the next day I decided to get it but could not find it at all using different terms, yet 2 days later it just popped up in the first articles for sale after searching for a completely different thing, WTF, why is this happening, stupid search algorithms that are there to maximise there $$$.
I really hate Marketplace especially as a seller with people that hit that stupid "is this article still available" button and you get a bunch of people that just don't reply back, waste of everyone's time but just a way of them to get more traffic and more $$$ in adverts.
Thanks for letting vent 
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My brother's wife has good luck with Marketplace (I hear) and has gotten them a bunch of stuff they use for Halloween and Christmas WAY cheaper than I have ever seen where I live on other sites, but I definitely hear complaints like yours from more people which is why I have not used it.
unfort i recently upgraded my internet connection and now have over 1gbe
so i upgraded all my internal switches to 10gbe (2.5gbe fiber upstairs to downstairs)
and also my main router (mikrotik and backup) and wifi routers.
the mikrotik (public ip block) are relatively expensive and there really is no market for them on local sale sites like marketplace.. so i basically had to put them on ebay to get enough draw.
I did sell both of them and a couple of my other switches without issue.,
the wife is also happy i am clearing some crap out of the spare/storage closet inthe office.
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Pictures/video and weight of the package.
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Including the weight sounds like a very good idea!
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Certainly seems like it would help in the case of a dispute...but then they claim "There was a bag of sand in the box!!" and you're back to he said/she said.
We had an issue w/an Air BnB we rented last year. We noticed a folding couch wasn't working quite right when we checked in, weren't using it as it was in a corner of a room and forgot about it. After checkout the owner said we broke their couch and wanted $500! We explained that we found it that way and hadn't used it. They were insitent so just to move on and avoid a nasty review we said we'd pay for half. My wife also made an appeal to AirBnB support about the issue.
At that point Air BnB stepped in and told us we didn't have to pay anything and to not worry about it, they would take care of things and we would not get a bad review. Nice experience.
Oh cool - just hitting the Done on the message above makes the report functional. Genius!!
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Iāve not had much bother with eBay in the UK over the years. One BS claim that an item didnāt work,ā and one buyer who said a Hikvision NVR was delivered dented. The āproofā they sent looked to be photos of a battered biscuit (cookie) tin and looked nothing like what Iād sent. They refused to return so no refund given.
My mum sold the presentation case and empty bottle for some Louis XIII cognac. It costs several
thousand pounds and the case is a fancy velvet box with mirrored sliding doors. The buyer reported that the case was damaged and wanted to return, but they were unable to return the bottleā¦I guess theyād filled it with cheap brandy and gifted it.
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