Selling Toys - Horror Stories & "Happy" Customers

Happy interlude:

I don't know if I was Shadowbanned. I don't know if everyone was just busy or poor. But Tuesday and Wednesday I was inundated with Marketplace messages and wiped out everything I had up to the tune of 900. Everyone was scrambling to come within hours of messaging. Amazing.

This also saves me money because in the cleansing haze, there's a lot of shit coming out I just realized I won't even take the jump on given what I just cleared out. I don't need Max Thor. I don't need Mech Punisher. Etc.
 
TheGillMan said:
Any time I think about possibly selling figures online, I just come to this thread to remind myself why I definitely do not want to fool with it. Between idiotic customers and eBay's corporate fuckery, I just wouldn't be able to handle the stress. I'm sorry you're dealing with this complete and utter bullshit, @TheRealSmallville
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Thanks man. Last night I pulled the rest of my things from the eBay store and I won't be doing business with them anymore as a seller. The fees were already too much and had been making me think of leaving for a while, but this definitely was the final bit I needed.

eBay's final message on the topic is "if you were a "top rated seller" then you could deduct up to 50% of the buyers refund for him returning the item in a different condition. But since you are not, we encourage you to report the buyer and we will compare your report to other reports if applicable."

So since I don't sell enough to be a "top rated seller" on their site, I'm fucked essentially. They won't help me even though the $300 toy is now worth maybe $150. It's a pretty incredible policy they have. They even use the words "the buyer must return the item in the same condition they received it." Except, they absolutely do not need to if the seller doesn't have a special sticker by their name, so they don't enforce their own policy.

On their forum, I read a story from a guy who sold someone a carburetor, it was brand new. The buyer messaged the seller, told him that it turns out it didn't fit the buyer's vehicle correctly, asked what he could do. Seller told him to return it. So the buyer cut a bunch of wires on it and tried to rig it up to work anyway...after it didn't, the buyer requested a return under "does not match the description." eBay allowed him to return it, even after the messages stated that he had cut wires and fucked with it. Now the seller has a carburetor that he can't sell because it's been destroyed, essentially, and he's out the amount that it cost.

Fuck eBay.
 
Alt said:
Happy interlude:

I don't know if I was Shadowbanned. I don't know if everyone was just busy or poor. But Tuesday and Wednesday I was inundated with Marketplace messages and wiped out everything I had up to the tune of 900. Everyone was scrambling to come within hours of messaging. Amazing.

This also saves me money because in the cleansing haze, there's a lot of shit coming out I just realized I won't even take the jump on given what I just cleared out. I don't need Max Thor. I don't need Mech Punisher. Etc.
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Congrats man! That's a damn nice haul right there!
 
Alt said:
Happy interlude:

I don't know if I was Shadowbanned. I don't know if everyone was just busy or poor. But Tuesday and Wednesday I was inundated with Marketplace messages and wiped out everything I had up to the tune of 900. Everyone was scrambling to come within hours of messaging. Amazing.
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Same thing happened to me Wednesday! Sold NOTHING for maybe two weeks then Wednesday BAM - five things.

Back to zero now, but that was certainly nice. And three of the five were McFarlane DC.
 
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