[RTTY] [Amps] BAD DEAL STAY AWAY! / an alternative source

[Frank]

Dave Cole wrote:

>Doesn't eBay remove buyers like that?  if you file a claim stating that
>the buyer never paid, (to get your bucks back), does eBay do anything?  
>
>I thought I saw someplace that the buyer would get tagged by eBay if
>they had too many of those types of purchases...
>  
>
How interesting.  So after too many buyers get screwed, eBay finally 
takes action.  How big of them. I guess I am more interested in not 
becoming one of those who were screwed.

The best way to avoid being cheated is to avoid exposing yourself to 
fraud.  Trusting someone you don't know with more that $20 to send you 
merchandise sight unseen and untested using high priced carriers that 
may lose or damage the shipment borders on insanity.

The only mail order that makes any sense at all is with well established 
companies of good reputation.

I stopped doing business through eBay when I discovered that it was 
going to cost me $200 to sell a $2000 amp using them.  That 10% does not 
become painful until you see what it means on the high ticket items.  
When that big ticket item is being offered to a very small group of 
buyers, pickup only, cash payment preferred, it does not make sense to 
offer 10% of the proceeds to a service that really cannot help with the 
sale and may only complicate the deal.

Soon after I realized that most of the stuff I would sell would be 
offered to a very small group of buyers who might want to see the stuff 
work before purchase, cash and carry.  So eBay services became 
unecessary expensive time wasters
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