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Originally Posted by Bob Digi We've all heard/been involved in the nightmare stories of buyers on eBay pretending they didn't receive an item, or switching/returning or playing the "significantly not as described" card. and so on. Can anyone suggest how to avoid these situations altogether? Has Paypal tweaked their policies that would accommodate the good, honest sellers out there? | Sellers on ebay don't get scammed that frequently. You hear all of these horror stories because no one ever makes a post about how they sold something to a buyer and it was a smooth transaction. That is what happens the majority of the time and therefore not worth discussing. If it was a frequent occurrence per seller, ebay would not survive because most of the sellers could not make a profit and would therefore stop selling on ebay.
Now I'm not saying it will never happen to you as a seller on ebay. If you sell anywhere long enough you are bound to run into a few thieves or scammers that may get away with it. You just have to factor it in as a cost of doing business. It is the same thing with retail stores that see theft, breakage, and expiration of their goods.
I usually start off by factoring in $.50 to a $1.00 of costs to anything I sell due to perceived lost, due to theft (scamming or 'lost in the mail'), among all other costs before determining a profit. As you sell more and more of the same item, you can get that cost down to a science. For example I found that when selling high end cell phones like Iphones, that cost should be factored in at $9.00 per phone sold.
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