yeah its frustrating when you follow an auction circuit around all day or attend auctions all day and dont really have anything to show for it besides wasted time and guess. that said better to not waste money and walk away empty handed than buy a bad unit and waste money and time just trying to recoup most of your loses

thanks for the tips guys, yeah I basically told the guy a. the package shows it was deliverd. b. i know post office does make mistakes and had he contacted me in a timely manner heck I may have even helped him out either with a refund or reshipping a package which would be cheaper for me than a refund. i told him two months had passed and if there was an issue he should have brought it up in a timely manner. he accused me of getting the package back and keepiong it however i told him if that wer the case tracking woudnt' show delivered it would show attempted delivery and then show it being rerouted back to my addrss. the guy never contacted me after that and seemed to give up pretty easy so wondering if he was just trying to get a freebie. it was through ebay and not my site so over 45 days had passed so he had no recourse through paypal or ebay and sinc it wasnt through my website and i dont openly advertise our eba store as our business there's really no negative publicity either so thats how ti went down. in general im happy to come out of my pcoket to make a customer happy but im not going to be taken advantage of or let people come back months later with complaints or aying they didnt receive anything

I dont understand the logic behind why someone woudl want to bid and not buy but I'm a member of some internet marketer and ecommerc forums and I do know that people setup many ebay accounts and let them sit dormant for years and then sell them. I guess they sell them to people who have had their ebay accounts closed or suspended. There seems to be some bonuses to having an established account over a new one. Again i dont get how its beneficial to have an old account with no feedback or why someone would buy and not pay but thought that would be interesting to mention

I believe it could be done but only with an established account, I believe new accounts have the 21 day hold where you have to provide tracking showing delivery and wait 3 days after that or wait the full 21 days.

With an established account you woudln't have the hold but why burn up an established account you could make more money with for a one time cashout.

I think the biggest scam out there is buyers who know how to work the system and know uneducated sellers who send items over $250 without tracking and signature is automatically means thye get their money back or buyers who know how to work the system taking advantage of loopholes and selers who dont cover their butts

I had an international twit give me negative feedback because he didn't know he had to pay import duties. He somehow though it was my fault that this country sets and implements those charges. We messaged back and forth several times and I explained import duties have nothing to do with a seller or eBay. He wanted me to reimburse him the fees to which I said no, so he gave me negative feedback citing high import duties as the reason.

i stopped doing business with international customers for this reason. if something gets held up in customs, shipping takes longer, etc the buyer always seems to blame us sellers for things that are otu of our control and thing that will happen to any international items they buy.

heck another problem depending on the country some countries are notorious for people stealing goods out of the mail. when i was living in mexico before i learned my lesson i had my mom sned me some clothes and items, nice stuff. when i got the box my clothes had been taken out and replaced with dirty underwear, newspapers, etc.

on ebay your forced to accept paypal however on my own website where i sell stuff ill accept cashiers checks and let customers know once i ship and provide tracking i take no responsibility for mailing time, lost packages, problems with customs. most customers are okay with this as well b/c im one if not the only one of those in my industry who ship internationally

printers can be a decent garage sale or flea market sell but normally the ones i find dont have the cords and printers are so cheap these days not worth me or anyone else tracking them dwn and buying them. heck i recently ran out of ink and realied it was cheaper for me to buy an entire new printer that came with a free ink cartridge than to just buy the ink cartridge.

if you dont want it dont buy it no need to be a hater