hello my friends today i want to talk to you about how to buy and sell on ebay and not get scammed so
i have like had this ebay account since like 2006 i have like over 160 feedbacks i've been a buyer
and a seller and i recently sold a scope that had a retail value of almost thirteen hundred dollars
and it sold for about seven hundred plus dollars okay and it was brand new in the box
and one of the things with ebay is to be able to list it as brand new and
opened okay so it's like brand new in the box completely brand new like still factory sealed
and um the person it appeared like he was lying to me like because this is the story seemed to
kind of conflict but it was supposed to be a payment within three days and then
it ended up being about 10 days to finally get payment okay now this is not an ebay bashing video
but i after dealing with this experience i think i have found a way to help not get scammed so i want
to share with you um so basically it was about 10 days so after i got notified basically that i had
gotten the payment um i had it at the post office within minutes i wanted to be like a fast shipper
so i've sold on ebay i bought an ebay i understand that shipping quickly you know is extremely
critical to be like you know professional and everything like you got to do that people you know
so i like shipped it out bam 800 insurance um i think it was and i had like tracking numbers
and i like and i sent the let the person i think i put the tracking numbers up on the ebay thing
so what happened is the person got it i think on the i think it was um like he had it for probably
about two days and then the person basically said that it wasn't the right scope in the box
and what he's trying to do is what it appears is that probably his old scope was probably like
a cheap knockoff and then so i think he's trying to do a return on them on the thing
okay and then basically keep my scope which was like a really good one like a really nice
one and then try to do a return and then ship me back the old one and then use ebay to scam
me so then he can hopefully in his opinion i guess it looks like getting all his money back
okay and then for hi and then to send me back his old scope so i i'm just i mean this is just
dumb okay and it's not ebay's fault i don't think because i think ebay does a valuable service
but dealing with this experience did kind of like help me to think about some things so for instance
you see this ring right here if you go in i want to show you some tips what i've come up with
from dealing with this experience okay and it's still not resolved completely yet i might do a
pin comment and let you know how how the the whole thing ends up but i'm basically
if there's a lot of pricey items on ebay and ebay is a really good website it really is to
for for people to buy and sell but unfortunately there's these few people who like even if they
have a bunch of feedbacks and um in this case the guy only had i think like 16 and i had over 160
but sometimes even if they do have a little bit of following they might try to scam you so what i
i think is if you are a buyer and let's say you buy a piece of nice jewelry on ebay okay what
i would uh one thing i might recommend and if you have other suggestions put them in the comments i
would like to see it and maybe you can help other people okay this is not finance don't consider
this financial advice it's just after dealing with this this is something i think you might
want to consider okay um is if you have something valuable that you buy um maybe don't open it
like at all when it's in the the the official marking of the postal service or whatever but
bring it like if you have a piece of jewelry bring it directly to a jeweler where you're on camera on
their video camera and then also video of yourself opening it right there in front of a real jeweler
okay like with breaking open the usps label or whatever and then having them verify it right
there because that could because then if there was a problem it might help you with ebay if it's just
you know like he said he said and they're just kind of be like like who's the liar you know but
if you do that you would at least have yourself breaking like the official seal and then the
jeweler right there and then he could be like this is fake or this is real you know so just
you know if you did get something shipped to you now as far as the seller i feel like sellers are
in a harder spot because it's very hard to prove that you're actually shipping something um true
like if i say i'm selling um like this this is actually a really nice headphone i think it's an
astra 840 but then if um but then if someone was dishonest they could slip they actually could slip
in something else even though they could have like the perfect pictures in the listing everything
like perfect okay like genuine perfect in every way when they actually go to ship it out they
could slip something different in the box or maybe even like an imitation of something real and so
um it's kind of and if someone claims they did what can they really do because it's possible
so what i think you could do and this is a harder for sellers is you is if you actually um and this
is annoying but if you had to actually package it up at the post office and you would probably need
their permission to film in there and have their faces and stuff on it or voices on it
but if you could film it packaging it up at the post office and then film the entire encounter
of like shipping it out at the post office and of where they actually take possession
of the package from you to ship out that could show that you were doing i know that's like a
massive annoyance and some people might not feel comfortable you know with you filming them but
i just feel like it's a problem with ebay and i feel like it's not necessarily ebay's fault
i think it's great but let me know if you have any ways to not get scammed those are my two ways
um but overall i've done a lot of business on ebay but it's just unfortunate when the the weirdos
come out and try to like scam people it's just i mean they're they're out there so um anyways
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i like to read comments and i might respond and i might let you know how this thing is uh ends up
when a pen comment or something because it's still like an ongoing thing as of the date of this
recording um so anyways as of right now so anyways love y'all and uh please um give a thumbs up bye