Increase in eBay Non-Payers

[Exhibitman]

On bid retractions, I just pulled one the other day. Decided to buy another example of the card for a better price that I found later on. Bid retractions are just part of the Ebay system--no point in getting all bunged up about them. After all, until the sale closes there isn't a done deal anyway. BTW, you can also retract your bid with nearly any auctioneer. They don't want a bad sale either so if you have a good explanation they will usually accommodate rather than have a NPB. You just have to jump through some hoops to do it.

As for nonperforming buyers, I don't sweat it. I make a NPB report so I can get back my fees but I don't chase goobers who bid on cards and then don't buy them. Not worth my time and energy. And if someone bids and later comes back and says they want to renege, I let them. Again, not worth a pissing match with some yahoo.

Life's to short to get stressed out about cards.

[Orioles1954]

I kicked ebay to the curb last week. I don't have problems with pre-war bidders but a lot of the modern guys are serious nut jobs.

[bcornell]

I had a friend who worked at eLoan before they were acquired a few years ago. They ran mortgage ads on almost every ecommerce site in existence, including eBay. He told me that eBay users had the lowest average credit score on any site they ever used. This was all before the economy went deeply wrong, so it could only be worse now.

I stopped selling on the site a long time ago.


Bill