Question Selling on Ebay

[David (aka Arctic)]

So I have this aorus master 3070 and I want to sell it. I dont like scalpers but I want to get the most money for my card. I'm not to sure about selling on ebay, because I'm worried that I'd get scammed. What is yall's advice

 

[hotaru.hino]

A few things since I've sold stuff recently:

• Turn off offers. This is a feature that lets people name a price and send it to you. Considering what you're putting up has a fair bit of demand, you'll be getting a lot of these for sure, often from low ballers
• Considering the market right now and you want the most money out of selling it, don't be afraid to start the bid at like 90% of what you originally paid for it. You can always re-list it if it doesn't sell
• eBay will take a percentage of how much it gets sold for. And they will continue charging you listing fees for a month or so if you sell it (there's probably terms and conditions listed somewhere but I haven't bothered looking at it)
• Make sure to take pictures at various angles in good lighting. Also be honest if there's a problem or quirk.
• Shipping is going to be more expensive than you think.
• When you sell it, take pictures of it, document whatever you need to, take a video of it working if you have to, and when sending it make sure there's tracking on it (and send that tracking info to the buyer). Basically, cover yourself in case the buyer wants to scam you in saying the item was defective. eBay tends to favor the buyer, but the more evidence you have that you sold them a working product, the better chances you have of the scammer losing this one.

 

[USAFRet]

Add to the above - Locate and document the serial number.
Send the buyer a copy of that, and keep a copy for you.

 

[hotaru.hino]

Oh, I also forgot a few things:

• Obviously make sure you have a PayPal account in working order
• If the item gets "sold", you must give the buyer at least 48 hours to send money. However, if the buyer doesn't send you money after 96 hours (4 days), then you can cancel it and re-list the item (more at https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/getting-paid/resolving-unpaid-items?id=4137)
• If the buyer sends you money, eBay will hold onto the money until you listed the item as shipped. And after that it'll take about a day or so to get it through.

 

[geofelt]

Ebay protects buyers more than sellers.

If you can, arrange to sell only to buyers with good buyers feedback.
Check to see what they are buying or selling recently.
Good feedback can be pumped up buy buying and selling to a shill.

A scammer will buy the card, claim it does not run and ask for a refund.
They then return to you an empty box and will have delivery confirmations to prove the return. This works only once so your best protection is to only deal with known good ebay buyers.

Deal only with paypal, and only use ebay email to communicate with the buyer.

 

[hotaru.hino]

Ebay protects buyers more than sellers.

If you can, arrange to sell only to buyers with good buyers feedback.
Check to see what they are buying or selling recently.
Good feedback can be pumped up buy buying and selling to a shill.

A scammer will buy the card, claim it does not run and ask for a refund.
They then return to you an empty box and will have delivery confirmations to prove the return. This works only once so your best protection is to only deal with known good ebay buyers.

Deal only with paypal, and only use ebay email to communicate with the buyer.

I don't know if you can really deal with buyers if you're throwing the item up for an auction. If they win and send you the money, you're obligated to send the item. I don't think eBay will let you not send the item based on an account that has little to no reviews.

This is why I suggest document everything as much as possible before you ship the item.

 

[ohio_buckeye]

When you sell, to add to what others said, I’ve solda few. But if it’s working item, search for other cards like it, and sort by completed items completed recently. Price it just below the average and let them bid.

Don’t accept offers, don’t ship internationally. I like to do a 1 day auction. If you can cancel a bid you might try to ban people with less than 10 feedback from bidding.

This part costs more, but when I sell a card, I put signature confirmation on it and I pay extra for insurance so that someone has to sign for the card so hopefully people won’t take it from a porch, and insurance in case anything happens they can fight the post office.

Other than that, be honest about anything that you know about the item and it’s probably fine.

 

[hang-the-9]

A week ago, I was approached by an acquaintance of mine with a request for advice; he was selling his old hardware on eBay and encountered a scam from a buyer. There was a used Intel Core i7-4790K processor for sale; the price was an average eBay price. Lot was put up, as usual, the photo of the processor with serial number and an indication that the processor was used, without any accessories. On the processor quickly found a buyer, from Canada, with an account on eBay since 2008 and 100% positive feedback on many purchases. After the successful money transfer, my friend went to the post office and sent the processor at his own expense (he decided to do free shipping). The package arrived in 10 days, the buyer received it and even left a short review - "Great!" and five stars. A few days after receiving the parcel, the customer opens "Return request" with the following complaint: "Everything is fine, but the CPU I received does not correspond to the description in the lot; I bought an Intel Core i7-4790K and received an Intel Core i5-4690K". My friend naturally responds that this can not be; he packed the parcel and is sure that he had sent what was claimed (and he has never had any i5).

Yep, it happens, I've had a few buyers buy a bunch of RAM from me, and in more than half of those they opened cases saying that the item was not received. They were all scam accounts, with two of them using the same shipping address but different usernames. eBay sided with me on all the opened cases, they never even bothered to counter my shipping proof, just doing it to try to get some free stuff. All that can be done is to provide whatever info you have to show what was sold.