eBay refunds and 'as is' items. What would you do?

[goldmercury]

selling shit on ebay is a waste of time, ebay sides with buyers, sellers have little control on transactions.

Also fees are shit, listing fee, final value fee, paypal fee, time spent listing/packaing/mailing item = not worth the hassle -

 

[swiftmoney]

Refund it, last thing you want is negative feedback, potential black marks against you with Paypal/Ebay, all over 100 AUD, not worth it!

 

[Scififisher]

Refund it. Ebay and Paypal both have too many ways to negate the "AS IS" clause. They want buyers to be happy. They don't care if you are happy when the buyer is sad. 90% of the time if the buyer cries "item not as described" E-bay/PayPal is going to give him his money back. You wind up with negative feedback and a strike from E-Bay because you didn't follow the first rule. The First Rule: Always make the buyer happy.

 

[BlueYonder]

selling shit on ebay is a waste of time, ebay sides with buyers, sellers have little control on transactions.

Also fees are shit, listing fee, final value fee, paypal fee, time spent listing/packaing/mailing item = not worth the hassle -

I agree with this for the most part, but sometimes you have shit that needs to be moved along. eBay gives you the best buyer exposure of any site anywhere.

That said, eBay is like Russian roulette for sellers. 9 out of 10 buyers are nice; it's the 10th that will make your life hell. Sometimes you just have to eat the loss and move on. I think your odds of success may be better if you sell to another person who sells there.

 

[Affiliatin]

stop using ebay when they bought paypal