Topic: How Many People Here Sell on eBay - page 2. (Read 2214 times)

I started selling stuff on Ebay about a decade ago, mostly electronics that I found and refurbished. Didn't make much money at it though and I lost my connection for stuff to refurbish. Decided to try selling bitcoins in 2014. I put a five day waiting period for delivery and made sure I withdrew my funds/bought new bitcoins before sending the purchased ones. I had around a 20% profit margin, which PayPal takes 3% and Ebay took 10%, leaving me with 7%.

Things went okay for a couple months with just a few minor chargebacks that still left me with a comfortable profit. I contested these and showed PayPal proof of delivery on the blockchain, but they always favored the customer.

The next month, one person bought about $3000 worth of bitcoins, so I decided to play it safe and also send them a letter with proof of delivery, with the tx inside of it and a printout of the blockchain address with it's contents.

The month after that I sold another batch of bitcoins for about $3000, but then suddenly before I could withdraw the money, there was a chargeback on the previous month's bitcoin purchases by that one person. So PayPal basically grabbed the money belonging to the latest batch of customers to give back to an older customer. I contested that chargeback and thought I would win this one since I actually had a PHYSICAL proof of delivery for the letter and the customer was actually claiming a failure to deliver. PayPal still denied me.

BTW, even though PayPal claims there is an appeal process, there is no such button on their decision page, so it is impossible to follow their directions to appeal. Also I have never found any other page or button to file an appeal. I did ask for an appeal with a direct email, but I never received a response. The only thing left would be to file a small claims.

So the last batch of customers, I cannot deliver their bitcoins since I never actually received their money (since PayPal confiscated it). I was certainly not going to give up my own personal bitcoins, but I didn't want them to lose money either, so I attempted to issue a refund through Ebay, but Ebay refused since I had no money at PayPal. So I sent emails to that last batch of customers, explaining what happened, asking them to file a claim for no delivery and that I would not contest it. They would get their money back and I would get a negative balance on my PayPal account. I figured PayPal could try and sue me, but then I could respond to their unwarranted confiscation of my funds, and besides, I am pretty much immune to lawsuits.

So here is where it got strange... none of these people filed a claim.

About six months later, I decided to try and sell some more bitcoins. Ebay said my account was suspended with some vague complain of customer complaints, yet no negative feedback on my account. I appealed it, they denied, so I called and talked to someone, they looked at my account, laughed and just said that it was absolutely final and that I would not be allowed to appeal any further.

A couple months later I deposited $10 into my PayPal account as a test. It is still sitting there today.

I would rather people pay in Bitcoin because then paypal cannot allow them to chargeback.

Yes I also do Buy and Sell of goods on eBay and if ever there will be a Bitcoin integration payment, almost everyone would benefit for it due to its flexibility of use in comparison to the other available payments. Are you working on eBay (as in being on the team behind it?)

No I had mine pulled for advertising that I accept Bitcoin,  that's why I wasnt sure if they even had a cash and cheque option anymore.

i dont sell anything there though i buy a lot from ebay

Don't know about other countries, but in UK there was no such ban afaik. Since you can accept cash on collection or bank transfer (so things outside ebay's control) then you can accept any form of payment.

But, from what I know, there is a ban on accepting paypal payments on selling bitcoins.

Ebay UK has also dedicated subcategory for cryptocurrency.

I have never used Ebay to buy or sell anything, because this website is marginal in most of the countries I'm spending time in. In Italy, France, Spain, Switzerland, Morocco, Slovenia, Ebay isn't the right place to do business. Even in Germany, Ebay is far from the best place to sell a car. Ebay's mostly American.

I don't think that its too risky to sell on ebay. No doubt i don't have any personal experience of selling anything on this site but many of my friends have done so. Sometimes one is not able to find a buyer in local areas so eBay can be a good option going online to sell stuffs.

well i dont sell any of my goods online what means that i dont use ebay for selling stuff i have though i sometimes use it for buying the presents or something like that and i often pay with the bitcoins i collect every time everything goes through smoothly and i dont have any problems with that

I've used to get rid of stuff what still working but I no longer need it, and also used to buy spare parts, and some interesting vintage stuff. I wouldn't be very happy if eBay/Paypal could start tinkering around my bitcoins. I don't really trust them.

I don't use eBay that much in my country. But sometime I have used it.
Don't really need to sell some of my stuff of my bitcoins. I just prefer Craigslist.

I don't sell anything on ebay, but I do but a lot of things off ebay. I wish that I could buy things on ebay with bitcoin.

I sell on eBay and would be happy accepting btc for every sale,  I've written before that I would accept Bitcoin but my ads were pulled and I was given a warning so now I try and be subtle with my Bitcoin pitch,  so far 0 Bitcoin sales.

I Did some some Antminers S3 on Ebay. It's really easy and fast.

If you find a buyer with a good reputation and or use paypal there is hardly any risk. Plus the site is big, you will get many bigds.

Which country are you based? I thought there was a ban of using bitcoin on Ebay. Has that changed?

I sell  a lot of things on Ebay. I even offer a small discount when they pay me with Bitcoin... Spread the bitcoin love guys!

few things here and there, especially those things that i was going to sell here, but no one is interested, there is a greater demand on ebay

with the released of open bazar i'm planning to try that, because i really want to avoid buying bitcoin with fiat, i want to earn as much as possible, bitcoin directly

I guess the charge back problem can be solved, if eBay adopt Bitcoin and serve as a escrow service for the funds. I doubt, if they would want to burden themselves with that, but

if they get a decent payment for the service through additional fee's, it would probably be worth their time and effort. I sold some stuff on eBay before, but I too had some horror

experiences with that. {People will find ANY excuse not to pay for products or get it at a reduced cost} 

No I don't sell on ebay, I have heard various horror stories of sellers getting scammed by people who after receiving the product claimed that the product delivered to them was in bad condition and they received charge back for it. Its too risky, I'd rather find some buyers locally and deal them face to face then selling things on ebay.

This is the problem with selling physical goods online, ebay protects the buyer but there is no protection for the seller. Unless the goods are sent to a mediator which both parties can trust, these scams will continue but having a mediator in between for physical goods increases the shipping and handling costs and which is why even that won't work.

Personally I don’t have experience to use for selling the goods thorugh Ebay. But One of my friend have own trading company. He have a account in Ebay and He use to advertise and sell the items through Ebay.