Right, as I said up thread I've been selling things on ebay for 5 years. Sold all kinds of things, high value and low. Sold many consoles over the years. Never had an issue until these last few months and now there are tons of scammers. Even when you do win against them you are out lots of your personal time. On the last one I spent 4 hours on the phone or scanning and submitting my documented proof but in the end they ruled in favor of the scammer because I didn't get signature upon delivery and thus had no proof that the buyer actually received the item. I did have proof from the local post office that I did indeed ship it when I said it I (tracking # on receipt matched what PayPal auto-generated for me) but nope, not good enough. So now I'm out over $100 between the listed price plus shipping plus ebay still took their "cut".
I can't say that the scammers are all of one type of person. I've had lots of people purchase from me using mail forwarding services - meaning they are from Eastern EU or Russia - with no problems. Two of my scammers were definitely in the US. I'm just saying I can't say "oh yeah it's the Russians" or anything like that.
Putting anything worth $50 or more up on ebay just isn't worth it anymore for me. I might throw up a $30 game because taking the loss on $30 is way better than a couple hundred or more.
And their mandatory return policy is bullshit. If I sent a like-new or NEW item and it comes back scratched/dented/OBVIOUSLY used that's crap.
I tell everyone I know to stay away from ebay until they do something about it, not that I think they will.
