Selling on Ebay – to Russia

[D-Dan]

Having already bought the new Gfx card, and having the new MB bundle on order, I’ve listed my two previous Gfx cards on Ebay (GTX670 2Gb and GTX680 4Gb). I have an offer on the 680, which I’m happy to accept.

However, for the 670, I have someone in Russia (not confirmed) bidding and asking if I’m content to ship to Russia, at a cost of around £20 (their estimate, not mine).

Being paranoid, are there any known scams on Ebay that fit this bill? I have to be honest, for what it will sell for the cost isn’t anything to worry about, I could handle it, but if it’s a scam I’ll shut it down now.

Been a long time since I sold anything on Ebay (the “make me an offer” is new to me) and so I’m not up to date.

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[PlaneMan]

How’s the feedback ? What’s it for? If it’s lots of small cheap items bought, be wary

[D-Dan]

Never even thought to check. Meanwhile, the offer I was prepared to accept has, apparently, paid. PayPal on the other hand, is not playing ball with adding my bank account, and until I see cold, hard cash, I’m wary. I don’t mind my hand being forced on the sale, as I said, I was happy with it, but this is the more expensive one.

As they say, show me the money. Call in to PP tomorrow morning, I think. Until this is resolved, nothing gets posted.

EDIT: Just checked. 1 positive, and that’s it. Nothing else to tell me about him/her

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[dwynnehugh]

Been caught out a few times on Ebay with sellers with many +ve ratings – many are still crooks out to get you. How do they get these rave reviews I ask?

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[D-Dan]

Except – this is a buyer.

Arch Linux, on a Ryzen 7 1800X, 32 GB, 5 (yes -5) HDs inc 5 SSDs, 4 RPi 3Bs + 1 RPi 4B - one as an NFS server with two more drives, PiHole (shut yours), Plex server, cloud server, and other random Pi stuff. Nice CoolerMaster case, 2 x NV GTX 1070 8GB, and a whopping 32" AOC 1440P monitor.

[blacklion1725]

Posting to Russia can be a nightmare. Aside from cost (generally extremely high) there are often restrictions about what you can post and to who – e.g. some items have to go to an official business address.

[D-Dan]

I’ve insisted on PayPal is he wins, which should offer me some protection (for a card that sells for peanuts these days, it’s not a big issue)

More worrying was the other, which had a £100 offer, and whilst I would accept, the guy paid before I had. Nevertheless, after some PayPal faffing about, I’ve transferred the money (after the PP cut) to my bank account, and confirmed it arriving into my account, so I guess I’m posting the 680 out today. Should have upped the postage to £8 or so. It cost a couple of £ more than the Ebay estimate, and I stll have to package.

Nevertheless, still £35 more than CeX would have given me, so I consider it a win.

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[dwynnehugh]

D_Dan – I appreciate that it’s a buyer but a friend of mine used to sell quite a lot on Ebay and he would find that many buyers reported that on receipt the items were either damaged / missing bits / not as advertised etc. etc. just so they didn’t have to pay as PP would refund them almost immediately if they put in a complaint – I would add that these were ‘international’ buyers.   In the end he refused to sell outside the UK.

The more you meet people the more you understand why Noah took animals instead of humans

[Richard]

Is that postage using a tracked service? If not it might ‘never’ arrive.

[D-Dan]

I guess I’ll have to see how it plays out. I may simply withdraw it, and keep as an emergency backup.

Arch Linux, on a Ryzen 7 1800X, 32 GB, 5 (yes -5) HDs inc 5 SSDs, 4 RPi 3Bs + 1 RPi 4B - one as an NFS server with two more drives, PiHole (shut yours), Plex server, cloud server, and other random Pi stuff. Nice CoolerMaster case, 2 x NV GTX 1070 8GB, and a whopping 32" AOC 1440P monitor.

[Mark Turner]

The company I work for will only send things to Russia if it can be sent via a Post office signed for service i.e small and under 2kg as Blacklion pointed out some couriers will only deliver to a business address others won’t even entertain delivering to Russia. We learned this after sending something to a customer over there that disappeared then reappeared with the customer facing a huge bill for import duty which was more than the total that he had paid for the part. His last message he sent to us through Ebay after paying the duties was he hated how corrupt his country was and the customs side of things was essentially run by the mafia

[D-Dan]

Thanks, Mark. The card I posted out to London yesterday is slightly bigger than this one, and came in at under 900g, so fits the small parcel service. If the Russian wins, I’ll have to assess postage costs and charge it to him, via paypal. He seems to be aware of this, and since payment will be in advance, I don’t appear to be over-exposed.

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[wasbit]

Also, photo (or video) the item before & during packing.

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[Ed P]

wasbit wrote:

Also, photo (or video) the item before & during packing.

Good idea, and send the buyer an email copy in advance.

[Mark Turner]

^^^^ This we do it with everything we send out with markings and or security stickers as 90+ % of our business is now done through Ebay the amount of times we have had buyers send their old defunct parts back and demand a refund whilst keeping the new part is quite astonishing.

[dwynnehugh]

Unfortunately as an ex-copper the idea of photographing / videoing the items is a good one, but unfortunately what you showed in any of the above is not what you put in the box to me – you swapped it afterwards and sent me the broken / duff etc. etc one.

 

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