Update on Mercari. They verified my identity but my account is still suspended and I cannot do anything. Don’t know when they are going to unfreeze it. Spoke to my lawyer who told me they can legally hold the funds for up to 90 days. After that they have to return it and will shut your account down. Some kinda bullshit there.
This is the weirdest shit I have heard of yet. It makes no sense.
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It makes sense when you realize I have absolutely the worst luck with everything. When you come to accept I am cursed you go, ah, ok, I understand now.
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The really odd thing about all this is I have provided my social security number, my address, phone number, a photo id (which they are reviewing) and have linked my Facebook account to it.
The photo id is just for instant payments… um… that’s what they say but I should still be able to withdraw the money the standard five days.
But according to Mercari my identity was verified tonight
This is an eBay headache:
All other listings of MODOK’s first appearance at $100-200+ and this one is sitting at $25, unsold, with over 250 watchers because the “Seller isn’t accepting payments at this time”, I.e. the Seller hasn’t jumped through eBay’s managed payment hoops yet.
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One of the reasons why I didn’t go with them. They don’t need all that sh@$ just to allow you to buy or sell stuff.
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For tax reporting they do.
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That’s what I love about SSNs:
“Keep it secret! Don’t give it out to anybody!”
“By the way, you’re going to need to give it to literally everybody to do anything worthwhile because we wove it so inextricably into the tax code LOLz!”
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My most recent eBay headache. Only a headache now because the seller is bothering me. Seller is comecop2018. Yeah I don’t know if he polices semen but that’s what my dirty mind thinks of.
Bought a set of Ultimate X including #1 in Newsstand. I’ve only ever seen two including the one I bought. The books weren’t bagged or boarded. They were placed into a paper padded envelope. Not bubble wrap padding though. It’s the type with the fabric like paper inside. What amounts to a bunch of pocket lint.
Needless to say the books arrived trashed. Like someone had laid them on the highway and had cars run them over all day. Just totally trashed.
Messaged him with the issues and he never responded. Opened a return after 3-4 days and still no response. I only opened a return to get his attention. One day before eBay would’ve just refunded me he approved the return.
I left him negative feedback which follows. Which I discover he’s gotten a fair amount of negative feedback on packaging and communication my.
I was then sent this message.
I responded with the following message.
This was his response.
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“Hopefully people stop buying this comic from me”???
WTH does that mean? LOL. Don’t put it up for sale and people won’t buy it. What a kook
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It hurt my brain trying to figure out what he meant so I stopped.
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“I want to trash them”
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I sense a language barrier with the seller but regardless, if you don’t like selling and packing a certain product, why sell it in the first place? That’s what truly doesn’t make sense.
The best approach though is to kill them with kindness, even in your replies to them.
Instead of telling them how to package books, you should have just explained to them not taking the time to package the comics securely so they’re not damaged during transit will prevent people leaving negatives that can bring down his overall rating that will affect them in selling clothes or the things they do care about. One should take pride in packing and selling even if what they’re selling is not their “niche”.
You could go on to explain that negatives are not only going to start preventing comic buyers far away from him but others who review his feedback and ratings on buying other items, as more negatives makes their listings further down the lists and search results.
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Yeah I agree I could’ve been nicer in my approach.
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omg. If you don’t want to sell something just give it to Goodwill or throw it in the trash. Easy solution. I have stuff that isn’t worth fooling with and I give it away. If it is something I don’t enjoy selling I usually sell local on craigslist, so I dont have to deal with shipping, etc.
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OK. Paypal question here. But, do you all get emails from paypal stating you received a “refund in your eBay dispute case?” I had three of them yesterday alone, and I have no idea what they are. I haven’t claimed a dispute, and from what I can tell, no one that bought things from me has claimed a dispute. These are small amounts, like $1.22, but what is this for?
Beware of phishing.
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I initially thought the same, but they are legit. If I go straight into paypal, there are three credits there. This has happened before. Is eBay charging me too much for first class shipping? It’s a shipping credit, but that’s about all I can figure out.
Yes. So from time to time you over pay for postage. When it is scanned and turns out to be a lower weight PayPal disputes the difference for you automatically.
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Yup, I’ve had it happen as well. Love getting Snickers money back to go buy Snickers…
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