What's going on with eBay—selling is almost impossible!! | Members help members

than01 · 2026-03-01T17:36:36.466000Z

Hello, I tried to sell my old computers because I was getting new ones. It gets bought and then on eBay it’s claimed to be defective. The seller is no longer asked to check what the problem was and a reversal is initiated immediately. With buyer protection, which is fundamentally right and very good, but is also being abused, because it opens the door to having the item sent to you and then complaining about it. Not very environmentally conscious to keep sending things back and forth. You can ask beforehand if the description isn’t sufficient or if there’s still a missing detail. Then you get inquiries that make me doubt what the interested buyer actually wants, and you realize there’s really no interest and you’re flooded with pointless questions that turn into a discussion, or you have a transfer with address details arranged for an item that wasn’t even declared sold on eBay.I had to end the listings because something is going wrong overall!! Another sale from me could only be stopped because of strange inquiries and discussions by canceling it.It’s a shame it has come to this. I’ll probably only buy now and not sell anymore!!Thank you very much

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