I knew I should have cancelled the order 😑

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• xylol@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Never edit shipping after someone buys something, because they can screw you over and you aren’t covered by PayPal or eBay if you changed anything. You have to cancel and relist if they want to change anything like that

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  • janus2@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    was wondering how the hell this benefits the buyer… if they can dispute the charge and the seller can’t refute it that makes sense

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    • CidVicious@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      A lot of eBay buyers purchase a thing and either get buyer’s regret and want to cancel it entirely, or somehow get you to knock more off the price. This sounds like them trying to weasel out of a bid they regretted.

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• Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’ve been permanently banned from ebay since I was 14.

  Sold an original Alpha set of MTG cards for over $1k. Shipped it without tracking like a moron. Buyer disputed, claimed they never received it; ebay immediately refunded them and came after me for the funds. I said f that and walked away. They didn’t do much to try and collect (not sure they even can against a minor in Canada), but banned my account.

  Since; I’ve tried to make a couple other accounts once or twice, and buy or sell stuff. Those got removed and orders cancelled within 24hrs.

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  • Donkter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So… You got some more mtg alpha cards kickin around…?

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    • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That was well over 15 years ago now; I do not. I’d imagine the price has also risen a tad, not something I’ve looked into in quite a while. (I had sold at a similar price to comparable sets on ebay at the time)

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  • NateNate60@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Shipping without tracking is pretty dumb though. I can’t speak for Canada Post but in your neighbour to the south, USPS in my experience has lost about 3% of letters with handwritten addresses and about 1% of those with a computer-printed address.

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    • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yup, that was really stupid. A hard lesson learned for literally the first package I’d ever shipped myself.

      If I remember correctly though; ebay took the buyers side and refunded them before even informing me of the dispute. While I didn’t have evidence to refute it besides a receipt for shipping, they hadn’t really given me the opportunity to even try… Plus at 14 I wasn’t willing to lose $1k and the cards. :/

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• infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Ebay is a great place to be a buyer. Absolutely fucked place to be a seller. Be nice to your sellers folks, they don’t have it that great.

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  • cm0002@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yea, eBay prioritizes the buyer, always.

    But realistically, what other choice is there for a seller that isn't Amazon to FB marketplace?

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    • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      🌠 Craigslist 🌈

      Actually for real, at least for the kind of aftermarket stuff I buy I usually do check CL first.

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    • tuxiqae@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hopefully, Flohmarkt will be widely in use in the near future (Press F to doubt 😢)

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  • piefood@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Maybe. As a buyer, I've had a few things never show up. Not stolen or anything, the tracking info says that they never showed up. But eBay still refuses to give me a refund.

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    • AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I bought something that never shipped once. Seller just never responded to anything. Tried and tried to get in touch with eBay, scoured their site for contact info, but ultimately never even got to talk to anyone about it. No way to even ask for a refund.

      So I called the bank and filed a charge back. And I got every penny back.

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    • BabyVi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Last thing I bought from ebay never showed up. Ebay, the seller, and the delivery service all pointed at one another as the culprit. So much for buyers protection…

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  So you contact customer service and have it removed.

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  • cm0002@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That's a good idea, I was quite explicit in my messages with them so it might work lol

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    • radiouser@crazypeople.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Good luck. I’ve been an eBay customer for almost 20 years and my recent experience with their customer service has been really frustrating. I’ve reached out at least five times about a manual refund request, and it still hasn’t been resolved.

      Don’t get me wrong; when everything works smoothly, eBay is great. But when you actually need support, getting help can feel like an uphill battle.

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• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  ‘The customer is always right’ … doesn’t mean anything any more.

  Don’t get me wrong - actual customers will always have no power no matter what platform there is.

  The problem these days is that sellers, competitors, marketers and salesmen have co-opted the idea of ‘customers’ to screw over the entire system for everyone - customers and sellers.

  Whatever you do in online sales, whether it is selling or buying … never trust anyone and don’t promise anything beyond what you are originally expected to do.

  Capitalism is like a cancer that invades, infects and destroys everything it touches. When you think it about the definitions for successful capitalism and cancer are exactly the same … runaway, unrestricted and unlimited growth is the goal.

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  • ninjabard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Because it originally meant “… Right in matters of taste.” It should be legally required for everyone to work in food service and retail. Some people won’t change and those we can trebuchet into the sun.

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    • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Unfortunately, the “in matters is taste” line isn’t true and appears to have originated on the internet in about the last decade, being popularized on Reddit. The original phrase was “the customer is always right”, full stop.

      The slogan has its origins in early 1900s retailers, as the previous predominant principle in commerce was essentially “buyer beware”, that the relationship between buyer and seller was inherently distrustful. In an attempt to gain shopper’s trust, retailers such as Sears and Marshall Field issued instructions to their employees to satisfy customers regardless of if they’re right or wrong. This led to a number of similar maxims, including the above.

      Why so I care so damn much? Two reasons. First, I’m a stickler for facts and “in matters of taste” is entirely unsupported. Second, and greatest of all, is how it shifts the responsibility for encouraging bad customer behavior from the retailer to the customer, as if the customer is intentionally misinterpreting an element of the social contract for personal gain. The original intent, to require retail employees to satisfy customers regardless of their behavior, was driven by retailers for greater profits at the expense of their employees. It grooms customers toward bad behavior as they know acting out will get them a better deal or service. Sure, customers must choose to behave in such a manner, but it’s the retailers condoning and even encouraging such behavior that allows it to so easily continue.

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  • Derpenheim@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    “…in matters of taste” is the phrase you forgot, bud. The rest of your point is fine, but the rambling has no connection to the customer being right, just greed.

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    • SageMountain@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      “…in matters of taste” is the phrase you forgot, bud.

      There’s no evidence of that being used originally. It was just made up by people or reddit/tiktok

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    • Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’ve been orbiting the sun for more than 40 years and that’s the first time I’ve heard that, which doesn’t surprise me in the slightest, people will always misquote stuff for there own benefit.

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  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It never meant what people think it means. It means “the customer” in the sense of "the people.” The customer as a whole, not on an individual level.

    It means if you have a hat store and you sell red hats, and all of a sudden red hats are unpopular (for some reason) but purple hats become in style, *stock some goddamn purple hats.

    It does not mean, and never has meant: “since I am a customer what I say goes no matter what, your hats are now buy one get one free and bend over so I can stick my fist in your butt.”

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  • Mechaguana@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The saying is : the customer is always right in matters of taste

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    On the base of the statue of liberty is a plaque that reads:

    Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

    “Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

    What that plaque should instead say, is…

    Capitalism is like a cancer that invades, infects and destroys everything it touches. When you think it about the definitions for successful capitalism and cancer are exactly the same … runaway, unrestricted and unlimited growth is the goal.

    Along with something welcoming immagrants to a land where immagrants are hated, and treated as less than second class citizens in a land filled with racism and hate.

    I’m not saying I support or agree with these ideas. I’m just saying if we’re going to put a plaque on a symbol of our nation, it should at least be honest.

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    • Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The poem wasn’t accurate even at the time.

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• PriorityMotif@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I created !flipping@lemmy.world for talking about selling on various online platforms and dealing with these kinds of issues. I would have told them to request to cancel or I would have to ship it within my handling time.

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