When people started selling their accounts on eBay -- that was probably a major indicator of things to come. I wonder how much does a +100 account go for these days?:o

Seriously?

Well, I guess it takes all kinds.

I have been very fortunate in my dealings both ways, but I kind of tend to do things by feel. Sometimes I get a bad vibe from a store or from listings and avoid them. Sometimes I'll keep an eye on a store and watch their listings for a while before buying.

But that's the great thing - I can pick and choose and have more options than going to the mall.

I've got a situation now that has me at loss, though. I had a buyer. I printed the label through Paypal, so have tracking and all that. Took the package into the post office and dropped it off. Two weeks later, tracking doesn't show any activity and the buyer is wondering where the stuff is.

I know I've taken care of my end, but the buyer doesn't have any reason to believe me, so in some sense I feel I should refund the money, but it is coming out of my pocket to do so and I'm not really making money on ebay, so it is REALLY coming out of my pocket, not out of my profit. Sigh. Guess that's the risk I take being a seller, but it bugs me that the post office didn't process the package! That's not ebay's fault!!

I can only assume it works differently - I have to make an authorised transfer of funds into the PayPal account (rather than PayPal taking the money). Then despite the fact that the money is sitting in the PayPal account and I have requested a payment to be made, it isn't released for over two weeks... Perhaps it's just the type of account I have - it takes 5 working days to clear a cheque into my bank account for example.