My latest ebay response...
Attn EBay case advisor
I suspect this marks the end of my relationship with your application. For almost twenty years, and 10s of thousands of dollars in transactions (the majority being computer parts to support my pc building side biz), it’s clear to me your site has become utterly overrun with scammers and con artists. The majority of which residing on the “buyers” side of the transaction. The buyers protection policy has created a ton of avenues ripe for exploitation by unscrupulous buyers with no intention of actually purchasing the items. While noble as an idea (and needed), the implementation leaves the seller totally exposed to fraud, as evidenced in this transaction.
In this case in particular, this part was purchased bnib from eBay, and has worked flawlessly from arrival until I pulled it to sell. It was then packaged EXACTLY as shipped from manufacturer and boxed surrounded by bubble bladders. Could it have been damaged in shipping? Perhaps, though I suspect that isn’t the case here. Given the rise in both pricing and demand for pc components this past year, I’d be curious on statistics re returns/“damaged” merch on pc parts vs eBay transactions as a whole. I imagine the percentage is significantly higher.
The notion that I, a computer builder for twenty years “improperly installed a one thousand dollar gpu”, then sold it as like new is absurd and frankly, despicable. To what end? $100 in profit? I make more than that in half an hour of work. I’m livid here.
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