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You are right. I’ve been selling on eBay for 25 years. They have made hundreds of thousands of dollars from my sales. With tens of thousands of happy customers. Yet, as a seller, I’m the one that eBay needs to protect the buyer from and has continuously stacked the odds against us. They don’t want sellers to question the transactions. Doing so puts your metrics in jeopardy. They make a good chunk of money off fees. Part of that money should be making the platform secure. They could hire a fraud team that you could submit issues to. If they spend it elsewhere, that’s on them. When PayPal was collecting payments, they did a decent job of identifying fraudulent transactions. When eBay divested them and started their own payment gateway, they seem to have lost that technology. But you’re right. I don’t care anymore. I’m not going to go out of my way to take advantage of these scams by mailing an empty box, but I’m going to fulfill my mission that eBay has dictated I do if I don’t want to end up in the penalty box. I’ve called and spent dozens of hours over my selling career with eBay customer support only to get the runaround. If that’s how they want to treat their money makers, then why waste my time any further? I’ll fulfill my obligations, follow their rules precisely, and let them deal with the consequences of the environment they’ve created. And don’t get me started on bogus FedEx charges on ebay shipping after the shipment has gone through claiming that you didn’t figure out the shipping costs correctly, that you owe more, that they’ll automatically deduct it, and you can’t even challenge it. Or when you get multiple items on an order and eBay just assumes you can fit two items in the same size box you gave them for calculating shipping on one item — making you eat the shipping costs for their horrible algorithm. Ya, not gonna get much sympathy here Rant over. I’ve gotta go yell at some kids to get off my lawn.

Hopefully, that zombie has been put down for good.

Your mileage may vary but the last few big releases when just ordering one big set it seemed like Lego had some of these prepackaged and shipped them pretty quickly with Lightning Ship ontrac and I got them in about a week sometimes less. This was the case for me with the medeival market and the cantina on May the fourth.

Ahh, Found it. "The buyer’s payment institution sided with the buyer. The good news is that you’re protected for this dispute under eBay seller protection policy. We won't deduct the dispute amount from your funds. You're not required to take any action at this time." That's how I sold 30+ 70420 Graveyard Mystery sets in under 4 days. Every single sale was fraud.

Sorry about that. Your post was mistakenly received with judgmental overtones. After re-reading, I see what you meant. Apologies for the rant.

oh man, ebay early days... I remember getting western union money orders, mailing them to the buyer and hoping they shipped my stuff. Never sold anything in the early days, but buying was a little scary lol. Who remembers when yahoo had an auction platform ?

A long rant when I was actually giving a suggestion . The ethical line has already been crossed, so you might as well go all in. What the buyer going to do? Claim you sent nothing after already being banned lol, so you might as well screw them too. The 100% profit goes to you, versus the scam buyer. The person who had their credit card stolen for the purchase has protection from the credit card company, you have "eBay protection". Let eBay and the scam buyer get screwed.

7. SUrPriSiNg my gIrLfRiEnD with 500 Lego plants!!!!