Funny thing to say, but I’m not much of an eBay user.
I’ve bought and sold tons of stuff on Kijiji and elsewhere without problems. I figured it’s time to pop the cherry and try it, by selling my old B7 RS4 wheel (replaced it recently with a nice FBSW). So I place an ad as Buy-It-Now, and 7 days later I have a buyer ($550 by the way). I email the buyer and he sends me his phone number and info, etc and I send him an eBay invoice. We converse about what car he’s going to install it on and I confirm the airbag is included to a question he sends.
Having read in eBay that funds are withheld for several days (since I have 0% rating), I figure OK, no money appears yet, but I’ll ship it.
Yes I know, you master eBay users are probably saying to yourself “WTF. Are you stupid? NO, don’t ship it yet, you dumbass”. But I go head and ship it (UPS), just to be sure I wouldn’t screw up my first transaction.
Skip ahead two days later, and I suddenly receive an email from the buyer saying he’s found another wheel and says “Sorry”.
It’s at this point I realize I’ve made a major miscalculation and am now in grave danger of losing both my money and wheel. Knowing the buyer is about to receive the wheel any minute, I fire off an email providing a link to Buyer rules on eBay. I also advise he has until midnight to pay, else I’ll take it to eBay Resolution plus I retain the option to take him to court. I’m very concerned he will just keep the wheel and say fuck you - “possession is 9/10 of the law”.
Next day, I log into Paypal and am a little surprised to see the full amount in my account.
I check my email and the buyer has written: “I just got a wheel today and pay for it so… not nice”. He also include’s a cool icon of a fist, business end pointing towards me.
I hate eBay.