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Ebay Restricted item?

#121
Ric5 said:
maybe we can scam ebay ....
Sell a normal Rickenbacker bass for $10,000 and then ebay confiscates it and lets you keep the money. Then split the $8500 profit with the buyer.
That is my new get rich scheme.
:bassist::hyper::bassist::hyper:
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It's even more profitable with an Alibaba RiK (don't forget the FRAGILE and GLASS stickers).

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I'm still wondering why Rickenbacker thinks it's okay to put "Glass" stickers on their shipping boxes. Do they actually do that?

Seems a bit duplicitous for them to vigorously protect their brand to the point of having auctions of Ric copies shut down for the mere mention of any reference to Rickenbacker, but then deliberately attempt to deceive shipping carriers as to the true nature of the contents of what they're shipping.

I don't recall other manufacturers doing that, am I missing something?
 
#131
Anachronism said:
Despite the promises to Make Ebay Great Again, I've emigrated to Reverb.
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I'm in the opposite camp. After getting burned on Reverb as a buyer, I'm abandoning Reverb altogether as they've demonstrated they can't be trusted. I'm staying with ebay as a buyer because most of the more egregious ripoff artists have been purged, and the ones that remain are held to account.

I'm staying with ebay as a seller because I have nothing to hide, and have no intention of trying to deceive anyone. If I did, Reverb would certainly be my hang. That place is a house of cards waiting to collapse under the weight of it's own policies.
 
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#132
Ric5 said:
maybe we can scam ebay ....

Sell a normal Rickenbacker bass for $10,000 and then ebay confiscates it and lets you keep the money. Then split the $8500 profit with the buyer.

That is my new get rich scheme

:bassist::hyper::bassist::hyper:
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Global shipping has a refund limit that goes by country, if I remember correctly about $3k was the highest I saw and some places like Russia are super low like $200. So I guess if they confiscate your bass that's sent to Russia you just eat a large sum of money : (
 
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#133
9c1ny said:
Global shipping has a refund limit that goes by country, if I remember correctly about $3k was the highest I saw and some places like Russia are super low like $200. So I guess if they confiscate your bass that's sent to Russia you just eat a large sum of money : (
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Actually I will never use Global Shipping Program for anything other than a small guitar part ...
 
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9c1ny said:
Global shipping has a refund limit that goes by country, if I remember correctly about $3k was the highest I saw and some places like Russia are super low like $200. So I guess if they confiscate your bass that's sent to Russia you just eat a large sum of money : (
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As long as we're "guessing"..... maybe when the selling price of an item exceeds the limits for the country in question, ebay simply issues refunds and returns in a manner that makes both parties whole again?

Which would be consistent with what seems to be happening in Ric5's case, where it appears that a Global shipping rule was inadvertently violated, but in the end no one was hurt financially, and where the seller was paid anyway, just as if the sale had been completed in the normal fashion. Do I have the facts right?
 
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9c1ny said:
no need to use it, I just sold a bass on eBay to a guy in Germany and sent it good old USPS international , no issues what so ever
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Thanks, great that there are still nice people out there selling to other countries - very nice! \m/
I also received my Ric (which I purchased via ebay) via USPS - no issues, made me very happy!
 
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9c1ny said:
no need to use it, I just sold a bass on eBay to a guy in Germany and sent it good old USPS international , no issues what so ever
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That's the smart way to do it-- if you're up for shipping internationally. I've found overseas shipping, customs, irate customers wanting refunds, etc. not equal to the effort. There are more than enough people in the U.S. who are willing to buy. I even quit selling to Canada because of a customer issue. He complained a pristine perfect item was "not as described" and demanded a refund and reimbursement for shipping. The shipping refund and shipping costs to both directions absolutely KILLED any value of the auction. And dealing with customs in BOTH DIRECTIONS. Anywhere but U.S.? No thanks . :rollno:
 
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#139
alaskaleftybass said:
That's the smart way to do it-- if you're up for shipping internationally. I've found the hassle of overseas shipping, customs, irate customers wanting refunds, etc. not equal to the effort. I realized there are more than enough people in the U.S. who are willing to buy stuff. I even quit selling to Canada because of customs and a customer sent an item back. The shipping refund both directions absolutely KILLED any value of the auction. Anywhere but U.S.? No thanks . :rollno:
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Sad to hear that, making such experiences is really bad.
But I wonder, couldn't you make use of PayPal's seller protection - or whatever it is called?
 
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Michael Schreiber said:
Sad to hear that, making such experiences is really bad.
But I wonder, couldn't you make use of PayPal's seller protection - or whatever it is called?
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Paypal is wonderful-- for the customer. Not so much for the seller. There really isn't any protection for the seller. Especially overseas (from the U.S.). I wish it would have been different, I used to sell overseas but that was so time consuming compared to sending something state-to-state. Love Germany by the way. I was stationed in Baumholder, went to K-town and Idar Oberstein a lot! Loved Frankfurt! Army time.
 

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