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Created May 10, 2026
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mickaeguil_0
MAJOR DROP IN SALES SINCE THE BUYER GUARANTEE WAS PUT IN PLACE
1 week agolast reply 1 week ago - Discussion
macfa-4656
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simrob-24
I’d like to know how many images I bought in my order please?
1 month agolast reply 1 month ago - Discussion
mimi9663
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utrillo87
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me-7750
Hello everyone, Longtime eBay seller, never had any problems until now. I’m laying out the facts in the exact order, because the timeline is what makes this so outrageous. The sale: Graphics card sold "FOR PARTS OR REPAIR - UNTESTED" for €500. Backplate damage disclosed in the listing + photos. No returns accepted. Everything is written black on white in the listing. After the sale, not before: The buyer made an offer on June 25. He then took several days to pay — I followed up with him in writing about the payment. It was only after winning the auction and committing to buy that he started asking questions : extra photos, a video before shipment, and above all whether the GPU die and video memory were actually present. I answered honestly: I’m not a professional, I can’t certify anything about the inside, the card is sold untested for parts, components may be missing — exactly what the listing already said. He then wrote, verbatim: "I can accept that the graphics card is defective." Bought, knowingly, after the fact. And right after writing that, in the same exchange: "Since I’ve already bought it, can you tell me if the die (GPU) is still there?" So: he buys, accepts the risk in writing, then regrets it and starts worrying again about the very same risk he had just accepted. All of that before shipment even happened. Shipment: I filmed it before shipping (video kept), packed it carefully, sent it at his logistics expense — well, mine actually, €100 out of my pocket for international shipping to China. Customs, I helped him track the parcel, everything went fine on my end. The return: Once received, he claims it arrived damaged. No proof provided : no photo of the damaged box, no carrier report, nothing. Just the allegation with a bent piece of foil in hand, easy enough to fake. The decision — and the reversal: On July 24, eBay agent Karan closes the dispute, reviews the case, and confirms to me three times in writing : the buyer will not be refunded, I get the full amount of the sale, final decision. The next day , without any notification or explanation: eBay reverses everything. The buyer is fully refunded (€500 + €20 shipping), and I’m charged an extra €75. Bottom line: -€595 for me. I did everything right — accurate listing, defect disclosed, no returns, video as evidence, honest answers even before payment, shipping at my expense — and I end up losing money after a decision eBay itself had made in my favor. My question to you: has this kind of thing — post-sale agreement that turns into regret, then into "damage" with no proof, then a dispute you win getting quietly reversed a few days later — ever happened to you? How did you get out of it? Ebay is complicit in this scam. I’m preparing DGCCRF + a complaint for the buyer side and Ebay + a formal appeal for the eBay side, but I want to know whether this is an isolated case or a known pattern here. Thanks in advance.
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