first time using e-bay any advise?
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first time using e-bay any advise?
i am about to send a pesonal check for a pretty large amount of money to somebody i dont know hoping he will send me what i want, it is my first time using e-bay is there any way to make this feel safer? how do i know this guy is not going to cash my check and not send my mechandise? how do you guys that use e-bay do it? thanks in advance
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Definitely Paypal: with it, you have some recourse thru Ebay. Plus, do the following:
1. Check the sellers feedback, and esp how he responded to the negatives [if any against him]. If he answers like a total moron, go the other way.
2. Check to see what he has sold/bought. If it is just a few low dollar items, this is also a warning flag.
3. How long he has been on Ebay?
4. The personal check surprises me: Is he going to hold it until it clears? I sell on Ebay [over 2700 positives so far
] and basically do not accept a personal check unless it is from someone that I have done business with before.
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1. Check the sellers feedback, and esp how he responded to the negatives [if any against him]. If he answers like a total moron, go the other way.
2. Check to see what he has sold/bought. If it is just a few low dollar items, this is also a warning flag.
3. How long he has been on Ebay?
4. The personal check surprises me: Is he going to hold it until it clears? I sell on Ebay [over 2700 positives so far
] and basically do not accept a personal check unless it is from someone that I have done business with before. Woof
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Originally Posted by Bowser4x4
Definitely Paypal: with it, you have some recourse thru Ebay. Plus, do the following:
1. Check the sellers feedback, and esp how he responded to the negatives [if any against him]. If he answers like a total moron, go the other way.
2. Check to see what he has sold/bought. If it is just a few low dollar items, this is also a warning flag.
3. How long he has been on Ebay?
4. The personal check surprises me: Is he going to hold it until it clears? I sell on Ebay [over 2700 positives so far ] and basically do not accept a personal check unless it is from someone that I have done business with before.
Woof
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1. Check the sellers feedback, and esp how he responded to the negatives [if any against him]. If he answers like a total moron, go the other way.
2. Check to see what he has sold/bought. If it is just a few low dollar items, this is also a warning flag.
3. How long he has been on Ebay?
4. The personal check surprises me: Is he going to hold it until it clears? I sell on Ebay [over 2700 positives so far
] and basically do not accept a personal check unless it is from someone that I have done business with before. Woof
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he will exept personal check money order or cashiers check, he is going to wait for it to clear than ship the mechandise, he has been on e-bay for about a year, his feedback is all positive but it is for buying small items not selling them, what would be the best way for my transaction to go threw he seems lagit gave me a good phone number and address, thanks for any advise
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Don't know how much money you are talking about, but if it is a lot, maybe time to use an escrow service? Just something to think about.
I would still use paypal if I could. When I bought a boat, I did the downpayment with Paypal, then went and picked it up with a cashiers check in hand.
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I would still use paypal if I could. When I bought a boat, I did the downpayment with Paypal, then went and picked it up with a cashiers check in hand.
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Originally Posted by Bowser4x4
Don't know how much money you are talking about, but if it is a lot, maybe time to use an escrow service? Just something to think about.
I would still use paypal if I could. When I bought a boat, I did the downpayment with Paypal, then went and picked it up with a cashiers check in hand.
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I would still use paypal if I could. When I bought a boat, I did the downpayment with Paypal, then went and picked it up with a cashiers check in hand.
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Originally Posted by bigtruck311
about $1400, i am going to send cashiers chack certified mail, so he has to sign something to get the letter, i think that way i will at least have his signiture. i hope this goes well, any thing else you guys can think of?
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Originally Posted by Bowser4x4
Definitely Paypal: with it, you have some recourse thru Ebay. Plus, do the following:
1. Check the sellers feedback, and esp how he responded to the negatives [if any against him]. If he answers like a total moron, go the other way.
2. Check to see what he has sold/bought. If it is just a few low dollar items, this is also a warning flag.
3. How long he has been on Ebay?
4. The personal check surprises me: Is he going to hold it until it clears? I sell on Ebay [over 2700 positives so far ] and basically do not accept a personal check unless it is from someone that I have done business with before.
Woof
Bowser
1. Check the sellers feedback, and esp how he responded to the negatives [if any against him]. If he answers like a total moron, go the other way.
2. Check to see what he has sold/bought. If it is just a few low dollar items, this is also a warning flag.
3. How long he has been on Ebay?
4. The personal check surprises me: Is he going to hold it until it clears? I sell on Ebay [over 2700 positives so far
] and basically do not accept a personal check unless it is from someone that I have done business with before. Woof
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) I always check feedback and if it's not better than 97% positive I don't bid. If its a bigger ticket item, I check to see what else the seller has sold in the past. Beware of someone who has sold lots of little $5-10 items and all of the sudden he has something up for a couple hundred. I've been buying on eBay for several years now and never had a deal go bad 
Oh and PayPal all the way
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my think is i would not want anyone you dont know to have my checking account number with paypal all they get is that it was payed and your address plus a lot of credit cards will cover it if you dont get it. call them and askand paypal will to read this https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/websc...-outside#buyer
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as a Fedex guy who delivers things ordered off of ebay frequently, I would be wary of a seller not accepting paypal.. I can't tell you how many instances I and others have seen of COD packages we've delivered only to have the recipient open the package and find.. nothing.. empty box other than packing material.. I hope you have a good experience, but be cautious, the reputable sellers on ebay seem to use / accept paypal.. in the case of COD you can at least cancel the check, but if they demand receipt of your check before even shipping the item... big ol' red flag right there.. 
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If the seller doesn't have at least 97% positive feed back and if they dont take paypal, I buy it from somebody else. I got taken for $30 one time on ebay. I sent a money order and never recieved my item. Never again. I didn't notice that that particular seller didn't take paypal till after I had bid.