Selling a video card on ebay: Safe again?

dan1101, 10 months ago

It’s a gamble. It’s usually ok but eBay usually sides heavily with the buyer.

Neosnc, 10 months ago

Nothings changed, it’s still a shit show where buyers have all the protection and small sellers are easily screwed over. That’s not likely to change at eBay.

ja2, 10 months ago

That sucks.

Neosnc, 10 months ago

It does. I haven’t been willing to risk selling any of my gadgets there for years. Who wants to go through the hassle. You might have better luck on a place like www.reddit.com/r/hardwareswap/ .

RichardButt89, 10 months ago

I was going to recommend r/hardwareswap but I’m not sure how it’s faring since 3PA’s we’re nixxed.

Sad, because I’ve bought and sold several GPUs there with no issue.

Was actually looking to sell my Ayaneo2 in order to partially find an ROG Ally but didn’t have the time before July.

ja2, 10 months ago

Apparently they are using discord now, and I might give it a shot. Might not be a bad idea to link that in the sidebar here.

I wonder if it’s worth the extra cost to ship. Will have to investigate more.

RichardButt89, 10 months ago

I’ve nothing but good experiences with that subreddit.

I’m not well versed in discord, but I may have to check it out.

It’s one of the subreddits I was most sad to see fall to reddit’s nonsense.

Neosnc, 10 months ago

Interesting, I didn’t know that. I know reddit is dying so good on them for migrating. I would think the buyer would pay shipping? If they have a good reputation system, seems like a better option than eBay.

ja2, 10 months ago

I’m sure that the buyer can be expected to pay for shipping, but at the end of the day for any buyer the “price” is inclusive of all fees, and for the seller the “profit” is minus expenses. So if it’s cheaper to ship using eBay’s discount, that means the buyer pays more or the seller makes less.

In the end it’s probably worth it for the peace of mind, though. I’ve personally never been screwed on a big ticket item and I don’t mind selling stuff for under $100 on ebay. If I lose, it’s lost, right? My feelings about eBay so far are that I’m selling there as much for altruistic reasons… I don’t want the material to be landfill, someone can get a deal (I do it all the time), and I’d like to recoup some cash as well to spend on hobbies. The couple times I’ve been hassled and lost money on ebay, it totaled less that $50.

I’d be super upset if I got screwed for several hundred.

shitescalates, 10 months ago

Make sure to require immediate payment and do buy it now. Competing sellers will place bad bids on your item and you waste 2 weeks. Other than that and fees its fine.

netburnr, 10 months ago

I’m on my third repost. I keep having scammers and people that don’t pay when they win. Maybe this time my 3090 will sell.

ja2, 10 months ago

Better they don’t pay at all than they do, you ship, they complain, then return you an empty box or a broken card for a full refund.

netburnr, 10 months ago

Oh they pay. Then I have to do a refund and wait for that to go through before I can relist it

brihuang95, 10 months ago

I sold my 1070 on ebay very recently. No problems there and it seems like the price inflation has died for the most part

Darkwatch00, 10 months ago

Can’t say from a seller’s perspective but I was purchased my vid card from eBay so there are legitimate buyers.

Does eBay do more for buyer protection than seller protection?

ja2, 10 months ago

Yes. If you are a buyer and you submit INAD, you can say anything you want and ebay will side with you. 100% of the time. Even if you lie. And if they initially don’t, just keep it up and they will. Then, when you “return” the empty box to the seller, there’s nothing they can do about it.

There are stories all over ebay about it. And I’m not a big seller btw, I’m just a dude who sells odd stuff to pay for new stuff. When I get screwed, which I occasionally do, it hurts because every time it feels personal unlike if it were my job.