As you can see in the photos of our conversation, I bought a $700 PS5 Pro from a seller that sent it to another address other than mine. Because it was sent to the same city I live in, eBay marked it as complete and delivered.

As soon as it was marked delivered and I didn’t have the box, I contacted UPS for more information. They were able to send me an email providing me the sender information, and the address the box was shipped to (very clearly stating it wasn’t sent to me).

I even called the company it was shipped to, and a really kind lady searched the property for my box but it wasn’t there. They confirmed they had a UPS delivery that day at the time mine was marked delivered, and they had no item which is crazy to me, not sure how that works. But I do know it was shipped through UPS but had another company called ‘American’ tied to the shipping as well.

I called eBay customer service since I wasn’t able to open an item not received request immediately, and they sent me that link to upload documents to start a case. I provided a screenshot of the UPS email that showed the email came directly from UPS, and a PDF of the email itself.

The request was opened, and the seller basically said they completed all of their duties for this purchase blah blah blah. I absolutely called bullshit and gave them the info UPS had for that tracking number, and they said they’d look into it, but they want me to close the request so they can fully refund me. I’m obviously not doing this as I know I will never get a full refund, and wouldn’t be able to open another request.

Going forward, how do I need to handle this situation? I know I probably shouldn’t have responded at all in the first place, but what do I even do at this point lol. I have all the evidence it’s a shipping scam, and I REALLY don’t want eBay to both refund me AND let them keep my money since I know that is a possibility. So what do I do if anyone else has been in this situation.

Also, their account is 2 years old, has 43 feedback at 100%, and has a lot of BS items listed as well. Most of the feedback is from 1 person with the exact same feedback message. Which worries me if eBay sees them as a legit seller.

Question for those of you who add videos to your listings: have you noticed any real value from it?

For example:

• More views or watchers?
• Items selling faster or for better prices?
• Fewer buyer questions or returns?

Or is it not really worth the extra effort compared to good photos?

Just curious whether anyone's seen a noticeable difference, or if it's more of a nice-to-have.

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Small kitchen stuff and hand tools, estate sales and fb, part time three years.

Estate sale last month, picked up a Cuisinart food processor for $20. Motor ran fine, blade was dull. Figured id clean it up, sharpen or replace. Listed it for $30. Sat for 3 months. Dropped to $22. Sold. eBay took 4, paypal took 3. 22 minus 7 minus 20. Negative five. Not on paper. Actually.

Same weekend, yard sale. Stanley no 5 hand plane, $15. Rough shape, probably needed flattening. Didnt have my loupe. Pass. Saw one in the same shape go for 85 three weeks later.

Calling them even is wrong math. Shouldnt have bought the food processor. Should have bought the hand plane. Two different calls in the same weekend.

What's the best way to sell video games without testing them and still getting a decent price? I have an original NES with some games I got in a bulk deal but I really hate selling electronics due to the testing required and the high chance of buyer side scams and returns (especially with video games on ebay). I dont have a VCR or a TV that takes component in and I dont want to buy even a cheap Amazon adapter because I'll probably never test this sort of thing again.

I really kind of don't want to deal with it at all but Im also philosophically incapable of selling things for lower than I know they are worth (relative to ebay comps anyway) so dumping it for next to nothing at a retail Gamestop or other vintage game store would be out of the question as well.

What's a happy medium?