Should I trust an ebay seller?
1 hour ago, Dark_Horse007 said:Ebay doesn't?
eBay sellers have their choice of setting their own return policy. However returns are different from scams. For example, if they send they were selling something in working order and it arrived DOA, you're falling under ebay's refund policy rather than the sellers return policy and you'll get all your money back. Same goes if they just outright don't ship you something or send you something entirely different like a fake.
Honestly, I'm confused as to why most people think that shopping on eBay is just like buying drugs from a guy behind a dumpster. eBay and PayPal's policies are very consumer sided and you can even knowingly walk into a scam and you'll most certainly get your money back.
Really, the only thing you have to watch out for on eBay are OBVIOUS scams. If things are drastically under priced like a $100 iPhone 7? Scam. Counterfeiting can be a problem but that's not really an issue in the realm of buying PC components, it's more like reproduction Coca-Cola merch being sold as if it were vintage and stuff like that. But if you're getting into eBay for collectibles, or anywhere, you already have to form an eye for reproductions and counterfeits.
I've bought a lot on eBay. Odds and ends, adapters, motherboards, CPUs, I used eBay to import a pink PC case because it was only available in Europe and Asia, cosplay items, anime figurines, and lots of other stuff. The biggest trouble I've had was the occasional 'cheap crap from China' gets lost in the mail and they've always issued refunds without question and I once got a Radeon HD 6350 that arrived DOA but the seller was very co-operative.
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