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I stopped buying off eBay after I fell for a well made scam listing and they made it literally impossible to contact a human being so I had to file a charge back. Mind you, this was after they nuked the scammers account AFTER I paid for the order, so they knew they were scamming, didn't reach out at all, and tried to make it impossible to do anything about it.
Fuck eBay. They know damn well they've got scammers, and more importantly, they're perfectly happy to keep their cut after the scam is over. I'll only buy off eBay as a last resort if I need it and can't get it anywhere else.
Damn that sucks, sorry you got scammed. :/
I’ve e had pretty good luck so far. About the worst experience I’ve ever had was people shipping me things in a knotted plastic grocery bag lol.
Same, I've had better luck getting sellers to communicate and fix shit on eBay than Amazon. Amazon only ever offered refunds, eBay people tried to make it right first. Like when the cabinet I ordered arrived with the glass busted out they gave me a partial refund to just replace the glass (way more than the glass cost), so I didn't have to fuck with sending it back. That was great. The other time I ordered some parts and they left out half they just refunded the whole order and let me keep them.
I like eBay - you can find and support good small sellers (people who are similar to you, just every day regular people). What made you stop shopping at Amazon out of interest? For me it was learning how Amazon treat their employees and union organisers. The pissing in bottles, the leaving the dead man lying on the floor and making people woe to around his corpse. The making people come in during a hurricane. This was 10 - 15 years ago (way before the Ring camera and AWS stuff came out); a buddy of mine get a job in an Amazon distribution centre (UK) and did 47000 steps in one shift. Some horror stories from there. So far eBay seems like the better option IMHO
I felt really bad for using Amazon after all those stories about terrible workplace conditions, but pulled the trigger and cancelled my account after Bezos sucked on Trump’s arsehole during the last US election.
I was already on the fence due to repeatedly having problems with orders being wrong or the items description being false advertising. I dropped them altogether when the various stories about working conditions came out.