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I had once a guy in California bought my used phone and claimed the screen was cracked and attached a picture of the cracked screen. I reverse searched the image and found it was online long ago. Tried to explain this to customer service for many times. They just couldn’t understand it…

I made the guy return to me and threat to report to his local police if he dares to not return to me. He eventually returned it to me. Terrible experience.

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Once tried selling a $1k camera via eBay, with the no international buyers caveat.

First day received a purchase order with an address to a derelict house in Detroit followed by a private message to please send the camera to an address in Africa. Took about a day to cancel the order, and eBay still demanded a cut for this non-existent, fraudulent transaction.

Second day receive a virtually identical attempt, only this time eBay refused my cancellation. Attempted to fight it, no avail. Received a variety of indignant messages from the seller claiming I was some sort of scammer. Once again eBay demanded a cut of this bullshit transaction.

I logged out of the account and sold it via Amazon in about a day no problem. eBay is a joke.

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