Read Ebay's recent changes to their user agreement and my only response was. EP has fully taken over my brain.
Just more stuff slanted strongly towards buyers. Some okay stuff in there too, but a couple really negative ones imo.
By the 2015 holiday season, all eligible domestic returns on eBay will be eBay hassle-free returns and sellers may not remove hassle-free return settings from their listings. We updated this section also to reflect this future change.
Consistent After-Sale Experience. We updated the policy to reflect that we're simplifying the after-sale experience for buyers and sellers with a new improved return process that gives buyers a more convenient and consistent way to return items—right from My eBay. Many of our sellers who use eBay hassle-free returns are paying for return shipping on faulty or not-as-described items. Starting September 15, an initial group of sellers, (and after a transition period, all remaining sellers) will be responsible for return shipping on items which are faulty or not-as-described. Many sellers are facilitating returns for faulty or not as described items, but for those sellers who choose not to facilitate a return or provide a return shipping label for a faulty or not as described item, we may refund their buyers without requiring the buyers to return the item, and in turn seek reimbursement from sellers.
In a fantasy world where all buyers are honest it wouldn't be too terrible. But I live in reality. I already try to avoid Ebay when possible, but I'll probably try harder now.
For reference I only sell fully functional items or advertise/list them as broken. I take full pictures and always ship the item pictured. Yet I've had 3 bogus issues as a seller. I'm pretty low volume, high value on ebay. I would imagine power sellers run into scamming buyers fairly consistently.
Last edited by Gypsy; 17th-August-2014 at 02:46.