Scammed selling my MacBook, almost

I went through selling my MacBook to find the most scam ridden places, and not so.

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#scam #laptop #macbook

[Kaldrax]

Crazy, in Germany eBay removed auction costs for private sellers completely in 2023. Probably because not enough people were using it and they feared for their market position.

[kkaysix]

I sold my MacBook Air M1 on eBay, the buyer only lived about half an hour away so I dropped it off in person and turned out it was for their son who was just starting college which made me happy seeing the smile on his face at the surprise that his parents had bought it for him, so miracles do happen...sometimes!

[DavidRadkowski]

never, EVER, sell anything of a substantial value on eBay :(

[secondsrule]

The best way to not pay eBay fees isn’t to use eBay. It never coughed up in Poland as we don’t like to waste money for nothing. Everyone is using local alternatives. I like this way.

[Robert]

In Germany, eBay isn‘t charging any fees for private sellers.

The buyer pays the shipping and you get the full amount.

[nothingtoseeherelolkek]

$1500 for the buyer and $1100 for the seller?! What insanity is this?

[NicoCoetzee]

You should probably add on your listing that you only ship once payment is received. Obviously eBay will not need that.

[raguel]

Marketplace is so bad right now. Tried to sell a MacBook Air and 29 out of 30 buyers were scams.

[mjbakedbeans]

Sold a friends MacBook pro on ebay for 1k. They said the buyer paid 1070 (tax and shipping) but then after shipping and eBay fees, i recieved 840. Terrible. So many people tried to lowball me and scam me too, almost feel for one of them.

[AxfNPnl]

Messed up that eBay charges their fee on the sales tax and shipping to the seller. What a racket that is.

[epsig]

Facebook Marketplace is the worst, avoid it at all costs

[terencecoustillas]

Ebay has become a shitty company and their's customers are have been milked since a loooong time ago already!!!!

[thingsmymacdoes]

I sold a macbook pro on ebay a couple of years ago. Buyer cancelled before I sent it and Ebay charged me 250 euro in fees anyway.

[dakshbhatnagar]

I loved how you said "I added a little bonus" in that email to the Facebook Marketplace guy who claimed he transferred funds to you.

[coolm]

The quallity of ebay as an application is truly mind blowing for a company of its size. You can seriously fuck up the UI from pretty much every page it renders if you try to

[olepigeon]

12:26 - It's worse than that. They charge sales tax AFTER applying eBay fees. eBay double dips on taxes.

[VX_l]

I had someone buy my MacBook, then a totally different account sent me a message saying to send the Mac to his sister because he is moving.

Absolutely insane. Sad people fall for this stuff

[ilyaalexakhin]

I sell on eBay all the time (UK). Once every 2 weeks you get a seller fee discount of 70% for 100 listings. It really goes a long way towards mitigating the pain. You might need to build up your account a bit to start getting the offer.

[xali]

So what we learned, the real scammer is the eBay.

[minuszero]

My concern with selling on Ebay is less to do with fees and much more to do with their tendency to side with buyers … i.e buyer says they received fake / broken / not as described item and you’re potentially out more money, if not all of it.