Marketplace sales back on track today - two boxes of tools gone (and I was able to fit them in my garden cart to move them to the front of the house without killing myself). A few legit seeming offers on another item. But no interest on the stupidly heavy hunk of iron drill press so far.
In other good news I have realised I still have two hard rubbish pickups available to me, and get another two next financial year. So stuff I can’t sell/give away I can still get rid of fairly easily. Operation clean-up-before-I-move as going very well.
Edit: other item also sold - my first postal sale over Marketplace. Probably because I usually sell big things And because I am not willing to cut the items to postable size with a hacksaw.
There is always still a risk they will try to claim a package didn’t arrive and get PayPal to refund, but with postage tracking it would be unlikely to be successful. The scammers generally try to push you into some dodgy or new payment system and then bamboozle you with fake emails, refunds and paying money to “release funds”. They generally sound so ridiculous I am amazed people fall for them, but obviously lots of people do.
Overall I think the majority of people are pretty honest, but unfortunately the dodgy people have a disproportionate impact because they are playing a “numbers game” and contact a lot of people. The majority of the poor experiences when buying and selling are more the result of poor communication and mismatched expectations. I think that’s one of the things that was good when eBay was the main selling system - they managed the whole process and made sure everything ran in a consistent and orderly way. Dispirate individuals trying to work everything out is like herding cats and ends up with a lot of chaos and some people getting scratched even if no one actually starts out intending to do harm.
Anyway, thank you for coming to my TED talk, I think I spend far too much time thinking about such things!
Marketplace sales back on track today - two boxes of tools gone (and I was able to fit them in my garden cart to move them to the front of the house without killing myself). A few legit seeming offers on another item. But no interest on the stupidly heavy hunk of iron drill press so far.
In other good news I have realised I still have two hard rubbish pickups available to me, and get another two next financial year. So stuff I can’t sell/give away I can still get rid of fairly easily. Operation clean-up-before-I-move as going very well.
Edit: other item also sold - my first postal sale over Marketplace. Probably because I usually sell big things And because I am not willing to cut the items to postable size with a hacksaw.
I had someone come by this morning. Large sale item + small car = no sale. :(
I’m glad the postal sale worked out. That’s one of the typical ways scammers try get people, so it’s good they were genuine
There is always still a risk they will try to claim a package didn’t arrive and get PayPal to refund, but with postage tracking it would be unlikely to be successful. The scammers generally try to push you into some dodgy or new payment system and then bamboozle you with fake emails, refunds and paying money to “release funds”. They generally sound so ridiculous I am amazed people fall for them, but obviously lots of people do.
Overall I think the majority of people are pretty honest, but unfortunately the dodgy people have a disproportionate impact because they are playing a “numbers game” and contact a lot of people. The majority of the poor experiences when buying and selling are more the result of poor communication and mismatched expectations. I think that’s one of the things that was good when eBay was the main selling system - they managed the whole process and made sure everything ran in a consistent and orderly way. Dispirate individuals trying to work everything out is like herding cats and ends up with a lot of chaos and some people getting scratched even if no one actually starts out intending to do harm.
Anyway, thank you for coming to my TED talk, I think I spend far too much time thinking about such things!