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I refuse to sell any more Bose radios on eBay. Every single time I list one, I get scammed by a parts swapper. I’ve tried everything clearly displaying the serial numbers in the listing, using security stickers, security pens, you name it. Yet every time I report it, eBay sides with the buyer, and I end up with a defect on my account. I currently have four defects because I tried to fight these scammers after listing 4 radios I got from goodwill over the years.

My eBay account is glitched, and no support agent has been able to help me.
1. A buyer wanted to return an item, so I selected FedEx because it was cheaper. As soon as the buyer shipped the item back, eBay marked the return as delivered, the same day he shipped it even though I hadn’t received it yet. I contacted support to let them know, and they told me to wait until the item arrived to refund. Instead, I received a defect on my account. I’ve called support repeatedly to have it removed because eBay has been glitching with FedEx tracking. The agents tell me the defect has been removed on their backend, but it still appears on my dashboard.
2. I can’t issue refunds to buyers after returns. I constantly get a “Return failed” error, even though I have enough funds to cover the refund. Support has been unable to resolve the issue. They keep telling me to wait 25–72 hours, but it’s been well beyond that timeframe and the problem still hasn’t been fixed.
3. I went from averaging five sales a day to zero sales for the past two weeks. Yes, it could be a summer slowdown, but these glitches don’t seem coincidental. One support agent even told me there was already an existing support ticket for this exact issue. They transferred me to another agent, but that person couldn’t help either and just repeated the same troubleshooting steps.

My eBay account is glitched, and no support agent has been able to help me.
1. A buyer wanted to return an item, so I selected FedEx because it was cheaper. As soon as the buyer shipped the item back, eBay marked the return as delivered, the same day he shipped it even though I hadn’t received it yet. I contacted support to let them know, and they told me to wait until the item arrived to refund. Instead, I received a defect on my account. I’ve called support repeatedly to have it removed because eBay has been glitching with FedEx tracking. The agents tell me the defect has been removed on their backend, but it still appears on my dashboard.
2. I can’t issue refunds to buyers after returns. I constantly get a “Return failed” error, even though I have enough funds to cover the refund. Support has been unable to resolve the issue. They keep telling me to wait 25–72 hours, but it’s been well beyond that timeframe and the problem still hasn’t been fixed.
3. I went from averaging five sales a day to zero sales for the past two weeks. Yes, it could be a summer slowdown, but these glitches don’t seem coincidental. One support agent even told me there was already an existing support ticket for this exact issue. They transferred me to another agent, but that person couldn’t help either and just repeated the same troubleshooting steps.

All the goodwills in my area are putting out tons of Amazon returns. And half get returned back to the store for missing pieces and being broken , yet they keep buying more and more pallets it’s just knock off junk. Who idea was to do this?

I have stacks of Wiis and Xbox’s is GameStop still doing the extra store credit promo?

I started reselling this year, and there’s this one particular Goodwill I go to that’s kind of a honey hole. But all of the resellers at that store are so aggressive and territorial. Are all of you guys like this, or is it just a select few?

It’s gotten to the point where some people will report you to corporate, so now corporate has stepped in and said no resellers can touch the fresh carts when new products are being put out. Now everyone just stands around waiting for things to get placed on the shelves. It’s madness.

I didn’t realize thrifting was such a cutthroat business. And don’t even get me started on the guys who scan books they’re the worst.