u/Nehal1802

TL;DR. Spent the last 30 minutes trying to call an agent at 5pm EST on a Monday. Was unable to talk to an agent. Kept getting the error "Call back during normal business hours". AI Chatbot only lets me send an email which doesn't go anywhere from my previous experience.

Sold an item. Buyer opens a return request. Item has still not been returned, return status is "Waiting for buyer to ship the return" and buyer leaves me negative feedback saying *"*I returned [item details] back to the seller, and the USPS tracking confirmed it was received back by the seller, and he hadn't responded back to me and he hasn't refunded my money!"

I submitted a feedback removal request which was not approved within 20 minutes stating "We carefully reviewed the details and found that the buyer experienced an issue related to a return.
For this reason, the feedback was not removed. Just so you know, this feedback will not impact your seller performance level."

How do I get this removed. I have free returns set. In the past, this has saved me from any false negative feedback when the buyer decided to not return the item.

Have a bunch of PS2 slim cases (some are not complete), metal shields, partial drives, and donor boards. Anybody want them before I toss them?

Pickup is local in South Jersey.

Came across a CECHA01 with firmware 3.60. Any value in keeping it on 3.60 or should I update to 4.92 and jailbreak?

Looking to see what people's CELL temperatures are in the XMB. I have a delidded CECHE01 all stock with the 90nm RSX, 15-blade fan and APS-226 PSU.

CPU 67 and RSX 64 at 27% Fan Speed in a room with an ambient temp of 74F. This is the first console I've delidded with the 15-blade fan. Does this fan just suck that much?

2 motherboards that both have issues. Hoping someone has an idea here before I toss them.

GH-023 board. Calibrates fine with PMAP and reads discs. Controller Port 1 does not work. It's not the flex cable or controller ports. Any idea what else it could be?

GH-026 board. Will not successfully calibrate with PMAP using the same drive assembly as above. Replaced the LA drive IC with the same results. It will start the game successfully but immediately go back to the Browser screen.

Any ideas on any of these 2 boards before I toss them?

Does anybody on this sub want them? Just cover shipping.

I don't have model numbers right now, I can get them later tonight.

I have 2 CRT TVs and I'm planning to get rid of one. I mainly play games on PS2. One is a Samsung Slim HD CRT and one is a generic JVC from 2004.

From what I'm reading, the JVC is a good all around TV with the Samsung looking better on PS2-era gaming.

Which would you all keep?

I mainly sell refurbished game consoles. Sales are down right now, but I still sell about 3-4 weekly.

In the last 2 weeks, I've gotten 5 returns. All of them were "fraud" returns.

1. Nothing wrong with the console, buyer claimed it was broken.
2. Buyer snapped the AV cable in the console.
3. Buyer disassembled the console, the anti-tamper labels I put on them were removed. Likely internal components were swapped.
4. Different serial number item was returned.
5. Different serial number item was returned.

Since most of my items are multi-quantity listings, I'm pretty much screwed as far as trying to reason with Ebay. I've refunded 50% of the purchase price and moved on, but still doesn't help me out much since I'm losing all of my fees. I've priced things out so I still make a profit even with losing fees and refunding 50%, but now I have yet another thing I need to work on which is what I'm trying to avoid.

Anybody else seeing this? In my almost 20 years of selling on Ebay, this is the first time I'm seeing this.

Looking for a new laptop for a cousin. He prefers battery life, thin and light with a large screen, and a no-nonsense "it just works" machine. He is not really IT savvy but also doesn't use anything more than the web browser and MS Office apps.

My personal laptop is a Snapdragon and my work laptop is a Ryzen. Pretty happy with both but looking to see what Reddit thinks is the best way to go now.

Hoping someone can help me out. I'm looking for a way to disable emails for every time a buyer sends me (the seller) a message. Anybody know where this setting is?