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Negative eBay Trend?
The bulk of it has been vintage bicycle parts, vintage or high end woodworking hand tools, musical instruments (mostly nice acoustic guitars) and of course watches.
Stuff that most buyers are very interested in condition, and on these categories, something not easy to make a completely objective assessment.
Understanding this, I followed some strict practices, and unsatisfactory sales have been vanishingly small, like well under ten, really only 4 or 5 that I can remember and really only one that I thought the guy was an ass and then blocked him.
Until recently when I came out of a several yesr hiatus. Like 3 out of 10 sales the buyer turned out to be a whiny bitch dreaming up imaginary issues, some even hinting that I may be an unscrupulous ripoff artist.
Very very negative experience that makes me think I may want to discontinue selling stuff there. Which is sad, my previous long experience had me convinced that most buyers were acting in good faith/reasonable people.
Just wondering if anyone else has noticed a trend. If so, why? Post covid? It is very striking and I have several decades of activity for basis of comparison
Thanks!