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  • @shalafi
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    991 year ago

    Fuck it, hit 'em hard. Been buying off eBay for 20-years, I like 'em. But this seems like a fine place to put our collective foot down and say, “No. You can’t do that.”

    • @btaf45
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      I was shafted by an Ebay seller who was nasty and awful. He acted like he was too stupid to understand why his item was not at all what I ordered. He had a 99.4% approval rating. I thought how the hell was that possible? I found out when I went to leave my negative rating and Ebay would not allow me to post the negative rating.

      • @Kethal
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        371 year ago

        A seller shipped me a phone that was much worse than what I bought, and it wasn’t even the same brand. I returned it. However, the seller wouldn’t ship the right phone but still had the listing saying several were available. I couldn’t leave a negative review, which makes no sense, and I reported it to ebay, but as of yet nothing has happened to the seller that I can tell.

        It’s really disappointing. I want an Amazon alternative, but it’s tough if I’m going to have to go through this crap.

          • @[email protected]
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            71 year ago

            I use Swappa.com for all my used electronics. Been buying and selling randomly from them for years. They are starting to get big enough to have sellers that refurb stuff which kinda sucks. When they were smaller and only had normal people selling their extra/old equipment was much better.

          • El Barto
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            61 year ago

            There’s gotta be a better alternative than AliExpress for US consumers.

              • @Coreidan
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                91 year ago

                Ah. So no alternative then. Got it.

              • @DarthBueller
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                Is this sarcasm? Half of the shit I get on aliexpress isn’t available anywhere else. Or if it is, it costs an order of magnitude more when buying from US reseller, who is just marking up inventory they bought from aliexpress.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          We might just have to do without an alternative. I haven’t ordered off of Amazon probably 5+ years now, and it’s fine.

      • @Buddahriffic
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        71 year ago

        I’d think that would make eBay complicit in any scams they block negative reviews for.