Microsoft offers Apple users $650 off to trade a MacBook for a Surface

Re:Microsoft offers Apple users $650 off to trade a MacBook ... by Scoundreller on Friday October 28, 2016 @11:34PM (#12822512)

Ebay's solution to non-paying bidders is to allow sellers to "Require immediate paypal payment to purchase".

And you can restrict your shipping options on a (mostly) country-by-country basis. Though that hasn't stopped me from getting queries about shipping to high-fraud countries.

Items typically sell for more on a fixed-price basis, don't bother with auctions unless you need the money fast.

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Re:Microsoft offers Apple users $650 off to trade a MacBook ... by massysett on Saturday October 29, 2016 @06:51AM (#12823435)

I restricted my shipping options. Still got bids from other countries.

I required immediate Paypal. There is nothing to enforce this. Got two nonpaying winners.

Ebay auctions are completely worthless. Ebay could fix these problems: actually screen bids by country. Take a bid deposit. They obviously do not care about fixing it.

If I were to sell on ebay again, I would never use an auction. But even without auctions, people can still run scams. Forget it. For a small seller ebay is not worth it. Maybe businesses find it worth it to deal with all the crap on ebay.

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Re:Microsoft offers Apple users $650 off to trade a MacBook ... by Scoundreller on Saturday October 29, 2016 @11:20AM (#12824299)

> I required immediate Paypal. There is nothing to enforce this. Got two nonpaying winners.

If you do a "Fixed price" listing and choose the "Require immediate Paypal payment" setting, the listing doesn't end until payment is received. This has been possible for years. `

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Re:Microsoft offers Apple users $650 off to trade a MacBook ... by massysett on Saturday October 29, 2016 @10:33PM (#12827822)

They do not require auction winners to pay immediately. Thus, as I said, auctions are the problem.

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