Fleabay or not to Fleabay

[jimjoachim]

Hello

I have been selling a few sets of old irons on ebay to fund my lovely new Ping Gs.

I have had someone message me via ebay looking to buy a set and they want to complete the transaction outside of ebay (but still through paypal) thus saving me fees and getting him a cheaper price.

Just wanted to check who is exposing themselves to risk here? If he gets the clubs and isn't happy for whatever reason what recourse would he have?
Anyone done something like this? Thoughts on it?

cheers

 

[Lord Tyrion]

For the sake of a few quid, stick with Ebay. If he isn't happy then he would go through Paypal. The risk is more on his side than yours but I would be slightly wary about taking it outside Ebay. Not worth it in my eyes.

 

[DCB]

Not worth the risk IMO, stay in ebay & paypal.

 

[Curls]

I used to accept a Paypal gift and never had any issues, but I'm a bit more wary now. The person who gives you the money has a certain number of days to retract it, so while it's sitting in your account one day they can cancel the transaction. I don't know what circumstances they have to be able to prove, but it's made me cautious.

For me, like the Lord says, not worth it.

 

[selwood90]

It's rather easy from his side just to do a charge back through PayPal within a certain number of days of receiving the product or doing the transaction. And PayPal virtually always sides with the buyer. Not worth the risk personally, heard plenty of horror stories.

 

[Roland]

Why would he want to do it outside of eBay? It costs you the same in PayPal charges and saves bhim nothing, I'd be very suspicious, if he paid with a stolen credit card you could then find the transaction reversed after he's gone with your clubs.
I'd only do it if he was paying cash and collecting.

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

I sold a bike outside of ebay because they wanted £180 in fees!! I met the guy half way and he inspected the bike and did a bank transfer on the spot. Once it was showing in my account I let him stick it in the back of his car. Normally I would say stick within ebay but if it's a high value item then 10% fees are taking the michael.

 

[Foxholer]

Why would he want to do it outside of eBay? It costs you the same in PayPal charges and saves bhim nothing, I'd be very suspicious, if he paid with a stolen credit card you could then find the transaction reversed after he's gone with your clubs.
I'd only do it if he was paying cash and collecting.

1. It costs 'him' nothing either way!
2. You save Ebay's 10% fees!
3. Paypal protects both sides - stolen credit cards don't exist in Paypal!! At least supposedly not!

There's a risk! But if the 10% saving is worthwhile, then no problem!

Cash/Collecting....No problem! But how often is that convenient?!

 

[Durango]

I've done it a few times on ebay to save the 10 percent. Would only do that with long time members and and ones with excellent feedback though.

 

[ab1v]

I have a small business on eBay and we do this all the time. Sometimes eBay fees can be expensive, but on most things they aren't too bad. If your not 100% confident just go through eBay.

 

[Oddsocks]

I always trade outside of eBay for early buy it now as a buyer, and accept the same as a seller.

To me eBay iras hiked its fees to much now, listing fee, finishing fee, pay pal fee.... Won't be long before There is a fee for accepting fees

All these fees but notice there's never a PayPal credit for interest earned while you money has been sat in the Royal bank of PayPal.

I will add if anything sounds out of sorts with an offer then I will opt for Letting the auction run or offering to add a buy it now so they can complete via the normal terms