selling advice

Then you come home, recording how you open your PC, opening paypal site & marking an order as shipped.


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Of course paypal will watch the whole footage

On a serious note, just ship it registered mail, but you know, you are never completely safe when you are selling - no matter if it's domestic or international sales.

Rather sell it to someone with a good reputation as a buyer or if you could not find anyone but want to sell it then registered shipment might save you.

I personally would be scared to send a package to someone who leaves such agressive comments on youtube videos...

You could do like Dave chapelle and when you drop it off and make a video with you holding 2 forms of government id, with your grandma present, 5 of your buddies, and a cop.

The reality is theres always some risk. Even if you make a video like that ebay/paypal might not be willing to review it. Ebay definitely gives the advantage to the buyer.

Just call PayPal, they will tell you the most correct information regarding this question.

I'm not even sure a video would be a valid proof of shipping for paypal.

The best way to stay safe is to pay extra for a tracking number when you ship the package. But even with that, all kind of bullshit can still happen so make sure you got the adress right, the tracking number, you protect your item with some bubblewrap plastic, and yea look up for the buyer on forums / ebay see his feedback if anything looks suspicious. Especially if it's tape/cd of high value.

I quit selling on ebay, I've never had any problems with anybody overseas. However, shipping costs have gone up and I figured if people are already bitching about regular shipping then they sure as hell aren't goin to fork over the extra cash to provide tracking overseas.

With tracking + sign you cant have problem if you dont deal on ebay because paypal do "wrong object" lawsuits only with ebay.i got problems on discogs and they said this is dont work with discogs marketplace.

Honestly, though ebay and other sites I have had a lot of problems with Germany....

I have sold plenty here on the siccness over the years and out of the 100's of sales I have completed with numerous posters I have really never had a problem - as a matter of fact I had numerous repeat customers...

IMO, ebay has set up a situation where the seller is always at fault - the worst IMO, is dealing with individuals overseas via ebay.

IMO, this is the most honorable and safest place to do business. The sellers are legit and a pleasure to do business with.

In my opinion, you may get more over Ebay, however the risk is just not worth the reward - not to mention ebay fees and deadbeat bidders - especially when dealing with mega rares.

As a seller I have been ripped off numerous times considering ebay is basically "anonymous" - at least here on the Siccness people have reputations, and if someone gets shafted here everyone know who they are.

I made a lot of money on ebay but I also had a lot of problems.

I'd be more than willing to elaborate further and give details if anyone is interested..... None of the problems I have ever came from siccness transactions.

So, if you want to buy or sell CD's this is the most honest place to do it - at least in my experience.

If you're going that route just make sure the individual poster you're dealing with is an established user and has a history here on these boards and everything will be fine.

It's not worth your time or energy....

There are a lot of shady people out there.

When I first started selling cd's here, people were careful and they bought 30-40 bucks of cds at a time and after a while and they realized I was legit they were more comfortable with a 400-500 dollar orders.

Anyone what is just more than willing to throw big money at you (anything over 100 bucks in a deal) raises red flags - at least it did to me.

it was phil gaybel

YES i am reopening the thread
that's why i'm keeping all my RARE OOP MEGA G-FUNK DOPE SMOOTH because you can't trust these europeans and they are the only ones who are buying the shit because it's all old news to USA we done been there done that! there is some good buyers because i have sold a few for $60 to Germany then i stopped because of some jealous bitchmade ass kids so it's over with me and alot of this wanted list items will never surface now. Done fucked it up for everyone :devious: if i sell it will be by money order ONLY and there will have to be trust because i want to see money before i send but i will prove i'm legit once i get the shit rollin but it has to start somewhere and thats the only way i will sell aranoid:

don't trust them 91x take that shit to you grave with you

would you trust a stranger to lend him your nice ride?
would you let someone you don't know house sit your house while you on vacation?
would you leave a rapist with your woman while you left town for 2 days?
would you let a pedifile babysit your kids while you went to go get drunk?
would you give your worst enemy a loaded gun to hold while you steadily call him a punk bitchto his face?

if you would do any of the above then you can trust to send one of your expensive tapes to a european which you do have a couple nice tapes so i would just keep them and get buried with them, let them euros want all they want

I've sold quite a bit over seas, and found the die hard collectors and the CD flippers (scalpers). I only had 1 issue, but it was resolved in over 1000 transactions.

Had to sell to free up space for this documentary as now i have original masters on ADAT, DAT, cassette, cassette *4 -track), mini-disc, etc. We plan on releasing it, but only time will tell.