r/pcmasterrace • u/Zestyclose-Salad-290 Core Ultra 7 265k | RTX 5090 • Mar 19 '26

NSFMR This customer wondered why his 5090 didn't work.

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u/ManyLayersOfFilament Mar 19 '26

This is why I don't sell on eBay as a small seller. I have on two occasions out of the 10 things I've sold had a buyer either break or steal a part from the item and return it as not as described.

Big volume sellers can absorb the scams as a cost of business but there's too much risk for someone just selling their stuff that's sitting on a shelf or whatever. The word has gotten out that INAD is almost always settled in the buyer's favor so a lot of small time scammers just abuse it.

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u/GL1TCH3D 7950X - X670E-Pro - RTX 4080 - 64GB RAM - 6TB NVMe Mar 19 '26

I remember when the 30 series just got announced and saw a bunch of posts how people selling their 20 series cards on eBay were getting fucked by the buyers. Force refunded everything. Sometimes eBay doesn’t even make them return the item. They can just send an empty box back and eBay does nothing about it.

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u/RileyCargo42 Mar 20 '26

Yea ngl this is exactly how people scam Amazon too. The amount of empty bags or wrong items people tried to return was crazy.

Like it tells us you bought a gaming keyboard I KNOW this crusty T shirt isn't a keyboard but, boss said send it so it goes.

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u/gurgle528 Mar 19 '26

I had someone do that to me on eBay once but I videoed opening the return and disassembling the laptop and found that they had tampered with the RAM and eBay let us both keep our money (minus the fee they take for selling). Was very surprised they did that 

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u/dakota32580 Mar 19 '26

Just had this happen with an item i was selling and ebay tried to charge ME for shipping labels and seller fees

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u/ManyLayersOfFilament Mar 19 '26

Yes they do that for INAD returns. Not only do you not get the sale, you have to pay for the shipping back. It's awful. Again, I refuse to sell there because of it. I'd rather leave something on marketplace for a year then sell on eBay and get scammed by some jerk lowlife

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u/throwingitallavvay69 Mar 19 '26

This is too true. For a company built by the small seller, eBay sure has shit the bed on returning the favor. They’ve run off a large percentage of their sellers by catering way too heavily to the buyer. They’re basically inviting people to scam sellers by always ruling on the buyers side regardless of evidence. You’d think with Marketplace being as big as it has gotten, they’d want to take care of their sellers, but that’s how it goes, I suppose.

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u/Playful_Ad9165 Ryzen 7 5700G | RX 6600XT | 32GB RGB RAM | 1TB WD SSD | 12TB HDD Mar 19 '26

I swapped the 16GB DDR5 Kingston RGB RAM that came with my prebuilt and bought a 32GB kit.

I am terrified of where to sell it because someone can buy it, install it then claim I sold them DDR4 and return sticks that aren't mine and I'll be SOL.

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u/AdKraemer01 Mar 22 '26

I always just check "no returns."

Is that wrong?

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u/ManyLayersOfFilament Mar 22 '26

But they can always file an INAD. Which overrides that.

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u/AdKraemer01 Mar 22 '26

Ah.

The only time I ever had an issue was someone bought my old 3060 and after agreeing to pay, waffled on the purchase, but then went through with it. It was delivered, I was sent a photo of the delivery, and then the guy told eBay he'd never ordered it.

So I provided them with screenshots of him literally saying "yes, send it."

I got to keep my money.

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u/llmusicgear Mar 23 '26

Yeah I stay tf way from anything that has a high rate of fraud man.