TEN WAYS TO EXTORT AN EBAY SELLER May 21, 2008

Buyers, have at it on eBay! Starting May 19, 2008 you are free to extort any seller stupid enough to sell on eBay.

Here are ten ways to extort your favorite eBay seller (or just have fun messing with them):

1. Click “Buy Now” but don’t pay for the item, then send the seller a negative for not delivering. (Hey you can give a negative, even if you haven’t paid a cent!)

2. Pay by eCheck and ask for Priority Mail, then give the seller a negative for not delivering fast enough. (eChecks take 4-5 days for PayPal to clear.)

3. Buy a book and pay for media mail, then give the seller a negative for not shipping fast enough. (Media mail takes & + days to deliver.)

4. Buy anything cross border and say you didn’t receive it even if you did and then give the seller a negative. (Sellers can’t buy postal insurance for a foreign country and can’t track whether you got it.)

5. Buy from a competitor, then give them a negative just to decrease their rating.

6. Buy something fragile and don’t purchase insurance, then give the seller a negative because the item arrived broken. (You can give a negative, even if you didn’t pay for the insurance!)

7. Buy something on eBay because you like the picture (but don’t bother reading the dimensions in the listing), then give the seller a negative because it was too big or too small.

8. Buy something with insurance. Then after the item comes nicely packaged and in good condition. Tell the seller that you didn’t get insurance, so you want your money back. If he doesn’t give you your money back, then give the seller a negative.

9. Buy something and click Paid by Money Order, then don’t send the money order. Then give the seller a negative for not delivering. You don’t even need to send an item not as described because then you’d actually have to come up with a number. Or if you have a number, cash it under the sellers name, then extort the seller using that number.

10. If you’ve paid through PayPal, go ahead and file a non-receipt or not as described through PayPal. (That will hold the seller’s funds for 21+ days). Don’t worry if the seller has a delivery confirmation, because you’ll get your money back in that time and the seller can’t do anything about it.

DISCLAIMER: We do not actually wish any buyer extort any seller on eBay. We simply wish to illustrate to sellers how extremely unsafe is is for you to sell on eBay!