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> The general view is sellers need to take fraud into their overall operating expense budget, just like department stored do with shoplifting. How’s that work
by briandear 7y ago
> The general view is sellers need to take fraud into their overall operating expense budget, just like department stored do with shoplifting.
How’s that work when selling a single item?
- leetcrew 7y agoobviously not well, but a one-off sale is a relatively uncommon transaction, so it doesn't get optimized for.
- tus88 7y agoWell it becomes very difficult. Allowing sellers to cancel purchases from buyers without a strong and long history of positive feedback is a start - I believe eBay technically allows this. But naturally sellers are then cutting down their potential buyer pool - it's a dilemma they need to deal with. Of course one easy way to do this is cut out the entire online buyer pool altogether and sell your camera at a pawn shop - near-zero chance of fraud there. Why don't sellers just do this? Because they want more money than the pawn shop is willing to offer, so they take the risk of selling online. It's always important to remember what we are actually buying and selling a lot of the time is risk - the value of the item is often just a fraction of the overall purchase amount.
- sjg007 7y agoDon't sell single items online that you can't take a loss on is the basic answer. For the OP I wonder if there is a tax deduction that they can take.. maybe you have to be a company though. My favorite Amazon "scam" examples are products ordered from Amazon that drop ship from Walmart. I call it a scam but some people would say it's a service...