Time for my Ebay horror story...well not too horrible as it could have been a lot worse.  So the time has come where I've had to sell my PS3 for some personal reasons.  I can hear Torment now saying..."told ya not to get it". :)  So I decided to list it on Ebay as both an auction and with a Buy it Now price.  I listed it last Wednesday and was very happy to see that someone chose the Buy it Now option that very same day.  I sent out my invoice and went to bed happy.   

When I woke up the next morning, I had an e-mail from Ebay telling me that the person who bought had his account cancelled as they couldn't confirm his information.  So I relisted it as the same thing on Thursday.  Thursday evening, the exact same frigging thing happened and I got yet another e-mail from Ebay telling me not to follow through on the sale.  I was starting to get a little annoyed, so I relisted the item without the Buy It Now price thinking this would cut down on this problem. 

While the third listing was waiting to sell I heard from both original buyers and they both wanted me to send the PS3 to Nigeria because they were out of the country and it was their kid or niece or someone’s birthday and they would pay me as soon as they got back into the US.  One of them even offered me $2,100US for it.  The other one sent me an e-mail saying that once I sent the tracking number to some e-mail address, I would get my Paypal payment.  They tried to make this e-mail look all nice and official. 

I couldn’t believe it.  Obviously I wasn’t sending it anywhere without payment first and I also put in the item description that I would only ship to US or Canada. 

So yesterday the third auction ended and the PS3 sold for a decent price...not as much as I had hoped but not too bad.  So I sent out the invoice and the person who won sent me an e-mail asking me to sent it to Africa because he was in New Zealand and it was his son’s birthday who was in Africa.  I told him no dice and that I was only willing to ship within US or Canada.  He begged me to send it but I told him no dice as this looked too suspicious to me.  So I just sold it to the next highest bidder.  The funny part is that if it wasn’t for the guy from Africa, I would never have gotten as high a selling price. 

This is the first and only time I have had this kind of problem selling something on Ebay but then again I usually just sell comics and the like on there.  Just please use this as a tale of caution when selling something on Ebay.  I put as many restrictions on the item as I could (i.e. no one could bid or buy with a rating of -1 or lower) but you can only do so much.Other than that, things are good for me.  I'm still with Carlie and she is still amazing although she's been away for the last couple weeks and won't be back until this weekend but I'm surviving and I can't wait to see her when she gets back obviously.  :)  Hope you are all having a great summer and I'll see you on Live soon.