game sellers on eBay are SO STUPID!

[greg]

bought a DC BBA once. Magically it transformed into a mere Modem by the time it got here! Returned it to the seller, he said he sent the real BBA. And I got the SAME modem in the mail! yay!

That sucks. Did you file a dispute or what? I'm filing my dispute with PayPal since they seem to act swifter than eBay does.

[GaijinPunch]

The one and only time I had a sour Ebay deal (well, really sour, not just a poorly described item that was cheap enough for me not to bother) was a $400 piece of music software. It was still registered to someone before him... thus, useless to me (software wouldn't work). We wound up fucking texting back and forth for a few days and I finally opened a Paypal dispute. Everything was solved within 24 hours of that. I was mainly the victim of laziness. Unfortunately, I was leaving the country the next day and didn't want to lug a very large $400 paper weight.

[undamned]

If only I write a legal document in my auctions so no Brazilians can try to scam me, but so that legitimate foreign buyers can bid, I'll be good, I guess!

Well, I'm sure you've seen the horror stories by now. There's a reason people avoid Brazil. A seller tried to scam me he only time I ever bought from a Brazilian on eBay (eBay let you know who the winners of auctions were at that time so I was also able to contact other buyers in the same situation). Thank goodness for easy disputes.

So, have the Brazilian scams been mostly Brazilian sellers trying to scam outsiders? I've got some stuff listed and I've received 2 messages from Brazilian buyers wanting shipping quotes and I'm kinda hesitant being as eBay sellers are near powerless to defend themselves against scandalous buyers. That makes me feel horrible being ready label an entire country as non-sale territory, but I also don't want to learn the hard way.
-ud