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Rabid’s new eBay store is going gangbusters! We should have thought of this before now, but having finally got our act together, we’re selling all sort of techie kit online, and shipping it all over the planet. What’s more, there’s fat chance of anybody making a warranty claim – it’s right there in our terms and conditions. What you see in the picture is what you get, and if it doesn’t work, well it serves them right for buying stuff on eBay. After all, we had to learn that the hard way ourselves.

Yes, we know, it is rather unlikely that a long-lost Picasso would have been discovered in Nigeria, and of course, you’d wonder why they didn’t take it to Christie’s for auction. But the guy did explain that the local authorities are all corrupt
and they would have tried to confiscate his precious artwork. And we weren’t going to wait for the auction to end when he was offering a “buy it now” price of just $20,000. Anyway, we don’t pay for eBay purchases with multiple envelopes stuffed with cash anymore.

Now that we’ve discovered PayPal we’re protected from those scammers, and even if we get suckered into buying some stuff that we really didn’t need, we can always get a refund. That “buyer protection” is fabulous! Yes, there are a few traps to watch out for – it seems that the thing you bought has to be broken or lost before you can get a refund. Apparently, “Oops! I hit the wrong button!” doesn’t qualify you for a refund. But that’s OK, it works in reverse, too – we don’t have to give random refunds on stuff we’re selling either.

Then again, it’s not like we’ve got much choice anymore – eBay makes us sell everything via PayPal, although the consumer watchdog is having a look at whether eBay should be allowed to put a stop to scam artists. But we don’t mind – the alternative is having the punters come to the shop to pay cash and we certainly don’t want them looking at this stuff before we’ve got their money. Those PayPal fees are definitely worth paying, just to keep the baying hordes on the other side of the firewall!

Hang on, just got another email from PayPal – more money pouring in from more orders! Gotta love the Internet! Huh? Now just a minute, can they do that? Surely they can’t give everyone who’s ever bought anything at our shop a refund? Well, sure we used the same abbreviations that the rest of the eBay shops are using, what’s wrong with that? We’ve got NOS items and we’ve got BNIB items just like the rest of them. They’re only standard eBay shop abbreviations for “Now On Sale” and “Buy Now Is Best” aren’t they?

And do they have the right to shutdown our eBay shop on a whim like that? Surely that’s just racism to start comparing us to Nigerians? We’re going to complain to the ACCC! It’s not like they don’t already know who we are.

Gotta go! Items relisted!

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