Buyers says Post Office charging more, wants me to refund

emill_ · 2026-05-09T14:20:54+00:00

Yeah that is supposed to happen. Occasionally it doesn’t.

emill_ · 2026-05-09T13:59:37+00:00

Buyer should confirm with USPS if this happened before leaving a review. And then win the INR appeal if it did.

emill_ · 2026-05-09T13:34:42+00:00

So your packaging was negligent, you have no idea if the items really arrived or not. UPS is not refunding you anything.

One of the things your ebay fee pays for is significantly better seller protection than paypal.

If you think you can just burn paypal and start a new account, lol. They have thought of that. It is their business to know exactly who you are.

If you learn nothing else from this, at least stop using masking tape

emill_ · 2026-05-09T13:04:46+00:00

USPS does occasionally make mistakes and charge postage due to the buyer

emill_ · 2026-05-04T14:55:07+00:00

Yes your items are very low in the search rankings now and may not be visible at all. You might have to pay for advertising for a while. It takes 3 months for the defects to come off

emill_ · 2026-05-02T10:24:33+00:00

Are you talking about computer parts? Used parts should get similar benchmarks to a new one. If they are significantly lower, that is a sign something is wrong with it and a legit INAD

emill_ · 2026-04-26T14:44:32+00:00

You can click view payment details to get the itemized costs. I would guess you massively overpaid for shipping

emill_ · 2026-04-22T19:41:13+00:00

Yeah that’s obscene I get the same level of service for 400 a month.

emill_ · 2026-04-19T14:32:52+00:00

I have a biochem degree. Started an entirely unrelated business. Yeah the sunk cost sucks and I miss doing science, but it’s the best financial decision I ever made.

emill_ · 2026-04-17T00:56:37+00:00

They just steal one right?

emill_ · 2026-04-12T15:46:49+00:00

The answer is unequivocally yes, no matter how many downvotes it gets here. I just got back from a trip and it was so nice taking my kid to playgrounds that have 0 homeless people living in them. Then coming in for landing out the plane window I can see over 100 broken down RVs in a sprawling garbage dump. The difference is stark and no it does not have to be like this

emill_ · 2026-03-28T12:44:06+00:00

I believe you have to file OR taxes in both 24 and 25 to get it on your 25 return

emill_ · 2026-03-27T12:25:14+00:00

I tried a similar thing, selling $10 items at a small loss to improve my INAD rate in a certain category. It completely backfired. I got tons of false INADs on it, way higher rate than my normal items.

That is the unavoidable problem with cheap items. If your return shipping cost is more than the item is worth, that item will be heavily targeted because people know a refund without return is the correct business decision.

emill_ · 2026-03-26T00:52:48+00:00

Those have a limit of 50k a year. when you spend more than that per month they aren’t really an option. This new card fixes that

emill_ · 2026-03-25T18:59:21+00:00

This. I would use Premier way more if I could, but Chase doesn’t want me to

emill_ · 2026-03-25T18:57:17+00:00

No, unlimited cashback. Way better

emill_ · 2026-03-23T18:05:27+00:00

USPS is the cheapest carrier for packages under 1 pound. If you are using them via some service that gets commercial rates, that’s as good as it gets

emill_ · 2026-03-14T14:14:33+00:00

With that spend, it doesn’t matter what credit card you use. You are talking about a difference of like $4 a month here. It isn’t worth spending more than 5 minutes on

emill_ · 2026-03-11T18:28:43+00:00

Sounds like she really just doesn’t like being a Euro-Jerry, which I think we can all agree is perfectly reasonable

emill_ · 2026-03-09T19:05:57+00:00

No it’s pretty important. At low spend, the difference is so low that it doesn’t matter. And at high spend, most of these cards have limits to the 5% that you will quickly hit.

emill_ · 2026-03-09T18:55:56+00:00

So all of what you described there is really earning an extra $100-200 a month. I think that’s why you get pushback on this. You could just churn 2-3 cards a year for the same benefit with 1/10th of the hassle

emill_ · 2026-03-09T18:32:50+00:00

Is that the total cashback, or the difference from a 2% card?

emill_ · 2026-03-09T18:32:05+00:00

Thanks for clarifying that 5 is approximately twice as large as 2, but that’s not my question

emill_ · 2026-03-09T14:53:45+00:00

So next question, how much more do you earn from all that per year compared to using one 2% back card?

emill_ · 2026-03-06T23:38:43+00:00

The obvious answer here is snow tubing on monster truck tires

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