I am selling a DVD player on eBay and a potential buyer wrote and said she only wants to deal with payment by escrow. Its just a small item, about $450USD I thought escrow accounts were mostly for lending and big purchases. I only use paypal and it works fine. Can someone explain what she is talking about.
Thanks!
2007-03-04 02:07:35 · 5 answers · asked by Kevin 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Renting & Real Estate
Escrow can be done for any size purchase, although it gets cost-prohibitive for smaller items. There are really two possibilities here:
(1) She is trying to protect herself from the possibility that the DVD player won't work when she gets it. With escrow, she has a certain number of days to review the purchase before payment is released to you; if she doesn't like it, she can send it back and get her money back easily. If you choose to agree to do an escrow purchase, then use escrow.com (link #2 below).
(2) She is trying to sucker you into an escrow scam. If she suggests using any company or site that is NOT escrow.com, this is a scam. You'd get a "payment confirmation" and ship her the DVD player, but it would be completely fictitious -- there's no escrow company just a fake site, and so you've lost your DVD player. This is a pretty frequent problem on eBay, though usually it's seen more for big-ticket items (jewelry, etc)... see link #1 below.
Whether you want to get involved in the complexity of this is up to you :-)
2007-03-05 01:04:30 · answer #1 · answered by Matti 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, we have established the first person knows nothing about selling or buying on ebay.
If they choose to pay for the escrow then that is a good thing for you. $450 seems a lot for a DVD player so i can completely understand someone wanting to use escrow.
What is your feedback like?
LOL- also seeing that you live in CHINA i totally agree with using escrow!
2007-03-04 02:17:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
She seems to want additional proof that if she doesn't like the item that she will get her money back. Blow her off. If she doesn't want to use Paypal, then she's likely to be a problem Buyer anyhow.
2007-03-04 02:12:00 · answer #3 · answered by Venita Peyton 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Películas en DVD para elegir en internet. Que puede ser mejor en un día de mal tiempo que una buena película de comedia así que he empezado a comprar unas cuantas películas en amazon, la verdad es que tengo de donde elegir, unas películas de calidad, un DVD de calidad y un muy buen precio, con estas películas transformas cualquier mal día en un día divertida.
2014-12-11 15:03:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol
and that must be some great DVD player..
i get them new for ap. $100 with a year warranty..
2007-03-04 02:18:57 · answer #5 · answered by m2 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋