I sold a coach bag almost a month ago, saturday will be 4 weeks exactly, I got positive feedback from the buyer. It was a NWT bag that I bought at the outlet, it was an impulse purchase and after I got home with it I decided it was really too big for what I like. But the outlet is 5 hours away so I just put it on ebay for $10 over what I paid for it. It sold within 24 hours. Well I get a SNAD claim filed against me on paypal saturday, no idea why, the notes in paypal from the buyer says that "bag is fake".
It most certainly is not fake, I even have the receipt from the outlet which I had offered to include with the bag and the buyer had said not to bother she didnt need it. So I emailed her and ask why she had filed a claim and why she thought it was fake. Her response:
"I was looking for a wallet to go with the bag and I googled the bag style and color to see what I could find it took me to a site called ioffer and looking through the matches I found your listings for the bag with the same pics you used in your ebay listing. You clearly stated on ebay that this bag was authentic and came from the outlet, I paid you over $200 for this bag and now I see that you are selling them on ioffer for $45 plus shipping! Obviously they are fake, I am really upset by this I don't appreciate being lied to and throwing my money away."
Well I go to ioffer and sure enough there are my pics, my WATERMARKED pics no less, with my ebay username stamped on them. The seller's location says seattle, which is completely across the country from me. And their shipping says 14 days via EMS and they are charging like $30, to me that says its probably coming from china. So I emailed the seller and told them that I would be reporting them for stealing my photos, and I did report them to ioffer.
I emailed my buyer and told her that I had found the listing and those pics were stolen, I also pointed out the sellers alleged location and the shipping charge.
She emailed me back last night with:
"Hi, I did a little investigating after your email, I sent an offer to that seller and ask about how to pay. They gave me instructions to send a payment to china by western union to someone named: Liu Fang. Clearly that is not you, I am closing the paypal case. I also reported the listing to ioffer. Sorry I doubted you, I really do love the bag."
I looked this morning and when I searched for the bag I couldnt find the listing or the seller by name so either ioffer removed them or they got scared and removed themselves.
So if any of you are selling bags on ebay I recommend searching ioffer for the same bag just to make sure your pics arent up somewhere, apparently even watermarking doesn't deter these crooks.
It most certainly is not fake, I even have the receipt from the outlet which I had offered to include with the bag and the buyer had said not to bother she didnt need it. So I emailed her and ask why she had filed a claim and why she thought it was fake. Her response:
"I was looking for a wallet to go with the bag and I googled the bag style and color to see what I could find it took me to a site called ioffer and looking through the matches I found your listings for the bag with the same pics you used in your ebay listing. You clearly stated on ebay that this bag was authentic and came from the outlet, I paid you over $200 for this bag and now I see that you are selling them on ioffer for $45 plus shipping! Obviously they are fake, I am really upset by this I don't appreciate being lied to and throwing my money away."
Well I go to ioffer and sure enough there are my pics, my WATERMARKED pics no less, with my ebay username stamped on them. The seller's location says seattle, which is completely across the country from me. And their shipping says 14 days via EMS and they are charging like $30, to me that says its probably coming from china. So I emailed the seller and told them that I would be reporting them for stealing my photos, and I did report them to ioffer.
I emailed my buyer and told her that I had found the listing and those pics were stolen, I also pointed out the sellers alleged location and the shipping charge.
She emailed me back last night with:
"Hi, I did a little investigating after your email, I sent an offer to that seller and ask about how to pay. They gave me instructions to send a payment to china by western union to someone named: Liu Fang. Clearly that is not you, I am closing the paypal case. I also reported the listing to ioffer. Sorry I doubted you, I really do love the bag."
I looked this morning and when I searched for the bag I couldnt find the listing or the seller by name so either ioffer removed them or they got scared and removed themselves.
So if any of you are selling bags on ebay I recommend searching ioffer for the same bag just to make sure your pics arent up somewhere, apparently even watermarking doesn't deter these crooks.
