I’m starting to see some validity in your hypothesis. Let’s hear it for my nonpaying buyer number 12! can we go for lucky 13 before the year ends? 
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Edit: 12/31/2020 3:22 PST
We did it
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@vic, that is ridiculously unfortunate and I am sorry. I’m like Zorloth. Not many problems. 1 INR out of maybe 300 PWE orders. Disclaimer is that I screen suspicious buyers and maybe I’m good at it. Idk. Example: when a low feedback buyer buys $15 card? I say screw it and pay the extra $2.50 for tracking so they can’t scam. Granted, I’ve lost out on maybe $100, 150 long term, but I guess that peace of mind has worked out in my favor when I see threads like this!
And he’s right. Charizard people are fickle as hell. Apparently.
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I don’t sell a whole ton in general but I’ve only ever had 1 unpaid case out of ~50 transactions recently. I’m in Canada and mainly Canadians buying from me so maybe that’s why?
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I see more lowballers than ever before
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In 2020 i had 5 people complain that a graded card was not a true “X” grade. Lost 4 out of the 5. I been thinking of just sending to PWCC, the fee is worth it in my eyes now
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I think @smpratte mentioned a couple week ago that eBay is implementing a new policy against forced returns for graded cards not meeting condition expectations.
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Whats the new policy?
I’m not positive, but I believe that if someone wants to initiate a return on a graded card due to condition, you can contact eBay and appeal it to with high value collectibles department, who have the ability to intervene and deny the return/refund.
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That’s dope! I’ve never had to deal with someone returning a graded card, but I totally can see that happening.
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The only issues I have been having lately is overseas buyers. They don’t want to pay the tax for the cards and try to have me do shady things to avoid tax, in which I end up cancelling the sale. My only gripe is that I put up to many auctions and if something is wrong, you already waited 7 days plus however long they want to wait to pay (which is my own fault for not doing “Buy it now” most the time).
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I have probably 200+ cards I am going to sell, my solution is send it to PWCC and they can deal with it lol, I will probably lose quite a bit doing it this way…
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@teamrocketop, Switch to GSP.
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Agreed about GSP. In early December I switched all my listings over to that due to Covid delays, initially I thought it would scare away international buyers because they’d had to pay import fees up front plus the actual shipping cost is more than if I the seller shipped directly to them. However just as you stated, plenty of international buyers started asking if I could mark the packages low, and every time my response was “it’s not my fault you have to pay import taxes, here in America we don’t pay anything like that”. I print all my shipping off through eBay so I’m not messing with the declared amounts on the forms. However as those international marketplaces have started drying up in supply, many buyers have started buying again from the US sites and just biting the bullet on import fees and higher shipping charges. I normally price my cards 10% or so cheaper than the last sold prices in eBay UK and DE.
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I wish it was easy to search out (and maybe it is), but probably at least 25% of my gross sales in dollars come from GSP sales. I love shipping to Erlanger, Kentucky. The easiest and lowest stress sales you can possibly make.
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@gottaketchumall. That’s what I used when they wanted me to do something else instead due to the high taxes. In fact, GSP is the only thing I use for overseas sales, it was just a two off, I do not normally run into this issue.
Ah good point, thank you for sharing 
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Set your buyer restrictions to be as strict as ebay allows (still very lenient if you ask me), block people often, ignore dumb messages or block the person, and be an overall good seller e.g. good pictures, good listings, prompt shipping, being friendly and professional.
I have had 2 bad/scam transactions out of 362 sales in 2020 which is pretty good but hopefully I can improve it. ebay is supposedly rolling out a very cheap tracked shipping option and both of the bad sales I had didn’t have tracking since they were both cheap items and the cost of tracking in canada would of made it not even worth selling.
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I’ve actually found US prices to be cheaper than or equal to those in the UK/EU even WITH shipping & import fees included. It tends to depend on the card, but seems more common recently. Not sure why the premium is so high in the UK.
To be honest I have found selling in Facebook groups WAY more stressful than ebay
Yes there’s an occassional 1% scammer on ebay that usually gets debunked when you post the tracking details but overall 99% of transactions on ebay are smooth, someone buys and then you ship it
On Facebook groups I do my research and list at 80-90% ebay value then still get people asking if I could do a better deal, if I would do a trade, if I have the same card in a grade 10 for sale (obviously not). Then there’s the admins that disapprove your post after you’ve spent time taking pictures with a date stamp saying you need to take them all again with a time stamp, your name and the price next to each card, seriously!?
I don’t like how personal it is because I believe some people prey on this to try and talk the price down after showing interest with some messages and I don’t like having to ignore/say no to all the 75% flippers/broke kids. I find that most of the people on these groups don’t have a budget over $50 which makes selling slabs difficult, and half of the people messaging are chancers trying to buy at 50-60% market value
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