>>11699758
god damn it I wrote second hand but I meant secondary, as in resellers

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>>11699758
Yep. Happens to me all the time. Including
>being asked to pay extra shipping with tokens
>being asked to buy something else from their store to spend more
>being told its because of the deals aliexpress puts on they dont get any money
>being told they need more to feed their poor family.
I had order and cancel 10 times once to eventually find a seller with stock to sell.
Only bonus is that in most cases I get a full refund because order doesn't arrive for over 40 days or tracking simply stops working during last mile.

>>11699764
man I wish they'd crack down on it, good to know I'm not crazy.
I only buy from there because I'm non-US and the shipping is cheap. And they're often the last place to have stock.

>>11699758
with aliexpress I never even try to buy off the lowest price sellers for any given item, most of them seem to do this without fail

>Win an ebay bid on a complete Hall of Justice for well below typical market price. I was the only one to bid on it.
>Seller tells me they no longer have the item and refunds me
>Reposts it as a buy it now instead of an auction a week or so later
Fuck that guy so hard.

>>11699758
This shit happend with:
>Finally found a Shimakaze Figma from a high reputation seller
>Do the same shit
>>11699764
Those shit never happend to me.
>>11699790
In my case, Shimakeze was even expensive.
In the end, got her from a local seller.

>>11699758
This happened to me the first (and last) time I used them. Found the figure came back in-stock at a legit place for around the same price.

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>>11700008
Here's an example of the shit I deal with. No regrets on having everything refunded for late delivery.

>>11699758
imo it's a phishing scam. I would order some bootleg toys and some of them would not update shipping. Weeks later i have random charges on my card. My fault for using the card directly instead of using paypal

>>11699790
Lowest prices are always either bootlegs or they offload the cost to shipping, and the cheapest alternative I can find with free shipping comes up to roughly the same price as those cheaper ones that charge for shipping.

>>11700302
such a pain trying to compare sellers since they randomly distribute it between shipping and the listed price

>>11699758
Threaten them with your lawyers
Write something on your social media about suing them for a billy

Yeah ali sucks I only use it as a desperation last resort. Has anyone ever received anything in a cardboard box? I only ever get things sent in a plastic bag with a thin layer of bubble wrap which results in the figure packaging getting absolutely demolished

>>11700381
Why is Americans' response to any minor inconvenience always "just sue them bro"? It's months of hassle, stress, and legal fees. You would never do it yourself.

>>11700381
The biggest companies in the world don't even bother to chase down Chinese scoundrels

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>>11699758
I've bought a few dozen things off Aliexpress over the years and only ran into a problem once with a seller I bought Snail Shell Aileen from. They contacted me immediately after purchase with some crap about shipping prices going up and it would cost more money. Contacted customer support and cancelled immediately. Like anywhere else, helps to make sure they've got good feedback(like 95%+) and that they're not too new, so they have something to actually lose.

>>11700391
Cardboard boxes from Ali are rare, but I usually get stuff in styrofoam boxes inside of a mailer or wrapped in the thicker bubble wrap like picrelated. My boxes almost always have a little wear, but rarely too bad.

>>11700391
>Why is Americans' response to any minor inconvenience always "just sue them bro"?
Land of freedom or something

>>11699758
>>11699764
...the lucky times when it's not a pure bait and switch and they send you a garbage item that looks nothing like the pics.

>>11700391
Because almost all discourse in America turned into sue them back in the early 1990s. Almost everything in the world is wrapped around suing someone for anything, and 99% of all rules and regulations in the US are meant to defend themselves against lawsuits. They have a class of people who live off suing everyone they can as often as they can.
>Food tastes kind of bad? sue the restaurant
>Hurt yourself in public being stupid? Sue the property owner
>Decide you don't like a sign, tv show, movie, poster, bilboard? Declare yourself offended and sue the parent company responsible.
>Don't like your car any longer? Drive in front of someone and slam the break, then sue the person that hit you!
>Just want to get paid? Claim any business is not being wheelchair compliant enough for not having enough ramps or the ramps are too far apart from each other. You don't have to be handicapped to do it, anyone can!

>>11705216
Weird Al even made a song about this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeXQBHLIPcw

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>buying from aliexpress
thats how ya get scammed

>>11705703
I tried buying it off a chinese seller on ebay, and they pulled the same trick lol.
4th and final attempt is with an american, the shipping is brutal though but I had wasted so much time trying to get it I'm into sunk cost fallacy territory.

Aliexpress:
Buy item, seller contacts you, Anon shipping has gone up please pay additional funds if you want your item or please ask agent to cancel.

Ebay:
Chinks running from a small shutter store. Order expensive items online. Once arrived they steal/remove bits from it and claim to ebay it arrived damaged, demand you refund them, recieve item back with parts stolen. Ebay do fuck all about it. They actually know this scam goes on but do not 1 thing against it.

Dont ban the user, dont allow negative feedback to warn other sellers, find out the scam sellers have 2nd or 3rd accounts doing exactly the same shit.

Amazon:
Put high shipping prices on everything.
It's also just shit your getting cheaper from aliexpress or Ebay but because its Amazon you add more to the amount.

I've seen people on amazon selling glue sticks for 15-20 bucks and then charging shipping. Its then the exact same sticks on ali for 4-8 with free shipping.

>>11700109
What’s the name of the store? I used to buy from one with the Bandai logo and they even packaged my order with extra padding

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>>11700004
>win a bid on some cards, its a decent price, right at market value.
>seller instantly cancels the sale after I pay
>"I forgot to remove the listing because of family I dont have it"
>he relists the auction an hour later
>make a burner account, bid 10x the value of the item immediately
>its up for two weeks and people bid way higher than I did before
>he's so excited
>dont pay, dude has to wait a week or whatever it is before he can relist
>make another account and do it again
>he uses the same account to relist again so I do it a third time
>value of the item has actually decreased significantly in this time
>dude makes a new account but uses the same images
>do it a fourth time, his starting bid is now too high and hes not even getting other bidders
>hes doesnt seem to realise its me the whole time
>as the payment is about to lapse I tell him "im sorry i forgot to remove the bid due to family"
>he says hes reported me to ebay.

I lost interest at this point as the revenge had reached levels of petty that I was becoming disgusted with myself but it felt good to make this dudes life miserable over some cardboard.

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>>11714283
Lol, got em good

>>11714283
based

>>11705796
Not this faggit face again.

eBay does nothing wrong, except run a tight ship that keeps sellers from fucking over buyers after they finally got a clue ten years ago that sellers are guilty until proven innocent after YEARS of turning a blind eye towards sellers scamming buyers and rigging shit to silence their victims to prevent them warning people of their illegal scams

>>11714283
I did that too with a faggot who scammed me out of a $300 Claymore GI Joe convention figure.

>>11705796
I just got used to the fact that Chinese business works by scamming people and using the wrong or stolen pics to sell their cheap crap.

It must be fucking miserable for people living in China to have to buy anything when 90% of their retail is all crap from scammers.

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>>11699758
>buying chinkslop
lol, lmao even

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>>11716105
>imagine buying marvel legends from walmart
lmao the absolute state of americans

>>11716257
>imagine buying marvel legends from walmart
who said I bought action figures?

>>11714283
Nice, I've never bid before but it sounds like a huge pain.

>>11705796
Agree on the Amazon/Ali thing
I found a wired cape for my stuff at 14 bucks sans shipping on Amazon and was ready to pull the trigger, but just in case I checked Aliexpress and found the same item for like 5 dollars, shipping included.

>>11716257
Man Sexyice needs to reissue their stuff, the FOMO is strong with this company and their figures' prices skyrocket hard after preorders are over.

>>11716257
>I paid 10x plus tip for inferior chinkware breakium products what you paid for your superior domestics... be jealous!
lol
lmao

>found a cool and rare toy on eBay
>relatively fair price
>seller is new to the site, account created last year
>only has 3 reviews, and all of them as a buyer
Do I pull the trigger? I really want the figure but the dude being new makes me doubt. I could ask for pictures but at the end of the day he could try to scam me. Does eBay assist you in case something like this happens?

>>11717630
ebay sides with the buyers in almost every case, so you can probably steal it if you wanted to.

>>11717764
I'll try my luck, and I just realized the seller didn't even post pictures of what's included ffs, just the picture of the box.