u/scrivenersloth

Longtime buyer-seller. Buy a ton of stuff on eBay. In the last month alone, 4 or 5 sellers have just straight up not shipped stuff I've paid for and have forced me to go through eBay to get my money back. What on earth is going on? In the decade I've been on eBay I can remember, vaguely, maybe a single instance where I had a related issue.

Is this just a fluke, or this uptick somehow explainable?