Any disadvantage to show serial number in ebay listing?

[Dangerous_Dave]

Hi all,

I'm currently in the process of being scammed on ebay over a 7970 graphics card which was bought fully functioning and the buyer now wishes to return as broken. The buyer is new to ebay with 0 feedback history, and was asking me all sorts of funny questions before I even sent it about whether he could have a picture of the card label, the warranty remaining, and feeding me some BS story about how he wouldn't be able to test it for a week. Now he says he's had a computer technician verify that it's faulty, like you'd actually do that.

Anyway, my question is this: what are the downsides of showing the serial number in photos on ebay listings? This might be a deterrent to people buying working versions of their broken components and trying to 'return' the broken one, as the serial number obviously wouldn't match.

 

[Dangerous_Dave]

One of the (many) flaws of ebay is that you have very little choice over who you sell items to. When somebody wins the listing and pays, they have a hold over you if you don't send the item in that they can leave you negative feedback but you can't leave them any.

 

[Dangerous_Dave]

I have all the blocks it lets me put on. I think it's just people with negative feedback and buyer reports, and maybe people who signed up very recently (regardless of feedback).