You're not missing anything, that's for sure.  I have one myself, though it was opened.

draco76 wrote:check this idoit out

Plus, you've got to love the "Hey, Mr. Buyer — YOU get to pay all of my PayPal fees!" attitude. Wow, where do I get in line to bid?

Oh, and be sure to look at the question from the potential buyer. How many of us have seen that exact wording before? Titanium Power-seller, my ass ...

draco76 wrote:.....if your going to borrow a pic get a good one!

Borrow? Hell, he stole it and everyone here now knows he did. I will be placing him on my no-bid lists. Lets call a thief a thief....

No one with any sense of fair play and a decent level of business acumen would STEAL a picture that shows damaged goods and then pass off his listing as being for undamaged goods.

What an asshole.............. and  a complete idiot as well! If he steals pictures (And worse, bad ones), then what is stopping him from ripping off buyers??

Nothing....

I asked the guy about the book. I said it looks like theres a mark where he took a sticker off it. He said that the picture wasn't actually of the book he was selling, that his was near mint, and that he'd nicket the picture off of another auction.

I also asked him about PayPal fees. He said if I was dumb enough to buy stuff on eBay with my credit card, I should be screwed anyways.

What an asshole!

Question to the seller:

Please look at pages.ebay.com/help/policies/listing-su ... arges.html.  On that page it states "Sellers may not charge eBay buyers an additional fee for their use of ordinary forms of payment, including acceptance of checks, money orders, >>electronic transfers<< or credit cards."

(Emphasis is mine)

Do you still believe that you're not in violation of the Ebay TOS given the information presented above?

Traveller wrote:You might want to shoot him this link: Payment surcharges policy

Seems it has a little language in it that states, rather succinctly that thou shalt not pass along ty paypal charges to thy customer.

Good catch; I thought I knew most of eBay's ins-and-outs, but I didn't know that rule.

However, just to play devil's advocate, isn't it still okay to charge whatever you want as a "handling fee?" Or, to put it another way, isn't the mistake this clown is making is that he's SPECIFICALLY calling it PayPal charges in his listings? Don't get me wrong — I am NOT on this guy's side. I'm just wondering ...

These "handling charges" seem to have become more and more of an issue over the past couple of years. I wonder if the day is coming when eBay takes an official stance on them (i.e., allowing them, limiting them, disallowing them, or whatever).

Looks to me like he's already lined up for a beating.

Traveller wrote:The ass changed the auction picture, and rescinded the paypal fee, though in his reply, he claims that he's permitted to do so from a discussion with an Ebay representative. Of course he complained that I must be poor if I had nothing better to do than complain about the paypal fee. Boy, I guess he doesn't know how poor I am after finally getting a copy of Blackmoor at a decent price and topping the cougar in the process (as if that was difficult in this instance).

Looks like this jack ass got booted from his GDQ1-7 auction, but he's back now and he's acting like an even bigger ass hole.

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Since when is a phone number required by customs?