lucyjoyce wrote: and am quietly amazed at bclarkie's CSI-The Acaeum starring role.
AdderMcOne wrote:Just for clarification could someone post the definition for "trolling", being a "troll" etc.It's becoming more common on the threads, and I'm sorta getting the gist of it. We don't have a lot of water here, let alone bridges for the buggers to live under, so don't see many of them.(intention is not taking the p;ss, or fanning any flames regarding any previous posts/people. Just wanted to know.)
thehiddenone wrote:This is probably a better explanation Troll (Internet) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
bclarkie wrote:Everything that I have said and done to this point about this has been because of the fact that it pissed me off that others lost out at an opportunity at those auctions and not me.
bclarkie wrote:that was bought on behalf of someone else from this forum, so that isn't even my purchase either.
Second, you should have responded with a negative feedback not neutral. Ebay's feedback system has so many problems that in general when you give a negative (anytime before the 90th day) expect to get negative feedback in return.
PM-Knight wrote:Mars wrote:I agree with your assessment, but it is a double-edge "bastard" sword. If I had left Negative FB, then I knew he would reciprocate, but I honestly felt that Neutral FB was fair and both of us could have honestly stated our trading experiences without negatively impacting our feedback scores. In retrospect, I should not have left any feedback for him, as that is the only way to get a true Neutral score
PM-Knight wrote:Feeling I have no other option, I agree to mutually withdraw.Can someone please tell me if there is anything I (or we) can do or what I could have done differently . . . other than NOT dealing with him? If you look at his Neutral & Negative FB, you will see that the majority of it is WITHDRAWN, which leads me to believe that he is using this same tactic to bully people into withdrawing their honest Neutral or Negative feedback.Thank You in Advance - PM
bclarkie wrote:I know that I promsed myself that I wasn't going to do this anymore, but I couldn't help myself on this one. In lieu of bbarsh's classifieds post he just put a few minutes ago:viewtopic.php?p=66584#66584It caused to take a look at his closed auctions. In doing this, it caused me stumble onto something very interesting indeed. It seems that renvhoek bought up several of his items. Now its well known to everyone here that renvhoek is actually the buying ID for none other than the habbitually listed in the "Silliest auction price of the year thread", trollandtoadstore. Well, for whatever reason, I decided to look at what renvhoek has been bidding on recently:Welcome to eBayUpon looking at renvhoek appears to be one of Troll and Toad's better customers. i.e this listing ** expired/removed eBay auction **eBay '270021258689' - Invalid Itemand this listing as well:http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 8808762908I knew these guys were assholes, I just didn't realize that they were bidding and buying from themselves for whatever reason. Anyway, I just sent this into Ebay:Hopefully, Ebay will act on this despite the fact that T and T is a larger store. Good riddance I say.........
renvhoek wrote:In answer to the below person's question.Yes, I did buy these items from my own storeHowever(a) I didn't do it to engage in "shill" bidding. You can't "shill bid" a buy it now, you can only do that to an auction, in order to inflate the price. These were buy-it-nows(b) I didn't do it to "raise my feedback". We're getting 3000+ feedback a month. So whether positive or negative, buying items from myself to leave feedback would be a complete waste of time. Not to mention, ebay actually only counts 1 feedback per buyer, for the % (from what I recall). They do that to stop exactly what someone mentioned as a possibilityI did it actually to test a piece of the software we are using. The only way to tell if part of our software works is to do a live ebay purchase, and see what the various emails or whatever I am testing look like to a live customer. And rather than inflict some poor sap on ebay with the test, better to test on myself. Since it cost me actual ebay listing fee $ when I test, you'll notice I bought from myself items at low value. e.g. $0.99p.s. eBay never mentioned anything to me about the message bcarkie sent in, so I guess they ignored it. They probably thought it hilarious someone was accused of shill bidding on a buy it now item.