Sei Nazioni.

However, there actually is a good group of rugby lovers out here. o I'd not dare call this a shill too quickly.

Lewisexi wrote:At the expense of being labelled supporter number three...just wanted to say I've bought a fair bit from Cougs in the past with only one minor incident. He once forgot one item in a win of ten or so items in the package. Was only worth a pound or so and I decided not persue it. I figured it's not worth taking up for that amount of money afterall, if he *was* going to defraud he'd make it alot more than that I'm sure!

His shipping may not be the fastest or the cheapest but his prices usually make up for the shipping costs in the UK. Always seemed ok to me so I'll keep using him. Not that for one minute I disbeleive what you folks say but as long as he's straight with me I got no probs really.

    I think the pattern here is that he's mostly not going to rip off UK customers...mainly because you have the recourse of actually showing up on his doorstep.  He figures that the casual seller from across the ocean isn't going to show up.
    These sort of rip off artists, like the aforementioned and demonized Jonb, have ripple effects.  I know the Uk buyers have mentioned they have no problems with Cougie, but how many US sellers now include the words "NO UK BUYERS!" in their auctions precisely because of this kind of crook?  It was the same issue from a lot of members here who were dealing with Jonb while others got ripped off: "Hey, I got my stuff ok so no problem".  The ripple effect is that for every successful sale, Jonb made more money and had more tme to rip off other innocent sellers for every "legal" buck he made.  Also, he stole money from the pockets of other legitimate dealers on these forums indirectly by both providing lousy service and stealing from potential customers.  If someone gets food poisoning at the local Chinese take out place, they might start avoiding Chinese food all together.
  Speaking of Satan (Jonb), what about the theory that since Ebay had eliminated the seller from saying the buyer can't use a credit card with Paypal, he may be gone for good?  Nothing now to prevent anyone from just charging back on their credit card, even months later, when they don't get their goods.  Unless he pops up and says he accepts only checks and money orders, that might be it for his scam.

Mike B.

NetRodent wrote:Unfortunately there are still plenty of sellers who say they won't take credit cards with Paypal.

This is actually something PayPal/eBay will act on. And, no matter what any of us might think of the rule (as discussed on at least one other thread here), it's there, it's not going away anytime soon, and it's eBay's playground — they get to make the rules.

I've reported non-compliant sellers three times now, and eBay/PayPal took very swift action every time. In two cases, I tried to keep everything friendly, but I didn't like my payments being refused by sellers who hadn't done any homework (or hadn't read their e-mail from PayPal, or whatever).

(The third case, BTW, was the jackass with the obvious Compleat Tavern rip-offs. Reporting him got his listings removed; he did re-post them with some rambling about how he "no longer accepted PayPal," but it did put a dent into his plans. Man, what an asshat that guy was ... )

Xaxaxe wrote:

NetRodent wrote:Unfortunately there are still plenty of sellers who say they won't take credit cards with Paypal.

This is actually something PayPal/eBay will act on. And, no matter what any of us might think of the rule (as discussed on at least one other thread here), it's there, it's not going away anytime soon, and it's eBay's playground — they get to make the rules.

I've reported non-compliant sellers three times now, and eBay/PayPal took very swift action every time. In two cases, I tried to keep everything friendly, but I didn't like my payments being refused by sellers who hadn't done any homework (or hadn't read their e-mail from PayPal, or whatever).

(The third case, BTW, was the jackass with the obvious Compleat Tavern rip-offs. Reporting him got his listings removed; he did re-post them with some rambling about how he "no longer accepted PayPal," but it did put a dent into his plans. Man, what an asshat that guy was ... )

Ditto, the two times I've reported it the seller seemed to change the description pretty quickly, so they must have gotten through to him almost immediately.

Mike B.

I wonder if there's a threshold below which sellers are cancelled.

Brucem+ Coug....It is cute to see the two of them pissing on each other's toes...

youffie404 wrote:

RWilson wrote::D Brucem+ Coug....It is cute to see the two of them pissing on each other's toes...

And Coug found a new friend, who want to make him pay the price, the high price...

eBay.com Item Bid History

eBay.com Item Bid History
(look at the bid retractation)

Wow, what a blatant ass whipping!  Really nothing Cougie can do about it, either, as it's just someone raising his bids  who is not the seller, so it's not shilling. Also check out the comments from Gseddler, pretty funny.  

Mike B.

Here's also gone from here ... I was trolling the memberlist looking for something else when I noticed no "maxwell."

You know, if you're removed from eBay and banned from the Acaeum, it's like you never existed at all! DUN-DUN-DUNNN!

bclarkie wrote:Well, this thread needed a bump anyway, but it seems our old friend gaunter666 the CD-Burner is selling off his entire collection:

Over 250 items of 1 2 3 3 5 edition ultimate Book Lot | eBay

The best part is that he has a $200 shipping cost listed. $200.

i know who i would like to see bid on that. would be nice and fitting