MShipley88 wrote:Not saying that this is necessarily a shady dealer...still....

   Has anyone here ever dealt with a seller named Scarlett Empress?

    I was working a multi-auction deal with this seller's items and I got burned when my combined shipping deal was wrecked by last second bidders.  It got left holding the bag for shipping cost on one item.

    The bidder on two of these auctions was named Se3ker.  Although he had a feedback of 1000, he is "no longer a registered Ebay user." (Or words to that effect.)

   Now, Scarlett Empress has sent me second chance offers on all three of the items I lost.

   What do you think?  Anyone know this seller's reputation?

Mark  

I don't know anything about the seller, but the bidder that you refer to se3ker is the guy who wanted me to photocopy and sell to him the Jade Hare module I was selling a couple week.

Oh, you guys & gals just *have* to read this one (if you already haven't) :

http://www.p-p-p-powerbook.com/

Well, a month and a half later, I have my Wilmark stuff. I had to send back a few items, which were misrepresented and/or damaged, for replacements. Horrendously slow shipping. I was promised a set of Character Sheets to make up for the return shipping cost and the time/effort. Those didn't materialize. The amusing part is, the seller said that he originally was delayed in shipping because the author's mother was sick, so he didn't feel right asking for an autograph for the copy he auctioned as autographed.
He IS the phuqing author................
Days of Knights is one to avoid.

Good spot on that one.

I wonder why people think they can "beat" eBay? Almost certainly, this genius thinks he is the first person to come up with the "perfect" solution ... it's just pathetic.

Living amidst a gambling environment has made me very familiar with this type of mind-set. I see it every day from people who think they can beat the casinos.

Anyway, it should definitely be reported; it's a blatant violation.

If that's the case, then I withdraw the comment as it applies to this particular seller. However, I still think the no-one-will-notice-my-outrageous-shipping-charges scam is really in style right now on eBay.

This seller is probably an OK guy.

   I call the type of person who wants to "beat" Ebay a "genius."

   A "genius" (with sarcasm) is a guy who thinks the rest of us are abominably stupid for following the rules...so he feels OK with breaking them.  He thinks the rest of us are suckers and he is soooo clever.

   There was a "genius" guy who I met at our local game store, playing the game, Necromunda (underhive gang skirmish rules for Warhammer 40,000).

   This guy was classic "genius."  For instance, in Necromunda, literal line of sight (from the miniature's head) is part of the rules.  This guy did not glue-on the arms to his plastic miniatures so that he could move the arms straight up...out of sight...until his turn.

   Another time, he brought a "gang" of adeptus arbites police officers, in armor and with special stats, to the weekend battles.  He insisted that because White Dwarf had published rules for this squad, it was a legal "gang."  (Starting points for a gang was 1000...a squad of adeptus arbites would have cost about 1600 points.)

  The problem for him was, like any other "genius," was that he was more concerned with beating the rules...and seeming smart...than actually being smart.  My legal gangs routinely massacred his cheater-monkey crap.  Not even close...not even particularly challenging.

   I introduced his armored troopers to the concept of shotguns and "knock-back" and the inadvisablity of standing in the open on high catwalks.  

  He accused me of cheating every time.  I would then show him the rulebook and the legal rules he had not bothered to master.  He considered it unfair that someone would not be stunned by his "genius."  He finally stormed out one Saturday night (after another massacre) and never returned to the Necromunda tournaments.

   The last time I heard of him, one of my buddies had met him in a Magic: The Gathering tournament at the WOTC world headquarters, in Seattle's U-District.  And, yes, this "genius" had a genius plan for beating that game as well.  He stormed out of the tournament when my friend beat him handily......claiming that my friend was violating "the spirit of the rules."

   My guess is that roughly 10% of the people on Ebay would qualify for the title of "genius."  It is my hunch that these people account for as much as 90% of the negative experiences to be had there.

Mark  

I like Al's term: Muppet

ShaneG.

Plaag wrote:I like Al's term: Muppet

ShaneG.

well yes indeed - muppet says it so well

imbecile and ingrate are two others i like

Al