forkbeard wrote:Watch me and scores of others sail right past his pages of "VGC" crap in future.

I wonder if anyone has added "-VGC" to their search strings? Easy to do and it would eliminate the Cougie stuff, in theory.

Hrm.  Reading the feedback comments, it sounds to me like his newest tactic is to file a NPB before you leave feedback and then offer to close it in exchange for positive feedback.

Also amusing: the fact that the feedback he left for the latest guy to neg him claims that he didn't leave payment until after a NPB, yet over half of the positive feedback on that user's first page explicitly mentions fast payment.*

* Yes, I know, many sellers just copy-and-paste feedback.  However, it's still amusing to me.

g026r wrote:Hrm.  Reading the feedback comments, it sounds to me like his newest tactic is to file a NPB before you leave feedback and then offer to close it in exchange for positive feedback.

Also amusing: the fact that the feedback he left for the latest guy to neg him claims that he didn't leave payment until after a NPB, yet over half of the positive feedback on that user's first page explicitly mentions fast payment.*

oooh, oooh, thats me that got dinged! four nonpayment claims raised three days after paypal payment went though

apologies for not posting sooner as I have had much help/advice/support here, both on and off the forum but I have my reasons as may become apparent shortly

more to follow...but isn't calling me a liar when I have documented evidence of payment defamatory?

and yes, I received the offer to mutually withdraw minutes after his negative feedback

You should report him to eBay for fraud and tell them you will file a police report if they do not act. That is illegal.

oncebitten wrote:
I don't get why Cougar'd shoot himself in the foot so often?

Start at page one....and continue. The man is a functioning moron.  

Mike B.

benjoshua wrote:
And if you don't read it all (and it is a lot to read), you need to realize Dave reads this forum enough to know you've turned on him and he's going to squeeze you for all he can get away with.  This fight is ON!  Be careful!  He knows the system and will use it to his full advantage.  If you need help or want advice, we're here to help and we're cheering for you.

Leave the negs, show Ebay/paypal you made the payments (easy enough to do), and move on.  If you aren't a seller, there's really nothing Coug can do, and the bad feedback you leave is going to hurt him a lot worse.  Although I have to wonder if even Coug believes he's going to get enough five stars to somehow offset the wasteland he's made of his ratings.

Mike B.

Is anyone else considering buying cheap crap from cougie, giving him + feedback and then dinging him on the stars just for a larf?

Gradek wrote:Is anyone else considering buying cheap crap from cougie, giving him + feedback and then dinging him on the stars just for a larf?

This is a great plan, but mostly for UK buyers, I'd think. Paying Cougie-level shipping to the states just for a chance to mess with him is a bit cost-prohibitive.

One reason it's such a good plan is that DM Dave still doesn't seem to get it. Recent posts have indicated that he's still obsessed about his feedback, which is the wrong horse to be backing. For one thing, anything over 1,000 looks about the same to most buyers (arguably, anything over 100 or 200, even): it doesn't matter in the slightest if CougNuts has a score of 1,000 or 3,000 or 7,000 or whatever. There's no important difference between those scores.

More importantly, there's nothing he can do to prevent a buyer from leaving low DSR scores. The scores are anonymous and there is no chance for extortion or retaliation ... and we all know that those are Cougie's top two strategies. The only chance he has of even being on eBay at all a year from now is to drastically improve every facet of his customer relations. And what are the odds of that happening?

Watching Diamond Dave crash and burn over the next few months is going to be one of those "simple pleasures" that people talk about.  

oncebitten wrote:
and yes, I received the offer to mutually withdraw minutes after his negative feedback

I hadn't actually read the mutual withdrawal offers initially as I expected them to be eBay boilerplate but I see he is allowed to put a message on each, and you know he does make a very persuasive argument


Message from seller:         THATS EWHAT YOU GET FORM LISTENING TO LIARS CHEATS AND CONMANE, YOUR FB WRECKED MYINE NOT EVEN .1% FDOWN lol, OFFERING MUTUAL WIOTHDRAWL DOUBT YOU HAVE BRAINS TO ACCEPT IT THOUGH?

Message from seller:         EBAY IS MY BIUSINESS NOT SOME JOKE, LIKE YOU AND THE IDIOTS IBVIOUSLY VIEW IT, IF YOU HAD PAID i WOULD NOT EVEN HAVE BEEN ABLE TO OPENM NPBA? I AM GLAD YOU HAVE BEEN EXPLOSED AS LIAR YOU ARE.

Message from seller:         IM WAS WONDERING IF YOU'D TRY THIS LAST MINITE DIRTY TRICK LIKE THE SCAUM YOU ARE, DID YOU KNOW ONCE LEDFT FB CAN BE ANSWRED FOR MONTHS LOL, SEE STUPID AS WELL AS A LIAR, YOUR LASYT CHANCE,