Badmike wrote:You know Duke has been right these last few years..
Mercenary_Roadie wrote:He's back up to 99.3% on feedback. So he's safe there.
g026r wrote:Not because he's improved his business practices though, but only because eBay realised they were going to have to boot too many coug-ish power sellers if they kept counting neutrals against their ratings.
Random Code wrote:... And his threats to me were completely hollow. E-bay have confirmed that no strikes will be made against my account regarding these failed transactions. So, fuck him! What a sad little man...
mustang wrote:I wanted to register and take the time to thank the members of this forum before I made the mistake of engaging in a transaction with cougarrinard..I saw the user id and feedback # and thought hmm.. .that many feedback in the collectible world, gotta be something about him outside of Ebay so, I goggled his name and up came this thread and.. Praise be to this thread! Holy smokes, what a tool bag.And thanks!
ChaosSane wrote:Aaaand littleprincessfreya is trading again.
Badmike wrote:Reason being, Coug's main name may get shut down. He hasn't been able to keep up the minimum standards (I believe it's 4.5 in your DSRs) and if so, cannot list any new items as of a certain date...I forget when.
g026r wrote:And here we see a potential loophole in eBay's new policy: get shut down, just start a new user ID with all fresh stars.At least Cougie's cut-and-paste descriptions and horrible spelling/grammar make him easy to identify.
ChaosSane wrote:Except LPF's listings don't have the usual issues. She and cougie have very different styles, or so it seems to me. If I hadn't found this thread I'd never have known she was a sockpuppet.
Badmike wrote:Reason being, Coug's main name may get shut down. He hasn't been able to keep up the minimum standards (I believe it's 4.5 in your DSRs) and if so, cannot list any new items as of a certain date...I forget when. Mike B.
Mercenary_Roadie wrote:I wonder if eBay has shut his main ID down
benjoshua wrote:The changes they made were designed to reduce this foolishness and it appears to have had little impact