killjoy32 wrote:i sell a fair bit but nowhere near as much as the others here such as bri/btb/mike, but lemme tell you this. i wear my heart on the sleeve and have always done. if i do a good job and someone slaps me one for the hell of it and it isnt justified, believe me, on pure principle, i will get in my car and go there personally. i have come mighty close to that on a few occasions but its always just about worked out (damn)....but the time will come. Al
improvstone wrote:Maybe we should start a Mexican stand off. Sellers would not leave feedback till buyers left one and buyers would not leave feedback till sellers did. No feedback on ebay at all.The feedback system would grind to a halt and eBay would finally have to look at ways of changing the system to something that works better for both parties. OK, I realise that is not going to happen.
killjoy32 wrote:one saturday morning, i watched a post office van pull up, guy get out, come to my door with something. something put through the letterbox (curtain in the way so i didnt know what). i got up, went to see what it was and it was a notification that i wasnt in and had to go the bloody post office to pick it up !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Al
Sardan wrote:I've had this happen as well. What my postie told my wife was, "Yeah, I tried to deliver it yesterday, you weren't in so I took it back to the sorting office, filled out a note and now I'm posting the note"!Oh well.Incidentally I think they are pretty good. Never had an item go missing. (touches wood).
napoleonsdad wrote:Actually I'm glad that this topic was brought up. My feedback policy from day one has been to leave buyers positive feedback when they pay and to leave sellers feedback when I get and check the item. As simple as that sounds recent events have caused me to rethink my policy. I now have 3 negative feedback on my record and 2 occurred yesterday from the same seller. Here's the story.I won and paid for 2 auctions from the same seller on Jan 9th. 3 weeks go by and I had not received the items nor had I heard anything from the seller. So on Jan. 28th I send a friendly email requesting the status of the shipment. I always send emails via the contact seller link in ebay. Five more days go by and still nothing. I send a second email on Feb 2nd and am a little more insistent. Still no word from the seller but the package does arrive on Feb 7th. Interestingly it was postmarked Jan 29th, the day after I sent the first email. I'm guessing the seller was hoping I forgot about the items.After checking the items I left a positive FB to the seller saying "Decent books, poor service. Does not answer emails after you pay."I'm sorry but I don't know how to appraise the transaction any more honestly than that. Nothing ticks me off more than ignoring emails.For my audacity of telling the truth I get blasted with a double negative.From now on I won't leave a FB to a seller unless it's completely positive and warranted. I'm not willing to take the hits for honestly expressing what I feel or to window dress what I say in fear of taking a hit.Thanks for letting me rant.
Oh, and link us the auction....sure sounds like the kind of seller I would like to avoid, and you may be saving other buyers a bad deal...... Mike B.
This would be a situation where some vigilante justice would be very much in order, as amtter of fact I'd consider creating 2 user IDs buy like 10 between the two IDS of different items from him as cheap as possible, pay for them and then neg the sh*t out of him.
napoleonsdad wrote:OK, I'll provide the link...with a disclaimer. I will admit that I had to fight off waves of red flags hitting me in the face when I placed the bid. Normally I would have avoided this guy like the plague but an overseas customer was looking for these books and the rest is history. ** expired/removed eBay auction **
napoleonsdad wrote:Back in my day we would have keyed his car door
now THAT would have gotten me in the car for a personal visit. amazing these muppets can get away with stuff like that.
napoleonsdad wrote: Distance and relative anonymity created by ebay and the internet serves to empower these types. If this guy were to deal with me face to face he would crap his drawers. I bet he's a little pipsqueak.
Its always amazed me to read about how buyers seem to go nuts over not receiving thier items within a couple of days when they should know that the seller is most likely several states away or even a continent away.