bclarkie wrote:
I think he is stupid.  He is obviously under the impression that if you neg the shit out of him, that he can respond in kind.  He must have missed Ebay's new sellers feedback rules, which I am sure will be leading to a very rude awakening for him.

That is one reason why Ebay's no-seller-neg policy makes a certain sort of sense.

There are crappy customers in the real world too.  There are differences between online and in-person sales, but making customers happy is a standard burden for the seller.

Here is a perfect illustration of why Ebay's new policy can be good.  This guy is mad because he cannot profit from shipping...so he treats the customer like crap.  Guess what.  He gets negged...and he should get negged...seven times without any way to retaliate.

I know there are two sides to the issue, but the possibilities for feedback extortion protecting bad sellers is exactly what has kept a guy like Cougarrinard floating for so long.

Now customer service becomes standard, rather than an optional moral decision lived up to by only the better sellers.

Neg him.  Seven times.  And say what he did.  And pay for each package individually and force him to ship them separately.  And give him crappy ratings in the star categories.

But...before you do that...remind him gently about current Ebay policy.  Give him a chance to make you a second offer on combined shipping.  He might actually learn.

Of course, I can leave feedback at any time during the next several months so that is not a problem if I do pay for the items.

Deadlord:  the big problem with paying for each item one at a time  indivudually is that I would have no way to pay for them all one at a time, have them delivered one at a time, and then send payment for the next item........ and so on, and still make the deadline for payment within 7 days from close of auction.
Thus he could report me as a non-paying buyer for the remainder of the items and sell those items again.
It would be a good plan otherwise.

OTOH: If I pay for each item individually and pay for them all within the 7 days time, then he could do many different things in retaliation. Including pack them all into one box anyway and ship them all after the last payment is made. Thereby making even more money off of me. ($11 more) since I would no longer qualify for his one time never heard of before in the history of E-Bay offer for the incredible combined shipping discount.

This guy is not a big time seller (100 feedback), so I am not all that certain he cares a whit if I do retaliate with negs, ect..
Or it could be he really is an idiot and does not know the newly revised seller/buyer/feedback rules.
(Although he was freely offering plenty of various threats of things he could do to me, if I dont pay up)

BTW: I was being somewhat sarcastic about his not being stupid.........I just forgot to add the       rolling eyes face
Mike had a good name for this guy.

kiwi17...



http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... :IT&ih=006



your latest mods on ebay.... £4 postage??!!! wow man thats a damn lot. you gonna protect the mods with steel plates?







ps. i know you have mentioned that this is an "estimate", but this is precisely how the above happens too.

killjoy32 wrote:kiwi17...


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your latest mods on ebay.... £4 postage??!!! ...

i have to quote al... actually 10 pounds to italy is a bit high...

http://sg.royalmail.com/portal/rm/Price ... d=23500532

according to the Royal Calculator it'd be about 2 pounds via printed papers airmail...  

killjoy32 wrote:
wow man thats a damn lot. you gonna protect the mods with steel plates?

well, maybe using a warning on the envelope like: "Try to bend now, stupid mailman", he would have some satisfaction...  

aia wrote:well, maybe using a warning on the envelope like: "Try to bend now, stupid mailman", he would have some satisfaction...  

Yeah, that'll ensure that they handle it with kid gloves at the Post Office.....

Deadlord39 wrote:Forget the 7 days payment bullshit. If he balks at the one-at-a-time payment thing, just report him to eBay for excessive shipping fees. There's no way in Hell I would ever just "bite the bullet" and pay. That is not only cowardly, it is enabling. It is the chickenshit way out.
Don't give in to the Dark Side, Annie!

So, are you saying I should pay his normal shipping ($6.95) for one item at a time and end up paying $9.65 over his awesome reduced pay it all at one time shipping fees.
BTW: That $6.95 shipping cost for each item (Seperately) is for US Postal Service First Class Mail, not Priority Mail.
(That comes to $48.95 in all, rather than $39.00, for 7 items that can be packed into ONE priority Box which SHOULD cost only $9.80 according to the USPS).

On a side note: In an earlier post,  I had mistakenly stated his awesome combined shipping cost savings as being $11.00.....
it is actually only a $9.65 difference..........

Or, would you simply tell him to kiss off and pay nothing at all?
Non-Paying bidder hits (Especially seven of them) can get a fella banned from E-Bay can it not?

Or, would you just pay his extortion of E-Bay listing and sales price fees and get nothing for it?
And move on down the road......

Deadlord39 wrote:In order of preference:


1. Argue until he sends a reasonable shipping quote. Threaten to report him for excessive fees/shipping extortion. Forward all e-mails to eBay, including the one stating fees would be combined.

2. Send payments one at a time.

3. Ignore the auctions completely, and threaten to neg/DSRS his ass if he pursues it.

4. Sorry, there are no other options.

The more people kowtow to these fucking idiots, the more they will breed.

If a  buyer deos not pay any negs they leave get removed.

I would pay the guy, then neg him and make sure to give him all 1's in his DSR. Now the negs are all going to count only once because the auctions all ended within 7 days but the DSRs should all be valid.

If you don't pay he can hit you with non-paying bidder strikes.

I woul;d recommended contacting ebay about this as well.

EBay will also remove your feedback if a NPB dispute is filed against you even if you do respond.



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Note the last bullet item and I quote;

A buyer responds to the Unpaid Item process, but in replying to it the buyer does not express dissatisfaction with the seller or the item.

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Be sure in any communication you have with this seller that you never make any references to feedback or not paying. If you do, the seller can you those comments against you.

Mercenary_Roadie wrote:EBay will also remove your feedback if a NPB dispute is filed against you even if you do respond.

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More information can be found here; About eBay: Company Info, News, Careers, Investor Relations

Be sure in any communication you have with this seller that you never make any references to feedback or not paying. If you do, the seller can you those comments against you.

That's new then, as that was the reason I wanted them to remove the ridiculous neg I got last year(to which they quickly rejected my request), but it is still easily enough manipulated by the buyer which really defeats the purpose of it in the first place.