bclarkie wrote:This thread needed a bump anyways, it was buried 3 pages back now. ** expired/removed eBay auction **Good old gigimgm aka Pipswich caring about sellers again.
Invincible Overlord wrote:What the hell....? Clearly there must have been a deal on the side, much to the chagrin of Ebay...
Back in January, I got lucky and won an eBay auction for a NM copy of In the Cage: A Guide to Sigil for a couple of bids above the initial price. After paying for it, I receive a message from the seller telling me that his bathroom pipes busted and the book got soaked, so he would refund me the money. Since he clearly stated that the book was ruined, I accepted the refund. He said he would later re list the item as damaged, but something rang a bell in my head, or something. Couldn't tell you what it was, since it seemed like a plausible reason.
napoleonsdad wrote:Sounds like a new spin on lost in the mail. Too bad you didn't ask the seller to take a picture of the water soaked item and send it to you. Nothing you can do now, except what you just did. I might hesitate to bid on any items from this seller.
Dimitri Mazieres wrote:Yes, I should have been a bit more skeptical about the story... I guess I should blame it on not having this kind of problems in the past with other sellers...And the worst part is that I didn't want to leave feedback until I saw this "damaged" copy listed, and now I can't do it. So, do you think it would be futile to report him to eBay? It kind of pisses me off to realize this...
I suspect it would be futile. You don't have a lock-tight case and they really don't have investigators for this kind of thing. eBay's Customer Service is basically non-existent, especially when they aren't losing any money. You did the best thing you could; report the situation to us. It's really not much, but it's better than nothing.
No this isn't the same copy as the one that was damaged. I buy, sell, and trade hundreds of books, games, and comics every month; mostly thru a local store. If Gigimgm wants this copy for what he would have won the other for, that's fine with me.
mbassoc2003 wrote:If Gigimgm wants this copy for what he would have won the other for, that's fine with me
bclarkie wrote:With that said, believe me, I have no doubt you will be back. Either under this ID or some other ID pretending to be some one else and trying to hide who you really are. The ones who flame out the loudest ALWAYS come back(See your good buddy Radovarl and his 6 or so user names as proof on this forum alone), I have seen it at least a hundred times now on internet forums. It took you all of 19 days after the previous flame out to come back, so we'll just set the over/under number at 20 days and work from there.Until next time.
mbassoc2003 wrote:Received this in response to a very similar poke....Seems like it's your's if you want it, Dimitri.
mbassoc2003 wrote:Okay. I'm lost. WIll someone spell it out for me?
bclarkie wrote:ashmire is pretty close. Our new friend in this thread "Dmitiri" is just a new posting ID here for Pipswich, the guy who flamed out twice on here. After he flamed out the second time, I predicted(apparently quite correctly) that he'd be back, either under the same ID or a new posting ID, of which it now appaears he chose the "new ID" route.On Ebay, he normally uses the ID of Gigimgm, however it appears this is a second ID that he used to make the purchase. The seller in his response to you must have known about the Gigimgm Ebay ID, because he mentioned it to you in his response which allowed me to realize what was going on.Make sense now?
