deimos3428 wrote:I just wanted to say thanks to everyone on here. As a relative newbie ebayer/collector, I didn't know that ~94% would be considered a poor rating, and probably would have bid on stuff from these guys. This is the one that uses excessive exclamation points, right?Sorry for lurking on your rants but it's good to know who to avoid. Any others come to mind? Any chance someone will post a "black list"?
dathon wrote:JonOakes wrote:Frank,I think you run the risk of giving the guy 'an excuse' by summoning the Master Shiller.Best bet is to just let nature take its course. Now, however 'some guy' has an interesting idea. Notify any lead bidders about this jerks track record and bids may get retracted more often.My two coppers is that it may indeed be time for the Master Shiller. As for letting current bidders know the story behind this scoundrel... well, I can tell you from experience that it is risky. A long time ago in my early eBay days I ran into a terrible seller who was selling a Gamma World minis box. I bought it, and then found it was missing a miniature even though it was advertised as near mint/complete. I asked the seller for a refund, and she replied that I shouldn't be playing with children's games anyway and would not give a refund. That's right, she mocked our hobby! I contacted her then current bidders on "children's games" and warned them about the seller. Well, one of the bidders must have told the seller or eBay because then eBay's Safe Harbor got on my butt and told me my account would be suspended if I continued to "interfere" in the seller's auctions. So if you're going to warn bidders then don't do it from your regular account. Bottom line: eBay refuses to police itself so how can they be surprised when vigilante justice arises? We're not the first to contemplate this.... the New York Times had a whole article a while back about a Mac users posse that hunts down and harrasses eBay villains. There was even an article last week about a "vigilante" group that harrasses the Nigerian scammers. It's probably still up on the NYT site and it was very amusing.
JonOakes wrote:Frank,I think you run the risk of giving the guy 'an excuse' by summoning the Master Shiller.Best bet is to just let nature take its course. Now, however 'some guy' has an interesting idea. Notify any lead bidders about this jerks track record and bids may get retracted more often.