benwax wrote:I think that as long as reasonable info about the emporium is sent, and we tell bidders them to watch out, the worst that can happen is a slap on the wrist from ebay. As I just got my first negative feedback from the GE after leaving negative for them, I have used my daily quota of ebay messages to warn off bidders. I'm going to keep doing it until someone sends me a threatening notice. I'm sick of this, and hope that everyone on the Acaeum will join me in sending off a few emails to bidders everyday until GE is out of business!!!Ben newbie collector whose 100% feedback streak is now gone..frick! dathon wrote: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.
dathon wrote: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.
dbartman wrote:That was inevitable. He's still hammering people with legitimate gripes instead of taking responsibility for his mistakes, like patfalloon17's on this page.eBay Feedback Profile for the_game_emporiumThis ebayer has waited 86 days... the_game_emporium's excuse was that the item had to be re-mailed. I have never heard of that! Why would it have been returned, and, why does it take 86 days to re-mail it, and, it appears to only be re-mailed when the ebayer complains, and, on top of that, he gets a negative from the_game_emporium! I'm sorry but that's bullshit! How much longer will this go on.
JonOakes wrote:He's so hosed already he might as well flee the country.