If you sell to me on ebay, your Grandmother might die - Bilge

MT Mai Tai Tiki Socialite Exotic Isle of Alameda Joined: Mar 21, 2004 Posts: 1438	MT Mai Tai Posted posted on Mon, Aug 13, 2007 2:18 AM Yeah, good ol' ebay feedback. I won an auction for a cool Dual turntable that could play 78 speed records. The turntable, although from the early 1970's, was never opened or used, and was still new in the box - I think it was leftover inventory from an old stereo store or something. Immediately upon winning the auction, I started getting weird e-mails from someone claiming to be the owner of the auction items, and he was claiming that he was unsure of what the auction items actually contained. I responded to the e-mails, asking if he could please tell me what was included in the auction. He responded that he couldn't, because he was selling the items for someone else, and didn't actually have possession of the items. I immediately forwarded the e-mails to ebay's safe harbour department, where they assured me that they would work something out. Well, they sat on their asses for longer than a week. When the guy responded back wanting payment, I told him that I had forwarded our e-mails and my complaint to ebay safe harbour. He then strangely told me that we had no prior conversation, and didn't know what I was talking about. I re-forwarded all of the e-mails to him, re-stating that I forwarded all of these to ebay safe harbour as well. He again replied that he didn't know what I was talking about, and threatened to give me negative feedback. At this point, the good folks at ebay were still leaving me out there alone to hang high and dry. There was no response from them - it was around Thanksgiving weekend, so I assume everyone was on vacation. Ebay did nothing, despite my numerous e-mails asking for help, and the guy actually zapped me with negative feedback for non-payment, even though I told him repeatedly that I had contacted ebay safe harbour, and that he should consider this auction null and void. The kicker was that in his negative feedback he said something to the effect of "After 3 weeks I got no payment and absolutely no response from this guy - a total flake!!!" Thanks ebay weirdo psycho, for ruining my perfect feedback rating. Oh, and did I ever hear back from ebay? Yeah, like two weeks later they sent me a bullshit e-mail that said something to the effect of "So you received negative feedback. We hope this doesn't sour your ebay experience and that you will continue to shop on ebay." Uh, yeah, thanks for all of your help. Yeah, for the most part, I'm pretty much done with ebay.

Yeah, good ol' ebay feedback. I won an auction for a cool Dual turntable that could play 78 speed records. The turntable, although from the early 1970's, was never opened or used, and was still new in the box - I think it was leftover inventory from an old stereo store or something. Immediately upon winning the auction, I started getting weird e-mails from someone claiming to be the owner of the auction items, and he was claiming that he was unsure of what the auction items actually contained. I responded to the e-mails, asking if he could please tell me what was included in the auction. He responded that he couldn't, because he was selling the items for someone else, and didn't actually have possession of the items. I immediately forwarded the e-mails to ebay's safe harbour department, where they assured me that they would work something out.

Well, they sat on their asses for longer than a week. When the guy responded back wanting payment, I told him that I had forwarded our e-mails and my complaint to ebay safe harbour. He then strangely told me that we had no prior conversation, and didn't know what I was talking about. I re-forwarded all of the e-mails to him, re-stating that I forwarded all of these to ebay safe harbour as well. He again replied that he didn't know what I was talking about, and threatened to give me negative feedback.

At this point, the good folks at ebay were still leaving me out there alone to hang high and dry. There was no response from them - it was around Thanksgiving weekend, so I assume everyone was on vacation. Ebay did nothing, despite my numerous e-mails asking for help, and the guy actually zapped me with negative feedback for non-payment, even though I told him repeatedly that I had contacted ebay safe harbour, and that he should consider this auction null and void. The kicker was that in his negative feedback he said something to the effect of "After 3 weeks I got no payment and absolutely no response from this guy - a total flake!!!"

Thanks ebay weirdo psycho, for ruining my perfect feedback rating.

Oh, and did I ever hear back from ebay? Yeah, like two weeks later they sent me a bullshit e-mail that said something to the effect of "So you received negative feedback. We hope this doesn't sour your ebay experience and that you will continue to shop on ebay." Uh, yeah, thanks for all of your help.

Yeah, for the most part, I'm pretty much done with ebay.

Post #325230 by Mai Tai on Mon, Aug 13, 2007 2:18 AM