I agree with this 100%. It sounds like the bit of hell from a buyer over a
$15 bracelet I lost money on. After immediately mailing out the item, and
six weeks of answering her rambling emails about her prior Ebay seller
complaints and problems with the postal mail, the bank, etc., she said OOPS!
I've moved and I gave you the wrong address. You're getting the bracelet
back and you'll have to resend it to me.
I finally blew a gasket and told her that when it comes back here I'm not
sending it back to her, ever--I will refund the money. Fine, she says, so
mail me a check. Nothing else goes to you from me in the mail I told her. I
will Paypal every cent she paid me. So I did this and she was still mad. I
DON'T HAVE PAYPAL!!!
Anyway, she sends me snippy emails about how I've cheated her, and tells me
she has gone to the Ebay management to complain about me, and the CA
district attorney, the consumer affairs; she told them all about this
hideous Ebay seller that absorbed the postal losses and refunded her money.
None of these people followed up and questioned me about this.
I think the point of this is she wanted to keep me serving her after 6
weeks. Some people have nothing else in there lives and will target an
honest seller for attention.
Go figure.
Ilene
screen name icourland
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> I find it amazingly astounding that anyone would go to the bother to do a
> webpage on a $7.00 transaction that's gone bad. While I took the time to
> look at it, annd I understand that your product WAS in fact damaged, I need
> to call for some balance in this worldwide yardsale we call eBay.
>
> Yes, there are crooks in business. And yes we are all (as a business
> community, whether in a neighborhood or a nation) responsible to help
> maintain justice and truth.
>
> Please bear in mind that sometimes things happen outside of the realm of
> possibility. Things DO get lost in the mail. Shipping DOES take time and
> cost more than just the $3.95 for a priority box. I hear constanty from folks
> who compllain about the most insignificant things.. Remember that shippers &
> sellers ARE people too, with families and schedules and commitments. Just
> because you took the 17 seconds to bid and win a bid on eBay does not entitle
> you to own the seller's soul.
>
> The problem is (often) that SO MANY complain about such insignificant things,
> that a seller becomes inundated with verbage from buyers, to the point of
> numbing.
>
> I write this to call for some balance. Perhaps it is worthwhile to put up a
> page about repeat offenders. I don't know.. I've had some unhappy clients on
> eBay as well, in my 3 years of selling on eBay..I try not to--I try to live
> my life and run my business in an ethical & truthful way. But please don't
> rake me over the coals for a single transaction of a $2.00 item that is
> missing or got broken; I'd rather refund it and give you $5 to go buy
> yourself an ice cream cone.
>
> We DO have responsibility for justice. But we DO ALSO have a responsibility
> to balance truth with justice. That is the very reason our courts are full
> of lawyers and crooks, with lawsuits in astronomical figures; because so many
> have no understanding of that balance.
>
> Hope this doesn't inflame the world...
>
> Thanks,
> David Wegener
>
> Wegener Media
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