>polite and reasonable. The seller may just be honestly mistaken (I've met
>many folks like that). If the seller responds with hostility, well, we
>tried our best on that end.
Amen to "polite and reasonable"
>The other option is to contact the buyer and inform them that they've
>probably bought a meteor-wrong. Encourage them to have the item
examined
>by an expert. If it proves to be terrestrial, then encourage
them to
>demand a refund from the seller.
I not sure that contacting a buyer DURING or AFTER an auction
is permitted..
See eBay rules:
"Buying Offenses
If you've experienced any of these issues, please report offenses
to the Investigations link below. Disciplinary action may result in the
indefinite suspension of a user's account, temporary suspension,
or a formal warning. eBay will consider the circumstances of an alleged
offense and the user's trading records before taking action.
Transaction interference - Emailing
buyers in an open or ended transaction to warn them away from a
seller or item."
EBay's wording includes "ended transactions " I got around this
the other day when an eBayer was reselling a meteor-wrong. I asked him
if he could verifiy that it was
genuine and that it looked like many of the meteor-wrongs recently
sold on eBay. He came to the conclusion himself of returning the meteor-wrong
to the original seller for a refund. However, if a buyer does not try to
resell it, then contacting them is against eBay policy.
#9632
Ken Newton
