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You know I really love some of you guys.You set
here behind a screen and make judgements all the time about things YOU KNOW
NOTHING ABOUT. There is a thread right now were you guys are talking about a
PORTAL KING KONG and you are all making assumptions about it without any REAL
FACTS behind the SELLERS item. You guys like to act like you are the KNOW IT
ALLS of the poster world when in fact you are NOT.Yes MOST of us know its a
PORTAL and a REPRODUCTION. But MAYBE just MAYBE the seller does not. Did any of
you KNOW IT ALLS bother to think about that???? MAybe he does know its a
reproduction. But NONE of US KNOW THAT.Yet here are some of you making
accusations and assumpitions with out any facts.
I know I am wasting time here but I am pretty
pissed right now and will say this last thing on ANY of these
matters.
DAVID KUSPA Yes I demanded a apology from him
because he OWEs me one. I dont care what he or any of you want to call the
poster I sold him. I graded it fine. NONE of you have ever HELD it in your hands
to grade it so YOU DONT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT. David disagreed. I told
him to send it back. SHIT happens.I just found out TODAY that the post office
here is TAMPA has been randomly opening my mail because they wanted to see if it
was sent UNDER THE RIGHT CLASS. I sent some items out the other day and received
a letter with some photo copies that the items I had sent as media mail was in
fact not media mail because it was vintage comic books and they sent the items
with POSTAGE due to the people I had sent them to.This of course pissed them off
and I received a neg on ebay for it. So now I have found out that for the last 6
months my mail has been tampered with by the post office. Thats just great. I
recently sent out a spiderman 1 and the person I sent it to said they did
not receive it. David sent me back a poster and I did not receive it. Now
I find out the POST OFFICE has been opening my mail. It goes on and on.
SHIT HAPPENS. I have tried to help David and he has made this into what he has.
I am not going to debate this with him or any of you any longer. If he wants my
help then he know what I asked him to do and I EXPECT it. If not then that is
his choice. He can post here all he wants. File any charges he wants to.
I have nothing to worry about. Hehas
accused
MICHAEL GREENWOOD While saying he has NO ANIMOSITY
to me takes any chance he can to tell his tale. Its the same deal. Its a
grading issue. HE even admits the poster is NEAR FLAWLESS except for SOME
FOXING. When he first announced his SAD SAD story it was all OVER the poster.
Now it is in some AREAS. I really dont care. He never asked for a refund and
just wants to CRY about it. He says I called him a LIER which I never did (so
that makes him in fact a lier) . I will not address him about this anymore. I
called the poster VF/NM. THats what I GRADED IT AT.
I know that some of you have opinions of me. I have
opinions of some of you. Anyone here who claims that they HAVE 100
% PERFECT TRANSACTIONS are not being honest with them selves. I just
have the pleasure of some of mine being made PUBLIC .
Al
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 11:28
AM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] AL SHEVY aka
"coolstuff159"
Update on the ebay feedback for Al Shevy aka "coolstuff 159",
which he has now made public again.
http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback&userid=coolstuff159
You
can now read the complaints from other buyers about shipping delays, condition
problems and non-delivery, including another buyer who claims he paid $2,400
for a book and the package arrived with 2 pieces of cardboard in it. Sound
familiar?
-_David
on 9/14/05 7:55 AM, David Kuspa at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear MoPo members,
Thank you all for your public and
private responses to my transaction with Al Shevy, aka Ebay ID
"coolstuff159". For those of you who sent me private accounts of your own
dealings with Al Shevy, I encourage you to post them publicly (perhaps you
just forgot to hit the Reply All button?).
Here is the link to the
auction page:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=60332&item=7525124231
And
here is a link to photos of the poster I received from Shevy:
http://homepage.mac.com/dkuspa/PhotoAlbum11.html
You can decide for
yourself whether my disappointment and return request was reasonable. These
defects were not visible in the auction page photo (which was slightly
overexposed), nor were they described by the seller. BTW, these defects are
pretty unique, so you might want to take a look at them in case you ever run
across this poster. Mail theft/fraud is a Federal crime and it would be very
satisfying to nail the criminal.
Al Shevy has never responded to my
complaint that the poster had significant defects that were not disclosed,
regardless of the grade he gave it (Fine). Notice how he uses the "Blame The
Victim" approach:
"...I did ask you to
send it back because YOU were unhappy with it."
"...in reality it is you
throwing a temper tantrum."
"...you get mad because I told the
TRUTH..."
"...Feedback on ebay is a joke anyways."
And the topper, a
demand for my APOLOGY in his latest profanity-laced private email, or else
he will no longer assist with the insurance claim. So I doubt that mine or
any other MoPo member's opinion of his grading or his business ethics will
change his behavior, since in his mind, he is always in the right. I'll
settle for this warning to my fellow MoPo members and they can decide for
themselves whether it's safe to do business with him.
It is true that
the USPS Insurance Claims office in St. Louis is extremely frustrating to
deal with. It's also true that I pleaded to Al Shevy to help me out by
getting his local post office to file a Damage Report, and that I expressed
frustration that he owed me this much since I never would have bid on his
poster in the first place if he had been honest in his description. My
reality is that I was running out of time to issue feedback (90 days from
the auction close will pass in a few more days), so I checked Al Shevy's
seller ID and saw that 4 other individuals had given him negative feedback
in the past month and that he had made his feedback private. THIS IS WHY I
DECIDED IT WAS TIME TO GO PUBLIC, BECAUSE I SAW A RECENT PATTERN OF UNHAPPY
BUYERS and wanted to alert others. Of course, he has retaliated to my
negative feedback, but that is a small price to pay. All 3 of my other
negatives are retaliations from sellers just like Al Shevy (I have 146
positives). Believe me, if I wanted to nit pick about undisclosed defects,
there would be more. I accept that grading is subjective, but significant
defects should always be disclosed, so I save the effort for what I feel is
gross misrepresentation.
What have I learned from
this experience?
1. If the seller refuses to send a higher-resolution
photo upon request before you bid, WALK AWAY! The original photo the seller
uploads to Ebay is almost always better quality and higher resolution than
the heavily compressed version that winds up on Ebay's server. This seller
claimed he was having trouble with his email account, so couldn't send the
original.
2. If the seller claims it will take 30 days to deliver ("I'm
only a one-person operation...", blah blah blah), WALK AWAY! Important
safeguards like PayPal's satisfaction guarantee start expiring at 30 days
after the auction close.
3. Don't get lazy because you've had a string of
good experiences with honorable Ebay sellers--you'll eventually run into a
bad apple. Protect yourself by asking the right questions up front before
you bid and warn the seller that you must take action to protect your rights
within the window of opportunity should a transaction start to go bad. In
this case, I should have started a PayPal Buyer Protection Claim and an Ebay
"Item Significantly Not As Described" complaint before I returned the
poster, so I would have some leverage over the seller.
4. Take photos of
any poster you return for a refund, especially if there are substantial
defects the seller did not disclose.
-_David
on
9/13/05 6:19 PM, Al Shevy at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David You want to throw a public
temper tantrum then lets do it the right way. Yes I sold you a poster and
I did ask you to send it back because YOU were unhappy with it. The
package came to me OPENED and empty except for 2 pieces of cardboard. On
top of that it was delivered to MY NEIGHBOR not me. I told you about this
and since it was insured you filed the ins claim. I received a letter from
the post office asking me to take the packing to my post office and drop
it off. I did that and had them date stamp a copy of the letter so that I
had a way to show the date and time when I dropped it off. Then I get a
email from you asking about a damage report. I told you I receivd a letter
and did what it said. Then you tell me to send a damage report to some
woman at the post office. I tell you I have no DAMAGE report.Never
received one. Then you send me a number to call this person at the post
office. I call it and they dont know who she is. I tell them the problem
and they say YOU NEED TO SHOW the INS RECEIPT. I say that I believe you
already did that and I get a big run around from them. I ask them again to
put me in touch with the person you asked me to call and again they say
they DONT KNOW WHO SHE IS. I tell you this and you send me another email
with the same thing again. I tell you again and you come back with a email
about how im not trying to help you and so on. This pisses me off. What
the hell have I been doing????? I cant do anything else. You have to do
it. You have the ins receipt. So now you get mad because I told the TRUTH
that I cant do anything else that I have done all I can and you do this
MOPO assualt.Yes I made my feedback private. I am late on getting some
items out and have some negs(by the way 2 have been removed)but this has
nothing to do with me and you . So you make this PLEA to MOPo in the guise
of a plea for help when in reality it is you throwing a temper tantrum and
you want to cause me grief. Well all you have done is create more problems
for yourself because I wil NOT help you in ANYWAY now. Why should
I???
Al
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