----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 12:13
AM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] AL SHEVY aka
"coolstuff159"
Look, Al, nothing changes the fact that you clearly called the
poster you sold David "fine" -- and displayed a picture with your
auction which did not show the true condition at all. (your
original description and picture is there for all to see at
But anyone can see that the poster you sent him -- a picture of
which David has made available for all of us to see
-- was NOT fine, not by anyone's standards. Not with that big brown
stain and all that wrinkling. We don't need to hold it in our hands to make an
accurate judgment. And you know it. (
http://www.homepage.mac.com/dkuspa/PhotoAlbum11.html )
So, unless you are claiming that the picture David has put up on the web
is a fake and not the poster that you sold him, then nothing else that came
afterward matters at all.
The bottom line is this: If you had described the poster accurately in
the first place, NONE of the rest of this stuff that came afterward would have
ever happened.
There would be no public recriminations, no harsh words, no
finger-pointing, no "he said, so then I said" stuff.
You brought this on yourself when you sold a poster with a highly
inaccurate description -- and you've been in this business long enough to
know better.
You know that is what David is mad about and he has a good
reason to be mad. The fact that you said you'd take it back doesn't change
what you did in the first place. All the righteous outrage and name-calling in
the world won't change the fact that you created the problem in the first
place by putting up a condition grading that was clearly not even close and
selling the poster under false pretenses.
Blame yourself for this mess, not your customer -- and certainly don't
try to somehow blame the rest of us. Get real, man.
-- JR
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005
22:21
Subject: Re: [MOPO] AL SHEVY aka
"coolstuff159"
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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