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Excuse me Al, but I think anyone in this movie poster
collecting community does have a right to comment on something like this
when it comes up in public. We've all been victims of inaccurate descriptions in
the past and it damn well is our business -- we all have a vested interest in
knowing about this sort of thing. The more public information there is about it
when it happens, the less likely some people will be to "fudge" their
descriptions and put up photos that don't really show anything in the future.
And that's good for all of us buyers --and good for the sellers who want to do
fair and honest business with us.
As for the idea that no one can judge a poster from pictures -- don't be
absurd. You know that is PRECISELY how all of us judge posters every day when we
make a decision to bid on a poster auction -- or to buy one outright from a
dealer. How else are we supposed to judge it? It isn't practical to go and
physically examine the posters we buy before we purchase. We have to rely on the
picture and on the seller's words.
And THAT is precisely where you screwed up, Al -- In the words you used to
describe the poster and the picture you put up which didn't show the
condition issues at all. If you had been accurate from the start, none of this
would have happened. If you can't understand that, then you'd better find
another business, because people in the movie poster community are tired of
having this kind of stunt pulled on them -- and then having the seller get huffy
and insulting with them about it when they complain.
-- JR
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005
23:49
Subject: Re: [MOPO] AL SHEVY aka
"coolstuff159"
You know I say Im not goning to comment anymore
and I get this LOAD OF CRAP. SO THIS IS IT.
I do grade the poster as FINE. And you cannot
make a judgement based on ANY PHOTOS.You need to see it in person which you
did not. I dont care what you think. And what happened after words DID HAPPEN.
And I am BLAMING YOU and anyone else on here who
is commenting on ANYTHING that they have no REAL FACTS on and KNOW NOTHING
ABOUT. ANd you are DOING THAT. You have NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS.But
because David decided to make this a public thing you decide you do. YOU DONT.
Al
----- 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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