Dear David,
I hear you........this guy is very deceptive, but evidently
knows all the ways around ebay rules. I just got an email from ebay saying they
have reviewed his listings and they don't think $39.99 for a .99 cent item is
"too excessive". They did state, however, that if he was listing his auctions as
99 cent buy it nows, then he would be in violation of ebay rules. This guy
floods the category with the same item and lists them at .99 cents each with
exorbitant shipping costs. He hasn't sold many frames, as I am sure people are
on to him. So hopefully he will go away, again.
Sue
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 10:42
PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Al Shevy, aka
"coolstuff159" no longer a registered eBay member
Hi Sue,
I had no idea you could have 3,000 negative
feedbacks and still be a seller in good standing. Doesn't eBay have a rule
that you aren't allowed more than a certain number of negs (from more than one
individual, of course) in a month?
-_David
on 10/21/05 9:33 AM,
Susan Heim at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey Dave,
Great work and I know it takes work.
Ebay isn't the easiest place to send alerts. Most of the forms are pretty
general and you can't type any text in them, you just have to list item
numbers and hope the person reviewing them figures out what you are talking
about. If anyone knows of another way that will get some action, I would
so love to hear from you. There is a guy on ebay who sells regular
posters, but he also consigns all different kind of items for companies. He
tried selling frames, not movie poster frames, just ready made frames, about
a year ago and had no luck. About a month ago he began flooding the category
with this cheapy frame he is selling. The kicker is he lists them at 99 and
then lists the shipping at $39 and up for a little 8x10 frame. The obvious
is circumventing ebay fees, flooding a category with more than 10 of the
same item. Unfortunately, the only way to report the guy is 10
auctions at a time and he has close to 200 auction on any given day in the
movie poster frame category alone (he doesn't even sell movie poster frames
but he includes it in his title and there it is). This guy has over 3000
negative feedbacks that usually mention that the item either never arrived
or took weeks or months to get and many mention the exorbitant shipping
fees. He gets almost 4 pages of feedbacks a day (over 100), so that gives
you an idea of how much product he is moving if only a small percentage of
buyers even leave feedback. His listing information is very convoluted and
confusing.
Now, the other guy in the movie poster frame category,
(this is the one that copies my text, tells customers that his plastic frame
will protect their collectables, and went and bought up all the domain names
that are misspellings of my company name, a real gem of a guy),
has gone in and lowered the cost of his items and increased his
shipping rates to compete with the first guy. Unfortunately, the category
has gone from a few pages daily to about 11-12 pages of product lately with
these two guys fighting each other. Both are violating ebay policies, but
you'd need a full time person just to sit there at the computer looking up
their auction numbers and reporting them.
It is a major annoyance
and an obvious attempt to defraud the buyer in one form or another.
Unfortunately, though, there are always going to be people out there that
will say or do anything to sell their items including lying and fraud. I've
been in this hobby for over 30 years and have watched this problem grow and
grow. It used to be that someone's word meant something. There are still a
lot of great and honest people out there, especially in our own hobby, but
even if there were only a few stinkers, it's too much, and there aren't only
a few. Hope everyone is well. Take care.
Sue
Heim
www.hollywoodposterframes.com
<http://www.hollywoodposterframes.com>
(800)
463-2994
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