OK, now this is just wrong -- people aren't even
talking about Al anymore -- they are talking about some other dealer (whose eBay
name hasn't even been specified) but the posts are still going out with Al's
name in the subject line. Please, folks, when you start talking about someone
else, change the Subject line. Fair is far.
-- JR
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2005
12:25
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Al Shevy, aka
"coolstuff159" no longer a registered eBay member
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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