You are correct JR............I was not referring to Al but just hit the
reply button to the original post where I talked about this guy on ebay
circumventing ebay fees. Sorry for any confusion. Sue
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2005 11:23
AM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Al Shevy, aka
"coolstuff159" no longer a registered eBay member
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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