Bruce
I have had the same experience with bad packaging from other sellers but
feedback 2 has no provision to leave a comment for bad packaging - an
obvious and glaring omission in the new system.
I received some posters last week from England that were packed in an
envelope without cardboard. The package had not been sealed and Royal Mail
had to repack the parcel after it had been damaged. When I received it there
was a note of apology from Royal Mail. I thought that at least I would be
able to claim on the insurance I had paid for but I now find that the seller
had failed to insure the package even though he charged me for it.
I will leave feedback for the seller under the new system but I wont be able
to leave a comment on the packaging.
Whilst it is true that some sellers will find that they suddenly have a poor
rating under the new system they may still be able to maintain their overall
positive rating so that will be a contradition within the system.
I think that people will be looking at the overall percentage of ratings as
a guide rather and in time the amount of positives received will mean
nothing.
Regards
John
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Hershenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 3:37 AM
Subject: [MOPO] Why I hate to buy on eBay from sellers I don't know well!
Recently I discovered Airline travel posters of the 1950s and 1960s. These
were made by the airlines and displayed in travel agencies. They make for
a perfect collectible, because, like movies posters, they were NEVER
available to the general public (only people in the travel business got
them) and 99.9% of them were displayed as intended, so they were taped to
walls and likely almost all were thrown away after usage.
The best collectibles are items that were not at all valued when they were
created, and the WORST collectibles are items (like limited edition books
or prints or coins or dolls) that were highly priced when they were
created, for those items almost NEVER appreciate in value (and the vast
majority of those items sell for a fraction of their original price).
So I decided to buy 200 or more of these travel posters, and then either
keep them as a collection (they look really cool framed together in a
group on one wall!) or re-sell them somewhere down the line. Over the past
three months or so I have purchased around 200 or so of these travel
posters, mostly from three distinct types of sellers:
1) Former travel agents (or their children) who have lots of these posters
2) Individuals who have stumbled on one or two of these
3) Isoldit type stores who received one or two of these from the #2 type
above
I purchased from around 75 different sellers. THEIR PACKING RANGED FROM
BARELY OK TO DREADFUL! There was not one who packed really well. LOTS of
them simply rolled the poster and put it loose in a triangular free
priority tube, and in lots of cases the ends of the posters became
crinkled and/or the triangular tube became slightly bent down the center,
thus putting a crease down the middle of the posters.
There is no point in my putting in insurance claims, as the Post Office
would declare them poorly packed, and anyway I would feel guilty
collecting insurance when it WAS the fault of poor packaging.
I also won't leave negatives, for I would surely get many retaliatory
negatives. But once feedback 2.0 is in place, these types of sellers will
surely get low grades from me (most of the posters were purely described,
and many had undisclosed defects).
I used to buy lots of posters on eBay (around 50 different purchases a
week, and I am sure many MoPo sellers remember that because I used to buy
from them regularly!) but I quit cold around 3 years ago, SPECIFICALLY
over the crappy packing and describing issues.
I thought I would give buying another try, hoping things had improved over
the past 3 years, but they do not seem to have improved at all, at least
not among sellers of travel posters.
I will suspend my buying until feedback 2.0 is in place and then I will
only buy from sellers who get good ratings (and who seem to sell enough
that they should have some idea of what they are doing). I KNOW that
unknown sellers often have the very best deals, but the risk of bad
packaging and/or condition description is just more than I enjoy dealing
with (although I can well understand others not minding the risk).
Thoughts?
Bruce
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