Your own post, Brek, answers your own complaint. Ebay has unique value to you,
so you're "stuck" there. I've been selling on eBay for several years, and
still do the bulk of my business there. I never checked a buyer's feedback
before completing a sale. Why would I waste my time? The percentage of
dishonest buyers is very low - not just on eBay but generally - though every
seller has to decide on his or her own at what point he or she needs to insure
items for the sake of self-protection.
Meanwhile, months and months after having left eBay, Mr. Hershenson feels a
need to complain about "awful rule changes." WTF does he care? Why is it his
business?
Whether or not he or any of us could leave negative feedback on a "wacko," what
reason is there to believe it would make any difference? Sooner or later, all
dealers, on eBay or anywhere, has to deal with difficult or outright fraudulent
customers or with people who for one reason or another decide they don't like
us. I've had someone relatively well-known in the poster community with whom
I've never even done any business and whom I hardly know decide to go on a
personal campaign against me. It's just part of doing business at all.
As for the monetary aspect, Paypal doesn't handle such disputes much
differently than "normal" credit card companies or even your bank in the case
of a stop payment.
CK MacLeod Collectibles at ckmac.com <http://ckmac.com/>
Kymar's on eBay <http://stores.ebay.com/Kymars-Stuff>
-----Original Message-----
From: MoPo List [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Brek Anderson
Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2009 07:19 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [MOPO] A major problem continuing to face eBay sellers due to
misguided rule changes
I totally agree and wonder what the hell they are trying to do.
I wish I could leave eBay, but I don't know how or where to sell the wide
variety of items I sell for higher $. My last 5 sales have been a 2001 A Space
Od. 6 sheet for $1600, Stella guitar for 800, a train for 300, 7 45 records for
$490, and a toaster for $50. You or Grey could have sold the poster, but
everything else I could not get those prices anywhere else. I was lucky that
all accepted the items with pos feedback, but where the buyer can't get a
negative I have to read their received feedback to get an idea of their
trustworthiness. What else can I do? I do shows already, but they are expensive
and hit and miss, I have space at a retail antique mall and that is also hit
and miss, I can't start my own auction site, so I guess I am stuck unless
someone has a brilliant idea they want to share.
Brek
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Hershenson" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2009 7:51:02 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
Subject: [MOPO] A major problem continuing to face eBay sellers due to
misguided rule changes
When eBay changed the rules and made it that sellers couldn't leave feedback, I
predicted that some number of buyers would take advantage of this and
"blackmail" sellers into free items or discounts, using the thread of negatives
as a club.
That was one of the reasons I decided to leave forever, and why no longer sell
there.
Before I could "get out of Dodge" completely, so wacko Italian buyer ordered 10
cheap items for around $100 total, and he asked for them to be sent via
uninsured Airmail. I e-mailed him that if they somehow were lost it would be HE
who was responsible for the loss, and that if he wanted ME to be responsible,
he would have to send them insured.
He replied back that he wanted uninsured, and I sent the items, and a month
later, he put in a PayPal claim saying the items never arrived, and he also
left 10 negatives on eBay (without contacting me in any way).
I disputed the PayPal claim, showing the items were sent, and showing the
e-mails where he requested uninsured and accepted responsibility.
Of course, PayPal ruled against me and seized the money from my account and
refunded him, and of course the 10 negatives still stand.
Now these awful eBay and PayPal rules give terrible buyers like these complete
power over sellers, and for what purpose? Look at this guy's feedback:
http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=almightyblue&ftab=AllFeedback
<http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=almightyblue&ftab=AllFeedback>
Even with all this great "protection" eBay now has, this guy hardly ever buys
anything and has quit buying for months. So WHO do these awful rule changes
benefit, and is this not a major reason in why eBay continues to circle the
drain?
Bruce
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