Hi!
See, you are getting into that area about "not as described" that I was
complaining about last month. I had been demanding a full refund
including shipping both way, and when that completed giving a positive
with a note the item was not as described but the seller refunded my
money. I no longer feel that is fair to other buyers.
Indeed I am, Tom, you're quite right. It is just that this whole matter
is mere $20 and I want to use it as my own mistake upon which I will
learn. I made a bid without making an "eye-contact" with the seller.
Next time I will specifically ask them to tell me what is written on the
filter barrel.
Since shipping back is order of $3-$5, I think I will not make any fuss
about shipping back. After all, these few bucks are not getting into the
pocket of the seller.
I still have not decided what feedback to give, if the seller just tells
you to "go jump in the lake" it is easy, give a negative. But what
should we do when the seller makes it good? I have come to the
conclusion that giving positive feedback is hurting all the buyers and
will eventually destroy the usefulness of ebay. Why? Because if you can
not depend on the descriptions how can you tell what to bid on an item.
It will become pretty useless.
I think that "mutual admiration" which plagues photo sites of various
sorts happens on eBay as well. It is not difficult to see that there are
people on eBay who would do more or less everything in order to get
positive feedback or not to get any feedback at all. Then their positive
feedback rate will always be 100%.
So what to do? I am leaning toward giving neutral feedback with a note
it was NAD, but the seller made good on it. That give folks a heads-up
to watch out for, and verify that sellers future descriptions before
bidding. I guess that is all neutral feedback is good for anyway, just a
"watch out" notification.
I will indeed have to see how this story develops. At worst, I'll be
taught a (bitter) lesson.
What is funny here is that this very transaction is the second that I've
done for myself. The first one happened few days before the second. So
the very first time I go buy stuff for me, I get in trouble ;-). Before
that I was buying stuff on behalf of my friends who don't have
international credit card.
I discount the transaction I did with JCO simply because there
eBay/PayPal was mere tool. I knew in advance that it will be fine, and
so I hope knew JCO...
Boris
- Re: EBay question (yet another) Boris Liberman
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