At 19:00 16-11-2001 -0500, you wrote: >From: Carlos Royo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: OT: Warning about eBay seller > >Hello all: >You are free to accept my advice or not, but I advise you to avoid any >eBay auction by "royalbob", in spite of his mostly positive feedback. >I was gullible enough to bid in one of his auctions. I won it, sent him >9 emails to settle payment, which he did not reply. I also tried to >contact him through eBay, and the result was the same. To my surprise, >he left negative feedback about me. As a sidenote I have to say that I >completed in the same days two more transactions in eBay, and the >sellers were satisfied about the quick payment. And several members of >this list could say that I am both a good seller and buyer, and I always >honour my word. >Now I've just received from eBay a Non-paying bidder warning. If I get >two more, my eBay account will be suspended. The greedy guy wants the >fee he paid for the auction back. But he hasn't relisted the item, and I >have more than a strong suspicion that he sold the thing (a Pentax lens) >out of eBay. >Of course I have written to eBay Customer Support several times, but, >unfortunately, they don't seem to be very helful. >This is all I have to say, as I don't want to bore you to death with all >the details about this matter. > > >PS: I should have known that I had to avoid an auction issued by an >individual who writes everything in capital letters :-(
Carlos, My commiserations. If you have built up a reasonably large feedback rating then the odd negative from ignorant people goes largely unnoticed, but when you're trying to build it up it really knocks you back. -- and I second your observation about the capital letters ;-) Wendy --- Wendy & Paul Beard Ottawa, Canada mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
