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A new entrant to my Top 5 Worst Buyers on eBay List! Read, weep, block, and take a drink inside!
airplanenut
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Howdy All!
I don't usually post about my bad bidders, but some are just too good not to pass up (and should be blocked by all). Since this guy does a lot of world/ancient buying, I figure some here will appreciate the heads up. I'll link to my original post to keep the comments in one spot. Reading time!
Jeremy
I don't usually post about my bad bidders, but some are just too good not to pass up (and should be blocked by all). Since this guy does a lot of world/ancient buying, I figure some here will appreciate the heads up. I'll link to my original post to keep the comments in one spot. Reading time!
Jeremy
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I blocked him, refunded his money and resold it to a happy buyer the next week
"Dear jkcoins,
Thank You please label coin."
yea he did that as well, normally I don't "label coin" as with ancients there's a lot of info and I don't know exactly what the buyer may want, but non the less I did my research and put as much info on my 2x2 tag as I could
if you sell some ancients again, go ahead and throw a thread up in the world & ancient BST linking to your auctions, would love to look
I don't get too much ancient stuff in, but on any given week what I list is a completely random assortment of foreign and US material. It's always worth a look
DPOTD
However, the blocking thing is something which bothers me.
A smart buyer, or crooked buyer, has a 2nd or even 3rd Feebay account.
and a seller has NO idea who they are...
how do you handle that?
and a seller has NO idea who they are...
how do you handle that?
This guy doesn't sound like he's smart or crooked. He sounds like either he's an idiot or he was drunk.
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Unfortunately, this is why Ebay selling has become a challenge. I had a guy buy 3 coins in one auction. Not respond for 3 days. Ask for a week to make payment and not follow through. No consequence for him, while I lost time/alternatives.
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Would you mind if I asked why your avatar is a picture of an El-Al airplane?
<< <i>great the way u handled it. I would have told him to go where the sun does not shine.
However, the blocking thing is something which bothers me.
A smart buyer, or crooked buyer, has a 2nd or even 3rd Feebay account.
and a seller has NO idea who they are...
how do you handle that? >>
Worst comes to worst, you match the address. One of my other top 5 has some 20 accounts I've blocked so far. He keeps coming back and basically never pays (he once won an item 2 or 3 times before someone else finally did). You're right, to an extent, there's nothing I can do. But if I can trace it back to him, at least any feedback is going to get removed if he's vindictive, since bidding with another account when blocked is against eBay policy. I even once had a very angry buyer who used a different name and address (in a different town) get caught on this, and 13 vindictive negs went away in a flash.
<< <i>Unfortunately, this is why Ebay selling has become a challenge. I had a guy buy 3 coins in one auction. Not respond for 3 days. Ask for a week to make payment and not follow through. No consequence for him, while I lost time/alternatives. >>
If that's all I had to deal with, I'd pop some Champagne! That sounds like an amazing week for me
<< <i>Would you mind if I asked why your avatar is a picture of an El-Al airplane? >>
I love airplanes and I love Israel. An El Al tail is where they intersect. It happens (not by coincidence) that the tail pictured belongs to the first El Al 747 I flew, which was also the first 747 flight I was old enough to remember.
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