SIXTH EBAY NEGATIVE FEEDBACK GIVEAWAY-WINNER IN FIRST THREAD!!!

danglen

So here I am, not a care in the world, with 7592 total positives, 5 negatives and a feedback rating of 4196, when I am lucky enough to have a newbie buyer with less than ten feedbacks buy a 1986 Proof American Silver Eagle in its original mint box in one of my auctions. Never mind that I started the auction at One Dollar with No Reserve AND that he got a great deal on the coin.
I ship him the coin, and the next thing I know I'm getting an email from him telling me that the reverse has a weak strike. Of course, I totally understand that it is OBVIOUSLY MY FAULT, so I tell him to please send the coin back and I'll be happy to send him a FULL REFUND. As a courtesy, so he won't be shocked, I tell him that I have to go through a process with eBay to get my some of my fees back, but that he shouldn't worry about it. Next thing you know, here comes the NEGATIVE feedback .
Well, I feel so bad that I treated him poorly, that in order to soothe my conscience I feel the need to have a giveaway. All you need to do to win is to share one of your heartwarming eBay stories with the rest of the Forum (artistic license is not only allowed, it's encouraged). I will pick a winner from the responses in the next couple of days.
Is this a great country or what?

I put several names in a box and had my assistant pull one three out. The last one left was JohnZ, so he is the winner Send me your address and I will try to come up with something suitably Polish

wybrit

Don't enter me. I just want to say...that really stinks!!!

My negative came from a guy who bid on my coin, then emailed to tell me he could not receive emails. I waited for 30 days and then started emailing him. I also noticed he was bidding on other items!! I said to myself "self, I said, this guy can log into his account and read his invoice, even if he can't read emails." After waiting five more days I zapped him with the neg and filed a non-paying bidder alert. He, of course, issued a retaliatory negative with his whining "Contacted seller with problem and asked for patience....refused! Some seller!!!" He then resorted to name calling in the followup. I don't do name calling when I do a neg, it does not address the problem and makes the complainant look childish.

vrtech99

Hi Dan, here's one for ya!!!!
Me and Deb have 346 positives, 1 neg.. The seller listed an MS 66 1896 0 Morgan silver dollar, we won and sent paypal payment, got the coin a week later and it was a....1896 in AG condition, i called him, he told me over the phone that he had used a pic from an auction house auction and that he did not give refunds..... To make a long story short, After i called the Jersey city police dept to file charges, he decided to give me the money back...here is our ONLY negetive feedback!!!!!

bad in bussiness and very theating he said he would kill me to get a refund Seller abdelnoor2578
no longer a registered user Feb-05-03 13:06 3306546944
Reply by davendeb1998: No, I threatened to turn you into the FBI,USPS, for inters. mail FRAUD & I DID!! Feb-05-03 15:43

Aethelred

It is a bloody shame that some buyers are SO VERY unreasonable!

shirohniichan

I bought an inexpensive 1875 German mark from some woman in Quebec. She told me the $3 coin would cost $12 to ship after I won (her listing said "buyer to pay shipping" but didn't mention any $10 handling fee). When I objected she said she could send it for $6. I figured she was sending it registered mail so I paid and told her to send me the coin. I got an empty thin airmail envelope with a hole in the bottom. When I asked for a refund due to her inability to package a coin properly and her pocketing $5.40 in handling fees she wasn't supposed to charge, she said she would not give me anything back and would retaliate if I wrote anything bad about her. She was NARU'd a few weeks later.

elverno

Haven't had a neg yet though you never know. I sold some Madame Alexander dolls for my mother-in-law, badly under estimated the shipping charges, ate them myself and sent these mint dolls off at about 1/2 the cost of comparables and still got threatened with negs by four out of the five buyers!

Only negative I ever left was for a guy that ripped me off for a webcam. The ironic thing is that I tracked the guy down on Long Island, NY and found out that someone else he had ripped off had broken some of his fingers and he ended up in the county hospital prison ward. He got NARU'd before he had a chance to see my comments... Never did get repaid but it was worth it to know that he was eating karma krunchies for breakfast every morning!

BTW, that was when I discovered the Paypal guarantee wasn't worth the bytes it was made of...

MadMuffin

Danglen - there are many strange people out there. I wouldn't worry too much about it although it is of course annoying to get a neg for no reason at all.

I don't have any negs myself, but I do have a story to share. I once bought a couple of cheap proof coins from a Canadian seller. The total including shipping was less than $10, so I asked him to send them uninsured. They just never arrived at my place. I waited for a month and a half (usually it takes 5-8 days for a letter to cross the Atlantic) and then I emailed the seller. I simply wanted to be sure that he had not forgotten to send the coins.

He had shipped them long ago - but his reply was short: Don't worry - I have some extras somewhere - I will send them as quickly as possible. And voila, one week later they were in my mailbox. Now that's good service More than he had to, actually, but I have bought from him many times after that. He sure knows how to keep his customers!

Marcel

Edited to add: Please enter me in your giveaway - and thanks for the chance!

Stork

Ooo, ooo me too! I don't have any negatives yet, only because my few rip offs ended up with NARU'd people before I could get a neg in (and a neg in return..)

The best/worst one was a too good to be true dutch auction/free shipping for some bullion maple leafs from a guy with 10,000++ positives for beanie baby type stuff. Turns out the feedback had been sold, and the guy ran literally millions worth of scam before being shut down. I even had an FBI agent contact me (who assured my 2 ounces were quite small potatoes compared to many others).

What really sucked was that in about 6 months I got an email from another 'fbi agent' asking for all the typical ebay scam password and ssn type info mixed in with questions about auction numbers, check numbers etc. Unbelievable.

The most shocking thing was that ebay actually coughed up some payback (not counting that gold is now more than $100/ounce higher than it was back when this scam was run!).

Oh well....at least no negs yet (I'd rather have the 2 ounces )

trozau

That sucks!

KEEWEE

We haven't gotten any negative feedback yet, although we did get one neutral from an idiot who had a plethora of negatives/no pays. Yesterday we got a personal check in the mail for an auction, even though it is stated on every one of our auctions that we only accept PAYPAL. And it wasn't someone from a foreign country who doesn't speak English, it was a little old lady in Indiana who probably lives less than 100 miles from us. I mean, honestly, if you are looking at an auction item, and it said "We only accept Paypal" at the top of the page, and also where payment options are listed, wouldn't you hesitate to bid on the item if you didn't know what Paypal was?

Sorry, just letting off a little steam.

Thanks,
KEEWEE

ccrdragon

Only neg I have ever given was to a guy in Quebec who was selling bulk mercury dimes. I won his auction, sent him a check, it cleared the bank less than a week later and after 2.5 months of dealing with his crap and lack of communication, the dimes finally showed up. The feedback I left him:

Won auction (date), check cleared (date), coins arrived (date), you make up your own mind.

funny thing was, the guy didn't retaliate and I fully expected him to do that because the last email exchange that we had was rather vehement on his part (threatening to not refund any thing and not ship the coins if I turned him in to ebay, etc).

I still haven't gotten a neg yet....

0john0

Just last week I had my first near-neg experience.

I bought two Irish coins from a dealer and before they even got to me I received an e-mail saying that they realized they forgot to send me one of the coins and that they probably sent me a wrong coin in its place (ie; 2 coins sent; 1 right one, one wrong one). I replied that I would send back the wrong one when it got here. But, the next day I got an envelope from them with only one coin in it and when I wrote and told them that there was not a coin to return they practically accused me of stealing the "wrong" coin that was never even sent.

I just got the second, correct coin yesterday and do not have feedback from them yet. Hopefully this post does not jinx me into getting a neg feedback.

-John

cosmicdebris

No negs for me so far. Feedback of 208 with 165 unique. Too bad about yours I can not imagine you doing anything to deserve one.

oldshep

Dan - I don't have any ebay horror stories yet - so I'll wait for another giveaway but I can't imagine anyone having problems dealing with you - oh well, it takes all kinds.
Keep up the good work
Shep

MacCrimmon

VR!! You old hillbilly. You mean an AG 1896 isn't worth as much as the 96-O?

I've got two negs.....the first was from an idjit who just left the NEG (never mind the SATIFACTION GUARANTEED in the terms)....and, it wasn't even coins. It was some junk Mexican featherwork that my dear wife wanted me to sell....The buyer was also a new bidder. I contacted her (even after the NEG), said send it back and I'll refund. Never heard from her....MORON! Is it OK to name call here, Wybrit?

The other was some punk that ran up the bid ($50 more than the then going price) on my annual Packers ticket allotment just for the heck of it. Filed the NPB and got my credit as did many others and he/they/it have been long NARU'd. What gets me is that eBay will not remove blatant NEGS where the "buyers" never had any intention of following through with their winning bid(s)....what's that about?

And Dan, quit selling those weak, defective ASEs....tsk, tsk!!!

danglen

<< <i> And Dan, quit selling those weak, defective ASEs....tsk, tsk!!! >>



That's what I get for selling that Lightside stuff.....I probably deserved the neg for that, if nothing else

JohnZ

Well, this thread makes me feel a little better I guess. I just got a neg from a guy who says I never sent him a payment. It must have gotten lost in the mail. And it was just a silly little $6 Kopeck. Grrrrr.

wybrit

Is it OK to name call here, Wybrit?

I don't care. It's just not my policy to name call in ebay feedback.

indianabyron

I thank god I havent gotten any negs on ebay. the closest I have gotten is when a buyer of some coins i auctioned paid me 2 times. Allt he sudden my paypal account was suspended for over charging. Well after some emails to paypal and the seller it got all fixed with and apology fro the buyer and even believe it or not from paypal.


Byron does this still get me entered into the give away.

danglen

Winner in first thread

Petescorner

You should have let him send back the coin, then not sent him the refund.

If you're going to get a neg, you should at least earn it!