It almost isn't worth it.

felix76

Here is the background:

I won an item on e-bay for $12 (incl. S&H) and paid immediately with PAYPAL. This was over 6 weeks ago. I contact the seller and he says he was busy and would mail the card out soon. This was 4 weeks ago. I went through the mumbo-jumbo with PAYPAL for a refund after the item was not here last week. Today I get an e-mail from PAYPAL saying they have recovered $5.81 of my payment from the seller. They found it was his fault and sent me the refund.
I have contacted this seller numerous times in the past 2 weeks with no response. They had a total of 15 feedback with 1 negative.
I guess this is my first lesson with a deadbeat seller.

My question is "Why jeopardize your feedback and money over a $12 item?" I do plan on leaving neg feedback also. He definately deserves it.

jaybyrd

His first response was totally lame. He was 'busy'? If you do not have time to mail cards out after payment was received promptly, don't bother listing the items. Unless some kind of emergency happened after the sale was completed, that kind of excuse just doesn't work with me.

Felix - Totally agree on the feedback issue. I don't leave negative feedback unless I have explored all other options first, but if someone has screwed up a transaction I will drop the hammer.

MorrellMan

Felix - I'm with ya; makes absolutely no sense, but there are people out there who couldn't care less about their feedback profile. I put in a NPB on a guy for a $10 card and e-mailed me, telling me he's been busy and he'll get payment. Never heard from him again, even after I negged him. Same thing with a guy who completed the checkout, indicating he would pay by check. Three e-mails later, after a second invoice notice, I got his phone number and called: wrong number. It was too late to NPB him, but I did neg him. You guessed it: within HOURS, HOURS my friend, he negged me back, saying he'd never been invoiced, contacted, bla bla bla. It's still my only negative, and he's long gone.

Helps to remember it takes all kinds (unfortunately).

Stone193

<< <i> It's still my only negative, and he's long gone. >>


Mark
If you wanted (I don't sell on ebay), could you pay 20$ and get the neg. removed if you provide copies of the emails you sent? I know people say, why do I have to pay but you only have one, but negs can affect business - just a thought, for me to learn for the future. What I am getting at, is the 20$ could be like an investment in advertising in a sense of your image. What do people think? I know for my office we advertise with a 'spin' at times.
Mike

MorrellMan

Mike, thanks - I've thought about that, but it was six months ago, and I've kind of gotten used to having it, sort of like the first little mark on a new car. It's certainly not the 20 bucks; I'm not so sure that this isn't where I need to be in relationship to "perfection".

Stone193

I hear ya Mark - that's why I mentioned you 'only' have one - what I was really referring to is trying to keep the total numbers down when you don't deserve them - of course you can always give a counter response that people also read. No, I'm with you - the one neg is like a cool battle scar that you wear proudly and remind you to be ever vigilant.
Mike

WinPitcher

I too have a retally neg to my record and I wear it proudly!!

magellan

Same here & that scumbucket was run off eBay.

yawie99

Totally! Retaliatory negs are like eBay's Purple Hearts. Fight the good fight, Felix, and do your part to keep others from getting shafted.

felix76

I've got a great retaliatory neg on my feedback:

Never sent payment, continually insulted my Italian American family (prejudice) Seller XXXXXXXXX( 109)
no longer a registered user Oct-03-02 06:13

Great person, too bad they were NARU-ed.

I really do like this one though. Anyone with some sense knows that it was retaliatory. This came after I negged him/her for being a shoddy seller.

I plan on fighting the fight. All my negs seem to come from sellers who don't ship. I have yet to receive a neg from a buyer. (Don't plan on it either) I have already worked out one situation where the buyer was un-happy. Damn I wish people read the descriptions more carefully.