what is your worst ebay story
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Pat Vetter,Mercury Dime registry set,1938 Proof set registry,Pat & BJ Coins:724-325-7211
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Immediately hand-delivered the coin to PCGS for confirmation.
Wound up getting my money back, so my story is a relatively good bad story.
<< <i>My worst story is actually from yesterday. I won a peace dollar for a very cheap price, and the seller refunded my money within 15 minutes, and said that he can't ship for free. He gave me no option to pay for shipping, and all of his other listings offer free shipping. I left a negative feedback (only have left 6 negs out of the last 1000 feedbacks I have left for sellers). He spent the next 6 hours sending me messages including profanity and what I perceive to be veiled threats. Had to call ebay 3 times for them to handle the situation. I didn't respond to any of his 19 messages. >>
Yikes.......good thing that he did not start calling you.
I had purchased a half dime from a new (to me) seller, with whom I had never done business before. He had a very good feedback rating, and belonged to eBay’s “Square Deal” seller’s program, obligating him to abide by third party arbitration in the event of a dispute. Once I was informed that I was the high bidder, I immediately mailed a USPS postal money order (this was before the days of Paypal) to cover the cost of the half dime plus postage, and waited to receive my new purchase. A week went by with no coin, so I emailed the seller but received no response. I sent another inquiry, and another week went by with no coin and still no response. I emailed him a third time, outlining my concerns, and told him that if I did not hear back from him within 3 or 4 days stating the reasons why I had not received the coin, I would have no choice but to leave a negative feedback and to contact eBay’s resolution people. I even offered him the option to either send me the coin or to refund the money I had sent; the choice was his. I waited the specified number of days but received no response and no coin. I then left him a ‘negative’ feedback, carefully worded to present only the facts, without any libelous comments. Then, and only then, did the seller ‘respond’ with a negative feedback of his own.
I contacted the eBay resolution team, and they responded quickly by phone, asking for the facts. They said that they would then contact the seller to get his side of the story, and then make a decision. I shortly received a return phone call from eBay, saying that they had talked with the seller, he admitted receiving the payment, and admitted that he had not sent the coin. When asked why he had not mailed the coin he stated “When the buyer mailed his payment to me, he had used such beautiful stationery I was so stunned, I simply forgot to mail him the coin”. That was his actual comment! He did finally mail the half dime, and eBay removed both negative feedback comments. I cannot help but think that they should have kept the negative feedback that I had left for the seller, as it was well deserved.
Another item I won most recently: it was shipped and I thought it was lost. I tried to contact the seller about 8 times, I even filed a claim with ebay and still nothing from the seller. The item finally showed but I had to give him a 1 star for communication as I could not give him a negative star.
A few days later, I was leaving feedback for multiple items and included positive feedback for him.
The next day I received a scathing message from him, completely freaking out about the feedback I had left. He told me I was a horrible person and seller, who didn't care about his customers at all (I had about 600 transactions at the time, and have never received a negative).
So, that's the time on eBay I got screamed at for leaving someone positive feedback
I called to learn more, but since I did not know the PIN on the new account, since I had not created it. It was scary that the account was established using my address and last 4 #s of my SSN.
That was years ago - I never heard another word.
buyer wanted a refund on a pr69 first spouse because a small area on the holder's lens had a ballpoint pen tip sized defect. (1mm) I tried polishing it out but it was too deep. I resold it anyway no problems.
Comparatively not a big deal.
Of course we said no problem on the refund, and the coin will supposedly be sent back today... if he didn't really need the coin we could've cancelled the sale, made a second chance offer or relisted it, and saved $25 in registered mail costs.
I replied that "Soccer just is an inherently boring game"
eBay removed the feedback and eventually NAUR'd the buyer.
<< <i>I replied that "Soccer just is an inherently boring game" >>
Seems a forum member once got a negative after selling a half dime. Neg was because the coin was so small.
Oh well, it was a shot in the dark. I went back to the e-bay auction to leave feed back when I noticed the coin in the auction did not have a nick near the bell lines like mine did. Upon closer examination, there were several pick-up points that did not match. I went through his feed back and found the coin I had (or close to) and that buyer paid about $65 for theirs. I contacted the seller about this and I got a nice reply that his office people sent me the wrong lot number and offered me a refund if I sent the coin back.
I asked him if he could contact the other buyer to see if they would return their coin, you know, maybe switch them out but I never heard from them again, so I let it rest. Someone out there got a nice 53-S with possible FBs for a song.
"Keep your malarkey filter in good operating order" -Walter Breen
Well, I'm disappointed that I am no longer welcome to bid on his auctions. Oh, did I mention that he is a VERY prominent numismatist? Please don't ask who it is because I'm not vindictive and won't "out" him either publicly or privately. It just goes to show though that you never know when you're going to push someone's wrong button.
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Flash forward to this past year, I bought a 3-cent silver that looked nice and original, and received a harshly cleaned piece of junk. Photo was deliberately manipulated (lighting, tilt angle) to mask the hairlines and make the coin look more toned than it was. Went to return it, and guess what? Same exact outfit in Florida! Changed their seller name after they got a bad reputation.
Got my money back in both cases, but lost money on shipping, and I had to fight for it.