My Ebay Rant

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August 22nd, 2003, 01:49 PM
kato2274

My Ebay Rant

This year my wife and I are borrowing my parents 2002 chevy venture to take on vacation to the beach since if we take our car we will have absolutely no room to take anything after we load the baby in the car seat and put the stroller in the trunk. well anyway. . . . we want to take the 20gb mp3 player which has just about every album we own on it. the venture only has a cd player (with no aux input or cd changer input) so the logical solution was just to get a fm modulator and install it in the venture. found one on ebay from a seemingly reputable merchant for 18.99 + 11 shipping. the shipping was a little steep, but most other places like crutchfield wanted $40 for similar units.

I bid and paid for the item on the 13th, and got an email from a 3rd party auction helping site with a message from the seller stating I'd be getting a tracking number shortly when my item shipped. the weekend rolled past and no shipping confirmation email. On monday I sent an email inquiring about the transaction. it went unanswered. On wednesday I sent another one stating that I was starting to get worried because I needed the item by the 27th at the very latest and it absolutely had to go out by the 20th if I was to get it in time shipping UPS from California. That one was returned to me as undeliverable due to a full mailbox. great!

Now I'm really thinking that I'm either getting the product late or not getting it at all, which isn't acceptable, so I go ahead and order the item from crutchfield, and make a pay pal complaint on the basis that the item wasn't shipped in a timely manner and I was unable to engage the seller in communication.

I followed that with negative feedback. . . .well guess what, that got the guys attention. and he/she sends an email saying I didn't read the auction terms that said 7-14 days for delivery. . . . that the item was already shipped (I have my doubts) and I'd be getting negative feedback unless I updated the feedback I left for him/her

I replied with a scathing email last night that basically said If you can't fufill your promise of sending a shipping confirmation email, then don't make that promise, and all that the seller had to do was take a minute or two to personally answer an email and everything would have been fine. And said that if I had to I would detail every step of this transaction on a web page and post follow up feedback with that link so people could see how he/she does business. I haven't heard anything back yet. I'm interested to see if there is a response.

I'm not completely soured on ebay. this is really only the third bad transaction I've had, but it does kind of pi$$ me off. . . . . oh well thanks for letting me rant a bit.
August 22nd, 2003, 02:04 PM
Ya_know

The Cure sucks!
August 22nd, 2003, 02:10 PM
kato2274

Quote:

Originally posted by Ya_know
The Cure sucks!

they would've sent me a shipping confirmation email though. that's more than I can say for Perry Farrell
August 22nd, 2003, 02:17 PM
jmani

Quote:

Originally posted by Ya_know
The Cure sucks!

f you

the marines blow! then suck and blow some more
August 22nd, 2003, 02:19 PM
Ya_know

Quote:

Originally posted by jmani
f you

the marines blow! then suck and blow some more

The Marines will kick the sh!t out of anything they come in contact with. What will the Cure do? Suck and blow!
August 22nd, 2003, 02:23 PM
Ya_know

Quote:

Originally posted by kato2274
they would've sent me a shipping confirmation email though. that's more than I can say for Perry Farrell

Are you trying to tell me that the Cure is better than Janes Addiction...crazy man!
August 22nd, 2003, 02:33 PM
jmani

Quote:

Originally posted by Ya_know
The Marines will kick the sh!t out of anything they come in contact with. What will the Cure do? Suck and blow!

The Cure are absolutly beter than Janes Addiction!

Their original albums were great, but that ended in '91.
Porno for Pyro sucks, the new line up (old) is aging and can't play with the same intensity and the writing blows. The Cure have been around since '79 and still make great albums.

Wasn't this supposed to be about e-bay?

I got lost
August 22nd, 2003, 02:36 PM
Darkstar

I don't want to sound like a queer or nothin, but Culture Club was a sweet band!
August 22nd, 2003, 02:41 PM
Diver01

Long Live Metallica!!!!!!!!!!!!
August 22nd, 2003, 02:46 PM
kato2274

Quote:

Originally posted by Ya_know
Are you trying to tell me that the Cure is better than Janes Addiction...crazy man!

since you took this off topic with the first reply (d!ck :D ) I will answer this by saying that the cure will make the rock and roll hall of fame before janes addiction EVER gets a sniff.

Robert smith and co have had at least 4 albums garner the 4 star rating from rolling stone and kiss me kiss me kiss me was rated by spin as one of the greatest rock albums ever some time ago.

it just shows a complete lack of intelligence as far as music goes on your part. . . . but I wouldn't expect anything less from a marine :D
August 22nd, 2003, 02:55 PM
Archer

Bet he`s good on marching tunes though :D

http://www.militaryrecordings.com/im...285118_610.jpg
August 22nd, 2003, 02:58 PM
Ya_know

Let me correct you all now by saying that Jane's is certainly not my favorite group. I simply listed them as the best of a substandard genre, included with the Cure (Man they suck!). The cure will never make the hall of fame. BTW, half of the people in the HoF suck anyway…no talent having fools the Cure is!

BTW, no one cares about your stupid little ebay rant anyway. We want to talk about how much the Cure sucks!
:p
August 22nd, 2003, 03:14 PM
Budd

Quote:

Originally posted by Diver01
Long Live Metallica!!!!!!!!!!!!

preach on brotha!!
August 22nd, 2003, 03:23 PM
silencio

I used to like the cure when I was a kid... Then I got laid and wasn't depressed anymore.

:D

I think the thread was about ebay so, yep, ebay f'ing sucks at times. The worse part about the whole thing is that you can't get any customer support. If somebody fails to ship you a product, ebay doesn't care and will do nothing to help you out. Their policy is "leave feedback"

That blows.
August 22nd, 2003, 03:34 PM
ilovetheusers

I only buy if it's something I really want and I'm getting a great deal that makes potentially getting ripped off OK (if that can be ok).

Got a dual head 4mb vid card for $1 and got a air ionizing air purifier for $100 that should have been $300. All in all I'm satisfied because the deals were great but unless I'm getting the crazy deal I stay away.
August 22nd, 2003, 03:42 PM
Budd

like iltu said, ebay is great if you're getting a good deal or willing to risk getting ripped off. i'm very very selective of the people i'll buy from. if they have 50 feedbacks, and 5 are negative, i probably won't buy from them.

i just ordered a set of HT speakers from ebay. the speakers were $700. i was kinda nervous because it was the most expensive thing i've bought off ebay. but the seller had like 5,000 feedbacks with only 8 or 9 negatives. i knew i was probably fairly safe. i went ahead and ordered and everything was great.
August 22nd, 2003, 04:52 PM
Stalemate

The Cure rulez. :cool:
August 23rd, 2003, 10:36 AM
Cave_Dweller

I got hosed on Ebay once. You're on your own, Ebay wasn't any help at all, they suggested leaving negative feedback. If you snail mail payment, you can claim mail fraud, but on a $10 item is it worth the effort?

The largest purchase I've made on Ebay is the aircraft in my Avatar, but I visited the seller in person and talked to him for over an hour before bidding. It's rarely possible to do that, but it was nice.
August 25th, 2003, 09:41 PM
Pinnacle

I have been involved in over 1000 transactions on Ebay, but mostly as a seller. The problem I see with Ebay is the feedback system. If I give negative feedback to a complete loser that never pays for something they bid on, I risk getting negative feedback in return from that person. That is how I got the only negative feedback I have. For that reason, I no longer give negative feedback to anyone no matter how deserving they may be.
August 25th, 2003, 10:23 PM
Orangeman

Quote:

Originally posted by Pinnacle
......If I give negative feedback to a complete loser that never pays for something they bid on, I risk getting negative feedback in return from that person. That is how I got the only negative feedback I have. For that reason, I no longer give negative feedback to anyone no matter how deserving they may be.

I agree. That's a real problem. I had a similiar situation.

I was going to get a refund from someone when I purchased XP Professional instead of XP Home. About three weeks went by and no check or response to any of my three emails. Finally I asked PayPal and Ebay to write him to say that if I didn't get a response he would have his first negative feedback.

Lo & behold, guess what? I heard from the guy. He said he was moving and 'didn't have time' to write.

I got my money back minus a $10.00 'handling' fee.

I agree the feedback sucks. If I give somebody negative feedback I risk getting negative feedback even if I am totally innocent and a victim of this guy...! :confused: :flame:

PS> If you guys want to talk about rock bands, why don't you start another thread????
August 26th, 2003, 11:21 AM
silencio

Quote:

Originally posted by Pinnacle
I have been involved in over 1000 transactions on Ebay, but mostly as a seller. The problem I see with Ebay is the feedback system. If I give negative feedback to a complete loser that never pays for something they bid on, I risk getting negative feedback in return from that person. That is how I got the only negative feedback I have. For that reason, I no longer give negative feedback to anyone no matter how deserving they may be.

I hear that. It's like leprocy. Rub up against a lousy seller/bidder and you catch the negative feedback.
August 26th, 2003, 11:42 AM
Ya_know

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Originally posted by silencio
I hear that. It's like leprocy. Rub up against a lousy seller/bidder and you catch the negative feedback.

The difference is, people with leprosy don't normally get rubbed up against...

The clap and gonorrhea, you can’t see that coming.

I think that would have worked better in your analogy…
July 30th, 2004, 10:06 AM
amcfreek

EBAY WHAT A LOVELY PLACE TO GET SCR3W3D...
man ebay is ruff either you geta deal or you get taken , like a few years ago in the summer of like 2001 or so i cant really remember ..when memory prices fell
on pc 100 /133 thier was a place on ebay selling ram i was laughiung at it .. i won an auction for like 11 bucks for a 128 stick ./. i paid for it never got it .. that person ended up witha slew of bad feedback ,then a non registered user .. etc ... my neighbor got like 3 of his sticks from them.. all were bad and leaded up to us not being freinds anny more as his wife flipped out at a comment , she had her hard drive formatted as the computer flipped out with the new {bad} ram installed wich i unsinstalled for her and really p ! zzed her off..
ive sold and bought on ebay but i tell you . you will meet the most ruthless ppl on ebay.. you can count on some one only sending the bid price or the shipping price then expect for you to send the item {laugh} i have a few items here that were never totally paid , as the check is still in the mail ...
always check as to what shipping price is ..
as i got ripped by a junior jerk on a deal that wouldnt leave me alone and kept harassing me in my email every day. emailing from where he worked every day ...he lives 3 hours away on a bad day ...i hacked a page and sent him the link .. java script suprize .. crashola link .. popups etc ..
gee havent heard from that scum bag since.. wonder what his boss thought when the printer fired up .....
most revenge i ever had on some smart @$$ punk from ebay ...
July 30th, 2004, 10:37 AM
Tekboy

Quote:

Originally Posted by amcfreek

EBAY WHAT A LOVELY PLACE TO GET SCR3W3D...
man ebay is ruff either you geta deal or you get taken , like a few years ago in the summer of like 2001 or so i cant really remember ..when memory prices fell
on pc 100 /133 thier was a place on ebay selling ram i was laughiung at it .. i won an auction for like 11 bucks for a 128 stick ./. i paid for it never got it .. that person ended up witha slew of bad feedback ,then a non registered user .. etc ... my neighbor got like 3 of his sticks from them.. all were bad and leaded up to us not being freinds anny more as his wife flipped out at a comment , she had her hard drive formatted as the computer flipped out with the new {bad} ram installed wich i unsinstalled for her and really p ! zzed her off..
ive sold and bought on ebay but i tell you . you will meet the most ruthless ppl on ebay.. you can count on some one only sending the bid price or the shipping price then expect for you to send the item {laugh} i have a few items here that were never totally paid , as the check is still in the mail ...
always check as to what shipping price is ..
as i got ripped by a junior jerk on a deal that wouldnt leave me alone and kept harassing me in my email every day. emailing from where he worked every day ...he lives 3 hours away on a bad day ...i hacked a page and sent him the link .. java script suprize .. crashola link .. popups etc ..
gee havent heard from that scum bag since.. wonder what his boss thought when the printer fired up .....
most revenge i ever had on some smart @$$ punk from ebay ...

Wow! I guess that is one way to get rid of a jerk! I have had some minor frustrations with ebay, but on the whole, I have done well. But then again, I have done like 10 transactions in 4 years, all as a buyer. I am very careful what I bid on, and I put my maximum bid in the first time, and NEVER exceed it. I only bid what it is worth to ME.

I always pay right now, too.
July 30th, 2004, 10:40 AM
amyb

Quote:

Originally Posted by Diver01

Long Live Metallica!!!!!!!!!!!!

Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, David Bowie..<sigh> and to keep on track, I hate Ebay.
July 30th, 2004, 10:53 AM
corturbra

Yeah not a lover of e-bay either....

Had mainly good transactions but had one which really stuck in the gut and took ages to sort out....

Bid on a model car of a muscle car, guy ships and it arrives damaged. External box is ok, but internal is not.

E-mails him back and he says it's not my problem contact the courier, so I repeat only the internal box is damaged, not the external therefore the problem occurred prior to transit. He then admits that ERTL have a habit of sending out dodgy models and that there is no comeback, he doesn't check items before they leave...

I replied with if you know that the models could be damaged and the box has been knocked, is it not worth your while to open the box and check the product prior to shipping?

He then got all a$$y and threatens me with neg feedback, and how he's gonna post a website about how its all my fault... so I e-mailed ebay and yep they said just post negative feedback.... so I keep on at this bloke and eventually he agrees to replace the item, took 4 months though of constant battling....

Put me off buying on e-bay for a long time.... have started purchasing again recently but only from shops, not individuals and only if they have 99% positive feedback.
July 30th, 2004, 11:10 AM
imaeditedbysowulo

I've only had one bad experience out of about 400 transactions. Bought a computer off a guy, paid with credit card, never heard back from him and couldn't get hold of him by email or phone.

Called the credit card company and they credited me back the money ($550) and went after him. There were about 50 other people all going after the same guy, it was pretty cool.

Well about a month after I cancelled thru my credit card company, I received a computer in the mail from the guy. The motherboard was fried, the video card was fried, the modem worked, the sound card worked and the case and power supply were good. So I ended up getting about 60 dollars worth of stuff for my aggravation and the guy ended up getting arrested.

Haven't had a problem in the 3 years since then tho.
July 30th, 2004, 01:42 PM
gazzak

Only 1 problem myself with a seller who sent me a duff video card. After a week of no movement I left negative feedback, and then got some back from him. Great!
So I signed up from work as a new user, I signed up from a friends as a new user and bid on his next two items as these new users. I won both auctions and just left negative feedback without ever contacting him. Nasty comments too, and lies. Looking back it was a bit stupid of me but it felt great at the time!
July 30th, 2004, 02:41 PM
NooNoo

I simply ask before bidding if I can collect the item and what their location is. If I don't get a positive reply, I don't bid.
July 30th, 2004, 03:02 PM
ilovetheusers

Hey! This topic is a thousand ****ing years old!!!
July 30th, 2004, 03:13 PM
NooNoo

Quote:

Originally Posted by ilovetheusers

Hey! This topic is a thousand ****ing years old!!!

aah that goes with how I am feeling today then :thumbs2:
July 30th, 2004, 03:38 PM
jitBob

Quote:

Originally Posted by ilovetheusers

Hey! This topic is a thousand ****ing years old!!!

Yeah? So what? I love the Stones and have no experience with EBay. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gif