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02/29/2008 08:47:08 AM · #1 |
...I am sorry if I offended you by wanting to protect my investment of over $1,000 (which it took me almost a year to save) by asking if you would accept using the Escrow.com service if I paid the fee. I suppose I should have just taken your word that my money would be safe with you and that I would, indeed, receive the photography equipment as promised. Send you the money first, and then pray. That's the way I should operate from now on. Thanks for helping me to "get real"
sincerely,
ebay buyer
Tongue in cheek rant to an Ebay seller I heard from this morning. I had sent an email asking if he would consider using Escrow for a large purchase if I paid the fee. This was asked, of course, prior to bidding or moving forward with trying to win the auction. His answer to me, complete, was "Dear jpochard, Get Real."
Glad I didn't do business with this guy/girl, but why do people have to be so rude?
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02/29/2008 08:53:37 AM · #2 |
Yup, that's pretty rude. Your response made me smile, though!
I once asked an ebay seller a question about the condition of an item, and they wrote back "If you don't want it, don't bid on it!"
People! :-D
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02/29/2008 09:14:45 AM · #3 |
use credit cards via paypal.
check the sellers rating - how many sales and what, and feedback on the most recent. If you don't trust them, then don't buy from them. But that applies to a lot more than ebay.
Yes, to you $1000 may be a big deal, but to a seller it may be nothing. I just spent $747 on my car at the dealer earlier this week - perhaps a big amount of money to me, but certainly not to them - the job took perhaps 2 hours - so at that rate ONE mechanic can generate $4500/day in sales and they have 8 of them. (I needed a rim and some tires, so $600 of that was parts). $747 may not be a common thing for me spend, but they'll see it 20 times a week.
Save up a little more and buy from B&H, Uniquephoto, Midwest Photo or some of the other reliable/reputable outfits out there. The best deals are person to person, as in //www.fredmiranda.com/forum/board/10 - where there is no feedback system and no eBay to moderate a deal gone bad. It works on trusting strangers. I've never had a problem on ebay or other forms as a buyer or seller - sometimes it amazes me how trusting some people are, like the guy in europe that sent me $500 for a lens that i had to send via the mail to a military base.
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02/29/2008 09:19:14 AM · #4 |
| I am very cautious, and very successful on Ebay both as a buyer and a seller. I am very good at checking out sellers, but for this large of a transaction, I'd just as soon pay for Escrow. We don't use a credit card, so that wouldn't really help. Besides, I really could care less if a seller chooses not to use escrow - it's their item and their business and if they don't want to deal with it, I have no problem with that. It was what I see as the rude response I got that ticked me off. |
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02/29/2008 09:41:40 AM · #5 |
Now, when I sell on eBay I add notes like, "... if that's a problem for you, don't bid on this auction." behind shipping charges and how I accept payment. I like to model my customer service after the large telecom companies, and if a customer wastes my time they feel the wrath of Slippy. I've got a perfect rating, but it's only in the twenties. It seems like most eBayers have hugely high ratings and want to protect them, so I feel confident while taking no crap from them. One guy had the nerve to complain to me about the item not arriving yet, for crissakes. It had to cross a border and Canada Post sucks arse. My reply was to mark the item return to sender when he got it and I'd refund his money, the impatient dork. He eventually got it and gave me a positive feedback. :-)
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02/29/2008 09:47:58 AM · #6 |
| My rating would be perfect as well, except that I refused to "mutually withdraw" my negative feedback for a bad seller and they left ME negative feedback in response. I don't take kindly to blackmail and I figure most ebayers have encountered this type of thing and understand. Especially when the "revenge" feedback reads like a rant. :) |
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02/29/2008 11:07:55 AM · #7 |
I have one negative out of 193 positives. And that was some college girl in CA that bought I book I was selling for some class she was taking and it got there later than she wanted, so she took her procrastination and cheapness out on my - giving negative feedback before she even contacted me on why the book wasn't there (she sent a personal check..it had to clear). She didn't want to remove the feedback, so oh well, I got red mark. Such is life. I'm really surprised there aren't more transactions like that out there - I know a LOT of impatient people in the 'real world'. Tell them 3 weeks and they call in 4 days asking where is it?
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