My sympathy. I had a round or two with a psychotic seller on ebay who refunded my payment then filed a thing with ebay claiming that I had refused to pay. So I did, after a month's worth of emails did not produce an explanation for the refund -- it did not lead to confidence that I would receive my merchandise in good condition or that the seller would be available if there was a problem. Since the item was a laptop, it was a larger sun than I was willing to write off.
Ebay eventually backed me up after reviewing my paypal records, but I could have done without it..... Dana On 12/19/06, Mary Jo Sminkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >However, if the seller leaves positive feedback because the buyer paid > >promptly, they could get hit with negative feedback if the buyer wasn't > >happy with the shipment for some reason and didn't try to resolve it. > > > > This may have been a reasonable position to take in the past, but now with > the new feedback forum you can leave a *response* to any negative feedback a > buyer gives you. I agree with the original poster that it's unfair that the > buyer is basically blackmailed against leaving bad feedback by not posting > for them when they have fulfilled their payment obligation. I know it often > makes me more reluctant to report bad transactions because I put my own > feedback rating at risk from such retaliation, so in the end, other buyers > suffer as well. > > I'm actually dealing with this now, I bought something that was listed as > new and in the box, and what I got was clearly used. This after waiting two > weeks to get the item. Took several emails and finally a threat to leave bad > feedback before finally getting a response from the seller that he would > "look into it". More days go by and again I threaten to leave feedback. Now > he wants me to send it back and he will refund the price once it is > received. Of course by now almost a month has passed and by the time I send > it back and find out if he actually will honor that agreement, the 45 days > PayPal allows for disputes will be darn close, if not passed. So I told him > I was not happy with that, and just wanted a partial refund. Two emails > stating this, still no response. And if I post negative feedback about this, > I know he will retaliate saying that he "offered" to take the item back for > a refund...which is hardly the whole story but certainly is true as well. > This all just reminds me of why I tend to avoid Ebay for anything I can buy > elsewhere from a reputable online store. > > > --- Mary Jo > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:222862 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
