I had no idea you could have 3,000 negative feedbacks and still be a seller in good standing. Doesn't eBay have a rule that you aren't allowed more than a certain number of negs (from more than one individual, of course) in a month?
-_David
on 10/21/05 9:33 AM, Susan Heim at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey Dave,
Great work and I know it takes work. Ebay isn't the easiest place to send alerts. Most of the forms are pretty general and you can't type any text in them, you just have to list item numbers and hope the person reviewing them figures out what you are talking about. If anyone knows of another way that will get some action, I would so love to hear from you. There is a guy on ebay who sells regular posters, but he also consigns all different kind of items for companies. He tried selling frames, not movie poster frames, just ready made frames, about a year ago and had no luck. About a month ago he began flooding the category with this cheapy frame he is selling. The kicker is he lists them at .99 and then lists the shipping at $39 and up for a little 8x10 frame. The obvious is circumventing ebay fees, flooding a category with more than 10 of the same item. Unfortunately, the only way to report the guy is 10 auctions at a time and he has close to 200 auction on any given day in the movie poster frame category alone (he doesn't even sell movie poster frames but he includes it in his title and there it is). This guy has over 3000 negative feedbacks that usually mention that the item either never arrived or took weeks or months to get and many mention the exorbitant shipping fees. He gets almost 4 pages of feedbacks a day (over 100), so that gives you an idea of how much product he is moving if only a small percentage of buyers even leave feedback. His listing information is very convoluted and confusing.
Now, the other guy in the movie poster frame category, (this is the one that copies my text, tells customers that his plastic frame will protect their collectables, and went and bought up all the domain names that are misspellings of my company name, a real gem of a guy), has gone in and lowered the cost of his items and increased his shipping rates to compete with the first guy. Unfortunately, the category has gone from a few pages daily to about 11-12 pages of product lately with these two guys fighting each other. Both are violating ebay policies, but you'd need a full time person just to sit there at the computer looking up their auction numbers and reporting them.
It is a major annoyance and an obvious attempt to defraud the buyer in one form or another. Unfortunately, though, there are always going to be people out there that will say or do anything to sell their items including lying and fraud. I've been in this hobby for over 30 years and have watched this problem grow and grow. It used to be that someone's word meant something. There are still a lot of great and honest people out there, especially in our own hobby, but even if there were only a few stinkers, it's too much, and there aren't only a few. Hope everyone is well. Take care.
Sue Heim
www.hollywoodposterframes.com <http://www.hollywoodposterframes.com>
(800) 463-2994
