I'm with Neal.. the past year I have had more
problems with sellers than I have in the 10 years prior
At 06:42 AM 10/28/2011, Neil Jaworski wrote:
Hallo MOPO
Speaking as a buyer, I've had more bad
experiences with mis-sold items in the last 2
years than in the 8 years prior to that. I'm
not particularly buying more stuff either (I buy
maybe a few items each month) so something seems
like it's amiss in this downturned economy
In recent months there's been the Mint one-sheet
that arrived torn and re-taped (a copy the
seller had tried to flog earlier in the year
with no takers), there was the Advance poster
that turned out to be an International Advance
(despite the 'clear' image/description) and a
poster with more insect damage than a post-atomic New Mexico.
I'm not saying the sellers didn't go to efforts
to rectify this, but if too many purchases slip
into arbitration it becomes a drag.
Several times I've been sent a different copy to
the one I bought. Sometimes the difference is
subtle, sometimes it is bone-shakingly
obvious. This has happened maybe four times in
the last couple of years, which doesn't seem a
lot unless you consider that I buy infrequently.
Guess how many times I've been incorrectly sent
a better quality or higher value poster? That's right, a total of zero times.
Where's the law of averages when you need
him? I suspect Buyers are being unnecessarily
ornery not because of one bad transaction, but
because there have been several occasions where
they may feel they're being taken. The one
where they kick-off is the straw that broke the camel's back.
I do most of my purchasing from emovieposter.com
these days with none of these headaches.
Just my 5c.
Neil
From: Geraldine Kudaka <gkud...@rocketmail.com>
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Friday, 28 October 2011, 14:11
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Lame return reasons
Sorry, Peter, as a buyer on ebay I have to say I
lean towards your buyer. There are so many scams
on ebay -- many of which are reported here on
MOPO -- that its no wonder she's paranoid. The
slightest whiff of being scammed sends a buyer into conniptions.
The problem (in this case) is not the buyer but
the thieving sellers who are scamming buyers.
Its easy to blame the buyer, but look at it...
what makes ebay run? Its the buyer. If the
buyers didn't buy, sellers wouldn't have the
money to pay their ebay fees. What makes buyers run? Bad sellers.
While its understandable being angry over the
buyer's chargeback, you know she can retract the
chargeback -- which she won't do if you take a hostile attitude towards her.
If you have to suck it up in order to make nice
with her, its because of bad sellers. You made a
small, honest mistake and she over-reacted.
From: peter contarino <pcontar...@triad.rr.com>
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 6:56 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Lame return reasons
I have a good one from today actually. A woman
bought an Empire Strikes Back style âAâ one
sheet from me on ebay. I have several copies and
instead of pulling the copy I photographed for
the listing, I mistakenly pulled one marked
International on the bottom. She received and
alerted me to this. I told her no worries, send
back and I will send the correct one and refund
shipping. I received a nasty email today telling
me that she wanted her money back and threatened
negative feedback because I wasnât home
yesterday when they tried to deliver it. I told
her fine, sorry for not canceling my entire
schedule for the week while awaiting her poster.
I told her I would refund her entire costs
including the two shipping charges she incurred.
I then went to paypal and she had already filed
a dispute so now the transaction and money are
frozen while they look into it. I wrote her and
told her the situation and pointed out that it
is unreasonable buyers like her that have caused
a lot of good dealers to forego selling on ebay.
I see a negative blemish on my perfect feedback score on the horizon
Peter
From: MoPo List [mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of Steven Hill
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 12:44 PM
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Subject: [MOPO] Lame return reasons
I'm curious to hear some stories from poster
dealers regarding the reasons some people come
up with when they want to return an item they
have bought. For example, do people return an
Australian daybill saying "I thought it was an
insert"? And I'm sure you've all had "I thought
I was buying a DVD". :) Tell some stories!
--
Steven Warren Hill shil...@sbcglobal.net shil...@yahoo.com
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