In a message dated 6/16/2005 7:24:28 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: He still stands on the position that if the seller was ignorant ( not lying, just dumb ) on factual matters, that's O.K. Too and the buyer should be screwed because it was an "auction" sale and this is what I was posting about in my recent posts... Because I STRONGLY disagree... jco ============ Ebay is fairly safe. Fairly. Any seller who continually rips off his buyers, will have his/her ratings go in the dumpster. Of course, there are rip off artists who don't hang around long -- rush in to make money and rush out -- but they really are in the minority.
But most sellers are pretty reputable. So if a buyer has a problem it's better to assume miscommunication or misunderstanding and contact the seller. As a buyer I once bid on something and won, that I realized with a little more research, had to be completely incorrectly described (not a camera). I withdrew from the sale. He tried to blackball me with Ebay (I forget what that action was called). And I almost had a strike against me as a buyer. Fortunately, for me, he also insisted post-sale that I could not pay him with PayPal (which he had said was the only method of payment). I had to use BidPay (which had not been previously mentioned). BidPay, the buyer pays, PayPal, the seller pays (the payment fee). I contacted Ebay and told them I felt the terms of the auction had been completely changed post auction, etc. and they removed the black balling (failure to pay). This was before Ebay owned PayPal (but it was probably in the works). Was he scamming me? I was never sure. I, personally, really like Ebay. I think there are things that could be improved. But I think they do the general stuff about as well as it can be done. And about 80-90% of people are basically honest. Marnie aka Doe
