Bad Ebay seller
 

Bad ebay seller. Bought card and never received it. Just wanted to let you guys know. Seller said he shipped it 7 days after I paid for it and he would include extras for the trouble. Very nice offer but then no card still and no responses now. Below is a link to the auction so you can see the card and seller ID.


http://www.ebay.com/itm/1911-t205-go...#ht_500wt_1204

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The link doesn't really go anywhere except to an item that has been removed.

link fixed

Thanks for the heads up.

Nice looking card.

Hope this works out & you receive it.


Jantz

One of many bad apples on eBay. Maybe the time has come where we include the links to all bad sellers and all bad buyers on eBay. It's time for us to have a way to out these people. Especially the bad buyers where we can't leave negatives.

Agreed I also think it should include a list of sellers that will get mad and block you if you try to make them an offer to close an auction, just so none of us get blocked if we try to make an offer. That would help me anyway, so I won't be as afraid to ask sellers.

Agreed. We'd all have access to update the link and add to it.

open to debate a bad seller category
 

I am open to debate this topic of a bad seller category on the board. There are some pitfalls though. If you are reporting a bad seller should you need your full name in your post? I can see a board member reporting another board member for something that is debatable? Are there liability issues? One person's side might be different than another person's side etc....

Great, lets debate!
 

Yes, your full name needs to be included as you are making a claim of dishonesty and need to be accountable for your claim; if one board member accuses another hopefully they handle like men, privately - the board can be updated and any posting member should have the authority to retract their comments when the issue is resolved; If its truly debatable then lets debate the issue like we do (less name calling would be preferably); I think the board would work well and help us against some dipsh!t ebayers. I know some members here have helped me in the past and this link could be another tool.

Zach I wouldn't offer Yepbg or ask anything for that matter. He blocks for fun. Lol

LOL I will definatley watch out for that. The other day I asked a seller to change an auction to a BIN that was reasonable. When I messaged him I said "Please do not block me if you do not want to do this deal." After I heard all the horror stories on here I am afraid to message them and be blocked. I told him let me bid if you do not want my offer. Two days later he still has not responded to me, which is much better than blocking me.

To be honest, I really don't know why you purchased this item from this seller. I mean his feedback is 30, under 90%, and if you look at the negatives HE NEVER SENDS THE CARDS! Why would you purchase from a seller with a history of not shipping items!? Not to be a jerk, but it kinda is your own fault in dealing with a seller with a terrible track record IMO...

If you look at the dates of when feedback was left you would see he had only one prior to my purchase from some guy with a potty mouth over a jersey. I also read it takes a bit to ship and was prepared to wait for this card. You can read others got there cards and some got xtras. It's ok that he had low feedback. We all have at some point right?

Fwiw I think we should call it the naughty list since not all sellers are bad but made poor judgement calls that can be rectified. The thread should only be used to post bad sellers because I can see now all the responses swamping the actuall use of it. This is jmo fwiw

True, and he had a neutral.

Seems like maybe something is selling for lower than he wants, i.e. the jersey, your card, one before your card, and possibly kept it to re-sell for higher price. Idk, like walking on egg shells, it just sucks. I've had it happen with sellers with perfect feedback, so you can never be too sure unless it's exchanged in person.

eBay Feedback
 

Wow, someone obviously wasn't having a good day on Valentines Day, 2010.

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I don't think I'd want to deal with a seller who would block me just for making an offer. The seller can simply turn your offer down and life continues on..... but to block you over that? Maybe I don't understand the concept. Is this making offers to sellers who don't have the "make offer" tab on their auction?

Sincerely, Clayton

Seems silly to me that a seller would block someone for making an offer. If the say no, block the seller, and let the auction run eh are losing out on another bidder. It only takes two bidders to take an item to high dollars and you are immediately removing one of the interested bidders

What I try to keep in mind is, Life Happens! I won an auction a few months ago from a seller with a perfect feedback rating, paid for the card promptly, and then ... nothing. For two weeks nothing. I sent a couple messages and waited, and then suddenly received a message from the seller's partner saying he had ended up in the hospital with a sudden illness but that she would be taking care of shipping the card for him. And she did. The card arrived, and it was just as the auction had described it. So yeah, I had to wait a while, but in the end everything was fine. My point in all this is, try to give the other person the benefit of the doubt. In the case of the seller whose unresponsiveness prompted this thread, maybe the person fell ill and is in the hospital or something. It's very possible -- and it's also possible that he doesn't have a partner to check his eBay account for him.

If you're really concerned about a seller's disappearance, you might try contacting someone who gave him positive feedback for a previous transaction to see if he has contact information for him. Or you might be able to find such information in the eBay invoice. Then look him up on zabasearch and try calling him. Or just file an undelivered item dispute with eBay, get your refund and move on.

Not possible for this to be Andrew's fault, only the seller, ebay, or a combination of the two. Odd that the seller did that on a best offer...Hope you get it Andrew.

The Valentine day comment made me laugh.