10-08-2004, 08:28 PM
r00ster Wrote:Just an update on my ebay burn... after I got almost a dozen other buyers filing paypal and ebay claims against the problem seller, and having them all send notices to ADV, Geneon/Pioneer, and Bandai's anti-piracy centers, the seller offered to refund my money if I rejected his parcel, and got it on its way back to him. Basically, anything to stop me from ruining all of his current auctions...
I taped the parcel back up, and returned it to sender... so today, he sent me my refund in full, including shipping.
I considered not removing his feedback.. but thought I'd done enough against him with all the Paypal and Ebay claims going on his records.. so I tried removing the neg. feedback. Unfortunately for him, I got this error:
"The request cannot be completed as the other party in this transaction is no longer a registered user."
Oopsies.
Japschin Wrote:Eh....Thought you said he's no longer a registered user? He's still selling on Ebay though. I just saw his auctions. The only difference now is that he has 'private' feedbacks.
Yeah, Japschin is right; Hardworker007 is back. All he did was make his feedback "private." Unfortunately, it doesn't even look that bad, because he only shows two negatives.
Here is one of his current auctions:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...eName=WDVW
As unscrupulous as eBay is, I think eBay will hurl someone out on his ear if it gets complaints he is selling bootlegs.
I wouldn't remove his negative feedback. Otherwise, other people will fall victim to him as well ... if his feedback ever sees the light of day again.
Oh, and thanks for the good word on Manga Depot.
My experiences on eBay have been mixed, but mostly bad. I avoid eBay unless I can't find what I am looking for at a certain price point elsewhere. I ask a lot of questions prior to bidding. Most sellers won't respond to a barrage of well-informed questions (that they conveniently forget to cover in their auction information), so that weeds out a number of bad ones, but not all. As a rule, I get the best service when I find a seller willling to answer my questions in detail. Still, that doesn't stop all bad experiences.