An E-bay Q & Some days you just gotta love the @$$holes on e-bay!!!!!!

[Noahtuck]

Okay,
I sell stuff on e-bay, i have for something like 7-8 years, since before it got famous when it was just starting.

Anyway's, the last 2 years i stopped taking money orders (i wont even mess with personal checks) and only take paypal as payment because most people use paypal and half the time people would never send payment.

So last week someone ask's if they could please pay me with a money order, i said sure, it's like the 3rd time in the last year i let someone pay with a money order.

So today i get an e-mail from them, Now mind you it's been less than 24 hours since the auction ended!!! and they are threatening me with a negative feedback & to not send payment if i don't send them the info of where to send the payment!!

I can't F'ing beleive it!!!! they are so impatient that less than 24 hours after the auction ends they are threatening me after i did them a favor!!!

I wrote back and told them a few choice things and it's hard for me to sell anything to anyone with that bad of an attitude!!
And for 2 cent's i would take the negative and throw one right back at them!!
My feedback is WAAAAY beyond theirs!!
Of course i did not give them the address where to send payment yet!!

What would you do ?

And it's a whole $12.00!!!

Oh yeah, i thought you used to be able to cancell an auction after it was done, but i looked everywhere and can't find crap about it on e-bay, it's like over the last couple of years they have changed alot and made alot of things near impossible to find
I know you can't cancell a bid after the auction is done but i thought i cancelled an auction after it was done, but it's been years since i've had one i've really wanted to because of some jerks attitude!!

[Guest34343]

You want the money, right, otherwise you would not have started the auction. Just suck it up and send the details. Some battles are not worth fighting.

When you send the details, say that you are sorry for the delay!

Do you want to be a businessman or an *******? Your choice.

[Noahtuck]

You want the money, right, otherwise you would not have started the auction. Just suck it up and send the details. Some battles are not worth fighting.

When you send the details, say that you are sorry for the delay!

Do you want to be a businessman or an *******? Your choice.

Yeah, i'm gonna die without that $12.00

And it's the principle of it, less than 24 hours after the auction ended and someone i was doing a favor for is already threatening me with a negative
I don't live on this thing 24/7!!
Sorry, but he already went beyond being just an *******!!
And i have this problem when people are like that with me, you would not want to try that to my face because i don't react well to threat's or intimidation, i'm not some overweight little pc geek 8)
It just makes me not want to deal with you because you've already shown your a little.... well, you should get the idea

[Guest34343]

What are you...5 years old? Get over yourself.

Whining here isn't going to help. Tell him to piss off and take the negative hit if you're such a tough guy.

[lordsmurf]

Lay down the law. He has two choices:

1 -- To **** off and leave a negative. You'll do the same for him. This guy is going to be non-stop trouble. May as well bail on him now.

2 -- To learn some patience. You're a person, not a robot, and you expect people to wait a day or two while you get organized. You'll get back to him tomorrow or the next day, with all the needed info.

It's not like the SOB can do much on the weekend anyway.

[jimmalenko]

Yet another reason why ebay is for morons.

[JSB1]

Fleabay.... Gotta love it.

JSB

[Supreme2k]

Tell him that you'll send the address as soon as he leaves you positive feedback. If not, tell him where to send your Paypal payment.

[offline]

I'm with you, Noahtuck.

Tell him to send it to

C/o
Santa Claus
North F***ing Pole


The rudeness of some people (yeah I see the irony)

[Noahtuck]

What are you...5 years old? Get over yourself.

Whining here isn't going to help. Tell him to piss off and take the negative hit if you're such a tough guy.

I bet your one of those little bit... er.. people that leave a negative if the shipping box has a dent in it even though the contents are perfect
Yes, i've actually seen idiot's leave that type of feedback
And as far as whining goes.... think again, i already knew i was gonna tell him to F'off before even posting here, just thought it was a good story to pass along about one of the other morons out there 8)
Whining... that's a good one!!
I had someone actually complain about slow shipping!! They paid on the 20th, the package was delivered to their home on the 23rd!!! and they complained about slow shipping!!
I buy stuff and it's not even postmarked for 10 days & i don't complain!!!
I'm not a child, if i want something today i drive my ass to the store, if not, i know how to wait 8)

Lay down the law. He has two choices:

1 -- To **** off and leave a negative. You'll do the same for him. This guy is going to be non-stop trouble. May as well bail on him now.

2 -- To learn some patience. You're a person, not a robot, and you expect people to wait a day or two while you get organized. You'll get back to him tomorrow or the next day, with all the needed info.

It's not like the SOB can do much on the weekend anyway.

Yep!! I pretty much wrote back to him/her before posting this that "not to be rude, but what the hell is wrong with you!?!?!"
Gave them the learning a little patience yackety yack and i don't sit in front of my pc waiting for people to e-mail me ect. ect. and said just because of this attitude already i can imagine what would happen if there was a real problem!! and it give's me bad feeling right away and makes me not to even want to deal with anymore, god forbid it got lost in the mail ect.

Tell him that you'll send the address as soon as he leaves you positive feedback. If not, tell him where to send your Paypal payment.

If they e-mail me back i will have to do that
I was going to tell them that all i had to do was file a NPB against them because i state right on my auctions "PAYPAL ONLY" in huge red letters, after all, i was doing them a favor taking a M.O. and they want to get hard nosed in less than 24 hours

I'm with you, Noahtuck.

Tell him to send it to

C/o
Santa Claus
North F***ing Pole


The rudeness of some people (yeah I see the irony)

I might have to comine that with Supreme2k's idea
I never sent them crap about payment, just giving them shit for being an ass after i was doing them a favor.. so i guess i will wait for an e-mail or a negative 8)
I told them i'd be more than happy to take a negative and throw one right back at them

[Guest]

send a box of dogcrap instead.


I remember getting a nasty message from another bidder asking why i was willing to keep outbidding them for such a piece of crap. "its only worth $5 so why are you willing to pay$25". Why was he willing to pay $24?

Blow me and quit wasting my time....

[Noahtuck]

send a box of dogcrap instead.


I remember getting a nasty message from another bidder asking why i was willing to keep outbidding them for such a piece of crap. "its only worth $5 so why are you willing to pay$25". Why was he willing to pay $24?

Blow me and quit wasting my time....

That reminds me of many many years ago i was watching an action figure from a guy in france, i ended up winning it and right after the auction some other guy e-mailed me crying asking why i outbid him because he really really wanted it
I sniped his ass in the last 5 seconds
Almost thought it was a kid the way he was going on and on about it

Then one time i had some guy accusing me of out bidding him on my own stuff at the last minute because he kept bidding on diff. auctions of mine and was always losing them at the last minute I was like well i guess other people wanted it more than you
There are some real monkeys in the world

[lordsmurf]

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[drewzor]

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[Supreme2k]

Where they live and other contact details and told them i have hired a hitman and they would be shot in the back of the head sometime in the next 5 years for what they did.

MY POINT IS
you should conduct yourself in a proffessional manner, keep good communication and be honest. Eventually they will get what they want and respond with reason.

Kind of contradictory, huh?





Actually, I deal with customers all day, every day. People can be idiots and jackasses [i]anywhere[/]. I haven't noticed eBay being any worse than any other interactive business (I've worked in retail also).

[Noahtuck]

Dont know what the go is with the ani gif, Sony is hot,

Sony, the company, the equipment, suck's sooooo BAD!!!!!!!!!
If you don't know any of the 50,000 diff. reason's why.... well.....
What can i say
Sony will be "Hot" when Pigs Fly

never the less why is there a picture of a factory in th e middle?
Here is a fix version of it

First off it's not broke so i don't know how you could fix it
And if you don't know what that factory (actually a power plant) is or where it is from

Ebay has too many theifs and low lifes on there. people over re-act because of that expectation. I found some good sellars and just ask them to find things for me now after i nearly lost $8000 to some italian F , I tracked there IP, called the service provider and asked which account was logged in with that ip -> got details and was told i could not "internationally prosecute" so i sent an email with there details on it. Where they live and other contact details and told them i have hired a hitman and they would be shot in the back of the head sometime in the next 5 years for what they did.

MY POINT IS
you should conduct yourself in a proffessional manner, keep good communication and be honest. Eventually they will get what they want and respond with reason.

I can't even figure out how to reply to all that
How many shot's did you do before posting this ? :P

Actually, I deal with customers all day, every day. People can be idiots and jackasses anywhere. I haven't noticed eBay being any worse than any other interactive business (I've worked in retail also).

Exactly!!

Hey Supreme2k
You were the first one to notice the "Factory" ?
You have been the only one that has said anything to me until "Mr. FixIt"
When pigs fly... factory...
Ya think he got it yet

[drewzor]

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[Noahtuck]

My point is that people who sell on ebay should be truthfull and professional or you piss people off to the point that they lose it.
The responsibility is on the seller, maybe your client is anxious, ebay is a process of buyer response and you have control over the situation. Any seller with any negative feed back means they cannot resolve customer issues and should be avoided at all costs.

First off, most of what you are saying does not apply to the OP

I can accept that you dont like sony, for what ever reason? though it would have been nice to have at least one valid arguement why you dont like them. Any one of the 50,000 you could use to justify bagging the brand.

If you hung around here long enough or had enough experiance with them, their product's, their rep you would understand, i really don't feel like "educating" everyone that is clueless, i'd be typing all night and i have better things to do

Dont try to make excuses cos you cannot make an animated gif properly..
(pioneer, power plant, sony wrong way) makes no sense?

And after everything i wrote earlier and the comments i made to Supreme2k
Your still totally clueless about the gif
Ever think it might have been made that way on purpose



P.S.
Here's 1 little hint... it's not a "wrong way" it's a "ban" sign

[drewzor]

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[StoryDonut]

What can i say
Sony will be "Hot" when Pigs Fly

Three different ones?

[Supreme2k]

drewzor
Why hijack this thread? Why not simply create a thread explaining why you like Sony, if you really like them so much?

It's just the guy's avatar. Do you really have to get so involved in the meaning behind it? or how it's constructed?



And to everyone,

your = possessive ("That is your dinner.)

you're = you are ("you're starting to annoy me")


:P

[drewzor]

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[Guest]

hhmmmm.A little testy are we? Hey, where have gmtov and tommyknocker been...?(no need to answer)

as far as Sony being "Hot"..pfffft!

recent thoughts: hidden rootkits,psp movie format and the soon to be added blu-ray format.

[lordsmurf]

professional sellers can resolve issues because they at least try to see it from the other persons point of view.

This is not personal drewzor. I have nothing against you. But I do take issue with this line of thought. So I address it, not you.

This sentence is loaded, and with bullshit no less.

eBay is a peer-to-peer connection system. It is not a store with paid employees. You are dealing with individuals. People that do not realize this need to get the **** off eBay. It's quite honestly the "professional sellers" that are a pain in the ass, with their wishy-washy rules and lack of honesty and patience.

Some people feel that the word "professional" is a synonym for "nice no matter how you are treated in return". Guess what? That's crap. When confronted by an *******, any person or individual has a right to "divorce the customer". Handle it any way you like. Anything in the gamut from "your business is no longer accepted, please leave" to "**** off" may be perfectly acceptable, depending on who you are or who you represent.

Bitchy customers will never serve any purpose, they have no benefits. Inversely, they rarely have negative consequences either. These people will complain no matter what, you will never get referrals from them, and most people (others around them) with common sense already know to ignore the dribble they spout. So telling a bad customer to go away is a win-win situation, especially if it's for just a pocket change worth of business.

"Professional" is one of those concepts that was distorted and perverted during the political correctness movement. Professional means you are exceptionally skilled at your trade or career, it does not have a damned thing to do with your level of niceness.

Sometimes the other person's point of view is pure crap. Unfair, unreasonable... maybe even outright insane. Just look at politics or religion for examples of that phenomenon.

This is a topic that pushes my buttons.

[AlecWest]

I wrote back and told them a few choice things and it's hard for me to sell anything to anyone with that bad of an attitude!!

I've never sold anything on eBay and probably never will. And, in all the years I've bought stuff on eBay, I've only been disappointed twice. Once, a guy sent me a DVD that wouldn't play on my old Apex player (and it would play anything with a shiny surface, hehe). But, I was able to rip it with my computer and reburn it. He was using a really crappy brand (disk-ID-wise) and I sent him a polite email, telling him of the problem ... and giving him a neutral feedback. The other time, I bought a computer for a friend and it was DOA. But the seller I bought it from refunded my price, my shipping, AND the shipping back to him. So, I gave him a positive feedback - mentioning the DOA, but saying I'd buy from him again.

Anyhoo, you missed a golden opportunity (grin). You no doubt encountered a guy with a real pissy attitude. If it had been me, I'd have sent him the mailing address right away - and then apologized for the delay like this (ahem), "I apoligize for not getting back to you sooner. My legs were amputated due to cancer and my wheelchair broke down at the worst possible moment, when I was supposed to visit my doctor for chemotherapy treatments. Please don't give me bad feedback. Since the layoff, eBay income is my only income."

In short, I'd have tried to make the guy feel like the real turd he was. But, that's just me.

[dafoe]

This is exactly why I stopped selling on Ebay. There are way too many freaks and a**holes. It's just not worth it.

I replaced one of my movies with a new 2 disc special edition. So I decided to sell the original 1 disc edition on Ebay. The woman left me a negative feedback and then contacted me demanding a refund claiming that I didnt warn her that the DVD (that's right, DVD) would not play in her CD Rom.

In other words she wanted to copy the movie for free and return it to me. Nobody is that dumb. Right? Now if I replace a movie, I just give the original to a friend or employee. They are genuinely happy to get it and I don't have to waste time listing the disc and driving to the Post Office. All for a whopping 7 or 8 dollars. What the hell was I thinking?

I haven't bought anything since the Alias Season 4 set I bought a while ago on half.com. Never saw the set. Filed a complaint with half.com and it was pointless. Never even heard from them.

If you are going to sell on Ebay the a**hole factor is an intregal part of the experience. Either you accept it as part and parcel of dealing with Ebay or you decide it's not worth it and move on.

[budz]

I had a woman off of ebay send me a virus via email after I emailed her that the chinese dvd she auctioned off on ebay was not a DVD. It was a VCD that froze up all of my dvd players. I asked for a full refund including the shipping cost. She insisted it was a DVD even when I told her it wasn't and offered to show her that it wasn't.

The next day Norton's alerted me that I had a virus. I went through properties in outlook express and found it was sent by this woman. Her stupid email address was seen in properties. I let it go and then changed my email user name for my road runner internet acct. and then created a new email user name. Two days later someone posted negative feedback for this woman calling her a fake. She apparently sold this guy some cartoon cells that were fake. He told her he was contacting the authorities who I believe were Warner Brothers. It was all downhill after that for this woman. What comes around goes around!!!!