Another eBay seller gone wild

[Chris Gerhard]

Seeing sellers like this always makes me be even more careful than I am. I have been burned a couple of times as seller and buyer. Just seeing that a seller can do this on eBay is amazing to me. Did PayPal likely ultimately get stuck with most of this? I guess I shouldn't complain about eBay and PayPal fees. I sold a disc for $21 and the combined fees were 20% or $4.20, which is sure steep but seeing this makes me realize why honest members are having to pay such high fees.

http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISA...=heavenfinezone&iid=-1&de=off&items=25&page=2

Chris

 

[Odys]

While it's shocking that this person is still a seller, what's even more shocking is that so many people bid on his auctions with all those negatives. Don't these buyers check feedback ratings?

 

[BananaSlug]

Looks like the person was a seller for less than a month. Early feedback positive quickly followed by negatives. Probably a planned cash grab.

 

[JonUrban]

How can his FB be only -4??? eBay is really getting out of hand. Sellers like this really screw it up for legit sellers.

 

[ArmyOfQuad]

Or a person that got in over their head and did a cut and run. It looks like some of the positive feedback said there were shipping delays. He probably tried to run a business selling stuff through ebay, couldn't keep up with payments, and couldn't pay for shipping, and just walked away, which unfortunately is so easy to do in the online world without recourse.

 

[Chris Gerhard]

How can his FB be only -4??? eBay is really getting out of hand. Sellers like this really screw it up for legit sellers.

Minus 4 is just the net number of the different members that left feedback, four more left negative feedback than positive. More than 1 feedback from any given member doesn't count for the rating, but counts in total feedback. In other words, some buyers were screwed on more than one auction.

Chris

 

[EMB]

Seeing something like this reminds of why so many items at so many mainstream grocery store chains everywhere are so overpriced, relative to cost: to cover what is lost due to theft (and so make the necessary corporate profit needed to keep big chains afloat). The honest customers who don't steal--most of us--are paying higher prices thanks to those who do, most of whom (believe it or not) don't need to steal anything, doing it just because they can. It's gotten to the point where few who are caught are even prosecuted, since it costs more to put them in jail or pay fines than to just let them walk away.

eBay has gotten to be the same way, in a fashion. The fees honest people pay cover for those like this 'seller,' who in fact seems to have started out Ok but went bad. Whether he or she meant to rip people off or not is secondary to the fact that they never gave the money back, just took it and ran--or walked or sat, as it were. It is pathetic, and no doubt some doing this are real scoundrels, changing their names and keep the hit'n'run ripoffs going (and maybe this one did, too), but it does make you wonder that so few paid attention to the neg feedback that was piling up. (The dates suggest a fast, big score, however--that the seller intended by this point to take as much as possible and get lost).

As predictable as it is depressing, eh?

ED

 

[Obbop]

For various reasons I told ebay to "disenroll" me around 4 or 5 years ago.

I asked for them to remove my credit card number from their database foe security reasons. They did not reply to that request at all.

I can only hope they did just in case a cracker/hacker accessed their database holding that info.

I believe I made the right decision what with what is happening on eBay to so many users there.