What are the dumbest reasons bad feedback has been left for you on Ebay?

[VG_Maniac]

What are some of the dumbest reasons you can think of that someone left bad feedback for you on Ebay (negative or neutral)? Here's a few of mine I can think of:

Someone from Canada left me neutral because it took 1 week for him to receive his item...which actually is pretty fast considering I'm in a different country.

Someone bought a video game related poster from me once, and left a neutral because it showed another game on the other side of the poster when you flipped it around. I asked him why that made him upset, and he said, "Because now I want to be able to show BOTH sides up on my wall, and I can't!"

Another guy left me neutral feedback after I sent him a payment reminder.

I got a negative from someone once because I charged $5.00 more than the actual shipping amount was (for handling).


I had a guy leave negative feedback because he had the typical front loading NES blinking problems with the game I sold him (even though it worked just fine in my NES). I emailed him and told him he could send it back for a refund, but he never responded.

A guy from France bought 11 items from me, than left 11 negative feedbacks. He said that I overcharged him on shipping so much, that I made $20 profit. Which was a lie...because the TOTAL cost of shipping and handling that he paid was $20.00.


I could go on forever...anyone else have some stories to share?

[Cornelius]

My only non-positive so far was a 'neutral' that reads "the product was great and a great seller."

:smash:

[megasdkirby]

I remember reading one from another seller which stated "Negative for Messy Packaging Peanuts".

O_o

[jb143]

I once got a neutral because the buyer didn't read the description and thought they were getting something different even though I made sure to clearly state in the description what they'd be getting.

Another time I got a neutral saying that the package took too long to arrive even though I pointed out to them before hand that I'd have to wait for their check to clear and that media mail usually takes a bit longer as well.

The dumbest one though was a neutral that just said "It's Cool". I was a bit upset because it was right after eBay changed their feedback rules and neutrals counted as negatives.

[ryborg]

I could go on forever...

I as well. I could write a 500-page book on the subject (maybe I will...)

For some reason, French buyers love to leave bad feedback with positive comments. I've had this problem with most major countries, but it's happened with France at least 5-6 times in recent years. They then refuse to remove the feedback. I've never understood that.

"shipping said one day it has been 3 days"

Someone thought that my handling time of one day meant that all items are shipped via overnight Express Mail. Riiiiight.

I miss frequently receiving mailed payments because I like not paying Paypal fees, but I certainly don't miss idiots who don't understand it takes time for the payment to arrive AND for it to clear if it's a personal check. Examples (all negs):

VERY SLOW SHIPMENT WANTED PYMT IN 10 DAYS AND GOT IT STILL NO JERSEY SHIPPED

Item as described; slow shipping.....arrived over 2 wks after payment

Took two weeks from payment to recieve item, Item is as described Answers ? fast

waiting on my mechandise

etc etc etc... You get the idea.

[Kevincal]

I sold a Jaguar with a messed up power button. The system worked but it took a few presses of the power button to get it to stay on. I CLEARLY stated this in the auction, and even lowered the price because of it. So of course, the person gets it and writes to me "The system is broken, blah blah blah". I packed it very well, and I know the person press the button once and it didnt stay on so right away they gave up and claim its broken... If they had done like I said, and tried pressing it several times to get it to stay on, which it WOULD because I thoroughly tested it. On average it it took about 5-10 presses before it stayed on. I stated this in the auction.

Then I had another person buy a nes top loader from me, claim its broken or not working, which it was working perfectly. She gives me a neg, files a claim, paypal gives her money back. She sends back the system in a box FULL of FINELY shredded paper, deliberately to make a mess for me. Guess what, I hook the system up and it still works perfectly. That bitch pisses me off to this day. :P

[y-bot]

I think I have one negative and one neutral both from people who never paid for their items. This was years ago before the new feedback system.

y-bot

[unwinddesign]

Actually, my 10+ negs/neutrals (out of like 2900 feedback) are all pretty deserved. Usually for a game not working or me screwing up. The negs are from people who didn't want returns...even though I pay return shipping and refund 100% of their money. Can't satisfy everyone.

Funniest feedback I received was from a SELLER, who left me this:

BOUGTH IT FOR MY COUSIN WHO HAD CANCER, ITEM NEVER ARRIVED AND MY COUSIN DIED

Heh.

[darkslime]

My only neutral says:

shipping was a bit high... but quick response time made up for that

What bullshit. It was for a copy of Xenosaga III, I charged the standard $3.99 I charge to ship every game.

[Queen Of The Felines]

I was selling Fandango coupon codes for awhile. One guy negged me and filed a chargeback with a nasty letter claiming the code didn't work, I ripped him off, he wanted his money back NOW, blah blah blah. Not more than two minutes after reading his giant rant of an e-mail the chargeback was canceled because he had made a typo when he first entered the code. Thanks a lot, dumbass. :roll:

[p_b]

I had one guy threatening me with negative feedback. He was from Italy, so I had to send my stuff across the border. I told him that I had shipped the day on Dec 29th, and he complained on Jan 1st that his item hadn't arrived yet. After pointing out that there's probably no postal service on that public holiday and so on, he didn't reply again.

Got a positive about 5 days later, stating "fast shipping and friendly seller" :D

[Mianrtcv]

2 negs were left for me.

1. Seller had a Colecovision Guide up for sale. I ask in advance is this a real guide or a photocopy. The guy says a real guide. WRONG! It was photocopy of a real guide. The guy was trying to play semantics with words... He neg'd me after i neg'd him. CHEEZY.

2. A seller had a return policy that stated if item did not work they would take it back (at my shipping expense). It did not work. I returned it. I got neg'd. DERP!!!

[Zing]

I think I have one negative and one neutral both from people who never paid for their items.

My most recent negatives:

- Someone wins my auction. No contact. No payment. Not a word. I leave a negative after about a month. Of course I get retaliatory.

- I buy a dozen packs of card sleeves from an Ebay store. I pay immediately. After not hearing or receiving anything for a few weeks, I send them a message. Apparently, they don't have the sleeves in stock. I'm not sure why they have the sleeves listed if they aren't in stock, but whatever. They claim they will have some in a week. I wait. Nothing. Email them and they still don't have them in stock. I get my money back and leave a negative and of course I get retaliatory.

- Why is there such trouble with buyers from France? I didn't get a negative, but if I still had the ability to leave a negative, I'm sure I would have gotten a retaliatory. I shipped 6 music CDs to France. Within 4 days I get a paypal claim saying they never arrived. Dude never contacted me or anything. Obviously, a package is not getting to France in 4 days. Of course I had no tracking number so I got hosed.

[Wookie]

My one and only negative was from a guy who wasn't home when fedex tried to deliver the package so he had to call them up to arrange a re-delivery. This was more hassle than he could bear, I guess.

[mobiusclimber]

There's a simple solution to stupid negatives and to the idiotic idea of doing away with buyer feedback: automatic negatives.

See, Ebay has a system in place now where if you file a dispute and it closes in your favor, the other party gets a little tick box. If they get enough of them, Ebay (supposedly) kicks them off. So how about instead of some invisible tick box, that person gets a negative instead? No more bullshit, at least. Sure, there will still be the liars saying "never rec'd" or whatever, but it'll eliminate a large chunk of the totally senseless negatives. PLUS most of these a-holes are lazy too, they didn't file any sort of claim and they certainly aren't going to just to leave a negative, so that's going to cut down on a lot of this nonsense.

Shame, but Ebay will never implement something like that. They like stupid, worthless non-solutions, apparently.

[aaron7]

Sold a large lot of old PC games to a lady. She emailed me and said one of the games had a scratched CD and wanted a partial refund. I said since the auction ended for the price of ONE game, I'd just send her a full refund if she sent them back as it wasn't worth it to me to send her a partial.

She never replied and left negative... when I asked her about it she started going on about being a single mother and how ebay was her only income blah blah blah. I told her to get a real job. :snuggle:

[ryborg]

My one and only negative was from a guy who wasn't home when fedex tried to deliver the package so he had to call them up to arrange a re-delivery. This was more hassle than he could bear, I guess.

Haha, yeah, I had one of these years ago, but it ended with a neutral instead of a neg. The buyer specifically asked me to insure the package for its full value (not a problem since the buyer pays for all insurance fees), and it was over $100, so a signature was necessary.

Turns out he wasn't home when the mailman attempted it and never went to pick it up at the PO. He complained about my slow shipping, so I told him it's probably sitting at his post office....and there it was.

[Ed Oscuro]

I remember reading one from another seller which stated "Negative for Messy Packaging Peanuts".

O_o
If the fish got sick from eating them, why, that's eminently understandable.

LOL

I tend not to leave feedback at all when I'm steamed (usually about condition - often I wonder if I'm too picky about game condition, but then later I'll go back and see stuff in lousy condition, or sold for way more than it's worth, and...rargh)

[Rickstilwell1]

I wonder if anyone has ever tried the "I have your address!" response...

[megasdkirby]

I tend not to leave feedback at all when I'm steamed (usually about condition - often I wonder if I'm too picky about game condition, but then later I'll go back and see stuff in lousy condition, or sold for way more than it's worth, and...rargh)

Me too. I only give negatives when the seller totally pisses me off, which is rarely.

Still, those few special who go the mile to do so get an exceptionally "nice" negative. And I mean "nice" in the sense of "putridly bad". All without insults, because there is just no need for that.

[jb143]

You got me curious about the negative feedbacks I left people. I know there has been a couple but I had to scan through them all to find them.

One was "Never paid and never contacted me or replied to any of my emails" They are No longer a registered user with negative 3 feedback.

The other was for someone who won a paypal dispute after they admitted in feedback that it arrived. They are still an active buyer/seller with more nagatives for similar issues.

I could have sworn there was one where I bought something my wife really REALLY wanted. Their feedback was good but after winning it I saw that they started to get a lot of negative feedbacks for non delivery. She wanted the item more than a refund though and they wern't returning any emails so I tracked them down via facebook. They got MAD about that and claimed they shipped the items and that it was the post offices fault(I guess it was also the PO's fault that 10 other people didn't get their items as well). So after that I did file a dispute...it was probally the easiest case Paypal ever decided. I'm guessing they were booted from eBay before I ever got the chance the Neg them.

[The 1 2 P]

I got a negative from a German bidder because the shipping cost was more than he wanted to pay. He asked how much it would be while the auction was still live(before he bid) and I told him it would be "atleast" $14. He won and after pricing it at the post office it turned out to be $21. When I told him this he refused to pay, told me I promised to ship it for $14 and left a negative. That was clearly a case of misunderstanding on his part but you live and learn.

The funniest part is that after I relisted it another guy from Germany won it. But he was much more reasonable. I guess they really like Indiana Jones games over there.

[Sonicwolf]

A guy from France bought 11 items from me, than left 11 negative feedbacks. He said that I overcharged him on shipping so much, that I made $20 profit. Which was a lie...because the TOTAL cost of shipping and handling that he paid was $20.00.

What the hell do you do with assholes like that?

[VG_Maniac]

The funniest part is that after I relisted it another guy from Germany won it. But he was much more reasonable. I guess they really like Indiana Jones games over there.

Of course they do. I mean, Indiana Jones is the one who single handedly brought down Nazi Germany after all.

[darkslime]

Got a weird positive today on a copy of KOTOR that just says: "None"
At least its a positive.

[The 1 2 P]

I haven't gotten a negative for this(atleast not yet) but a chic I sold a manual and case to messaged me the other day asking where the game disc was. I politely explained to her that the item listing says it's for a case and manual and that the description clearly states a disc is NOT(thats how I typed it in the auction) included. Now, she's new with no feedback so I was taking it easy on her, mainly because I've only had problems with like 3-5 zero feedback bidders out of 50 of them. But then she kept messaging me saying stuff like it was false advertisment and product fraud. I really wish more people on ebay could read. It's really not that hard to do.

[Pantechnicon]

When I first started Ebaying about 10 or 11 years ago I'd take money orders only and ask for payment sent to my place of employment so that when the m.o. came in I could ship right away over lunch break. So I'd have very specific instructions saying make payment available to <my name>, send payment to <Philips Semiconductors>, attn: me. You get the idea.

So this one time this fella got confused and made the m.o. out to Philips Semiconductors. We had an email exchange that went something like this:

Me: I can't cash this. You made the payment out to my employer, not to me, despite clear instructions.
He: Well, since you asked for it at work I just assumed you owned the place.
Me: :roll: Right. My name is Paul Cortez and I own a semiconductor plant I call 'Philips'. And because the tens of millions I make manufacturing and selling computer chips simply isn't enough, I have to run a side gig selling used computer parts on Ebay.(/sarcasm). Please send a correctly addressed payment kthx.
He: Can't you just have Philips cash the M.O. and pay you out of petty cash?
Me: Probably not. We have no cash on site. And even if we did, I see no reason to obligate the beancounters here to fix your mistake made in our private transaction. I'm sending this back to you. When you send a corrected m.o. I'll send your stuff.
He: Grumblegrumble...

He sent the corrected m.o. a couple weeks later and then negged me complaining about "loose" packaging, of all things. Despite the fact that the item was swimming in a box full of styrofoam peanuts and completely sealed in packing tape.

[bb_hood]

I bought 2 magic the gathering cards for 15$ shipped on ebay (this happened quite a few years ago). 3 weeks later, nothing arrives. I complain and ask for some kind of refund. Seller states that he sent them and will not refund anything. I leave him bad feedback and he does the same for me. Almost EXACTLY 1 year later (16 days short of a year), the 2 cards arrive. I check the post date and they were shipped when the seller had said they were. They apparently got stuck under my mail carrier's car seat. Another satasfied customer of the post office!!!