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chaoticjelly
09-25-2004, 07:09 AM
How come I get all the negative happy Americans?

I'm not Xenophobic or anything, I like America, but why do some of these people continue to mess with me on ebay?

I keep getting the deadbeat bidders, they have 0 or little feedback,

My most recent negative feedback comment:

http://feedback.ebay.co.uk/ws1/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback&userid=chaoticjelly&items=25&page=2&frompage=-1&iid=-1&de=off


"sent payment from USA then he never sent. another reason to not trust the UK!!!"


Left by an American,
I mean, what is this guys problem, he buys an item 11th September, I state I require payment within 7 days,

I send an invoice as usual, days pass and I hear nothing. 11 days in fact ( a week and a half )

So I file the process to get my money refunded, and I leave him a negative,
A while later, he responds on ebay to the claim that he hasnt paid

Quite amicably saying some bullshit that hes posted payment "in the mail" when I only accept payments of paypal outside of Europe?? plus he never told me he sent anything?

Then he leaves that negative feedback for my straight away!

I have recieved nothing in the mail

To add insult to injury, he makes his comment xenophobic and racist

I let ebay know, but unfortunately it doesnt fall under their terms for feedback removal

The ebay system is FLAWED why do jokers like this get to even be on ebay?

Also the last negative I got was from another American, he bought a GHETTOBLASTER from me for 4.99, he NOT ONCE asked the shipping costs to the USA, so when I PACKAGED the box, took it to my local POST OFFICE had it weighed and the postage cost calculated ( £45 )

I tell him, and he says he Doesnt want it

He then makes up a mountain of complete bull shit

If you look at what hes bought lately, hes spent hundreds of dollars on expensive paintballing gear, yet he doesnt buy my item, he tries to pin the blame on me for "not listing the shipping cost to america in the auction"

I file for my money back and leave him a negative, he responds straight away with a negative, claiming some absolute bullshit, that I'm childish in some way? saying I ignore emails and cant respond to them

(I emailed the guy dozens of times and responded to every email he sent me)

He said he would send me $10 in the end, and agree to retract the feedback, 4 weeks later I get fed up of waiting for a stupid $10, so I agree to retract the feedback

He doesnt even agree to retract the feedback,

There has been countless other DEADBEATS from America, recently, including one that bought something for £17.99 (an amiga disk drive), then emailed me 5 minutes later saying they didnt want it

Also someone who bought a joystick then emailed me saying cancel my purchase i was just testing the ebay system

Why are there so many jerks like this????

And I am powerless to stop them !!!!

I wish I could at least telephone them and shout at them !!!!


:angry:

jonjandran
09-25-2004, 07:26 AM
I get stuff like that all the time.

Thats why all my auctions are USA, Canada only, BIN only, pay-pal immediately required.

It has cut my problems back to 0 % . And my sales have stayed the same. I still sell everything I list.

farfel
09-25-2004, 09:07 AM
No checks accepted? Why?

Predatorxs
09-25-2004, 09:19 AM
chaoticjelly i know where your coming from, but i think your better off selling to UK only ebayers, American ebayers that are genuine will contact you first, asking if you'll ship to the USA before they bid. At that point, you can see there feedback, before allowing them to bid..

I always use a notice on all my auctions that say "No Recent Negs" or "you need to have 15 to 20 recent Positives to bid" If you have no feedback, contact me first!

Also Negative feedback isn't just one way traffic, you hit them, there gunna hit back. I always found staying in contact, with polite and curteous communications/emails.. Goes a really long way!

(Some people have an itchy trigger finger, when it comes to leaving rash Negatives)

Even if your in the right, they still have the option to hit back.. I go out of my way to never leave "Bad" feedback! i think i have left 3 ebayers Negs in my 4 years on ebay!..

There are alot of stupid, no brainers! after you deal with them, add them to your bidder blocking list!

PS. i'm in Manchester too!

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