This is what I received after an auction was over and the seller originally thought i was a different seller on the first contact. I informed her she was mistaking me with someone else and she let me have it.... Has anyone else gotten this kind of e-mail responses?
> After reviewing your auction I can see how I was misled. You have taken
the
> structure and even stolen wording from one of the regular corset
auctioners
> on EBay. Whether you did this because you lack creativity or because you
were
> being intentionally deceptive I cannot be sure, but neither trait is one I
> look forward to dealing with in a custom corset maker. I will honor my
EBay
> bid because I blame myself in part for being taken in, but I will use
> I-Escrow since I feel more comfortable using a neutral third party in what
> has already been a deceptive transaction.
> The measurement file that you sent me took 15 minutes to download, was
3,477
> pages long and unreadable. Please send your measurement needs to me in a
> concise and readable format.
My response to them:
> Hello,
I am sorry you feel I have mislead you or you feel I have stolen someone
elsesformat. The background is a computer program that many people use. The
wording I most certainly did come with up on my own to convey just what I
was offering and what a buyer could expect from a corset made by me. The
measurement page was created on front page 2000 a web building program. It
appears on my web site and had been sent to many other customers with out
any problem. I do not accept escrow payments. If you wish to let the auction
rest since you thought I was someone else this is fine. I do not want to
deal with a customers with ruffled feathers so to speak the out come would
probably be negative since we seem to have started off on the wrong foot.
Sorry again for the confusion.
posted on December 9, 2000 08:31:55 PM
Hello Istacy6,
I think your response was fine.
I wonder if you have run into a buyer/bidder who had second thoughts about the purchase and has taken a novel approach to getting off the hook without having a deadbeat bidder warning issued?
posted on December 10, 2000 01:24:03 PM
hi all, She accuses me of stealing others ideas because the actual auction has a lot of the same information... it has to.... custom corsets.... same type of info..
and i used a template from Auction watch program... I have several running now... all different. one of the template is the same another corset ebayer uses... does this mean i stole her format?
She gave me a negative feedback... I hate that. anyway I have been researching corset making for 4 months and started making them 2 months ago..
Thanks a lot for all your feedback
Lisa
posted on December 10, 2000 02:15:08 PM
Lisa,
I think your response to the winning bidder was very reasonable, and I think you were wise to let her out of the deal. You have done nothing wrong and certainly didn't deserve the negative.
I looked at one of your current auctions, and one from the other seller. The only thing they have in common is that they are for similar items and they use the same auction template. The wording is not the same, you have certainly stolen nothing from the other seller.
Templates are not a means of identifying a seller, that is just ridiculous! I sell books and mostly use the same template, but occasionally I will vary it. Can't imagine how that would confuse anyone. The way you identify a seller on eBay is by their user ID, not by a template!
It is up to the bidder to make sure they are bidding on the correct item, from the seller they would like to buy from.
I think you should thank your lucky stars that you don't have to deal with this person any longer - surely they would be very hard to please and it would be a continuing ordeal.
