posted on January 8, 2001 09:47:27 AM
Oh man, this freaked me out. Someone won one of my auctions in the middle of the night while I was sleeping. (Are there ebay rules against sellers sleeping?) A $17 music item that ended around midnight. When I woke up today I had THREE emails from the winner, all of them sent by 9 am, but not the same email, all different ones requesting my info. ALL of them sent within SECONDS of each other!! 8:52 am and 42 seconds!! 8:52 and 55 seconds! Etc! AND a user contact request from ebay from her, AND she used her FEEDBACK space to say "Please contact me! I won Item # xxx! Email error!" HUH??? Okay, maybe she did experience some kind of email error on her end so she kept emailing, but I got my email, I was just ASLEEP when she sent it!!! Looks like she just FREAKED and started going crazy contacting me, expecting an IMMEDIATE response!! Of course I did email her back right away, the second I got her emails which was only at like 11 am. I thanked her for her bid, gave her info on where to send payment, and I did ask why she contacted me so many times and used her feedback to contact me. I can't tell you why but this creeped me out bad. Like I had a stalker or something. It reminds me of someone here at AW - who was it - the "Did you send the shirt yet? Did you send the shirt yet? Did you send the shirt yet?" LOL!!! I have not heard back from this "winner" again yet but she spooks me, I reported it to safe harbor, I don't know why. Well, cos I anticipate a big problem, that's why. What would YOU guys have done? And how should I handle my RESPONSE to her feedback in the feedback forum?
{spin2] Spooked Rocker
posted on January 8, 2001 11:04:39 AM
Update:
First of all, when I emailed safe harbor I put the address in wrong, so it didn't get sent, which I am now glad about cos I don't think I need to report this after all. But this bidder did contact me again, apologized for so many emails etc and said she kept getting error messages when she sent email. Sheeeesh. I contacted her only like 2 hours after her massive email TIZZY. Did these people ever hear of the word "patience"??? I still have to deal with this ridiculous feedback comment "PLEASE CONTACT ME! I WON ITEM! EMAIL ERROR!" which doesn't look too good in my feedback. (At least she used a positive, not a negative.) For the sake of two measly hours she had to wait for my response, don't ya think she could've relaxed a little and waited for me to contact her? OBVIOUSLY I want to contact my winning bidders! Why do these people get their panties all in a bunch over this??? D'oh!!
Rocker
posted on January 8, 2001 11:18:10 AM
Hi Nana
YUP! LOL! Member since November, and 4 feedback comments, all of them positive, stating how QUICKLY she paid.
Yes I guess she did pay quickly... she probably pulled all their contact info and when they rolled outta bed on the morning of the auction close, with their hair all sticking out, headed into the kitchen for their first cup of coffee, she was sitting on the edge of their kitchen chair holding cash, saying DO YOU HAVE MY ITEM? DO YOU HAVE MY ITEM? DO YOU HAVE MY ITEM?
Hey Nana did ya mail the fish yet? LOL!!!
Rocker
[ edited by nycrocker on Jan 8, 2001 11:21 AM ]
posted on January 8, 2001 11:21:38 AM
Hello Rocker,
I suggest you demand as much from yourself as you demand from your bidder.
You tried to contact SafeHarbor because your bidder was impatient. Fortunately, you made an email error that prevented SafeHarbor from being brought into this. Just as the bidder thought they had made an email error when they repeated the emails.
The strange comment in your feedback will have little or no impact, especially after it is buried by a few more comments.
I wouldn't do anything by way of feedback (response in your file or feedback to the bidder) until the deal is completed.
posted on January 8, 2001 11:32:39 AM
Coda, you do have a point there, I did get "reactive" to her hysteria. But still, my (thankfully aborted) attempt to contact safe harbor is not the same as publicly stating something in someone's feedback. I agree this feedback will be no big deal, but at least when you email safe harbor, it is between you and safe harbor, not posted all over your feedback for everyone to see, know what I mean? But yes I can see I myself need to chill out and not let a crazed bidder's hysteria rub off on me. Jeeeez, I hadn't even had my fix of caffeinne and nicotine to kick in my personality yet.
Rocker
posted on January 8, 2001 11:39:41 AM
LOL Only when the sun comes up RB Then we sneak into our coffins and stay there until 10 am or so, at which point a cat claws at our faces, yowling FEED ME! FEED ME! like a crazed ebay bidder.
posted on January 8, 2001 11:41:50 AM
AHHHHH.....thanks Rocker for remembering and NOOOOOO I did not sell the fish and I will not! Too scared to pack. A local ad will have to do on this one. Now re your thread; I am glad you have backed off a little and perhaps you can teach this new person about feedback. Just remind her/him that this is not what feedback is for.
posted on January 8, 2001 11:55:17 AM
Tell ya what I'll do Rocker. If that eager to pay bidder spooks you, I've got three deadbeat bidders I'll trade you for her. I can recommend them highly as they never bother me with e-mail
The light at the end of the tunnel will turn out to be an oncoming train.
posted on January 8, 2001 12:48:52 PM
LOL! ok ok point taken. Yeah yeah yeah I should be happy to have such an enthusiastic bidder. No I should not be so jaded as to complain about a crazed bidder. I shall go and lay back down in my coffin to reflect. But admit it - NONE of us like people messing with our FEEDBACK now, do we.
That F word seems to send a lot of us straight into a flaming stupor. I have had my caffeine, I am calm.
Rocker
posted on January 8, 2001 01:45:26 PM
My kids have this thing they do to each other...they place their hand right up in the face of the sibling they mean to torment, and tap them on the face, all the while saying very fast,
"Does this bother you, does this bother you, does this bother you, does this bother you, does this bother you?"
Or, when they were little, and I would be on the phone, up would come the tiny hand patting my shoulder, over and over again, "Mom, mom, mom, mom, mom"
This is what this buyer and this thread make me think of.
Rocker
Then we sneak into our coffins and stay there until 10 am or so, at which point a cat claws at our faces, yowling FEED ME! FEED ME! like a crazed ebay bidder.
