posted on May 15, 2001 08:47:58 PM
I am just about seething right now. I check my feedback to see I am one down and I just got a neg from a woman who won an auction for a book 2 months ago from me. Her payment never arrived, I answered each and every of her emails and she said she would trace it and resend payment. Then she says bank put stop payment on the first money order and another was on the way. Consequently nothing arrived but being the kind of person I am and having believed her I had left it too late to file a non paying bidder alert and get any of my fees back. Anyhow I just chalked it up to experience and moved on thinking just another deadbeat as I'd heard nothing since. Now I check my feedback and she's negged me saying she sent payment twice and never recieved item! What did she want? A FREEBIE?? She didn't even have the common decency to email me first and she has never given me any proof that she even sent a money order and I know when you get one you get a reciept. I am so ticked off right now.
posted on May 15, 2001 09:01:23 PM
Sorry to hear what happen!, Now it's your turn to Neg her! I received 2 neg's the same day this guy won my auctions. You'll find that ebay is becoming a bad dream. Good sellers are getting negatives every day, just for listing their items. Remember to block out her email id,
posted on May 15, 2001 09:15:53 PM
Thanks, never even thought of that, just blocked her now. And believe me I negged her back and replied to her neg. I also emailed her and asked for an explanation, I'd really be interested to know how on earth she can justify giving me the neg that she did, considering it is me that is out my listing and FVF and had let her off the hook, with not so much as a neutral.
posted on May 16, 2001 06:55:15 AM
I have acquired 13 negs in the 2500+ positives and each one of these is a retaliation from a deadbeat bidder. There is nothing you can do about this.
posted on May 16, 2001 07:37:30 AM
Is there some way of blocking these deadbeats from repeatedly bidding on our things. I have a list of deadbeats that I would rather not have bidding on our things.I realize that we could watch all the bids and cancel them if they bid but that gets to be a hassle when you are listing lots of items.
posted on May 16, 2001 12:08:22 PM
I had a woman do the exact same thing. She kept insisting that she sent the payment but I sure never received it. I checked her feedbacks and discovered that she'd had several other "episodes". Her reply to my neg was "I have receipt." What is that supposed to mean? The tear-off strip from a Money Order? They're getting nuttier all the time, lemme tell ya.....
posted on May 16, 2001 01:46:33 PM
It is my opinion that once an NPB has been filed, ebay should disallow feedback from either party unless the sale eventually goes through. Once credit is issued to the seller, ebay should list the warning in the bidders profile. The warning could be removed from their file if the auction is concluded satisfactorily.
This would do several things. First, it would benefit sellers who are constantly victimized by retaliatory negative feedback. Second, it would eliminate the need for sellers to risk their reputations by having to police ebay deadbeats. And third, it would readily identify many deadbeat bidders who are still around because sellers refuse to neg them. Sellers benefit, ebay benefits
and bidders benefit.
I'm sure somebody has an opposing viewpoint or finds my opinion flawed. I'm not saying this is a perfect solution, only a better one than we presently have.
posted on May 16, 2001 02:57:39 PM
Sometimes the negative feedback from a deadbeat is in retaliation from a blistering feedback from the seller. I have read negatives that were downright mean on both sides. So far, I have been lucky, only positives, but I know I will get hit one day by a vindicative deadbeat. When I leave a negative, it is due to nonpayment and I simply state the end date of the auction and the statement no payment received as of (date), that is all. Good luck on this one.
posted on May 16, 2001 07:27:29 PM
Duh! I never even thought of that skip!
Must be having a prolonged brain fart this week.
This neg kinda stings, I'm only at 131 positives (117 unique) and I had one neg way back for someone that used feedback extortion to get their item, then negged me anyway. Tried to get it removed but you know what ebay is like!
Anyhow I was so happy that one was like 4 pages back and now this happens, it has really bummed me out. She didn't even contact me first. Not sure exactly what she expected me to do under the circumstances, its hardly my fault she didn't get her payment to me. It certainly does make a seller think twice before believing a late paying bidder in future and giving the benefit of the doubt.
