posted on October 9, 2007 11:19:14 AM new
Just shows to go you, even experienced eBay sellers can get taken in.
A couple months ago I had this lady win a couple of my auctions. Right out of the gate she complains she can't pay because I require confirmed addresses for PayPal and she doesn't want to register her credit card, blah blah blah. My trenchant observation that we also accept money orders and cashier's checks apparently fell on deaf ears because I never heard back. Time passed, I filed for FVF refunds, and got them.
I thought she was nice but clueless. I was wrong.
Today she wins three of my auctions, I send an invoice and she responds with the exact same note she sent before. It's a FORM letter! I wonder how many other sellers she's done this to. You can't tell by her feedback, of course, they'd all be too scared to leave her negs.
This time I block her, of course, as I should have done last.
posted on October 9, 2007 11:30:55 AM new
If you filed for fees last time (2 or more transactions) and this time (several transactions) that should pretty much put her out of the buying game. (EBay should NARU). What's her angle? Just having fun or more malicious?
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posted on October 9, 2007 12:44:18 PM new
Wow talk about ambiguous! I just looked up the unpaid item policy: ote: If a buyer gets too many strikes in too short a time period, their account will be suspended indefinitely. In some cases, limits may be placed on the buyer’s account in advance of suspension.
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posted on October 9, 2007 01:07:07 PM new
Even when the policy stated that three strikes from three different sellers would lead to a naru, it really wasn't that cut and dried. They (ebay) often excused the third and even fourth and fifth strikes when people whined and offered hard luck or bad seller stories.
I still say that if you're too stupid to figure out how ebay works in three tries, it's time to put the computer up on a rack and find a new means of doing your shopping.
