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To answer a couple of your questions Jeff... I did a complete cut/paste of both mine and his emails, no edits except for mine and his real names at the beginning and end of the emails (which I deleted from the cut/paste). He did in fact have other ebay activity going on at the same time I was waiting on him to send me the switches. He was getting new feedback nearly every day from other buyers, since the day I won the new switches and paid for both the new and used ones. No one as of yet has left Neutral or Negative feedback regarding any slow shipping since Dec 29th. I seem to be the only one complaining, out of the '47 other auctions' he claims to have had to ship out the day he shipped mine. The original transaction for the used switches (the off-ebay sale) was started, I guess you could say, when I asked if he had any new #4 switches. He replied that he had 19 used #4's in 'excellent condition' and sent two pictures of them basically piled on top of one another, but fanned out like a deck of cards. From the pictures they looked good, and, I've seen both older #4's with the blackened metal frogs and others with the shiny metal frogs, so when I saw both in the pictures, they all appeard to be the same size and shape, and in the 'excellent condition' he described, I agreed to buy them at the price he offered. He specifically told me he had 9 #4 RH, and 10 #4 LH. I asked him to set up a Buy It Now ebay auction in one of my original emails, but he claimed it would save both of us time, if I just sent the payment for the used ones with the new switches I bought from him on Ebay. I posted a few questions on here, and got about a 50/50 'go for it' and 'don't ever buy used track' from the responses here. Going on a gut feeling, thinking I was getting a great deal, having seen the pictures, and seeing he had a great feedback rating, I thought it would be an okay deal. Little did I know I wouldn't recieve the items I bought for 3 weeks, and then when I get them, they're not what I paid for. To follow up, I'm not leaving him any feedback at all, on the new or the used switches, because of the way this situation has played out, and because he threatened to leave me negative feedback simply after I emailed him the first time asking why I didn't get what I paid for, even though I paid the same day the sale was made. I've decided never to do business with him again after all this.
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