Ebay Waning... Beware

[Anonymous]

Yeesh so 60+ dollars are gone for a bad fistful of track and problems. I would have simply gone down to the LHS for track and such. That's just me. Track is too cheap to be pushing on ebay.

I am not sorry for the position I have taken regarding track. I am also not caring about the seller's feelings towards feedback. If I saw Items in damaged condition. Tracks loosely packaged in paper envelopes with no padding! Buyer Beware!

I certainly would have understood that there was a problem with that seller and would be very careful in deciding if I want to do business with that seller. The seller has the duty to indicate the condition of the items up front and taking due care in the shipping. If the seller does not do the job well then they dont deserve to be coddled with positive feedback just because of the almighty 100% rating.

I personally have been lucky but I have no problem leaving feedback of any sort. The percentage of good versus bad feedback has no meaning to me. I also sometimes see the so called retalitory feedback in action and I think it is a waste.

Feedback to me shows me how the seller and customers felt about each other and sometimes with a little bit of reading can be quite educational. If I think someone is being too heavy on the messy sales and firing salvos of flaming bad nasty feed back but yet selling an item that I might want to buy I will be looking at both the sellers and all of his previous customers to see if it is worth adding myself to the flaming funeral pyre.

(Probably not) but sellers should do a good job and make the customer happy. I cannot sell peanuts to an elephant to save my life but those peanuts would be enjoyed by said animal or I will get trampled.

If this happened to me the way you described I would have left a negative feedback describing the poor condition of the articles in question and ate the losses as I think the seller has no interest in communicating or even trying to "split the bill" or consider a full refund. If I sold you track that bad, you deserve to have at least a partial refund if not the whole one.

I still think track is too cheap to sell on ebay, not worth the trouble when the LHS is just full of it.

[Anonymous]

While I agree with most all of what AntonioFP45 says, if your dealing with an
unscrupulous seller, he will likely fire back retaliatory bad feed back at you for burning
him! This fact makes this portion of Ebay’s feed back forum less useful as a method of
controlling bad sellers and buyers than people think. Every time I have given bad feed
back, I have received it in return! It is best to attempt some sort of settlement, first. If all
else fails, then your faced with going ahead and giving bad feed back.

[AntonioFP45]

Pavariangoo,

Did you check the seller's "Feedback"? What was his record like?

Be sure to LEAVE feedback. Don't leave it blank! If you were ripped off then you can leave "Negative or Neutral" feedback. Explain why! If a dissatisfied buyer doesn't leave honest feedback, positive or negative, then:
some other Ebayer may also get ripped off!! So please, do it!

The seller SHOULD HAVE listed the items as :
"Used, in fair condition. Some minor damage to some of the items but useable"

That would have been more realistic and fair to the bidders. Some buyers will purchase damaged items if they intend to do kitbashing or modifying anyway.

Your negative or neutral feedback can read something like:
Items in damaged condition. Tracks loosely packaged in paper envelopes with no padding! Buyer Beware!

That's all it takes! Might help this seller take ebay seriously in future transactions.
One thing you should do also is go to the option that says: Ask the Seller a question. I've done this several times. Sellers usually respond and give details about the items. Always, do your homework!

Hope this helps!

[green]High Greens to you![/greeen]

[darday]

I would recommend e-mailing the seller and seeing if you can get any resolution. I have had only one really bad experience on eBay: that was from high volume seller that retaliated with negative feedback because I gave her neutral feedback. Other times when I have contacted sellers about problems with merchandise (damage in transit or misrepresentation) I have always gotten at least a partial refund, sometimes a total refund or a replacement. Most reputable eBayers don't want to get negative feedback, if they can avoid it.

--Dave

[Anonymous]

This isn't really an eBay problem, but a problem that you had with an eBay seller. There are millions out there who do not have a problem with eBay. You have to know what you are doing. You get what you pay for sometimes.

Bob Boudreau

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by pavariangoo

Hi

I am just warning everybody about ebay.

Be Warned..
I
Just a reminder to be careful,ask seller questions and learn from my mistake.

Pavariangoo[:(!]

And it's the wise person that learns from the mistakes of others.

[Anonymous]

Hi

I am just warning everybody about ebay.

Be Warned..

I say this because many of you will remember in one of my older posts i mentioned i was bidding on a heap of track.I think it was the topic "Hows Ebay working for you". Well i won the bid and at first i was thrilled until when i received the product.

It was described as Very Good Condition but when i received it i was so anoyed because it costed me almost au$100,about 50 american dollars and many of the pieces were broken,soldering lead was still stuck on the rails,rails broken of ties,ties melted,the seller did not say they were steel rails,bits of glue and cork on them from old roadbed,packaged very poorly and i paid au$8.00 for postage and the envelope (yeah thats right,this guy sent tracks in a paper envelope,it only had very minimal padding) said that the postage was only au$6.30,so he ripped me off on that too.

Gee i wonder why he hasn't asked me to leave feedback!

Just a reminder to be careful,ask seller questions and learn from my mistake.

Has anyone else had experince like this?

Pavariangoo[:(!]