What would you do in my shoes?

Just wondering, did you peel the tape off? Can you see any damage?

 

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Yes and yes on a couple. Nothing significant, though, just some bands on a couple of them.

 

I would just forget about feedback all together. You just bought a little junk lot, and you received it. Whether the seller is a moron or not doesn't figure into the deal. I've had enough Europeans goof with my feedback back when I shipped there. I wouldn't retaliate on some other seller though......

 

Then I would put them in acetone and dissolve the tape residue. Since there was no permanent damage, especially on low-value coins, I would have kindly advised the seller to not do that in the future.

 

I have receiced coins that were wrapped in paper and taped to the back of a CD to get past Eastern European postal systems.

 

It appears that the seller does not handle coin sales with any frequency. These could have come from a grandparent's drawer as is. And I believe that this seller will never win the eBay 'Mr. Congeniality' award for service or response.

 

I'm generally more surprised when I buy a junk lot and it arrives bubble wrapped in cardboard flips (or better). I guess I have developed low expectations...

 

I am an ebay seller, and I would give the guy a negative feedback, just for the attitude, and would expect a negative feedback if I treated any of my customers that way, double fold, packing was not acceptable and attitude was out of line.

 

Never made any rookie mistakes, huh, Stephen? Like I said earlier, it must be nice....

 

Agreed. It's the rude reply that deserves to get dinged.

 

Clever people those Eastern European types. You had to be clever during the communist era. I saw something on TV recently where western records were forbidden in the USSR during the 1970s and 1980s so enterprising people started copying records onto old X-Rays - so it is possible to find Pink Floyd cut into some X-Ray of Ivan's foot.

 

Your response doesn't make any sense because it seems you didn't read his post the way I did. His answer focused on the poor attitude of the seller, specifically here:

If it was a rookie mistake, that's fine and it happens, but being a jerk about it isn't the right way to go about things.

 

All of this over a $5 item that was bought for the silver? Just don't leave feedback and move on life is to short to make a huge incident over something that cheap.

What rude reply? Nothing from the seller has been posted or quoted. A negative just for that is a gross overreaction anyway and just being vindictive.

 

You didn't see a quote because the conversation was in German. But it was rather rude and unnecessary. Also, the concern here is the customer service, which is what feedbacks are intended to rate. Poor customer service should receive poor feedback. Just because something is cheap doesn't excuse someone from treating their customer with respect.

 

Negative just because he had no time for you. After he got your money he was finished with you. When I sell on eBay I have all the time in the world for my customers. After all they trusted me enough to give me their hard earned money. I received a couple coins that were taped a few weeks ago, at first I was furious, then I thought maybe he didn't know any better. I wrote him a nice but deliberate note and he didn't know about typing coins. I got the residue off and he learned a lesson in how to ship coins. If you are going to sell on eBay you need to have the items in hand to properly ship your coins to protect them. That's one comment I get all the time as how satisfied they were with the protection and packaging I use. It's not expensive to do it right the first time.
Remember, we all had to learn at one time or another. But his attitude was totally uncalled for!

 

Not with eBay it's not. eBay feedback is to rate did you get the item, was it what you bought.

eBay isn't yelp. What people don't realize or should start caring about more is that a negative on there now limits sales, loses discounts ect. It's far more vindictive than a simple rating. If everyone wants to run around negging everyone over nothing which seems to be the case then people shouldn't complain when their options are much more limited and the prices are higher.

No, but many people have unrealistic expectations how much time and energy should be spent on them for a cheap purchase.

Everyone also knows there is a lot of self inflation going on in this thread trying to draw in customers and business. But a 3 dollar item from bunch and see how many will really spend all the time in the world on you

 

I'd like to know where you determined this from? Reading their site does not say your feedback should be limited to "did you get the item, was it what you bought." In case you or others haven't read it:http://pages.ebay.com/help/feedback/howitworks.html

It's intended to tell other buyers how your interaction with that seller went, so others know what to expect. I consider myself to be a little more educated than the average collector, so it would seem that I would actually be doing other collectors a disservice by not pointing out poor packaging and/or communication.

 

From when eBay decided to make the changes where a single neg can have major consequences on selling limits and discounts. If they wanted it to be a yelp style review the consequences to sellers can't be as major or quick as they have them set.

It is possible German eBay is different, I am not 100 percent on if the policies are the same but the USA a neg can completely destroy an account. The changes have made it so some sellers actually screen feedbacks before shipping. Throw around negs to casually and you may end up seeing a lot of purchases canceled and end up on a lot of blocked lists.

 

Also as mentioned you got silver under melt value, yet are still considering a neg.....

 

Something to consider: if a negative rating can destroy your account, then it pays to not be a jerk to a buyer, who will likely give you a negative rating in response.