Ebay problems!!

This is what gets me totally frustrated with many sellers on ebay and their normal tactic of retaliatory feedback. No wonder ebay made the changes to FB, seller's like this forced them to! You did absolutely nothing wrong to deserve a negative but yet that's what you got. Why? I guess he's mad because you won the auction. Go ahead and list his seller ID. That's one seller that I don't want getting a penny of my money. Pis--s me off when this happens!!

 

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Just curious, Is this seller a power seller or have an online store or many auctions going at once?

 

If you knew which people were trying to injure you, you could takes steps to avoid them. I'm more worries about people who just aren't paying attention or are just poor drivers... they're more of a proven danger.

Er... the analogy at that point doesn't carry over to eBay well. Excpet that buyers and sellers have a reputation on eBay... it's called their feedback... and those that rotinely try to cheat people eventually get a reputation for doing so and people learn to avoid them, if eBay doesn't kick them off. Your best defense against such people is to become educated about what's real and what's not, what things are really worth, and to pay good attention to the seller's reputation.

I've bought and ocassinally sold things on eBay for about 10 years now. In that time I've only ever ran into one problem seller, and one problem buyer. It's not just luck; I've learned to pay close attention to reputation, and to look closely at the listings for any red flags that what's being listed insn't worth what's asked or that the seller doesn't look trustworthy. You'll still get a bad apple now and then but if you're having problems with even 1% of who you deal with on eBay you're not being as cautious as you should be.

P.S. The worst thing that can happen to you on eBay if a seller rips you off is you're out whatever money you paid. Even if 1% were trying to do that to you, that's pretty good odds. You won't end up dead or in the hospital because of it so I'd say your analogy isn't any better than mine lol... Besides another way it breaks down is that if 1% of drivers were actively trying to intentionally injure people, you can bet law enforcement would actively be searching for such people to arrest them and stop them. That's better odds than you get with eBay enforcement which is not especially proactive... they wait for a problem to be brought to their attention before they do anything for the most part... but they will take action in the most blatant cases at least, usually... excpetions exist of course, but they're easily avoided most of the time.

 

I've seen some auctions where the seller also has the item for sale at his/her B/M store.I'm not trying to defend the seller but it just might be that the coin was sold there and by the time he went to pull the listing, it ended and you "won".Not seeing the listing I don't know if it was in the desription or not.Maybe just a case of bad timing. If it wasn't in the listing, then I think you have a beef. Sorry you didn't get the coin you wanted but at least you didn't lose your money. John

 

You cant sell the coin in a ebay store at the same time its in auction. If the seller has more then one then thats a different story. Also I looked and he only had the one listed.