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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NPCoin, post: 315891, member: 5629&quot;]Perfect feedback means one of two things:</p><p><br /></p><p>1) You don&#039;t do much traffic on eBay</p><p><br /></p><p>or</p><p><br /></p><p>2) You are easily manipulated and pushed over.</p><p><br /></p><p>Give him the neg with a proper explanation if he does not respond to you in the fashion you desire, and accept any retaliation he may try to give you.&nbsp; But, don&#039;t just stop there.&nbsp; Take the extra three steps and begin the process of making his online scamming life ... hard.&nbsp; I have posted a number of times on a number of boards that we have an extensive network of bureaucracies for a reason here in the States.</p><p><br /></p><p>First, a good thing to do is <b>every time</b> you make a bid, after you confirm your bid, go back to the <b>full</b> listing for the item and print the page to a file.&nbsp; Create a specific directory on your hard drive to hold these files.&nbsp; I number them according to the item number.&nbsp; Keep this file until you are <b>completely</b> satisfied with your item.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have found a number of times in the past seven years I have dealt with eBay that listings have a habit of <i>changing</i> or outright <i>disappearing</i> when things start to go the legal route, and the printed file (with the URL, Title and date headers) is sound evidence of what your contract actually was with the seller.</p><p><br /></p><p>If things go sour, especially with bait and switch, there are a few people (bureaucracies) to contact.&nbsp; First, you want to submit a complaint with the regional Postal Inspector&#039;s office with an explanation of what transpired and a copy of the listing.&nbsp; Send the same complaint to your State&#039;s Attorney General&#039;s Consumer Protection division, the State Attorney General&#039;s Consumer Protection division of the state the seller resides/locates from, the Federal Trade Commission, and if the item was priced over $1,000 contact the regional FBI for criminal investigation.</p><p><br /></p><p>It may seem like an overkill, especially for an under $10 item, but this is the <b>real</b> way of stopping these people.&nbsp; As more and more complaints file into these varied agencies, they&#039;ll do the math and see how much damage (not just to consumers, but to their tax revenues) these frauds are doing, and will eventually take action.</p><p><br /></p><p>And if you get taken on a moderately priced item ($1,000+) most definitely file a claim in your Federal Circuit Court and take them for everything you can.&nbsp; For the smaller items, making life miserable for them is enough and takes less than just a few hours to deal with.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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