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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bafflez, post: 807184, member: 22174&quot;]I think you&#039;re missing the point of my original post.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are feedbacks stating <i>exactly</i> what he charged:</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: Red">paid 8.00 for best shipping recived a post envlope with a broken 1 &amp; their stamp</span></p><p><span style="color: Red"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: Red">Paid $5.35 for Priority Mail, coin sent 1st class mail $0.61 - he pockets $4.74.</span></p><p><span style="color: Red"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: Red">Charged nine times actual freight paid, then sent everything in one envelope.</span></p><p><span style="color: Red"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: Red">Sent coin in ordinary envelope, after charging $3.00 to ship one half dollar.</span></p><p><br /></p><p>Plus every listing states he&#039;s mailing the coin <b>PRIORITY MAIL</b>.&nbsp; A seller isn&#039;t allowed to charge for a higher priced shipping service, then send it by a cheaper service.&nbsp; Period.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even his most recent feedback (which was positive) states $5.35 priority mailing charges, on several listings he dropped his shipping costs to $4, then $3 - most likely to fall off ebay&#039;s radar.&nbsp;&nbsp; He is still listing in every auction that the item is being mailed priority mail. </p><p><br /></p><p>The buyers who left negatives overwhelmingly stated they were paying for priority shipping and not receiving it.&nbsp; In fact, some claim they were receiving coins sent unprotected in ordinary envelopes.&nbsp;&nbsp; I think we can all agree a coin should be sent in a bubble mailer at the very least!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If you read his feedback carefully, the issue isn&#039;t that he won&#039;t combine shipping costs, it&#039;s that he&#039;s charging for Priority Mail shipping costs on each coin, claiming to the customer he is shipping each coin separately, then puts them all in one first class envelope and pockets the difference.&nbsp; That isn&#039;t allowed on ebay.&nbsp; It&#039;s fee avoidance and shipping overcharge violations - all these are in ebay&#039;s seller policy.&nbsp; As a seller (&amp; buyer) on ebay I&#039;m expected to abide by the rules, this guy is no different.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I first looked at his feedback rating a week ago there fewer negatives than there are now, he has received more since I looked last.&nbsp; Anyone getting 14 negatives and 8 neutrals after being a member less than a month is inexcusable.</p><p><br /></p><p>While I may have not gone into every single reason why he&#039;s a seller someone should avoid, I didn&#039;t know I&#039;d have to defend myself to someone on this forum who would so vociferously be concerned with the minutia in the details of my original post, I will, however, in the future be more detail oriented if I decide to post a warning about a seller on ebay.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The original post was meant <u>as an ad hoc warning</u> to people here.&nbsp; Take it for what it was meant for.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I did not know that ebay covers a &quot;no return&quot; listing, if that&#039;s the case, why is it offered as an option still in their selling forms?&nbsp; When ebay removed insurance as an option it was removed from the selling forms.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Have you had personal experience being reimbursed by ebay when the seller has a no-return policy in place?&nbsp;&nbsp; Since the buyer protection policy is only 2 months and a few days old,&nbsp; it&#039;s probably not widely known by many buyers yet.&nbsp;&nbsp; I sure didn&#039;t know that.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for why is it ebay&#039;s problem: they take a cut of every sale, so they should be monitoring violators of their stated shipping policies when they are reported.&nbsp; When people get reported for flagrant overcharging on shipping they need to take notice.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As I already said, it was more like 7-8 negs and 6 neutrals when I first looked up his feedback rating, he&#039;s received many more negatives since then.&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t change the fact that that he&#039;s ripping off buyers.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Agreed, but 14 negatives and 8 neutrals out of 278 feedbacks isn&#039;t anything to write home about either.&nbsp; He&#039;s a one-month old handle with that many negatives with the same complaints over and over on his feedback - flagrant violations of stated ebay selling policies, it&#039;s inexcusable.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m sure he&#039;s done selling with this handle and will pop back up with a new one and do this all over again.&nbsp; A month later he&#039;ll reappear with a new name.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s the common pattern of a serial scammer.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;ve seen it before.&nbsp; And sadly, it&#039;s endemic to the ebay coin category, hence why a warning was posted.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>When I find GOOD coin dealers I post praise posts for them.&nbsp; When I spot BAD ones I post warnings.</p><p><br /></p><p>Therefore I feel the warning I posted was warranted.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Hopefully in a year when buyers are more familiar with the new buyer protection policy, people like this guy will not be able to do what they are doing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, thanks for telling me about the buyer protection policy re: &#039;no returns&#039;, I&#039;ll need to dig around more on that.&nbsp; I have a coin or two I can now send back that weren&#039;t as described but the seller has a &#039;no returns&#039; policy in place. Nice!&nbsp; :kewl:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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