Auction House- Post Removed By Poster

[otismalibu]

Do you want to only have people bashing topics without a defense?

Well, if the person/s listing the item in question won't respond, I guess you can be the court appointed voice for the bashees.

Perhaps we need to use kinder/gentler terms when referring to an item in question, and maybe that will encourage more posts by the folks we'd be interested to hear from. Something like "I would not feel comfortable purchasing this item." Maybe the people representing certain auction houses don't want to participate in a forum they wish would disappear. Maybe they simply don't have the time. It anyone's guess. I called an auction house guy to talk about a certain jersey once and although he was kind enough to take my call, he pretty much just gave me the "trust me, the jersey is good" response. We never even got to a discussion regarding the lettering style, tagging, etc. IMO, trust is a dangerous thing when it comes to sports memorabilia

Regarding eBay, a seller can shill his own auctions with hidden bidders and no one will know. We all know of a seller that shilled (and admitted it) with exposed bidding and he's still an active eBayer. What did he get? A 24 hr. suspension? On the other hand, I could email your current and past bidders until I reached my daily limit, then switch to another ID and email more. Then do it again the next day. Think I'd get suspended by eBay? Doubt it. Not too many enforced rules on eBay. They're just the venue, ya know.

Greg

[trsent]

A few weeks ago I was on the phone with eBay's Trust & Safety division discussing a copy of Playboy's 50th Anniversary book which I was selling that was ended by eBay.

I asked the guy who I could speak to about their policy who had something to do with setting the policy, and he told me he was as far as I could get. I told him that as a customer who has spent an average of $1000.00 a month with eBay over the past eight years I felt I should at least have a name and an address I could mail a letter about the discussion.

He had the balls to tell me that it was my choice to spend that money with eBay that no one forced me to. Needless to say, I blew up at him. I would never treat my customers that way, tell them that I didn't make them spend their money with my company.

Needless to say, when I received a reply with my complaint about this jerk in their T&S division I was given the information I requested to let eBay know of my dissatisfaction of how the classify Playboys.

Here is the catch, all of the other adult photography books I listed were allowed to run their 5 or 7 days without being ended. These were mature books, but not pornographic. If they would have had the word "Playboy" in the title they would have been ended. So stupid...

[ham1963]

Joel,
You mean that you talked to someone at E-Bay that is amazing Was it a real person or a robot?? How long did it take you. You really must share your story with us.

John

[trsent]

Joel,
You mean that you talked to someone at E-Bay that is amazing Was it a real person or a robot?? How long did it take you. You really must share your story with us.

John

John, us powersellers get a phone number to call whenever we want telephone support.

[sammy]

In regard to my original posting, I was wrong in my assumption.

I have been in contact with the auction company and they were kind enough to send me the actual bid sheet for that item.

There were four other bidders on this item, but only one at the end. Unlike other auction companies, this company's bid format lets you bid each increase instead of every other one. My rival bidder actually was able to bid the same amounts as me, but being as I placed the same higher bid first, I won the auction.

This auction was entirely legitimate and honest, and that is the reason I requested my original posting be removed.

I will have no concerns in the future doing business with this company.