Originally posted by sammy
Ebay has let the "gen-Y" morons take over......they are clueless, as is pretty much the whole mentality of our country these days......and they are driving ebay into the ground head first. I was a Power Seller too.....now you can't leave negative feedback for a buyer???
ARE YOU KIDDING?
Ebay is lucky if I sell more than 4 items a year now. Lost my "Power Seller" status. Could care less.
Here's my quick story......sold a jersey back in November (early November), had a 10-day payment required, listed as plain as day on the auction. The jersey sold for over $2,000.00.
The reason I sold it was to raise money quickly for some debt I had due.
So, the buyer take 4 weeks to send me a PARTIAL PAYMENT, emailing me just 2 times along the way saying how he has "listed items on ebay to help pay for the jersey".
WHAT? Why is his financial situation now MY problem???
So, right before he makes the partial payment, he emails me and says he is "sending payment.....You should have it in a day or two...."
For the next 6 days, I am checking my mail as soon as I get home. Nothing. He keeps emailing me, asking me "Did you receice my payment yet??" I keep emailing him back saying "No, it didn't come today. I'm sure it will be delivered tomorrow."
Finally, I get on ebay to double check that he hadn't sent me payment via paypal. It shows no payment on the item.
Then, the next day I'm at work, and I get a phone call from a Paypal representative. She says "We're calling about the case opened up against you on ebay for a jersey?" I said "WHAT??" She says, "Yes, the customer has filed an 'Item not received, or not received as described' case against you."
Having had a prior bad experience with Paypal, I was in NO MOOD for this s#!t again. So, after I chuckled in her in ear, I calmly explained, with full-adjective-latent detail, what a piece of garbage company she worked for, and how DARE they stand up for a loser who filed a FALSE case against me, a guy with 100% positive feedback, for an item HE HADN'T EVEN PAID FOR YET!
She meakly says "But he has paid you, sir. Have you logged into your paypal account lately?"
This loser had made a "partial payment", seperate and away from the transaction we had together on ebay. He did this because when you make a PARTIAL PAYMENT, which we had NEVER discussed to this point, Paypal will not make the item as "Paid via Paypal" unless the entire payment is made. So he went into Paypal OUTSIDE of our transaction to pay me what he WANTED to pay, which of course has no connection to our transaction. The only way I would have known would have been if he had TOLD me what he had done, or if I had been lucky enough to haphazardly log into Paypal and check to see if I had received a payment.
to be cont.
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