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  • suicide_squeeze
    Senior Member
    • Dec 2008
    • 1442

    #76
    Re: Classic eBay story!

    Originally posted by jv225
    Wow Suicide squeeze that is crazy. Why is that people don't have enough sense to not bid if they can't afford the item? I mean damn if it's going to take you months to pay for something maybe you should actually wait until you have the cash. Anytime I win an ebay auction I pay within minutes of it ending unless I go to sleep before the end then I pay in the morning before I leave for work.
    Exactly, jv225. as I'm sure most of us do.

    But, at the risk of sounding like a broken record......you hit the nail on the head with your comment about "not being able to afford it".

    This is why we are in the economic bedlam we are in. Think of all of the people that went ahead and bought houses they had no right buying. In fact, there were so many purchased by people who had no HOPE of keeping them, that the whole foundation of our economy is teetering on the brink of total collapse (a LARGE part of which is the current housing crisis), so we are having to "pitch in" via our Government bailing them all out with "emergency" stimulis packages, Billion dollar bail-outs, purchasing of BILLIONS of dollars of "bad assets" off the books of the major banks (to keep them solvent) who loaned the money out via FRAUDULENT short-term ARM's designed to make a lot of ex-alcoholic and drug-abusing mortgage loan officers BIG bucks for pushing paper to these very people who should have never qualified to buy a DAMN HOME in the first place.....

    NICE F'ing JOB GREENSPAN!!!!!!!

    *taking a deep breath*........I'm sorry, got a bit carried away there. But you see my point? This "idealological "me-first" mentality is embedded DEEP into society today.....because of the very GARBAGE like what's being allowed to transpire on EBAY today......leaving "responsibility" as a distant memory as a staple in conducting our lives.

    You were on the mark with your comments, and American citizens had better get back to what led us down the straight and narrow....and we had better start punishing the ones who are using the system to their own advantage while they let the honest languish in problems they have caused for them while doing wrong things.......or we'll never climb out of our crash-course with the abyss we are heading into.

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    • suicide_squeeze
      Senior Member
      • Dec 2008
      • 1442

      #77
      Re: Classic eBay story!

      Originally posted by sylbry
      Since we are bashing ebay paypal I need to throw a story in.

      I sold a Porsche on ebay in May of 2007. It was won by a fellow in Germany who spoke no English. My auction stated deposit within 48 hours with payment in full in 7 days. Time passed, no payment. After a month or so I tried to file a non-paying bidder complaint. Ebay rejected it stating the seller intends on completing the transaction.

      In the meantime the German (named Helmut, a name I will never forget) buys another Porsche from Hyman Motors, a highly regarded classic car dealer. Well now the German wants to ship the two together. Nevermind the point that he hasn't paid me a penny. Three months pass and I get a deposit of some nominal amount.

      Five months pass and he finally decides to pay me. Now Hyman is waiting for my Porsche to ship them together. I gave the German quotes for shipping to Hyman and even offered to do the arrangements. But I will not front the money. Not after how long it took for him to pay me. No response from the German.

      Finally Hyman got sick of waiting, sent a truck and away the car went. This was in November

      So thanks to ebay/paypal I had to wait 5 months for the money and six months to get it out of my garage.

      I know it isn't game used but it is an example of how ebay/paypal will hold you hostage regardless of how bad the seller has violated your terms of agreement. Do you think I will ever use ebay to sell anything large again? Not a chance. Thank goodness for Craigslist.
      It's unreal. Just leaves me speechless how a buyer can DUMP down on us sellers.......and there is NO support from ebay whatsoever.

      That's because they're too busy hiring 21 year olds with "great forward-thinking ideas!!!"

      God help me......I'm getting that "THROTTLING THE "F" OUT OF THE FIRST YOUNG PUNK THAT WALKS BY ME" feeling again!!!

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      • suave1477
        Banned
        • Jan 2006
        • 4266

        #78
        Re: Classic eBay story!

        Suicide you sound very hostile and violent ever think about taking up a hobby to rid your stress like collect Game Used Items from Sports or maybe take up your spare time with selling on ebay or even combining the 2 lol lol lol

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        • suicide_squeeze
          Senior Member
          • Dec 2008
          • 1442

          #79
          Re: Classic eBay story!

          Originally posted by suave1477
          Suicide you sound very hostile and violent ever think about taking up a hobby to rid your stress like collect Game Used Items from Sports or maybe take up your spare time with selling on ebay or even combining the 2 lol lol lol
          (smiling with you).....

          Actually, I am not violent at all.

          Through the years, however, I have grown extremely tired of "stupid people". ANd I have a really grown to resent stupid organizations and formats that reward the wrong, the criminals, and the advantage-takers over the honest. So...if I come off as sounding a bit harsh, it's because I have become hostile and violent towards it all.

          I don't mean to sound like I have no tolerance.......but my LORD, they seem to be everywhere. And if today's state isn't a good indication we should all be tired of it......then I don't know what is?

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          • nyjetsfan14
            Senior Member
            • Apr 2006
            • 414

            #80
            Re: Classic eBay story!

            Originally posted by suicide_squeeze
            Through the years, however, I have grown extremely tired of "stupid people". ANd I have a really grown to resent stupid organizations and formats that reward the wrong, the criminals, and the advantage-takers over the honest. So...if I come off as sounding a bit harsh, it's because I have become hostile and violent towards it all.
            Welcome to the life of a NY Jets fan

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            • jv225
              Member
              • Jan 2009
              • 78

              #81
              Re: Classic eBay story!

              Originally posted by suicide_squeeze
              Exactly, jv225. as I'm sure most of us do.

              But, at the risk of sounding like a broken record......you hit the nail on the head with your comment about "not being able to afford it".

              This is why we are in the economic bedlam we are in. Think of all of the people that went ahead and bought houses they had no right buying. In fact, there were so many purchased by people who had no HOPE of keeping them, that the whole foundation of our economy is teetering on the brink of total collapse (a LARGE part of which is the current housing crisis), so we are having to "pitch in" via our Government bailing them all out with "emergency" stimulis packages, Billion dollar bail-outs, purchasing of BILLIONS of dollars of "bad assets" off the books of the major banks (to keep them solvent) who loaned the money out via FRAUDULENT short-term ARM's designed to make a lot of ex-alcoholic and drug-abusing mortgage loan officers BIG bucks for pushing paper to these very people who should have never qualified to buy a DAMN HOME in the first place.....

              NICE F'ing JOB GREENSPAN!!!!!!!

              *taking a deep breath*........I'm sorry, got a bit carried away there. But you see my point? This "idealological "me-first" mentality is embedded DEEP into society today.....because of the very GARBAGE like what's being allowed to transpire on EBAY today......leaving "responsibility" as a distant memory as a staple in conducting our lives.

              You were on the mark with your comments, and American citizens had better get back to what led us down the straight and narrow....and we had better start punishing the ones who are using the system to their own advantage while they let the honest languish in problems they have caused for them while doing wrong things.......or we'll never climb out of our crash-course with the abyss we are heading into.
              That's funny suicide squeeze. In my first post I actually started typing about this whole mortgage thing and people not having enough damn common sense to only buy what they can actually afford but I started to rant and get political and decided I better delete it. So you actually saved me quite a bit of typing time since you did it for me
              We seem to think alike since I agree with pretty much everything you have said here.
              Always looking for anything Cowboys Game Used

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              • David
                Senior Member
                • May 2025
                • 1433

                #82
                Re: Classic eBay story!

                If the seller refused to pay the amount due (winning bids plus stated shipping charges) I think you can have any negative feedbacks removed. Winners have a lot of leeway these days, but they are still required to pay the bill before gaining the right to give negative feedback.

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