[78-L] Ebay feed back being held as hostage by sellers!

[Taylor Bowie]

Oh,  come on,  David...don't give up.   The trick is to stick with the good 
folks we know,  many of whom are on this list (e.g. Omar,  Roger,  etc.). 
However, I buy a lot of (and sell a little) stuff on eBay...approx. 7,000 
transactions in the last 11  years,  and if anything I think the average 
seller has improved during that time...or maybe I've learned how to avoid 
most of the crazies and bad graders/packers.

Where else can you scout for 78s, and do it 24/7/365?  And there are still 
wonderful bargains to be had,  every day.

Taylor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Ebay feed back being held as hostage by sellers!


>I gave up on eBay several months ago. The disasters were starting to 
>outnumber
> the good transactions.
>
> dl
>
> Tom wrote:
>> Let's get back to basics.
>>
>> The best sellers I've worked with on ebay follow up after the item has 
>> been shipped. It's usually a brief note just asking for confirmation that 
>> the item has been received. I'm always happy to answer these emails and 
>> re-confirm back to the seller that the item arrived in good condition. 
>> Usually I send back an email that says something like "Yes, the LP 
>> arrived in the mail the other day. Thanks for the prompt service. I'm in 
>> the process of leaving positive feedback for you and would appreciate 
>> your doing the same for me when you have the chance to do so." I then 
>> leave positive feedback for the seller. In every case, I've also had the 
>> seller automatically leave positive feedback for me as well.
>>
>> For items I've sold on ebay, the process works the same way in reverse.
>>
>> There are a fair number of sellers on ebay who are flakes. I've only run 
>> across a couple of them since I started buying stuff on ebay about nine 
>> years ago. All the other transactions I've had have worked out fine.
>>
>> I think you guys are looking for a problem where not much of one exists. 
>> If the seller is a flake and sends out an item that arrives damaged, and 
>> is unwilling to make good on the transaction in a manner that seems 
>> reasonable to you, leave negative feedback and move on.
>>
>> In nine years of buying and selling stuff on ebay I've had to do so 
>> exactly two times.
>>
>> Tom
>>
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