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

[David Weiner]

Second the motion - I'm getting boxes of 78s from eBay every day & have had
only a tiny proportion of problems overall & those were settled to my
satisfaction each time. 

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
[mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of Taylor Bowie
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 4:23 PM
To: 78-L Mail List
Subject: Re: [78-L] Ebay feed back being held as hostage by sellers!

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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