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Guess I will be forced to withhold feedback until buyers give theirs...
I have always given feedback as soon as the buyer pays...but I guess I will
have to start waiting for the buyer to give theirs first. Due to a death in the family, I was stranded in Arkansas for 10 days, but kept in contact with buyers whose ebay auctions were ending. Out of about 50 items sold, 4 people filed for Paypal refunds after paying by Paypal, even though the items were on the way and I had sent a note to all of them about the delay. Paypal debited my account twice for items which were shown to have been in the mail and were later delivered...I am having to "appeal" these. Two others left negative feedback, one claiming that I sent him a penny instead of a one ounce silver round, and filing a "not as described" complaint with Paypal. Another left a negative saying I had printed the shipping label but "USPS never picked up the package." Then, I got email from Square Trade offering to "remove " the negatives for $29.95 each, but only as far as the feedback score..the negative comments would remain! I gave positive feedback to all 4 of these buyers immediately after they paid. It's as if 8% of the buyers, knowing there would be a delay, took advantage of my family's grief to try and get something for nothing. |
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Guess I will be forced to withhold feedback until buyers give theirs...
Frank Provasek wrote:
It's as if 8% of the buyers, knowing there would be a delay, took advantage of my family's grief to try and get something for nothing. More likely it's 8% of the buyers are flippin' morons. You would be doing the community a great service if you outed these hosers' eBay IDs, so that we may block them and avoid their nonsense. -- Bob |
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Guess I will be forced to withhold feedback until buyers give theirs...
Frank Provasek wrote: I have always given feedback as soon as the buyer pays...but I guess I will have to start waiting for the buyer to give theirs first. Due to a death in the family, I was stranded in Arkansas for 10 days, but kept in contact with buyers whose ebay auctions were ending... Frank, I was in this position just recently when my brother died unexpectedly. I ended three pages of auctions because I knew there would be problems like this that came out of it. I don't make a living on auctions as you do, so I could do this. You've been in business for a while with good success, so I wouldn't change anything. Why toy with a successful practice because of a couple of people were unhappy? I hope that dispute resolution has a good enough outcome. I believe that your score will not be lowered by the negatives if there is mutual consent to remove them, even though there will be a note that they were withdrawn. I'm not really sure how it works, but many sellers with very high feedback ratings have scores of mutually withdrawn negatives. I've run into them often when I toolhaus their feedback. Sorry to hear of your loss. Anita |
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Guess I will be forced to withhold feedback until buyers give theirs...
Rita Ä Berkowitz wrote: First off, I'm sorry to hear about your loss, Frank. Secondly, an eBay seller should never leave feedback till the transaction is 100% complete. This means that you don't leave feedback till the buyer acknowledges by e-mail or leaving feedback first that they have received the item and allis well. Best wishes. Rita, you're scaring me again. |
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Guess I will be forced to withhold feedback until buyers give theirs...
Rita I thought you knew better than that -- as has been said here a
million times when a buyer pays you he is through - he does not even have to leave you FB ( most don't) -- why in the world would a seller burden himself with checking to see if every buyer emails you back after receipt or leaves FB for you???? - you got that much time on your hand??? I'm using selling manager to automatically leave FB when a buyer pays me - works great - I never check to see if a buyer has lleft me FB or not -- don't care I've got plenty with only 2 negs in 6+ years My 3 1/2 cents worth (inflation has overcome 2 cents worth) |
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Guess I will be forced to withhold feedback until buyers givetheirs...
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I'm using selling manager to automatically leave FB when a buyer pays me Thus totally trashing the feedback system and doing a serious disservice to other eBay sellers. And eventually posting an outright lie. -- Many thanks, Don Lancaster voice phone: (928)428-4073 Synergetics 3860 West First Street Box 809 Thatcher, AZ 85552 rss: http://www.tinaja.com/whtnu.xml email: Please visit my GURU's LAIR web site at http://www.tinaja.com |
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Guess I will be forced to withhold feedback until buyers give theirs...
You should have provided proof that somebody died. They probably didn't
believe you. It's as if 8% of the buyers, knowing there would be a delay, took advantage of my family's grief to try and get something for nothing. |
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Guess I will be forced to withhold feedback until buyers give theirs...
Don Lancaster wrote: wrote: I'm using selling manager to automatically leave FB when a buyer pays me Thus totally trashing the feedback system and doing a serious disservice to other eBay sellers. And eventually posting an outright lie. -- Many thanks, Don Lancaster voice phone: (928)428-4073 Synergetics 3860 West First Street Box 809 Thatcher, AZ 85552 rss: http://www.tinaja.com/whtnu.xml email: Please visit my GURU's LAIR web site at http://www.tinaja.com |
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Guess I will be forced to withhold feedback until buyers give theirs...
Don Lancaster wrote: wrote: I'm using selling manager to automatically leave FB when a buyer pays me Thus totally trashing the feedback system and doing a serious disservice to other eBay sellers. And eventually posting an outright lie. -- Many thanks, Don Lancaster voice phone: (928)428-4073 Synergetics 3860 West First Street Box 809 Thatcher, AZ 85552 rss: http://www.tinaja.com/whtnu.xml email: Please visit my GURU's LAIR web site at http://www.tinaja.com You might explain (1) trashing??? (2)disservice??? & (3) outright lie??? --- Answer (1) When a buyer pays he has met his obligation 101% (2) telling other Ebay sellers that a buywer paid up is NOT a disservice (3) I think Don just made this up If you are gonna hold yourself out as a guru then act like a guru -- it is scarry to think some newbie might click on your web site and believe you know-it-all --- Your web site??? As I and others have said before it is just spam for what you are selling but, I gotta admit, real good hidden spam |
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Guess I will be forced to withhold feedback until buyers givetheirs...
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