Boogiegail strikes again!!!

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@amesie2:

if it was a negative experience, you should have given negative feedback. The money back is your right, not hers.

Anyways, good luck with your Amiga, but before that, I wanted to ask you: could you explain the problem with the Belkin "Y" adapter or whatever item that burned the motherboard?

Don't want to have me such a problem either :-)

Thanks

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@amesie2:

oh Jesus, man!!! You need a beating! 2x4000's and an accelerator card??!? You just had to try another... Tsk, tsk, tsk...

Thanks for the link. I certainly ain't going to try it on mine :-)

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@drewz21:

she's already aware that the community knows (she's posted on here before about, guess what? similar issues). But it's still good to "remind" her of this fact, so that her sources of suckers dwindles...

Good luck with your filing, let us know if you get your money back

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@James:

wow, what a story! I hope you got'em to pay you for the gas :-)

Basically these "chicken and egg" situation has been bugging me a lot lately, and I have the same problem with people and positive feedback. I intend to leave positive, but I can't trust that the other will 1) leave positive as well or 2) never leave feedback, which is still not cool because why should I give one, and not receive one, right? I'm the loser in either case.

So what I've decided is this: since I at least know myself and I'm not a crook and I do _intend_ to leave positive feedback, I wait for them. If they leave, then I'll leave too. If they don't I'll never leave for them either. Fsck'em. But I'll never leave first, unless I'm a buyer, in which case I'll leave whatever feedback based on what I bought.

I think on eBay one has a couple responses, but I'm not sure how many..

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amesie2 wrote:
of course I did have to file a claim against her first before action was taken.

That's a negative RIGHT there, because you _know_ that she would have never returned the money had you not filed.

BTW, add this to her "file":
http://www.toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=Boogiegail+&Dirn=Received+by

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Fester wrote:

What can you do?

Show up at their home, like James did, and show them what it means to be a professional merchant! (with a baseball bat if possible!)  :-D

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amesie2 wrote:

How come Boogiegail is still alowed to operate on Ebay and Paypal with the score she has?

I guess it will only be a matter of time before people will just decide she is a crook and no sales will happen until she opens a new account

I think the reason is because the scoring system on eBay is broken. When you look at someone with 99.9% score and then one with 98.6% score, you naturally think they're both good. Afterall, you've been brainwashed for years at school to think anything above 90% is good. BUT in reality the two scores are WILDLY different. I would _never_ buy from a 98%, unless I'm desparate. I have 100%, and I intend to bend over backwards to please my customers and thus keep that, because it's really difficult to keep such a score.

So, for your second paragraph, she's not going to go away and "newbies" won't realize that she's so terrible, and they'll keep on buying from her. She'll be refunding money just to save her ass, and people will be giving neutral because of the "prompt" response and the story will continue...

What could be useful is something like that I link I pasted, because most people won't sit down and go through 50 pages to see the negatives (I do). Now with this new tool/site, it's really easy to focus on the negatives and avoid stupid actions, like buying from Boogiegail...

James wrote:
@da9000
I did not make them pay for the gas for two reasons. The first one is that I exchanged a used item I had paid 5$CDN for a brand spankin' new 2500$USD synth. And the second one is that I put the fear of god in them. I looked like some sort of psychotic killer at the time..shaved head..leather and spikes everywhere...boots up to your armpits (hence my 'cute adorable self' comment). And I looked *very* pissed at that particular moment. The guy's father was afraid, and it showed. That alone was worth the 25$ of gas (at the time.... today it would cost less to buy Yamaha and have them build me a custom synth).

Hahahaha, that's awesome! Yes, you're right, gas prices weren't the same, and boy did you get a deal! 5CDN -> 2500U$, wow! And the "fear factor" :-D

@thread
Just an idea.. how about we all create bogus Ebay accounts and super-bid all her stuff? Stick it to her!

She does deserve it, but frankly it won't do much as far as making the other buyers aware of her crookedness...

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Fester wrote:
negative feedback whenever customers complain. I suspect that more eBay buyers would be much more frank about the service they receive if they weren't afraid to have their own feedback messed up for being honest.
Fester

I agree fully, because, unfortunately, I'm in that situation now, with 2 sellers.

The one dork never checked his email, and I never got the book I needed on time and I asked him to leave positive feedback, and I would not give him negative. He didn't. Now I want to leave negative, because he wasted 2+ weeks of my time and that book was needed by a certain date, but I'm afraid he'll retaliate and I don't deserve a negative: I paid right away. I was the perfect customer (you can't not be on half.com, since your money is taken right away). There's one option for me, but I'm debating using it: leave negative on the last day of the 90-day period. If he's quick, he can come back, but if not... Not sure I'll do it though.

As for the other dork... 2 of the 5 items are the wrong models. Argggg...

I also hate how eBay only gives 50 or so characters to explain oneself... Can barely describe the situation.

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motorollin wrote:
@jbuonacc
Well the sub-headng of your auction does say "fully working", and the body of the auction also states that it is "in good working condition, fully tested and running smoothly". If I read this on an "as-is" auction I would assume one of the following:

a. The "as-is" clause is a formality, and the system will be fine
b. The seller hasn't really tested it and doesn't actually know if it is working
c. The seller is lying and the system does not work at all

I might take a chance and bid on the item, but would be very disappointed if it arrived non-working after the auction stated that it was "fully working" and "fully tested". I would probably complain to the seller in this case.

Sorry of this is not what you wanted to hear. I'm not trying to offend you but I think that if you are selling an item "as-is" you shouldn't state also that it is fully working in another part of the auction as this is slightly contradictory.

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moto

I don't see it that way. The "as is" only means one thing: the machine is working fully (like stated) _BUT_ it's possible that something might stop working because it's old.

Simple.

Although I would word the "as is" like: "as is due to age".

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ral-clan wrote:
I think there should be a double blind feedback posting system on Ebay.  Feedback should be stored by Ebay's computers and NOT posted publically until BOTH the buyer and seller have submitted their feedback to Ebay --- then both "feedbacks" are posted simultaneously.  Only then could the buyer and seller read the other person's feedback.

That would be interesting to see in action. It sounds like a good idea. Almost like Solomon's rule: if you have to split something equally between two people, you have one do the splitting and the other the choosing

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aardvark wrote:
I think there are some fundamental problems with ebay feedback. One being that you can't retract anything once you have posted it.  The other day I accidentally left positive feedback for a guy whose item I never recieved. I meant to give the feedback to a guy from whom I'd purchased a similar item. They should at least have a limited time in which to cancel accidental feedback.

Agreed, that's very annoying ( as well as the length or number of comments... )

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Granted, it's better to have a paragraph like that, which most of us take for granted, yet some don't ...

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Drez21, did you file both an eBay report AND a Paypal or just one of the two?

I'm dealing with a similar situation, but not with her (I did my research for I was to buy from her and realized she's a leech early on)

[da9000]

That would be awesome! :-)

But then again, it might be her trying to do an "Amiga Inc." on us :-D

[da9000]

Some people do consider "a bit later than I would have liked" something to scream and yell about, because it's a binding contract that they enter when they decide to buy something and give a merchant their money.

Then again other people don't ...

Oh well, let's see how quickly she gets spotted again in her new identity...