AARRGGH!! Worst eBay seller EVER!!

[Cyberus]

@ FluffyMc

Poll: Who thinks that is a false dichotomy?

In what way?

[jdiffend]

I had a guy ship a computer from Europe with no packing material around most of the computer.   It was actually touching 4 sides of the box.  That was dumb but nothing compared to this outfit.  THIS is what the worst eBayer ever really looks like.  (This is the bozo I mentioned earlier btw)

http://cgi2.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback&userid=pcxchang

[Bodie_CI5]

Why only talk about Ebay people per se?

How about postal services of the world i.e. PARCLFORCE worldwide from the UK! A whole massive A4000 seems to have gone missing :-o ! 70quid for postage seems to have gone down the drain. I am gonna contact the seller to get compensation in gear. :-x

[mantisspider]

Forget his ebaying ability, its his grammar that freaks me out:

"I dont have time to loose with you for that type of money." = why is he so loose? Maybe he should tighten up. did he mean to say lose?

"DID YOU CHECK how much you pay for shipping !!!!!!" = once again, should be "?" not "!"

"AND how much it cost me !!!!!!" = starts with AND, tsk tsk

"ARE YOU A DREAMER !!!!!!!" = should have ?? not !!!!)

"YOU ARE A FUNNY GUY." = this is where he should use the "!"

and I only learnt to read last week

what u gonna do with 10 a500 motherboards?

[redrumloa]

what u gonna do with 10 a500 motherboards?

I'll strip what chips I can salvage off them and throw the boards.

[Lando]

Leave his some scathing feedback! That will teach him not to f**k with an Amigan.

[jdiffend]

How about postal services of the world i.e. PARCLFORCE worldwide from the UK! A whole massive A4000 seems to have gone missing  ! 70quid for postage seems to have gone down the drain. I am gonna contact the seller to get compensation in gear.

How far was it being shipped?

[DanDude]

Wow--what was that seller thinking???

Thanx for the tip, redrumloa.  I'll put him in my ebay blacklist. :-)

[Fade]

Maybe the seller's name should have told you something. Think about it.

[Jagabot]

I dunno, from my point of view as a sometimes-frequent Amiga seller (and a fairly frequent buyer to complete certain items before I sell them) it works both ways. While I've never knowingly shafted anyone (I did send a busted A3000T keyboard with an A3000T system to somebody but immediately sent the one I knew worked when he emailed me saying he got a bad one -- I screwed up when I packaged, certainly not intentional) I HAVE been scammed by a guy who bought an A4000 from me 8 months back. After initial customs hassles, he then said the PS was dead so I cross-shipped him a new one. Except he NEVER sent me back the "dead" one. I know today the peniswrinlke is more likely than not running two perfectly working A4000's side by side.

That one single buyer ruined it for anyone else who buys from me. I will never cross-ship parts, in good faith, even to an Amiga buyer with a 1000 rating, and in most cases even to people who have bought from me before. A buyer can take it up with PayPal and get their money back, complain to eBay and get something done about the seller, however a seller can't do anything at all once they've shipped the items.

I should have known from day 1 that he was not going to be a good person to deal with. Apparently I personally run UNITED STATES CUSTOMS and I should have told him up front that I PERSONALLY would be charging him an additional fee for a customs tarrif on an item imported with a value over $200. Yeah, I run US Customs as a side line enterprise... Oh well, live and learn. Sure takes a lot of the fun out of eBaying around 5000 Amiga items, and it totally discouraged me from putting amigadeals.com back online (I dont get the "extra" protection that eBay offers with the simple threat of bad feedback when I ship something so why bother?)


Hey, thanks for letting me counter-vent. If you want some "new" vintage Amiga stuff, at really cheap prices, I have more than I know what to do with, and no I don't have a running inventory list to send you...

Glen Ouellette
eBay: (catherder)
glen@go_graphical.com (remove the _ it's there to avoid spambots)
sales@amiga_deals.com  (remove the _ )

[redrumloa]

@Jagabot

Too bad you are down under, I'd offer to buy you out :-D Unfortunately my last major import was a major bust :-x

[DoomMaster]

To redrumloa:

The packaging was absolutely terrible. The boards are taped together with packing tape and put in a box loose

What do you think "rock lobster" means?  It sounds like to me that you were just trying to get something for nothing, like you usually try to do, and you failed this time.  You got exactly what you paid for- a "rock lobster" of Amiga 500 boards.  The seller did not do anything wrong.  You should learn how to understand what you read and don't be so ####y !     :roll:

[CU_AMiGA]

That wasn't very nice. No offence DoomMaster but you should be shot.

[redrumloa]

@doomy

Nice try trolling. Unfortunately I think you will find I see right through your ruse.

[Jagabot]

Too bad you are down under

Actually, I'm "up above" (Canada). I'm always open to offers! I just don't have the time to devote to this like I'd prefer to (I don't like giving half assed service, so I just don't post stuff for a week or more at a time to prevent doing so).

I do still have a pile of A1200 parts (motherboards, keyboards, cases, shields, drives, 3 or 4 A4000's here, 10 or so 500's, a couple 1000's, the only A2200 in existence and all A2200 development boards, a few 2000's and 2500's, you name it I probably have it (no, I don't have any later gen stuff, nor do I have any 040 accelerators for anything but 4000s). Not to mention the ~1000 new unopened software titles. (even have around 100 CD32 games still wrapped here as well, 3 or 4 CDTV titles too).

Btw, I have checked into this in the past, barring the price of shipping it all (could be done in a pallet using a bulk carrier), if it's all documented properly as "returned merchandise to origins" there's no duty as long as all the correct export documents are in order it shouldn't be that crazy to ship $$-wise. Just be aware that I have no factory-new boxed stuff left, although my 4000's and 1200's are new, they aren't in boxes anymore (god only knows why, was done before my time for storage space reasons at the place where I aquired all this from).  :-D


Edit: I take back the 2000 part... I have 2 that don't seem to boot up. And I have 2 new 68040 boards to test in one of them too! Oh the irony.

[redrumloa]

@Jagabot

Great! I thought you were in Australia for some reason. Canada is not soo bad. I will give you an email sortly and we can discuss this in private.

Jim