eBay Complaints


If you are like tens of millions of people worldwide buying and selling on eBay lend me your ear. Has anybody else noticed how shipping costs have ballooned out of control? I absolutely detest people who insist on recouping their losses or trying for a couple extra bucks by only offering bogus, inflated prices. As a rule I refuse to inflate my shipping and have even offered shipping at a loss (to me) to attract bidders. Conversely I refuse to bid on any items that have inaccurate shipping and have frequently ask sellers to justify their prices. For example, I buy and sell golf clubs every year because having new clubs in my hand makes me want to golf even more( hopefully, but rarely improves my scores) and I have fun doing it. My point is I know exactly what clubs ship for and can spot these shipping gougers a mile away. It takes the fun out of the auction when you worked hard to get a good price only to be bent over and forced to squeal like a pig with the shipping.

I am no power seller, rather fairly small time. In the seven or so years I have been a member I've probably accumulated eighty or so sales and purchases. Modest numbers. I did have a 100% positive feedback rating. However a few months back I received my first non-positive feedback from a sale, it was a negative rating. I sold a hardback copy of a piece of dung memoir entitled "Jarhead" by Anthony Swofford. The memoir was made into a movie and somehow was worse than the book. Anyway, I sold a relatively new hardback for absolute peanuts and some pin head from Missouri bitched about some book store stickers on it, and hence dished me out a negative. I go out of my way to be as friendly as possible and tried to reason with him that it was only a minor oversite and he did get a hardback book for like $4, he didn't care. He sent me a nasty email like I was so dishonest and misrepresented my product so much. His screen name had some connotation for being a lawman of some kind, frankly it figured. He struck me as the type of cop who will write you up for anything because you looked at him wrong or was not giving him the respect he so desperately needed to feel like a bad ass. I do respect authority as rule in life, it leads to less complications in the long run, but I truly dislike macho bravado. That's all I got tonight, happy shopping!!