ebay resolved

I’ve only had really horrible problems and that was when I bought something from someone I *knew*(!!) from a Knight Rider message board.

I called the guy, emailed him like crazy, and even ended up with someone else who knew him better intervening and getting my stuff sent after I’d left him negative feedback. he didn’t retaliate, but he shot himself in the foot with plenty more folks than just me, and ended up getting kicked off ebay, his account was suspended.

My only other issues have been slow shipping (seller taking two weeks to get to the fracking post office and send stuff I needed to have at a certain time).

You can’t give up on everybody because of one bad apple, but do check feedback, even if it’s all positive, the next time you bid.

rusti, you are right, i shouldn’t let one person make me stop completely. i did check the feedback. no one complained about the shipping costs. 🙁

however, i do need to get my buying under control. part of it is stress buying, and i should spend my time working on my thesis.

thanks for listening to my rant. and for letting me know there are worst things that could happen. 😀

I had no wish to make you feel bad, it was my own fault, I figured shipping would be the same for the dragon as it was for the winged wolf, but apparently the slightly bigger box and packing materials upped it a bit more than I expected. My fault, not yours.

Anyway, do try to restrain your buying if you really are overdoing it. I know I had to as well.

Kyrin

Ah ebay, land of the crazy! Everybody I know has a crazy ebay story.

Mine involved my psycho stalker ex-fiance!

I owned, at the time, two laptops. But one of them had been dead for nearly five years. I was hanging on to it in hopes of fixing it, but I finally realized there was no hope, and decided to just sell it for parts on ebay. I started the auction at a dollar.

Now just that same week my newer laptop that I actually used broke down, and I was griping about it to anybody who would listen.

So my crazy ex heard my griping, and also saw the auction on ebay, and assumed that the auction was me selling my new laptop. He didn’t even read the auction text at all, because the auction said, very clearly, that this laptop hadn’t worked in five years, that it had TOTAL hard drive failure, and was dead as a doornail. (It even included a list of things you could do with it, like use it as a paperweight, or a doorstop!)

Anyhow, he bid a maximum bid of something like $100, because apparently there’s a specific part in that kind of laptop that would be worth that much money, if it still worked, and because he was assuming that this was the laptop that I’d been using until just a day or two ago, he was sure that part would still be there, working, and he could take it apart and sell it.

But nobody else bid, so he got the laptop for $1.

I sent it out, and it arrived there, and then all unholy heck broke lose, because the part that he wanted, that he thought was worth $100 even though he’d only paid $1 for it, wasn’t there at all! No wonder it didn’t work, it was missing pieces! And he accused me of lying, of taking the part out to sell myself before I put up the laptop for sale, of cheating him, because he KNEW that part had been there just a few days ago!

I, of course, thought he was crazy. How could he know the part had been there a few days ago? The auction clearly stated that the laptop had been dead for five years! The part had gone missing long before that!

We argued about this for weeks, me telling him that I had no idea the part was missing, but look, I sold it as dead, you got it dead, you can’t complain! And him insisting that I’d stolen his part, that I was a cheat and a liar, and I should just give up and give him the part already.

Finally I insisted he tell me WHY he was so sure I was a cheat, and he told me it was because the part had to have been there the week before the auction because I was using the laptop, and that’s when I realized he hadn’t read the auction at all, and had just assumed it was my newer laptop! Which I still had! Which I was getting fixed, not selling!

So I pretty much ripped him a new one for assuming the worst about me, and for bidding on an auction he hadn’t read.

And the funny thing is that after all this he STILL kept insisting that we should be married, that he loved me, that I was perfect for him.

Uh. No. Not so much. I finally had to block him from all my IMs and emails and blogs and such, because he just wouldn’t quit insisting he loved me.

Funny, I thought if you loved somebody, you wouldn’t accuse them of lying and cheating!

Glad it got worked out, gryphon.
SPark, lucky for you that you got away from that creep.

One more thing to look at, before you think someone is charging you way too much for shipping, is their location. For example, many places in the orient (China, the phillipines, etc.) charge major export taxes on things being shipped out of the country. I’m sure there are many other countries that have those kind of regulations as well.