Ebay Situation

[sharkwo7]

My Ebay Sad Situation

I won a toy white vintage Kenmore vacuum cleaner, and I was very happy and because I also have a another one in pink color too. But the seller have major heath problems, he need to have surgery on his gail bladder, and needs to time to recovery, he told me that he was very weak, and needed rest. So I don't know what to believed, I went with the it. So weeks went by, and I keep asking him, have you send my toy vacuum? He later told me that shipping cost was very high, and he was looking for a cheaper option way to send it. I told him to be carful,and pack it well. But a week later, but no replies from him. The following week, he later told me that he had some good and some bad news. The good news is that he recovered, and doing well, but the bad news is that when he brought the toy vacuum to the shipping center, the toy vacuum, got cought in the sliding doors, and crush it in pieces. I felt awful, and hurt. He later refund me, by sending me a refund check in the mail. I did not give him any feedback. This was a very lame transaction.

 

[electrolux137]

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The above story sounds fishy to me, along the lines of "the dog ate my homework" and "it got lost in the mail."

As for shipping, I would never want something sent to me via Parcel Select. Too much stuff gets damaged and sometimes it takes weeks for packages to arrive. I always insist on Priority Mail. I'd rather pay the extra money and get my stuff sooner. And =MOST= sellers, realizing I am willing to pay for Priority Mail, will take care to pack things carefully. Not always, but I've generally had better luck that way.

On small stuff like magazines and instruction books, I specifically ask them NOT to use Media Mail, for the same reasons as above. Priority Mail is the way to go.

I do also tell sellers specifically how I want my stuff packed. That may seem "high and mighty" of me. But I'd rather seem like an arrogant jerk than to cry more tears when something arrives that the seller did not pack carefully. I never assume they know how to pack stuff.

 

[gottahaveahoove]

Charles............

I have the stickers that were all over the box. It DID happen the way I described. "She" was not happy, BUT refunded the $$$. I don't know HOW anyone would know the other identity of an ebayer. I don't put much stock in what I hear from this person, as a rule, so, it really doesn't affect me much.

 

[kirbyloverdan]

Well JOHN LONG

MAYBE if you had a facebook account you`d see Robert Coonrandt advertising his vacuum for sale that he listed them on ebay . THATS HOW I KNOW THAT JOHN LONG !!!
SUCH A RUDE RESPONSE BUT I EXPECTED THAT FROM YOU !!!!!!!!!!!

This is the LAST time I try to be nice to a person I NEVER met who has a problem with me because of shear and utter JEALOUSY Enjoy your life John .

P.S. my name is Dan not "That Person" ...

DAN[this post was last edited: 8/31/2014-12:51]

 

[gottahaveahoove]

Wow!

What did I miss? I was away ( neighbor.... very close friend of my late mother) died. I came back and missed something.
Please know I'm not trying to stir up ANYTHING here..

 

[jaker15]

You didn't do anything wrong. There are just certain members on here who like to be inconsiderate and opinionated and don't care what the consequences may be.

 

[gottahaveahoove]

Oh, well that's very good to know.

Some people like us, some hate us, some like to hate us. I like to enjoy kind, honest sincere people. Luckily, I know many. I was just relating my ebay event. Thankfully, it all came to a happy resolution. I shared in here, because that's what we do.

 

[kenkart]

Well...

I like you, you have gotten me interested in Hoover , which I never was before, mainly from your positive upbeat outlook...as for ebay, ive had several things destroyed or badly damaged in shipping,so im a little leery of buying stuff now days..

 

[electrolux137]

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Apparently, I was misunderstood. I wasn't saying I disbelieved gottahaveahoove. I was saying that all the various excuses the seller was telling sharkwo7 sounded suspicious.

 

[gottahaveahoove]

Thank

You.

 

[electrolux137]

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Now, maybe other people -- some of whom are so quick to do -- will stop piling on me.

I will say, I do realize that there are people in this group who don't like me. That used to really bother me because, as many others, I have self-esteem issues. I want to be popular and for everyone to like me. When people started talking s#!t about me, I got so hurt that I left this group. For a long time.

However, when I realized that those negative people were depriving me of the fun and enjoyment of participating in this forum, I got over it. Especially since some of them are people who don't even know me, have never met me, but are basing their dislike on gossip, rumors, and s#!t-talking from other people.

Today my credo is "What you think of me is none of my business." And I mean that very sincerely.

Besides, I do have friends here -- friends who really do know me and know my character -- friends who have known me for decades. And I'll always cherish those friendships.

 

[Gr8DaneDad]

Charles,


 


I know exactly how you feel. I've been hurt badly in the past, and like you I've learned that what others think of me is none of my business. It's not easy but it works. I find myself offended on these pages by those who are quick to speak poorly of others and to be hateful and dismissive in their responses, especially when there opinions have no basis in fact or experience, but I refuse to let them interfere with the great pleasure I receive from these fora and the majority of it's members.


 


Tom

 

[gottahaveahoove]

Tom,

I can say, after reading many of your posts, that I like you, a lot. I enjoy your posts. Some DESPISE me. many don't even really KNOW me. Pass the tissues.....................lol I'm a big boy: I can handle it. I always consider the source. You have to.

 

[Gr8DaneDad]

John,


 


Thanks and I enjoy your posts as well, along with your Hoovers... and you are so very right.. consider the source.


 


Best,


Tom


 


 

 

[DesertTortoise]

I'll never know if that baby Kenmore canister I had shipped from Florida was broken in transit or if the seller sold me a broken vacuum. Nothing in the images of it suggests the handle was broken but who knows. The vac was poorly packaged so anything could have happened en-route.

ebay sellers are very sensitive about what you put in your feedback. Don't put neutral or negative feed back unless something was truly wrong or the product was documentably misrepresented. Think about what you are going to put in that feedback box.

Likewise take good care of your rating on ebay as a buyer, because if you do have a problem and genuinely need to go to dispute resolution, your good reputation can become a factor in who ebay and/or PayPal believes. Pay promptly and fully. Don't make the seller wonder if they are going to get stiffed or have to cancel a transaction due to non payment and sell the product to the next highest bidder, who already thought they lost and may have bought something else with that money. It all rolls down hill when someone isn't up front.

 

[electrolux137]

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eBay has made it all but impossible to leave negative feedback. Originally, you could leave whatever feedback you wanted as soon as a transaction had concluded.

But then a lot of eBay users started howling about unfair negative feedback, so eBay had to change its policy to allow negative feedback review. Then I guess that got to be too much work for them and they stopped offering that service.

For a while, you couldn't leave negative feedback at all. Then that was changed so that now you can once again leave negative feedback, but you have to jump through a bunch of hoops first. I consider that unfairly weighted in favor of bad sellers and buyers since it tends to discourage people from leaving negative feedback when it's justified.

I will say, I have been on eBay since November 1998. I have a 100% perfect feedback record with 2068 feedback listings. In all this time, I have only ever gotten one negative feedback. It was left by a eBay user who got buyer's remorse after the purchase and tried to get out of the deal and asked if I could cancel the transaction and refund his money. After he had gotten the machine, mind you.

I declined to agree to that because (a) relisting an item is a pain, (b) costs the seller money in listing fees, (c) I have found that relisted items seem to be "jinxed" and rarely sell a second time and, the biggie, (d) I had no way of knowing whether or not the buyer would return the machine to me.

So the guy got mad and left me negative feedback in retaliation. There was nothing I could do about it since, as I said, back then you couldn't contest negative feedback. What happened was that the transaction eventually rolled off due to all the subsequent positive feedbacks and no more negatives.

I have had a real love-hate relationship over the years with eBay. I love it because I have found machines I probably would never have found otherwise, and I have made good money on some of the ones I've sold. I hate it because it seems with each passing day there are new "features to enhance your eBay experience" that in actuality do nothing more than junk up the process and make more work for the sellers.

The really big issue was when eBay started requiring all users to join and use PayPal. PayPal is a lot better than it used to be, but it is still risky and can be a HUGE pain in the ass when a transaction goes awry. I'd never let a seller make a refund to me via PayPal because when that happens, PayPal frequently locks your account until the refund has cleared both parties' accounts. That infuriates me to no end when it happens, especially since it's unfair and totally arbitrary as to when they do it. You can't buy or sell anything until the hold on your account is released.

Overall, though, PayPal has been really great and in all these years I've only had a couple of problems with it.

Now if we can only teach sellers how to properly pack big, heavy things like vacuum cleaners, eBay would be a cake walk. (Boy, do I have some sob stories in that department...)

And So It Goes.

 

[DesertTortoise]

Yeah, if you give negative feedback it more or less forces you into dispute resolution, but both times I went that route I received partial refunds, and neither of my accounts with ebay or PayPal was not frozen during this process. I just left another shipper neutral feedback for one of three items purchased and 3 out of 5 stars (the other two items received glowing feedback) and I wasn't forced into dispute resolution. In a way forcing both parties into dispute resolution if a buyer provides negative feedback forces some discipline on the sellers to make customers happy. I'm not entirely against it.

 

[floor-a-matic]

<span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">I am 100% AGAINST this schitt with eBay; a few customers ruined my "seller dashboard" just by faslely claiming item not as described.  READ THE DAMN F*ING DESCRIPTOIN!  CAN'T ANYONE LEARN HOW TO READ!  too many lazy ass wipes who just bid & not read the descrition; then bitch to eBay for something that is THEIR f*ing fault.  From now on I wouldn't give refunds to some "ass wipe" who claims their items aren't as described.  QUIT BEING SO DAMN F**ING PICKY!  TAKE IT LIKE IT IS OR SHOVE YOUR SHIT UP YOUR FUCKING ASS!</span>

 

[super-sweeper]

Charles, let me grab the HOOVER-Embossed popcorn, I'd love to hear some of these stories! 

 

[durango159]

Oh what a mess!! I'm glad it was resolved and seller reimbursed the postage. I had no idea there were different rates depending on what shipped! The Convertible RS sounds great. You've acquired a lot of machines recently. See you soon John!