1. The eBay listing says "Vintage Kirby 519 Like New in Original Box All Original" and furthermore says “Used once or twice - like new” and yet even furthermore the listing says the item is located in Saint Charles, Illinois, United. SO the seller misrepresented the vacuum by: A.) Saying the vacuum was “used once or twice”, when the vacuum has been clearly used more than once or twice because the brush-roll is not original to the machine. As a matter of “truth” the 519 has a replacement style brush roll. B.) Describing the 519 as “All Original", when it is not all original, i.e., the brush-roll is not original to the machine as the “All Original” 519 did not come with the style of brush-roll as shown in the pictures on VL and eBay. C.) Listing the item as being in close proximity to the buyer in Wisconsin, when as a matter of “fact” the seller shipped it from California (which by the way breaks eBay policy as the seller information is not accurate). The seller listed the 519 as shipping from Saint Charles, Illinois, United States but it was shipped from California. Even more strange, the seller user info on VL says they are from Tarantula Arms otherwise known as the Flamingo Hotel from the movie A Street Car Named Desire. SO why VL replies to this post bashing the buyer when the seller has clearly misrepresented the vacuum???
2. Furthermore, the eBay dispute process has 4 choices. A.) The seller issues the buyer a full refund and the buyer keeps the item. B.) The seller offers a partial refund to the buyer and if the buyer accepts they are issued the partial refund and the buyer keeps the item. C.) The seller chooses to have the buyer sends item back and the seller thru eBay sends the buyer a prepaid postage for return shipping. Once item is received the seller then issues a refund D.) Or the seller sends buyer a message asking for clarification about the issue. You (the seller) clearly choose option A from above, so I am even more confused as to why you decided to publicly blast the buyer in your posting after you told them to keep the item to keep the item and issued them a full refund.
3. So why again are you telling people to “Do not do business with this man!” and you are pointing out to us the buyer “asked Robert to take this thread down. After checking facts (and Bill saying he won't return the machine) Robert put the thread back up” and why are you saying “I Was Ripped Off by a007kirbyman from Wisconsin”? This entire posting should be removed for all the reasons I mentioned above in Item #1 and item #2. Factually, the SELLER has misled members of VL and because of the hatred, non-fact based; emotional posting this VL member should be blocked from ever using VL again and acts like this should not be tolerated! I am ashamed VL allowed you to bash the buyer in this public forum, based upon nothing more than your emotion and by nothing than your error by choosing to issue the buyer a full refund and to keep the item. If I was you (the seller), I would be asking Robert to remove this post before you get into trouble for the misrepresentation of your posting.
4. Lastly, I am ashamed of every VL member (some who I even know) who jumped on the bandwagon, assuming since you read on the internet, it must be true as you bashed a real person for absolutely no reason. I honestly believe every member who posted a response to this thread with the exception of Kloveland should have the guts to apologize to a007kirbyman! If you don’t have the courage to apologize you are no better than the seller. And for those that know me and posted to this thread, please feel free to remove me from your email contact if you cannot apologize publically or privately apologize to a007kirbyman as I do not need friends or fellow vacuum collectors like you in my life…. And grow up people…..