Thread: eBay question

About a month ago, I ordered an LP from a guy and didn't receive the package until nearly a month later; I contacted the seller about it before it arrived and he said that he had really been running behind on shipping. Since the record and jacket were in near mint condition, I only left him neutral feedback. Today, I received this message from him:

Hello,

I'm very sorry to have taken so long to get the Nebula record to you, but now I'm having major problems selling things on Ebay and I think that it could be do to the neutral feedback that you left me. Do you think that if I gave you $20 you could remove the feedback? Please let me know.

Thanks

Has this happened to anyone before? Should I accept the $20 or is this a hoax to get me to delete the feedback?

Accept the $20. After he pays then remove the feedback.

Sometimes independent sellers get behind on shipping, and sometimes places like Amazon do too.

Does his other feedback indicate late shipping? I guess if it is a habitual thing, the guy just needs to learn better.

Why not get an extra $20 for the deletion?

Originally Posted by MrTroy

No, fuck him - if he is trying to run a business HE has to meet his shipping promises. He should put on his current auctions that it could take up to a month or so to receive your product.

Dude it's $20. I could easily buy another record for that.

(in before i wipe my ass with $20 bills)

Free money....

Don't do it, tell him to ship things on time if he wants positive feedback. He's lucky you were nice enough to leave only neutral.

What's the seller's profile?

He sounds super shady. His selling problems likely have nothing to do with ONE neutral feedback you left him. I have 2 negatives (one deserved, one not) and I don't have any problems selling because I have over 350 ratings and it's TWO lousy negatives. That's it. If he has a lot of neutral or neg feedback that's his problem, not the one you left him. If there is only one and it's yours, still....you have a right to your opinion.

Tell the guy to shove the $20 up his ass. Is $20 really worth your dignity? If you truly want to remove the feedback, eBay has a way to mutually retract feedback, just do that, if you WANT, and leave this cretin to his own devices.

Originally Posted by Cryptic

Is $20 really worth your dignity?

Well if your dignity is in the negative numbers then yeah....

Take the twenty dollars, remove that feedback and THEN post another negative feedback. Mwhaha!

My response:

This sounds reasonable. I will be more than willing to remove the neutral feedback once I receive the $20.

I sold out, didn't I guys?

Get the $20, then don't remove the feedback. Win-Win.

Fucking sellout.

Originally Posted by magking1971

Fucking sellout.

YOU DON'T KNOW ME. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT I DO. YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE I'M FROM OR HOW I LIVE MY LIFE.

should have upped it to 50

Originally Posted by dudeman

YOU DON'T KNOW ME. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT I DO. YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE I'M FROM OR HOW I LIVE MY LIFE.

Internet drama.

Why are you buying LPs are you a hipster faggot

Notice there was no question mark because I didn't really need a response to know the facts of the matter.

I buy LPs because I am a materialistic person. If I'm going to purchase music, I want something big and bulky to show myself that I did so

Oh christ please don't notice the lack of punctuation.

Originally Posted by Kal El

Internet drama.

Dramanets

Taking a month to ship something is not cool unless it says in the listing that it can take 2-4 weeks.

Originally Posted by Sir Bifford

Taking a month to ship something is not cool unless it says in the listing that it can take 2-4 weeks.

The listing said 2-9 days, so yeah, it was pretty uncool.