07-03-2008, 10:51 PM
You dealt with a real jerk, and eBay unfortunately has quite a few. Once I let my sister buy something on eBay and without her telling me she found it cheaper and backed out on the deal. Before I could explain to the seller and even offer some kind of reimbursement, he had left me negative feedback and I had perfect feedback since /97. I was pretty pissed, to say the least. Eventually it got buried. If it ever becomes a problem all you have to do is explain to the seller.
Quote:Once upon a time I purchased a collector's plate from a guy on Ebay. When it arrived (after I had paid promptly) I opened it to find that the plate had been shipped crosswise in the box with minimal backing around it so it had broken. When I contacted the seller showing him pictures of the plate snapped in half in the box he told me that I would have to go after the post office to get reimbursed! I told him I wasn't happy with this outcome as the Post Office wasn't responsible for packaging it for shipping and that they would only reimburse for the price of the plate and I would be out the exorbitant shipping cost that the seller had already charged me. After several go rounds I was reimbursed the full price plus shipping by the seller but because I had to fight so hard to be reimbursed I gave the seller negative feedback. He naturally dinged my back for my honest feedback.
Thing is because he has so much feedback my negative doesn't display anymore but because I use Ebay rarely my negative feedback is so much prominent.:(