[WWI] "hostage" feedback

[Old Fokker]

Personally, I've given up on Ebay.  I think it's gone downhill since it's 
inception.  Now there are just too many people trying to stick their hands 
into your wallet.   Prices seem over-inflated, and I've been hearing too 
many "horror stories" lately.

Although my last purchase was almost two years ago, I never had any 
purchases where I felt being taken advantage of on the shipping & handling. 
The items were very well packed and sent either USPS Priority Mail or 
Federal Express without any issues.  The sellers always said to leave them 
positive feedback if I was happy with the item(s) when received.

I remember purchasing a 1/4 scale Aurora P-6E from a guy whose write-up said 
it was complete.  Turned out it was missing a piece or two when I received 
it.  I emailed him to ask about a refund.  He said he had bought several 
kits at an estate sale.  He had thought all the kits were complete and he'd 
refund my money.  When I asked his address so I could send the kit back, he 
said to keep it since he didn't want to re-sell an incomplete kit.  A few 
days later I received a money order covering the cost of the kit and 
shipping.  I gave him some very positive feedback.  I like to view this as 
he made an honest mistake, rather than him getting "caught with his hand in 
the cookie jar" trying to pull a fast one on me.

Paul  (crawling back into lurk mode now....)



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Boorman" <fokkereiv at gmail.com>
To: "World War I Modeling Mailing List" <wwi at wwi-models.org>
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 6:29 PM
Subject: Re: [WWI] "hostage" feedback


> I' had a typo or two in that reply here's there correct version
>
>
> Positive and negative feedback are intended to rate the service, goods
> and payment of the seller and buyer. If the buyer bids and doesnt pay
> for example then you should negatively rate him. Likewise if the
> seller charges s&h of $12 of which mailing was $2 with a jiffy bag of
> $1 then I'd expect to pay maybe $6 not $12. Therefore
> I'm well within my rights to Note that fact against the seller with a
> negative comment like "over priced post and packing" thats just being
> darn truthfull and that lets the next buyer know without him asking
> questions but allowing him to make the decision to buy.
>
> Ray