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UNTRUSTWORTHY
Ebay, like Craiglist has become an UNRELIABLE, UNTRUSTWORTHY vendor. You can't deliver and you support suppliers that are scammers and losers.
I am going to pursue communicating with my vast FIRST RESPONDER base to avoid you and move to a reliable source. FIREFIGHTERS, MEDICS< LAW ENFORCEMENT -- Beware; use MarketPlace or other RELIABLE vendors. Ebay-- You have lost your MOJO --- RAM
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eburtonlab
Mentor10 months ago@robermerrit-0
eBay is not a vendor; eBay is a venue.
Each seller on eBay is different. Choose your sellers wisely.
In general, you can avoid a lot of headaches by choosing to purchase only from established sellers that have recent and past positive feedback as a seller for selling items in the same category that you intend to buy. If someone is selling a dozen apple watches, but has no feedback, or only has feedback as a buyer, or only has feedback for selling dress patterns or fishing lures (actual examples I have seen), perhaps wait until they have a track record of positive feedback for selling electronics before you buy from them.
You might miss out on a good deal from a new seller once in a while, and nothing can guarantee that you won't still run into an issue anyway, but you can avoid a lot of potential problems by choosing to do business with established sellers. Anyone can put together a listing that looks nice -- it is not hard at all to simply copy an existing listing -- but it is much harder to create a history of consistent sales and positive feedback.
For more experienced sellers, you can learn a lot about the sort of seller you are dealing with by checking the seller's feedback page to see where the seller is registered and to notice if the seller has any negative feedback. If you see negatives indicated in the table of recent feedback, you can choose to exclusively see each type of comment by clicking on the numbers shown in the table. Reading negative or neutral comments can often tell you if a seller has a pattern of problems with items not matching the descriptions, canceled orders, late deliveries or item location misrepresentation.
If a seller has a pattern of too many serious negatives -- or just not enough positive history -- it is often better to find another seller with a better track record to do business with.
robermerrit-0
OP10 months agoEbay is big enough and akamai enough to sort out losers like the last two events that I experienced. In an UNRELIABLE world in virtually every venue, a buyer should NOT have to do the footwork of a mega-billion corporation. As a lifetime First Responder, I have a RELIABLE RESPONSIBILITY to my fellow brothers and sisters in arms to warn them away from less than honorable or less than satisfactory providers [like EBay]. It's so sad that First Responders like us protect the freedoms of losers like you have let "cross the border" into your vendor pool just to turn around and crap on us. Y'all ought to be ashamed . . .