The most interesting buyer award goes to
Check this out. I got a simultaneous message/negative last night from a buyer. He is upset about the package that's been in transit for 10 days now. I'm in Calif and he's in Phoenix, the package actually got to Phx in 3 days but before the final delivery scan, USPS decided to give the package the VIP cross country tour to NY and back. The buyer saw that tracking status and was pretty PO'ed at me.
He sent his negative and two messages minutes apart, probably because he hit the 2000 character max. He called me the worst company ever 5 times in his messages, that's a record for me. The rest is basically repeating the same things using watered down profanity, how inexcusable it is for me to make the package take 2 weeks and go all the way to NY when he is in Phx, demands that I justify my actions for the F'ed up shipping, he doesn't like that the tracking has too many updates (15+), he's going to report me to ebay and authorities for fraud, and (I love it when buyers say this one) how dare I treat a veteran like this for what he did for my country. That last one was also mentioned numerous times in his messages. I actually get that "lecture" from buyers from time to time. Do veterans know that people don't know you are a veteran if they don't even know who you are?
Anyway, I'm not going to mention the efforts I'm taking to resolve this and remove the feedback. Because the interesting part is that I decided to Google the buyer. Yea yea, if you have issues about that you can get off your high horses. Turns out this buyer was arrested 3 years ago in Calif and went to prison for impersonating a police officer. He was found loitering around a shopping area for a few weeks and told employees he was an undercover cop. When the real police picked him up and arrested him, he had 3 Calif police badges and business cards of 3 officers as well as a badge belonging to a Phoenix police officer. He also had 4 loaded guns in his car. Three handguns and one rifle, two of them were reported stolen. They still aren't sure how he got those authentic police badges as I read the article.
Thanks USPS for endangering my life.
vintagecraze50
·2 years agoSome of these buyers on here are downright dangerous. Now you have to deal with the negative feedback which you know will never be removed with their new buyers are all ULTRA SUPER angels policy and don’t you ever disturb a nice buyer like this by removing their feedback. LOL!
sextons-sweet-deals
·2 years agodid they finally get the package?
If not, you can go to https://emailus.usps.com/s
You can fill out the information of your location, buyer location, the location that the package was shipped from. Take your time doing this.
iamalwaysright
OP2 years agoYes it arrived to the buyer yesterday. Thanks.
albertabrightalberta
·2 years agoI use a posting ID here also so I get it. But when I have an issue with a buyer, I've been known to request advice and add context to the complaint by posting with that ID. (Fortunately, it hasn't been necessary many times.)
To tell us to "check this out," without showing what we're checking, it's hard to do without seeing the listing and the feedback.
I'm glad you got the feedback removed.
iamalwaysright
OP2 years agoSorry I was unclear. I was referring to checking out my post. Thanks for understanding I wasn’t asking for advice here.
iamalwaysright
OP2 years agoSurprise Surprise, ebay Seller Help automated feedback removal accepted my request to remove it. Seriously, that is a bit surprising as I've heard other sellers with similar issues get denied. @rdjchrist keep trying if it's worth it to you. Hopefully someone with authority will see that your negative should be removed.
@12345jamesstamps lol. Secretive huh. Let's put this to the test. If I asked for your full name and home address would you disclose it? Why or why not? Oh and my buyer's purchase was for $25. Not sure if that holds any weight in this though.
12345jamesstamps
·2 years agoI accidentally posted an envelope last month here with my name and address (return label on it) about a return of a person who had a deceased sticker on it from the post office but he wasn't dead and it got taken down. LOL.
So, I have no secrets...you got my first name and what city I sell in from just looking at my items for sale.
iamalwaysright
OP2 years agoThat wasn’t what I asked, but it’s fine. ðŸ‘ðŸ»
gurlcat
·2 years agoApparently some people reading your post got up on the wrong side of the bed or something. Either they don't know the difference between a post asking for help vs. a funny share-only one .... or ...... who knows, maybe they think Most Interesting Buyer Award is an actual thing and you gave the award to yourself by making up a fake story. I mean don't you know the rules clearly state you can't substitute the phrase "So get this." with "Check this out" unless you provide immediate visible or clickable evidence to check out? And no stated item price, seriously???
I guess theoretically you are not a real seller or even a real human, could be AI. 😆
iamalwaysright
OP2 years agoBusted! 😵
You humans are so gullible.
vintagecraze50
·2 years agoOh thank goodness. They must have seen the crazy messages.
12345jamesstamps
·2 years agoSo, we don't know what you kinda sell on eBay.
This is your not selling account, of course.
Some sellers are so secretive....
Sounds like a story...we don't know if it was a 5 dollar purchase or a 500 dollar purchase.
We don't actually know much ado about anything...
sin-n-dex
·2 years agoMy buyers are more likely to become angry if something goes wrong on a 500 dollar purchase (actually in my store it would be 150-200 dollars... I don't really sell 500 dollar things).
I get more crazies over $5 items, like the woman who bought the DVD 10 years ago and pestered me relentlessly to find her package which was lost in the mail. I offered a refund, she could have bought the DVD from anywhere for the same money she was getting refunded, but she insisted she wanted the one in the picture of my listing. Wouldn't even let me buy her a replacement. What was so annoying about all that, is I was in Africa and using the hotel's internet to reply to all her pestering because waiting 5 days for me to return home would take too long.
C.
12345jamesstamps
·2 years agoI have been lucky so far last year and this year. Not sure how I would handle a crazy buyer.
I would probably just refund them immediately and just move on with selling.
sin-n-dex
·2 years agoLOL, I never googled an actual buyer, but I did google my two worst scammers in eBay history to see if they had a rap sheet (their scamming was so blatant and bold that I figured they had to be criminals somewhere).
The first scammer spent some time in prison between his first and second attempt scamming me (first time he got me for $97 in coins, I was fairly new to doing eBay stuff so there's things I didn't know and I messed up... the second time he bought, on a new account, I refused to ship, he left the worst feedback ever which took me days to get removed because he was leaving a new one every day for each item he bought).
Anyway that scammer was a child molester in Canada... and after his first go around with the penal system, he was allowed back into teaching (his career) and got charged again for the same thing. Now he's banned from teaching for 25 years (at which time he'll be too old to be teaching anywhere). I decided if this scammer ever bothers me again, I'm reporting him to his local PD (being in Canada I can do that). He tried scamming me a third time, and I found out his GF is on eBay scamming people (got her ID, but she hadn't tried scamming me). Anyway it was an evening wasted getting dirt on my scammer.
The other scammer compared me to satan and stole a $45 coinset. Claimed empty box, then posted feedback calling me satan and said I sent the wrong date. (If the box was empty, how did he know which date I sent?) Anyway he has lots of civil charges in his state in the US and lost his business during COVID, at which time he went from being a regular eBayer to a scammer on eBay. eBay kicked him off. (Actually both scammers are kicked off, eBay told me report them with all their IDs and they'll take care of cancelling so I won't have to).
The best getting even I did with a scammer (when I couldn't really do anything really, they had my thing and the refund). He was in Argentina, and in his town I mailed a letter telling him what a beautiful town he lived in and all the great things i saw while I was there. I promised to visit to get my stuff back. (Which I wasn't going to do, but I'd love to have seen the look on his face when he found out I travelled all the way there). It was actually a coincidence that I went to Argentina a month after he scammed me... I was seriously just in the neighbourhood, but attempting to frighten him by being near by was the best I could do. I bet he wasn't expecting someone he scammed in Canada to show up a mile from his house!
C.
tobaccocardyahoo
·2 years agoIt is a major problem when people refuse mental health care.
The results are becoming evident in oh so many ways.
doc-holmes
·2 years agoFor many its not a matter of refusal, it's the inability to access.
sin-n-dex
·2 years agoIn the case of my family, it's refusal. Meds are prescribed, they aren't taken. That results in temper tantrums in public that cause this person to be banned from stores.
C.
iamalwaysright
OP2 years agoI wouldn't be surprised if this was really common. My FIL refuses to take something as simple as his daily required blood pressure medication with the reason "I feel fine, my blood pressure isn't acting up." But when an incident occurs it's already too late to take them preventative pills. I get the whole stigma or fear of side effects for certain meds though. Gotta weigh your choices I guess.
ed8108
·2 years agoUnfortunately mental health counseling appears to help some & fails miserably on others
inhawaii
·2 years agoThe most interesting man (buyer) in the world.
gurlcat
·2 years ago"I don't always impersonate a police officer.
Sometimes I impersonate a veteran."
pickapaper
·2 years agoWorst thing Dos Equis ever did was get rid of that man as their spokesperson.
A local restaurant still has a large picture of him hanging in the bar area. I've tried to buy it but the manager says no, the women like that picture too much to get rid of it.
gurlcat
·2 years agoI would also want to buy it, but then if I was the bar owner I would also not want to sell it, LOL.
This reminds me of two stories.
1. I never heard of Dos Equis until my late 20's when I got a job at an upscale Mexican restaurant in Little Rock Arkansas. I grew up in Iowa and took 2 years of Spanish with a teacher from Mexico, so I was fairly fascinated by how hit-or-miss Southerners' pronunciation of Spanish was. Somewhat surprisingly I never heard anyone mis-PRONOUNCE Dos Equis, but everyone including my fellow servers and the bartender mis-INTONED it, so it sounded like "Doe-SECKIES". I don't know why but it tickled me endlessly.
2. At that same restaurant, the bar drinkware was all hand-made various sizes and shapes of clear glass with a cobalt blue rim. -I've seen drinkware just like that since then, even at places like Target, but at the time it was kind of exotic I guess. One night I had a large table of heavy drinkers, and at one point the guy who'd told me to bring him the bill asked how much a set of these glasses would cost him. I said I didn't think they were for sale. He chuckled and said "Everything's for sale. Lemmie talk to the manager." So I went and got her. She told him the drinkware was bought and imported from a particular glass works studio in Mexico, and she didn't think they'd sell to individuals seeking small quantities, but this dude insisted she give him their name, so she did. -I have no idea if he ended up actually contacting them, or if in his drunken state he just didn't want to back down from his show of bravado in front of his friends.
I will say that moment when he laughed and said "Everything's for sale" without missing a beat .... that's one of those things I'll never forget, and never stop thinking about. So, maybe that picture of the Most Interesting Man really is for sale; you just haven't offered enough for it yet. 😉
hartungcards
·2 years agoPlease provide examples of the watered down profanity.
iamalwaysright
OP2 years agoUsing non alphabetic characters in place of letters of profane words.
hartungcards
·2 years agoOh that's no fun. I was hoping for something along the lines of "lily-livered whatever."
iamalwaysright
OP2 years agoYea, too bad they didn't call me a stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf herder.
chapeau-noir
·2 years agoNow that is really stepping over the line! ðŸ˜
mtgraves7984
·2 years agoThen I'll provide soft examples of what women spew during childbirth. We'll call it "water broken profanity"... 🤣