@varebelrose wrote:"... a buyer blew up my phone overnight .."
How did the buyer get your phone number...?
Two easy methods I know of:
- if the seller requests buyer phone for orders (which can be shared with the carrier to contact the buyer if necessary), then the buyer also receives the phone number of the seller.
- the buyer could request it from eBay. It's a simple form, only available to buyer/seller involved in a transaction, and the same data is sent to both: name, city, state, zip, phone.
I had a seller, once was enough, who actually called me to tell me that he was going to report me to my local police and to the US Post Office for theft via the US Mail. The purchase he says he shipped to me did not arrive, and the Order on eBay showed no tracking number. Since we were already 2+ weeks past purchase, I opened an INR case..... and the floodgates of accusations and threats and foul language opened wide. This guy didn't have a short fuse -- he had NO fuse. The case closed with a full refund and the order has yet to be delivered (been about a year now).
This was for a $5 copper medallion. Five bucks. If I had read thru his feedback, I would have skipped him altogether -- his feedback was full of 'lost packages' and claims that buyers were liars and cheats and low-life scum for trying to scam a hard-working eBay seller for $5. I've been on eBay since '97 -- this was my first contact with the truly unhinged.
I was kinda hoping he would call the local police - there's so little crime in Memphis that cops are just cruising around listening to SXM Radio. I was also kinda hoping he'd blow his top on the officer taking his call when he learned that not only were they not interested, but if he persisted in trying to foist this argument on them, he'd be charged with filing a false police report.
All he had to do was post the tracking number. Simple. If it was USPS, I could review the tracking on their website. If it was eBay Standard Envelope, there's a website for tracking that as well, or I could just call eBay and ask. But he didn't have a tracking number, and that medallion would have been too heavy and too non-bendable (non-machinable) for Standard Envelope. He would have had to shell out $3.50-$4.00 to pay for USPS First Class Package - which includes tracking.
It takes all kinds, I guess. I just don't want to meet them all, is all.
-Bob.
@thingsgirlsluv71 wrote:I had someone make a ridiculously low offer on something and ask questions repeatedly that were addressed in the listing. I declined the offer and blocked them.
They then bought the item using another account and left negative feedback that I was rude, although there was no communication between me and the buyer whatsoever. I reported the negative feedback and the fact this person had 2 accounts. Neg feedback was removed. There are petty people who simply retaliate when you won't bend to their will.
The feedback was likely removed because the buyer used a second account to get around your BBL entry -- and that's a big no-no. I've gone thru the same and eBay just *poof*ed the feedback. No muss, no fuss, and never heard from them again. 🙂
-Bob.
