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uzumakey · ‎12-17-2018

What a nice way to vet bad buyers before selling to them! Also, the really terrible offers are good for a laugh.

I just had a buyer offer me $1 for an item I was already selling below market price. Curious, I went to check out their feedback left for others. It is literally 100% negative, so I went and blocked them promptly.

Thank you Best Offer, for being good for something.

lovefindingtreasures2 · ‎12-17-2018

Me too! I just had an almost identical experience today and buyer had several hundred feedbacks but had only left 11 feedbacks for anyone, ALL negs. Blocked!

Had a similar one a few days ago, and all her feedback was snarky, mean, negs and neutrals. Blocked!

I decided that all the low ball offers were worth it for the opportunity to vet out these people.

Cheers to you, we win for a change!!!

emerald40 · ‎12-17-2018

True scammers do not leave a paper trail.

So not sure what you mean by vetting them?

lovefindingtreasures2 · ‎12-17-2018

If they place an offer, I almost always go and look at their feedback (vet them) left for others. Most of the time it is fine and I either accept offer or counter.

However, on several occasions their feedback is nastier than a dirty toilet at a rock concert in summer, so then it's decline and block 🙂

Vet: used as a verb.
1. Make a careful and critical examination of (something). (Or in this case, someONE).

Vetted and blocked! Best part of make an offer ever!

emerald40 · ‎12-17-2018

True scammers do not leave feedback for others. They just move on to the next mark.

adkhighker · ‎12-17-2018

@uzumakey wrote:
What a nice way to vet bad buyers before selling to them! Also, the really terrible offers are good for a laugh.

I just had a buyer offer me $1 for an item I was already selling below market price. Curious, I went to check out their feedback left for others. It is literally 100% negative, so I went and blocked them promptly.

Thank you Best Offer, for being good for something.

Sometimes when you check out buyers feedback left for others and it's all negatives, it might be that the only time they leave feedback is when they are going to leave a bad one. I had a buyer once whose feedbacks left for sellers were all negatives, probably around 20 of them. However, when I checked the number of feedbacks he received from sellers, it was around a thousand, so I stopped worrying because I realized that he only left feedbacks when it was a bad transaction for him. For his good transactions he apparently didn't bother leaving anything.

epowerbargains · ‎12-17-2018

Clearly, not all scammers leave a paper trail - but I have blocked many who give out negatives like free donuts, that complain about shipping cost AFTER they order and receive the item, the soft nasty positives, the thanks for the partial reduction folks, the thanks for the freeby peeps, the USPS shows delivered and I did not get it and it is your fault....the the the.....yup it also helps vet the good folks who I am more likely to do my bestest best offer.....

turquoisetulips · ‎12-17-2018

@emerald40 wrote:
True scammers do not leave feedback for others. They just move on to the next mark. to OP

OP probably didn't mean scammers per say ,, just troubled buyers . Tulips

uzumakey · ‎12-17-2018

@lovefindingtreasures2 Lol, you know exactly where I'm coming from. Some people do leave some really nasty feedback! If you're constantly getting "duds" from sellers you are either really bad at doing your buying legwork or you're the problem. You know...statistically speaking.

@emerald40 Smart scammers don't do this, but I'm not talking about avoiding scams. Just your run of the bill buyer with a mean streak.

@adkhighker To each his own. For all the griping I do on these boards, I have never once left negative feedback for a seller. Recently I had a seller mail me expired cosmetics in a used chip container covered in crumbs, and while that was baffling and annoying I'm gonna let it go. I've made hundreds of purchases on here and never thought to neg every single seller who has displeased me. If the problem gets resolved in my favor (and it always does as a buyer) , that's that. Going as far as leaving a neg is a little vindictive and usually unnecessary. If a seller is really terrible I figure other buyers can take them down. As a seller myself, that type of behavior is not for me.

uzumakey · ‎12-17-2018

Yeah, it's not hard to spot the ones that are impossible to please. If you were scammed by a seller, negs are warranted. Things like "ARRIVED LATE! HORRIBLE QUALITY! THIS PART FELL OFF! SELLER IS AWFUL!" I mean...it's not the sellers that are the problem when someone constantly leaves feedback like that.

ed8108 · ‎12-17-2018

@uzumakey wrote:

If a seller is really terrible I figure other buyers can take them down. As a seller myself, that type of behavior is not for me.

In an opposing view I think everyone, sellers & buyers need to participate in helping eliminate inappropriate behavior and not leave it others to be the doing.

castlemagicmemories · ‎12-17-2018

Sounds like you dodged a bullet there! Congrats on that.

castlemagicmemories · ‎12-17-2018

@uzumakey wrote:
@lovefindingtreasures2Lol, you know exactly where I'm coming from. Some people do leave some really nasty feedback! If you're constantly getting "duds" from sellers you are either really bad at doing your buying legwork or you're the problem. You know...statistically speaking.

You can vet the seller and the listing very carefully and still wind up in a bad transaction through no fault of your own. Sellers may create inaccurate listings. Buyer can't see the damage in the pics and it is not noted in the description. Some have photo shopped their listing pics or have staged pics to conceal damage. I once bought something that had 12 pictures on it from every conceivable angle but one and that was where the 2 inch rip was. So while you feel every situation like that is the buyer's fault, they are the seller 's. If you buy a lot, you know this is true.

uzumakey · ‎12-17-2018

Yes, I totally get where you're coming from. With the bad purchase I mentioned in my post above, I vetted the seller as best as I could - great photos/description, almost perfect feedback with the exception of a few. As it turns out, they did one of the worst packing jobs I've ever seen in my years of buying on here.

Buying on here has become such a crapshoot when purchasing from small-time sellers - and I say this as a small-time seller. I almost exclusively buy from large stores on eBay now, because it seems like many of the great small sellers have left in droves. I will now only buy from them when it's something I can't find anywhere else, or if the price is unbeatable. You never know what you're going to get when someone is not running a business on here.

That said, I have had any issues I've run into as a buyer resolved completely by eBay. Item isn't received and there's no tracking? I get a refund. Item is not as described? Either I request a return or open an SNAD if seller communication is poor. I have very little to lose as a buyer apart from some time and energy, which is nothing compared to what sellers have to lose.

uzumakey · ‎12-17-2018

Personally I'm not going to be the person who pulls a small sellers' feedback down to like 90% when I was refunded my money by eBay. I'm not buying medical supplies on here - nothing is a necessity, and if I've gotten my money back that's good enough for me.

It really takes a certain personality to leave the kind of feedback I mentioned, though. They're not complaining about being scammed, they're nitpicking and complaining. RARELY do I see a buyer leaving negative feedback about getting scammed. More often it's about an item not being 100% pristine or fishing for a partial refund or free item.