Well, here are my thoughts. I don't know what buyer would spend almost $200 on comics books with the intentions of sending them back JUST to give you negative feedback. That's a pretty serious investment just to stick a seller with negative feedback. And you want us to think they sat around six months plotting it?
It seems in reference to the old, first neg you got, you failed to complete the sale. I doubt they had any real thoughts about it. Likely don't have/use that account, since there was only ONE feedback. I think you both had the bad luck of running into each other again.
But I also think, you are not describing your wares well enough either. The three negs you got were because of damage that was not noted. Sellers here have a tendency to think they do no wrong, describe everything perfectly, and think buyers should just be satisfied because the seller said so. I get no one wants bad feedback, but sometimes it's a buyers only way to communicate displeasure with the sale. eBay does "protect" many sellers who screw up, and that's no service to buyers.
Did you screw up? I don't know. But I would tend to believe it when you come out acting like this buyer was plotting "revenge" on you for something that happened 6 months ago. It's highly unlikely and sounds too "conspiracy theory" to me. It's entirely possible damage happened in shipping if you did not pack well enough.
Sellers who do not take this stuff in stride tell on themselves. If you are all worked up about this, that tells me that you probably did something wrong and just don't want to own it. I find it hard to sympathize with many of these seller cases, when sellers won't own their mistakes, they just want to blame everyone else. eBay has gotten terrible about they way they treat both buyers AND sellers. I think buyers should just go straight to CC chargebacks and avoid using the eBay system anymore. It takes eBay out of the equation and makes sellers either do better or leave. No one will agree with that, but no one will agree that lots of sellers are a problem here too. You can't complain about buyers when your platform is littered with bad sellers either.
It used to be a real rarity to run into bad sellers, now it's way too common. Not saying the OP is a horrible seller, but it's obvious to me there is way more to this story then we are being told. I've been here a long time. Both as a buyer and a seller. I have NEVER in all the years here, experienced as many bad sellers then I have in the last 6 months. Hence the no sympathy for many of these threads.
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