Well I bought some items from a seller on ebay two days ago, today I saw another item on the same ebay web-site....So I made a offer and got a responce from the seller , he told me to "FO" which I though was a little rude, so I told him that I didn't care for that answer , and I had already purchased two other items from him........I told him I really didn't like doing business with sellers like him , so he cancelled all my purchasses and told e-bay that I cancelled them, which is totally untrue......So be careful with some of the sellers on e-bay, because they are getting like Amazon sellers, a little touchy and a lot rude...............That's my e-bay stoty for today
The OP is a business and his goal on eBay is to buy low so that he can sell to someone else high (potentially adding no value in the process).
He makes an insulting offer (based on an end user expected resale price). The person receiving the bid looks at the profile and their transaction history, sees they are a business, knows the offer is low ball with the goal to resale higher, and expletively calls them out. They likely see little loss in doing this since the OP is not their target customer and is unlikely to be one again.
If you are buying $5000/week, you know what a realistic end user price is and likely offered less, perhaps far less than that. You know it. Likely that seller knew it too.
All people are asking you is to give a little more information on your interaction with the seller so as to better understand why he said what he said. But instead you go off on how you are this major player on EBay, and then insult those who are not.
Obviously the guy had a reason for responding the way he did. Whether he's simply a jerk or it was warranted. Why are you keeping that reason to yourself?
....and some days just don't go too well.....*mock tsk*
There's more to this intrigue, but either obvious or too subtle to be more than a curiosity to discern, however right or wrong....
I've always approached eBay as a sophisticated sort of swap meet/flea market with certain 'commercial' sellers.....
One's approach to the seller can make for a pleasant transaction, or an utter fail where the seller would rather give it away to the next person....preferably not the person Next to you....
Carlsbad: I could care less about your "I.D." , this is not about your ID its about something that you have no experience with and you are making statements about buying in large amounts , when you don't buy that way......Its OK not to buy that way, but don't talk like you do.......Its a different world when you received large amounts of poorly packed, poorly described, people wait a week or so to ship items that are paid for.....They don't remove the tubes and half of them get broke.....Then you have some smart guy lay a bunch of profanity on you......So if you are going to try and give some advice, have some idea what your talking about............W
Sorry that happened to you. Must have been a shock to the system trying to digest the seller’s unjust reactions. Was it a McIntosh wheeler dealer, lol?
Autospec, it appears you think you know my ebay id. My ebay id is 6 random digits that E-trade assigned to me as an account ID in the early 90s so I'm pretty sure you haven't guessed it.
Keep ranting, I think you need 3 or 4 more posts. Let it all out.
carlsbad: It doesn't matter who I am, and I don't claim to be anyone special......But I can see you have had one transaction in a year so you have dealt with a "even one" person......Yes you really know something about buyers............Out of all the people I have dealt with on the internet, I have had difficulty with 3-4 ....Not bad for a new guy.......... And its obvious that we are not learning much here ??
After looking at some of the feed-back you have , I can see that if you have 2 feedbacks a year, you have no idea what I'm talking about....I have 3400 e-bay feed-back, 289 audiogon feedback and 40 feedback on audiomart....All positive......The person that I was trying to buy from has 2000 feedbacks and several negatives.....If that means anything, so that's the rest of the story.............W
One of the things most people don't get is I purchase over 5000.00 worth of Audio a week on e-bay, so I have a lot more transactions than most people.....Most of the people responding maybe spend 20.00 a week.......Regardless of what was offered , the response , in two letters was out of control.....And anyone who says different should go back to school and learn some manners......Anyone that condones that conduct better look in the mirror.......And that goes to any responder that doesn't know better .........I was hoping that I would get some knowledge from people that had a sense of right and wrong , but I'm not surprised at the lack of that either.....
now why would any seller out of the blue refuse to sell something to a buyer, especially a buyer that has recently purchased from the seller? I don't think we are getting the whole story. This is like a buyer on agon wanting to buy an amp from a seller and the seller out of the blue tells him to FO. Not buying it.
You made him an offer to buy, to which he he allegedly responded with a profanity .
To better frame an understanding of what went down:
- What was his asking price and
- how much was your offer?
- The prior two purchases are a red herring at first blush. Was there some attempt at linkage of the 3rd to the prior two that characterized an implied extreme slash in the amount of the 3rd offer?
- it sounds like Seller was insulted by the offer in the extreme .
In pleading your case in the Court of Public Opinion, let’s hear first the rest of the story of what went down:
“There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each differently.”
I think people are losing there social skills, That one two letter answer cost him about 2500.00 dollars in about ten seconds......I don't know how to send anything to e-bay, and that is by e-bay design......They don't want to talk to anyone....And on top of that I won't get my money back for at least 5 days....I would call them but they don't like phone calls either...........
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