I bought from a guy without looking at his feedback. Mistake. The item was damaged in shipping, and also obviously was not in good shape to begin with. No response from my complaints. I left neg feedback and noticed he had done the exact same thing to two other people. I left him some more neg feedback. So he left neg feedback on me! Made up a big fake story. No one know how many people this jerk has ripped off and he has "high status" on audiogon. I’ve bought and sold twice as much as this guy and he gets a "high status" rating? How do I get a high status rating? Not that I need it. Point is, don’t put much faith in audiogon ratings. You may be dealing with a high status seller!
My list of seller red flags
I’ve compiled a list of annoying things sellers do. If I see any of these red flags I will not buy from them. Ideally every seller should agree to not do any of these before they are allowed to sell online.
- Overpriced
- Don’t talk about any flaws
- Keep re-posting
- Use unrelated keywords in ad so ad comes up when you search for different brand
- Paranoid language like " Cash and Carry only", "No spammers", No Trades...
- Using all CAPS and !!! marks
- Used car salesman lingo like"only $xxx , a great deal, a steal , and the worse, RARE "
- Ad consists entirely of copy/pasted info. from manufacturer website
- Any textspeak
- Gimmicky pricing like $999 or $995 or the worse, random price like $927
- Saying price is "Firm"..
- Reducing price by insignificant amount to bump ad
- Tooting own horn, i.e describing how awesome their product is.. Comes across as desperate to me..
- Seller saying they will lose money or taking a big loss .. Not my problem..
- Selling several items in one ad and updating the ad to say "SOLD" on certain items.
- Overpriced
- Don’t talk about any flaws
- Keep re-posting
- Use unrelated keywords in ad so ad comes up when you search for different brand
- Paranoid language like " Cash and Carry only", "No spammers", No Trades...
- Using all CAPS and !!! marks
- Used car salesman lingo like"only $xxx , a great deal, a steal , and the worse, RARE "
- Ad consists entirely of copy/pasted info. from manufacturer website
- Any textspeak
- Gimmicky pricing like $999 or $995 or the worse, random price like $927
- Saying price is "Firm"..
- Reducing price by insignificant amount to bump ad
- Tooting own horn, i.e describing how awesome their product is.. Comes across as desperate to me..
- Seller saying they will lose money or taking a big loss .. Not my problem..
- Selling several items in one ad and updating the ad to say "SOLD" on certain items.
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