posted on March 23, 2002 05:26:58 AM
I couldn't believe it when I saw this. I was browsing a category on eBay looking for something to buy (nothing specific... just looking to spend money! .) I clicked on an auction, and this was the first line of the description:
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Thanks to another deadbeat ebayer - [first & last name] in [City], [State]-known as [email protected], this is a relisting for the items she ran up the bidding for then weaseled out of payment. People like that need their privileges revoked.
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This seller had their deadbeat's real first & last name, email address, and city/state listed in her auction description! I about fell out of my chair!
edited for missing parenthesis.
[ edited by bh010296 on Mar 23, 2002 08:03 AM ]
posted on March 23, 2002 06:09:38 AM
The seller probably felt better after this listing, but putting negative things in a listing is not a good idea if you want to sell your item for the most money possible.
posted on March 23, 2002 07:12:37 AM
I sympathize with the seller (boy, do I ever!) but posting that information is a clear violation of eBay's privacy policy.
OTOH, I think it would have been acceptable if he had just used the weasel's eBay userid...
posted on March 23, 2002 09:02:46 AM
If everyone files for their fees that bidder will be out the door fairly soon.
People interested in bidding on the item could care less about a previous deadbeat. All they want to know is about the item they are buying.
To start an auction description with venting about a deadbeat is just negative. What if you bid on their auctions and your payment got lost in the mail or something else happened beyond your control, would you want your name up there?
posted on March 23, 2002 12:15:06 PM
Turn in the seller to ebay. It is not right to post others private information even if the screwed the seller. I wouldn't mind hearing about the bidders point of view on this one. I bet there is a pretty good other side of the story.
bp
posted on March 24, 2002 09:14:23 AM
One comment: I felt like listing an NPB's bounced check on EBAY, but didnt. Even when I threatened to turn it over to his local police it didnt phaze him. In fact, he ignored all the emails I sent. It was a small check, so I moved on. (Not worth getting all bunched up about) But it sure was tempting (and I would have sent him a link to the auction, too!!)
posted on March 24, 2002 09:22:03 AM
Also by noting in your description that you had a deadbeat, it has the potential of devaluing your item.
Some bidders may look and think that if the deadbeat bidder didn't want it there may be a problem with the article or it isn't worth all that much anyway.
posted on March 24, 2002 11:13:38 AM
Deadbeats don't have honor anyway, what would they care what others think of them.
"It is not right to post others private information even if they screwed the seller."
Why not? I may want to contact someone's deadbeat and tell them what I think of them. Since this is a community I feel I do have the right. It's a much more proactive approach than having ebay control the reigns. I have contacted other seller's losers before, but now ebay does not provide the means to do that which is unfortunate.
[ edited by quickdraw29 on Mar 24, 2002 11:15 AM ]
posted on March 25, 2002 07:27:05 AM
"It's not right to cheat people out of hard earned money, either!"
yumacoot: This seems so basic and so obvious, and yet I seldom see it said here on AW. Thank you. It seems sometimes that deadbeats are fine and dandy as long as they're someone ELSE's deadbeats.
Some day I'm going to go back and figure out how much in listing fees I was robbed of by deadbeats, the "I bid on the wrong item" or the "changed my mind, do not want" jerks in 2001. I can't even deduct them on my taxes, since I'm already deducting all eBay fees as a business expense.
[ edited by fluffythewondercat on Mar 25, 2002 07:30 AM ]
posted on March 25, 2002 03:51:34 PM
After a month of no e-mail resonses from a deadbeat bidder, I filed a NPB. Magically, within 24 hours I received an angry e-mail from the "disappearing bidder" demanding to know why I had filed a NPB???? I really wanted to say, "Duh, because you didn't pay or respond!" But after reading so much good advice on AW from other sellers, I waited until I cooled down.
Then I sent a nice e-mail thanking him for HIS e-mail. I sent a list of dates of my many efforts to contact him (non of which he responded to). I explained that I had PREPAID eBay's cut of the auction and PREPAID the listing fees to eBay and had resold the item and filed the NPB/FVF to try to recoup some of my lost money on the UNPAID auction.
I worded it much nicer than I did here, and more friendly. So far (cross my fingers) no neg or additional e-mails.
posted on March 25, 2002 07:15:45 PM
How about putting bounce checks up for bid. The highest bid can try to collect. Maybe someone in the deadbeats home town will bid.
.) I clicked on an auction, and this was the first line of the description: