eBay Horror Story [for keet]

[porky2468]

When I was too young for my own email account my boyfriend decided to order porn on my mum's account. I never recieved that porn

[lebowski]

This guy I am dealing with on ebay is an asshole. he goes - "how many do you have? I hate to buy for a quarter and then pay $4 in shipping! I would like to buy several lots."

I put the item up for a penny with no reserve and I charged 4 for shipping, obviously I am making up for having no reserve by putting more on the shipping. If I had multiple lots, I would have put them up. He bid on the item, but he wants to go around ebay and ask me for more so he can just tack it on, no shipping charge. If only the world worked like that. I'm not responding.

[King of Assholes]

You mysteriously leave out when the auction ended, when he paid, and when you actually shipped it. That really does make a ton of difference. With ebay I tend to not care if takes someone 3-5 days just to ship something because a lot of people are just regular folks with shit to do. If someone's got a buy it now option I tend to be more picky because if you're that serious then ship my shit because I'll pay as soon as I click the button. All it really takes is a simple message though, send me a message saying when it's coming or why you haven't shipped it and that's fine. As a seller I'm not the fastest shipper, but the one time I did take too long to ship something I was in constant contact with the buyer and ended up refunding his shipping costs because it wasn't his fault.

Sounds like you both need to calm down. Telling someone to relax via a website where shady shit goes on all the time isn't a friendly response. You took a long weekend, that's fine, good for you, but you didn't tell him that. You said you were shipping it and walked away then expected that he should be totally okay with that. Is he supposed to think "gee, I spent all this money, this guy's ignoring me, wait no, maybe he just went away for 4 days?". For me ebay is all about communication, that's all it really takes to make me happy, while yours wasn't piss-poor it certainly wasn't anywhere near good or friendly.