Part three: Trouble with eBay, and stuff.

[valis2]

So I returned on Tuesday evening, ready to catch up with the flist and my eBay stuff, and then I read this message from one of the people who have bidded on eBay items that I have:

It is very obvious you as a seller drove up the price of the coins. There are ways of seeing this that you obviously don't know about. Since i live in [my hometown] Michigan your Neighbor i will be want to pick these coins up in person. By the way i am 6.2 255pds and i don't like getting ripped off! We will be talking soon.

At first I laughed and laughed because I thought it was a joke. Then I realized that he was serious. I sent him a note saying that I have never done things like that, and that when the odd bidding occurred on the items, I was actually driving through MI because I wasn't even home for the last week, and had scheduled the auctions to begin.

I called the police, and sent a report to eBay. Of course, just after I did this, he sent a grudging email back saying that he was talking to the people who had done the bid inflation trick, and could I please reduce the cost on shipping because we were so close.

Argh!

It really made me angry, and freaked me out, and made me not want to ship anything out or even look at eBay. Of course, that was a stupid reaction, and I'm about to go put together a bunch of things that need to be shipped. But still.

I'm still fuming.

Comments

[bell-witch.livejournal.com]

What a total freak. I don't understand why people would bid on something and not expect to pay both the price and the shipping. I look at both before I ever bid.

For a while there, people were massively overcharging on shipping. $5 for a book? No, you pay the media mail rate, which is like $1.85. I can see charging two dollars to keep it even, but not five. I'm sure you weren't doing anything like that.

And I find it odd that the police don't consider that a threat.

I'm also 5'4" and have a Glock 17 named Pookie. (You know, the shells come out the side... Pook! Pook!) I want to get some magnetic bunny ears for the slide. That would be whacky.

It's been a while since I've sold on e-bay. I was thinking of selling again, but this scares me.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

The minimum I charge for shipping is $5. That's because I send absolutely everything Priority Mail, which makes my life a lot easier.

I knew something like this would eventually happen; there is always someone who has to cause trouble, after all. Still, 99% of the transactions I've had have been positive.