Re: [Thinkpad] How to buy a notebook on Ebay

Now, more than ever, people are opting to not leave feedback, as opposed to leaving neutral or negative, because too much negative is because of retaliation. Before buying an expensive item, I do a completed items search by seller, and then compare their recently sold items to their positive feedback. If they have more than three items in the recent past with no feedback (but based on time, should already have), I use that as the first clue not to buy from them...

----- Original Message ----
From: Tom Franklin <reeler@gmail.com>
To: ThinkPad Mailing List <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 9, 2006 3:31:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] How to buy a notebook on Ebay

> Exactly the problem. I got a negative feedback this past weekend. I
> bought a CD that arrived poorly wrapped and broken. I left a neutral
> stating that, but that the disc played fine and that was good enough
> for me. I got a negative feedback for leaving them "bad" feedback. The
> seller has over 6600 feedback, and my neutral nearly killed them. :)

Retalitory feedback on eBay is rampant. I left neg. feedback for a seller
who sent me fake goods. He returned the favor saying that at the price I
paid I should expect fakes. Paypal refunded my payment, but I was left with
negative feedback.

I looked back in this seller's history and found he only left negative
feedback in retaliation. I complained to eBay who did nothing.

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