6 Mar
2012
6 Mar
'12
12:39 p.m.
On Mar 6, 2012, at 2:31 PM, Philip Pemberton wrote:
I'm on the verge of giving up on ebay. In the past
few months I've had:
- One seller cancelled my bid five minutes from the end of the auction
and closed it as "item no longer available." Then sent me an extremely
rude email accusing me of "wasting her time", "trying to get a valuable
item for nothing" and "ripping her off".
The item in question? An old Amiga software disk, sans any form of
packaging... just the disk. Not even a particularly rare one either.
For bonus points, they keep changing their damned user ID.
And possibly the saddest part of this is that (unless there was a reserve
placed), you could have bid a million dollars/pounds and she wouldn't
have known, because no one else was bidding. That's just how eBay works
(or doesn't, depending on your perspective).
- Dave