At 10:47 PM 10/13/05 -0400, you wrote:
> In fact, the 26000+ rating tells me that
> he's to busy to test the stuff or to give reasonable service to his
> customers. I've learned to stay away from sellers with HIGH transaction
> numbers. They usually won't answer E-mail and their stuff is untested and
> frequently poorly packed. All due to a lack of time caused by too many
sales!
Not to defend this guy or anything, but I bet he has at least a few
employees.
That's probably true. But just as in Sellam's case, employees don't
always do the correct thing. Because they are employees may explain why the
service from such sellers is frequently poor but it doesn't change the fact
that THEIR SERVICE IS POOR. I buy a lot of stuff on E-bay and I've had VERY
good luck with small dealers but very POOR luck with the mega-dealers. Like
Chuck, I frequently send them a test question just to gage their response
and only about 25% even bother to reply. Guess what? No reply, no bid!
FWIW I've only had TWO negative feedbacks in the 8 1/2 years that I've
been using E-bay. The last one was from a mega dealer that never responded
to my request for the shipping costs and his address after the auction
ended. After a month and 4 requests with no replys I filed negative
feedback on him and he immediately filed negative feedback on me in
retaliation.
I've learned the hard way to be very careful about dealing with the mega
dealers!
Joe
With those kinds of numbers you have to. Remember that only
about half of the transactions show up on the feedback,
and many of those
do not make the number increase (repeat customers). I would bet that he
has done something like 50-60000 transactions in total. One person acting
alone, running absolutely full throttle, could only do maybe 5000
transactions a year.
William Donzelli
aw288 at
osfn.org