14 Oct
2005
14 Oct
'05
11:40 a.m.
--- "Joe R." <rigdonj at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
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!
I'm just guessing but I think there is a good reason
for the indifference expressed by big sellers, and its
not a lack of manpower. If you are a seller on ebay
you quickly realize that the bidders who ask the most
questions tend to be the most problematic buyers.
A buyer asking questions means , 1) he is actually
going to use the product, or 2) the price is a high
percentage of his disposable income so its critical he
is getting exactly what he wants.
Sellers don't want these type of people, they want
high income, low expectation buyers who are just going
to buy the old computer (for example) and put it on
shelf.
They don't want buyers complaining that "you said my
Altair system had a CPU board model 3424-3423 but the
system arrived with a CPU board model 3424-3423A,
please refund my payment immediately or I will report
you to ebay for fraud".
There has to be a reason those mega-dealers are
mega-dealers.
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