L@@K! RARE -- 2 EBAY SELLERS CONVICTED and 1 on the run....Another nice ebay ("epay") story...

Re: L@@K! RARE -- 2 EBAY SELLERS CONVICTED and 1 on thFeedback is a good indicator in general but isn't always accurate. I've edealt with sellers and buyers that had bad., nasty comments only to find (after working with them) that it was likely someone that wanted to back out or something else. One of our fellow collectors by the username of Polbit gave me a nice negative stating that my machine was junk when it was sold for $6 and was in the posted condition. By the buyer's description in email I think he/she was trying to scam me by buying a good condition PS/2 55SX from me and then try to intimidate me into taking the crap one they had back. No way, I sell as final sales and when asked what the serial that they recieved was I got one totally different than the one I shipped (I track them all) so I knew that it was a "return it or I'll post. Best part of selling by ebay - you only get burned by a person once - they have a system where you can post any user's name, up to 1000 of them, and those users will be barred from bidding on any of your auctions. Another neat feature is if you have a specific item that you only want a handful of specific people to bid on it, you can post it and then enter allowed bidder's usernames for that specific item. I did this with a hospital out in boulder for an older Compaq machine with EISA (they needed it for a certain bio-med card) and wanted the security of it being an ebay item with ebay's item insurance. Worked well too and they paid for it with credit card through ebay's billpoint and I had the unit out that afternoon. Sure ebay made some money on what I could have sold direct but the buyer felt that they had a security in place too which they did and they also had a receipt for records from their credit card transaction as well. Of course the unit went into my business books due to it being done this way even though the old machines are personal property I bought long ago. There's good and bad to all things, you just have to be careful. Drop $5 in a slot machine in Vegas you expect to never see it but when it does jackpot you feel good. The auctions are a lot like that in many ways. -----Original Message----- From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Jeff Hellige Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 6:04 AM To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: L@@K! RARE -- 2 EBAY SELLERS CONVICTED and 1 on the run....Another nice ebay ("epay") story... It is possible though to get some good deals, especially on non-classic computer stuff, on eBay. Not to mention that many of the sellers are very reputable. I doubt the number of bad eggs, percentage wise, is any worse than going to flea markets and such. At least with eBay there is some recourse if there's a problem with another user, which isn't always the case with flea markets. I know I check a sellers feedback very carefully, as do most people. One's feedback rating makes a big difference. Jeff Sheeesh...not surprised....at all.... http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010417/wr/crime_ebay_dc_1.html I will continue to boycott this place as both a potential seller and buyer. Claude Canuk Computer Collector http://computer_collector.tripod.com -- Collector of Classic Microcomputers and Video Game Systems: Home of the TRS-80 Model 2000 FAQ File http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lakes/6757