25 Jul
2006
25 Jul
'06
7:20 p.m.
From: jim stephens <jwstephens at msm.umr.edu>
Roger Merchberger wrote:
Ciro100 is definately one to avoid.
I won an auction from him, and he demanded that I leave positive feedback
for him before he would complete the deal. I finally agreed to cancel the
transaction to avoid him leaving a retaliatory negative.
IMHO, not worth it, but maybe they'll take a
decent offer???
<snip>
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
Nice to spot roger. However if you read their crapola, they have
all the worst attributes of a "power ebay seller". No support,
therefore no answers about where it came from, condition questions
pre or post sale, etc.
No local pickup (have to steal as much for packaging it as they can)
no phone calls
I try my best to totally avoid these types, since that is all that I
can do.
My current favorite to deal with is the fellow in New
Mexico
who posts as riatla.
Agreed! Riatla is a very, very honest seller who often has nifty items.
Ken
25 Jul
25 Jul
7:36 p.m.
Rumor has it that Ken Seefried may have mentioned these words:
From: jim stephens <jwstephens at msm.umr.edu>
EEeek!
For the record: I knew nothing of the seller - only of the "kewl" piece of
equipment that was overpriced...
Laterz,
"Merch"
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Roger Merchberger wrote:
Ciro100 is definately one to avoid.
I won an auction from him, and he demanded that I leave positive feedback
for him before he would complete the deal. I finally agreed to cancel the
transaction to avoid him leaving a retaliatory negative. IMHO, not worth it, but maybe they'll take a
decent offer???
<snip>
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
Nice to spot roger. However if you read their crapola, they have
all the worst attributes of a "power ebay seller". No support,
therefore no answers about where it came from, condition questions
pre or post sale, etc.
No local pickup (have to steal as much for packaging it as they can)
no phone calls
I try my best to totally avoid these types, since that is all that I
can do. 
26 Jul
26 Jul
9:30 a.m.
Roger Merchberger wrote:
Rumor has it that Ken Seefried may have mentioned
these words:
I hope no one got the idea that I was implying you had an ax to grind.
I have
seen some stuff with this same "recycler" before, and it looks like he does
get nice stuff, sadly. again thanks for the note on that.
Jim
From: jim stephens <jwstephens at
msm.umr.edu>
For the record: I knew nothing of the seller - only of the "kewl"
piece of equipment that was overpriced...
7:18 a.m.
Ken Seefried wrote:
Ciro100 is definately one to avoid.
I won an auction from him, and he demanded that I leave positive
feedback for him before he would complete the deal. I finally agreed to
cancel the transaction to avoid him leaving a retaliatory negative.
Yikes, that's nasty..
When I'm buying, I usually leave feedback when the item arrives, then if I've
left a positive, I expect a positive in return.
When I'm selling, I tell the buyer to leave feedback if/when the item arrives,
or contact me if it doesn't arrive or arrives damaged. Once I get feedback
from the buyer, I leave feedback for them.
IMHO that's the best way to do it. To date I haven't had cause to leave
negative feedback for a seller, and I've had no problems with most of the
buyers I've dealt with. Had one moron decide to bid on one of my items then
disappeared - I started the "Payment Not Received" proceedings a week after
the auction ended, then NPB'd him after I hadn't heard back a week after that.
Sold the item to the next highest bidder, who paid about two hours after I
sent the second-chance offer through.
And I had one seller decide not to email me back when I bought his item - I
didn't bother leaving him any feedback at all (at the time, neutral feedback
wasn't an option). Oh, and one buyer who ignored the "I broke the item while
packing it, so I've refunded your payment" messages I sent him, and proceeded
to send payment a total of six times. Then after I refunded him for the sixth
time he left negative feedback for "not sending the item and refusing to
refund". I ended up contacting him with the dates and IDs of the transactions
I'd refunded, along with another note to ask why he'd negged me, then a couple
of hours later he retracted the neg...
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