7300+ NEGATIVES

COMICKINGS · Post by **COMICKINGS** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 7:49 am

This has got to be one of the biggest shysters on Ebay...in the last month he's ripped off almost 1 out of every 50 people he's gotten feedback from........

http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.d ... campus.com

I can't understand Ebay still allowing this guy to operate.

I thought I saw a guy a few months ago with almost 9000 negatives.Has anybody seen anybody with feedback more than this guy?Post a link if you still have it.

mike rok lok · Post by **mike rok lok** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 10:15 am

What I can't understand more than that guy's negative feedback is that people still bid on his auctions! But in all seriousness Ebay should govern that type of nonsense. Bless communities like ours that lets everyone aware of poor sellers.

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 11:00 am

And more than just a few people are bidding on his stuff. Looks like he does not lack any buyers that's for sure. Doesn't anyone look at feedback anymore? Honestly, what are these people thinking?

bamaphilosopher · Post by **bamaphilosopher** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 11:02 am

Sometimes I get so excited about an item I forget to check the feedback. But thanks for showing us this...makes me realize I should be more careful.

Over 1700 negatives this year alone? Geez!!!

Escaflown4 · Post by **Escaflown4** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 12:13 pm

Ebay will never ban this guy for the #1 reason..... he brings too much income for them to give up. Don't forget that ebay itself is a for-profit organization. This guy must be generating thousands of $$ for ebay every month. Think a few people complaining can get this guy banned? Highly unlikely, greed comes out like a *SQUEE* at the end. Geez look at how much items this guy is selling.

jordan silo · Post by **jordan silo** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 2:16 pm

Now that's how the business works! Corporations’ all want to make money! Now the only way that they would ban an eBay member if he/she will cause the company to lose money, degrade the company, or harm the company in anyway!

Master Dorque · Post by **Master Dorque** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 4:20 pm

True, that is alot of negatives, but lets look at this guys overall numbers. He has 143,000 plus positives, and 7,000 plus negatives. He has been a member for around 75 months. That is an average of 2000 transactions per month. If we use 30 days as the average for a month, that comes to 66.6 transactions per day, seven days a week, for an entire 75 months! Now think about that...the amount of books he mails every single day is mind blowing! An operation this big makes it almost impossible to give each orders packing/shipping etc. individual attention. This operation is probably more like a factory than a Mom and Pop garage sale via internet operation. With this in mind, I think his 94% positive is acceptable. Also, I scrolled down to the first negative I could find, and it looks like the item was never received, and a negative was left before he was given a chance to rectify. His response was "Tracking shows it was delivered - but we will send you out another." I just think that comparing this guy to someone with a 100 or 200 feedbacks is like comparing apples and oranges. I would buy from him if the price was right. But then again, he does average 66.6 transactions per day, (the number of the beast)..... so maybe he is Satan!

x-omatic · Post by **x-omatic** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 9:00 pm

Most of the negatives are from the seller listing items they don't have "in stock" and it seems that it takes them a while to figure out that they don't have something they listed. They sell a lot of school books and I know if I won an auction for a book I needed for a class I would expect to get it ASAP. Not to find out that you don't actually have the item I won 3 or 4 weeks later. If you don't have the item it should not be listed.

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 9:59 pm

Master Dorque wrote:True, that is alot of negatives, but lets look at this guys overall numbers. He has 143,000 plus positives, and 7,000 plus negatives. He has been a member for around 75 months. That is an average of 2000 transactions per month. If we use 30 days as the average for a month, that comes to 66.6 transactions per day, seven days a week, for an entire 75 months! Now think about that...the amount of books he mails every single day is mind blowing! An operation this big makes it almost impossible to give each orders packing/shipping etc. individual attention. This operation is probably more like a factory than a Mom and Pop garage sale via internet operation. With this in mind, I think his 94% positive is acceptable. Also, I scrolled down to the first negative I could find, and it looks like the item was never received, and a negative was left before he was given a chance to rectify. His response was "Tracking shows it was delivered - but we will send you out another." I just think that comparing this guy to someone with a 100 or 200 feedbacks is like comparing apples and oranges. I would buy from him if the price was right. But then again, he does average 66.6 transactions per day, (the number of the beast)..... so maybe he is Satan!

I don't think his feedback percentage is "acceptable" as you say. That means that there were 6-7% of customers who were EXTREMELY displeased and *SQUEE* and a much larger number who were unhappy. I and many others don't give negative feedback if I'm mildly displeased. I simply do not give feedback and remember not to buy from the seller again. If I see 6-7% negative feedback, I know that there is a good chance that this seller will *SQUEE* me off so I won't buy (normally).

Chuck · Post by **Chuck** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 1:05 am

I just used www.toolhaus.org to list all the negatives/neutral feedback; boy, that took a long time.

Anyways , this looks like your typical big-business operation. All/most the negative are from items that are not in stock, which they should be per their auctions. This is totally bad customer service; it looks like they are willing to bite the bullet on that 7% that will not get there orders in time. The bottom line it's all about the money; this joker still makes Ebay money. I have 100% feedback (61), but this guy make a lot more money for Eaby than I ever will. Therefore, I don't think they're gonna give a crap about what it say about this seller about his bad service.
:x

COMICKINGS · Post by **COMICKINGS** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 7:13 am

CHUCK...Thanks for the info on the www.Toolhaus.org ! That is definitley useful!My new favorite place!!

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 11:01 am

1. eBay DOES NOT CARE what someone does so long as it's A. Legal, and B. Generates them income. Period. You generate thousands of dollars a month for eBay, you get a pass.

2. Volume is no excuse for poor business pracitices. Bank of America has a great commercial about this...they process 11 million checks EVERY SINGLE DAY. It's not about 11 million, though...it's about doing ONE right, then repeating it 11 million times.

3. That people still buy from this fool SORELY tempts me to become one of these people. They suffer NO harm, and the amount of business they might 'lose' is MORE than made up for by everyone else.

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 11:01 am

COMICKINGS wrote:CHUCK...Thanks for the info on the www.Toolhaus.org ! That is definitley useful!My new favorite place!!

Send Win a couple bucks if you use it regularly. He's a crank, but still a decent guy. You can see him on the eBay comics board.

DawgPhan · Post by **DawgPhan** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 11:04 am

ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:1. eBay DOES NOT CARE what someone does so long as it's A. Legal, and B. Generates them income. Period. You generate thousands of dollars a month for eBay, you get a pass.

You should probably switch A and B there...If you make enough money for them they are more than happy to "not notice" something.

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 11:51 am

DawgPhan wrote:
ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:1. eBay DOES NOT CARE what someone does so long as it's A. Legal, and B. Generates them income. Period. You generate thousands of dollars a month for eBay, you get a pass.

You should probably switch A and B there...If you make enough money for them they are more than happy to "not notice" something.

Let me qualify...so long as it's theoretically Legal, and, if not, doesn't get caught by the appropriate authorities.

Actually, though, they ARE fairly good about the obvious stuff.

bamaphilosopher · Post by **bamaphilosopher** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 12:06 pm

LOL...too true about ebay. They're in it for the buck themselves, first, and even their "customer service" of striking people who break the rules is to ensure that buyers feel safe with ebay, so that, hence (surprise, surprise), they can make more money.