eBay PROTECTS ROGUE SELLER!

[oinks308]

Okay it seems I have violated eBay's Rules by naming and shaming a Seller who RIPPED OFF FORTY SELLERS IN ONE MONTH! It seems I have violated EVERY Rule set in place to PROTECT ROGUE SELLERS... I cannot find my original Post here, so here we go again! Let's see WHAT Violations I commit this time TRYING to see IF eBay will protect THEIR Customers who keep thier Business afloat!

eBay stated that they are "Watching this rogue Seller and if he continues THEN they will take action..." WHAT THE ****???

There were 23 NEGATIVE and 17 NEUTRAL Feedback left AFTER he decided to go abroad, and on his return he has made NO ATTEMPT to contacting his Customers to replace or refund, Feedback states by many he has NOT RESPONDED to their contact attempts! And this is not enough to show he is;

A LIAR! A THEIF! AND NOT TO BE TRUSTED?????

I emailed him SEVERAL TIMES Asking where was my Case? NO REPLY!

After I left NEGATIVE Feedback;

The Seller gave me a sob story explaining he was away for an emergency and the guy he employed stuffed up, asking me to reverse the Negative Feedback and PROMISED ASAP the Case would be sent out to me Priority Post within days...

I felt sorry for him thinking maybe he was in a spot of bother; so I messaged him back to arrange to remove the Feed back, NO REPLY!

Messaged again, explaining he needed to contact me to remove the Negative Feedback; NO REPLY!

Messaged again, Copy and Pasted eBay Rules and the procedure to remove Negative Feedback; NO REPLY!

Waited until the day the Case was suppose to be here at the latest, Messaged him the NEXT Day stating it had not arrived; NO REPLY!

Messaged again to tell him he deserved the Negative Feedback, NO REPLY!

Contacted eBay believing they would have the Power to remove money from HIS Account like they DID TO ME one time, seeing as he is still actively SELLING the SAME items to OTHERS! HA! All this rubbish I read where eBay protects the buyers and rips off the Sellers is total NONSENSE!

They suggested I contact the Seller... HELLO? IS ANYBODY UP THERE??

I replied explaining; YEAH SURE! He hasn't replied to me now so WHY would HE CONTACT ME to sort this out? HE HAS MY Money as well as the money from THIRTY NONE OTHER EBAY BUYERS! WHY would he even CARE?

eBay explained that he would have MY Details as well as I would have his, being interstate will REALLY Help when he refuses to HONOUR HIS PART OF THE DEAL!

I had plans of starting an Online Business with eBay, well I now realise I am far better off staying with the Large Free Online Selling Pages and WHY they are doing so well in comparison...

It is a JOKE!

[zanadoo_56]

Maybe since old threads aren't deleted or closed or whatever, it might be better for the managers of the discussion boards to include the date of the first post in a column after 'author'.

Just a thought.

[springyzone]

It would be good if they would do something but don't hold your breath.

We're often told that ebay doesn't read the boards but the mods certainly do and it has been suggested umpteen times that the very old threads should be locked. Converted to read only.

It wouldn't be rocket science for some techie to do, but it never happens.

That could be because the mods themselves have no power, I don't know.  They may not be managers or in a position to make suggestions to anyone higher up.

Whatever the case is, they have so far taken absolutely zilch notice of even the most sensible suggestions of members.

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

almost two years ago the eBay Community Manager (michelleoz) posted that old threads would be locked, and actually started locking some herself.

Unfortunately, it has been quite some time since michelleoz has visited these boards, and she (obviously) didn’t inform/direct/instruct Lithium mods of her commitment to lock old threads.

Well, here are screengrabs from a discussion thread started by michelle_oz about changes to the structure of these boards back in 2017:

My offer to do the job of locking threads was just a joke.

I posted a method that would quickly enable old threads to be locked:

I still think my method would work for a number of reasons.  The main one being that it makes sense, another being that mods seem to be on the other side of the world which would make locking threads during the wee small hours easy peasy.

[collect247]

The time michelleoz disappeared is when I got a private message from her lol regarding a matter that I have been dealing with for some time.

Hope she didn't get booted from ebay