seller who won't answer buyer questions

[clickbaitoz]

This post is more of a whinge than a question but it might serve as a warning to some sellers of 'how NOT to answer a buyers question'. This really has me dumb founded as to how a seller can be so bad at 'customer relations' i guess you would call it. I asked the following about item# 151288291624 which as you can see barely has any description & only 1 photo of the cover.

me: hi just wanting to know more about this mag, looks like its a supplement to a newspaper, if so which one? is it full or digest size? are inside pages in colour or b&w, and how many? is that a stain i can see on the top right of it or a print error? thanks

sellers reply: I prefer to not sell to people who don't know what an item is . They end up being disappointed and leave undesirable feedback

what the??? i mean i could understand if i had left alot of bad fb but i haven't. I'm very generous with fb when sellers get it right & fair when they get it wrong. Am i supposed to be psychic to work out the answers to my questions? I mean i thought they were pretty reasonable or am i missing something? To me it seems like this seller is just lazy, in which case they may as well have not answered at all. Unbelievable!

Seems like i'm having a bit of bad luck with sellers lately, maybe i will give up & go to the op shops, garage sales & fairs instead, i do need to get out more anyway i suppose!

[2106greencat]

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@amber-eyed-girl wrote:
Well, we've seen it all this week, haven't we? Sellers where you need a psychic on hand, and sellers with mysterious pots that may or may not contain Genies 🙂

Your seller must be in the top ten failures for courteous and helpful customer service. Digi, you may at times run out of space, but your attention to detail, and fully answering any questions, is much appreciated 🙂

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You need to see some of the letters digi has drafted, I could make a living out of it if I had half the knowledge and a quarter of the     talent !!

[ambridgebuckskins]

Sigh.

How dare you put the item number up! You made me look at the item.

l felt the cobwebs moving when l looked at the picture towards the bottom of the cover. The name Mary Williams come to light but l couldn't remember why.

So l googled it. The Penthouse Club! with Ernie Sigley. Back in the days of Number 96 and The Box and Blankety Blanks and......

You made me sit there and remember the good old days, with my eyes glazed over...back to the 'simple' days when the television was only switched on for certain shows.

You also made me forget about the pot on the stove. The one that just burnt cheese noodles into cinders.

Bad.

Very bad.

* smacks on nose with rolled up newspaper *

[digital*ghost]

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@2106greencat wrote:

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You need to see some of the letters digi has drafted, I could make a living out of it if I had half the knowledge and a quarter of the     talent !!

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I really did miss you on the boards.  

[clickbaitoz]

*ouch* hey not my fault you can't cook! *runs & hides*

Actually being born in 1971, i only barely remember alot of those shows, my folks used to watch some of them but were good Catholics so didn't indulge in filth like Number 96 lol. I got into the shows a bit when repeats were on after midnight at various stages throughout the years when i was working night shift.  I was introduced to Graham Kennedy with his late night news show in the late 80's & of course Ernie Sickley as i like to call him, back with Denise on variety shows.

i might buy the item if it was a few dollars but not for that price with the lack of description & bad attitude, maybe i am a tyre kicker after all, LOL

[ambridgebuckskins]

We didn't have a television at home so it was a real treat when we caught the train down to Brighton to Granny's place.

Two little country girls come to the city for school holidays. Granny said officially that we were not to watch those shows but she used to leave the lounge door open a crack at nights. Sister and l would sneak down the passage way and sit by the open door.

We thought we got away with it for weeks until one night, after the show had finished, she went to switch the set off and said 'Bed time now, girls'.

Snort.

Shame she didn't have the same sense of humour when my sister and l sneaked out of the bedroom window to follow the milkman's horse on its rounds.

[phorum_junkie*]

I make it a rule not to buy from seller's who don't describe items well enough that you don't have to ask any questions unless it is about combined invoices!

With my selling hat on I write the reply I would like to make in answer to dumb ass questions and then delete it and send a polite reply. Sometimes there is just a well disguised hint of sarcasm, derision or some other connotation but looking at their question I reckon the numpty level is high enough that they won't realise

[clickbaitoz]

i could imagine shows like no 96 or even blanks would be a bit of an eye opener for 2 lil girls, it was an eye opener even for this grown adult lol. Amazing what they got away with back then really when you remember much of society were fairly conservative church goers. Are you sure you don't mean Mary Hardy, not Mary Williams?

[*crikey*mate*]

Blankety Blanks is on you tube

[ambridgebuckskins]

Opps.

Yes, Hardy is what l meant.

[joyce2395]

I wish eBay would allow sellers to be rated by their communication in answering questions asked by buyers.