Stiffed on Ebay

"Cub Driver" wrote in message
...

The entire thing is set up so that the middle man (Ebay) can make
money
on a transaction.

Now, that's not really so terrible, is it? eBay flourishes because it
provides a service that people want, both the sellers and the buyers,
and they are willing to give up a part of their transaction in
exchange for that service. Willing buyer, willing seller. That's what
capitalism is all about.

I have no problem with Ebay being a middle man. I just don't need this
particular middleman when I do business. If Ebay is your thing, by all
means use it. I simply prefer to take my capitalism elsewhere, and have
found avoiding Ebay more in line with my business practices. I don't
believe this has anything at all to do with one's understanding of
capitalism.
Dudley Henriques
International Fighter Pilots Fellowship
Commercial Pilot/ CFI Retired
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NW_PILOT wrote:

I run in to non paying bidders all the time act now file a NPBA then a FVF
Credit time is limited in what you can do ebay is truing to make it better
for sellers just file a non paying bidder alert on him 11 days later leave
negative feedback and immediately file a FVF credit to cancel the sale.

Non Paying Bidder Alert
http://cgi3.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAP...BComplaintForm

Final Value Fee Credit Request
http://cgi3.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?CreditRequest

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This guy posted some good Ebay info, but that's awfully harsh reading.
Throw some commas and periods around.

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 03:21:10 GMT, "Dudley Henriques"
wrote:

It broke me up! Not only the response, but the foresight Reagan's
handlers had in realizing that his age was a prime issue in the election
and anticipating an opening during the debate that would present the
opportunity for inserting this carefully constructed retort. It was
brilliant......a beautiful chess move.

The man once earned a living as an actor. No one ever claimed he was
a great actor, but he did know how to deliver a line properly. In
life unlike in the movies, you don't get as many takes as necessary to
get the retort right. We'll never know how often he practiced the
response with his debating coaches, but it seemed fairly obvious it
was a rehearsed line.

What's scary about Reagan is that there were reports of him falling
asleep during meetings, and then there was the issue of his Altzeimers
disease. It was diagnosed shortly after he left office. Think it
came on suddenly right after he retired? Knowing what I know about
aging and progressive dimensia, of which Altzeimers is merely one of
many related diseases, I doubt it. I think the only question is how
long had it been affecting him.

Corky Scott

Dudley Henriques wrote:

It was
brilliant......a beautiful chess move.

Mondale could have asked how his opponent felt about mandatory retirement
ages. I'm not sure that this would have gone anywhere useful for anyone,
but it would have been...fun.

- Andrew

Jay Honeck ) wrote:

Have I just been lucky? Anyone else run into this on Ebay?

With seventeen ebay seller auctions under my belt, I have had two non-
paying bidders. In both cases, I kept all of my email exchanges with the
deadbeats (stored in their own mail folders under Outlook) and documented
my attempts to collect as evidence, then left negative feedback.

In one case, the NPB was an AOL subscriber and would not reply to any of my
emails, so I downloaded AOL's Instant Messenger and configured it to alert
me when he signed on to AOL. When he signed on, I immediately IM'ed him to
ask if he planned on paying for the auction. He told me to take a hike, so
I saved the IM conversation and stored it with my email documentation, then
re-listed the auction.

In his negative feedback, I included a note encouraging prospective sellers
to contact me for information about this bidder. One seller did. Upon
learning of my IM conversation, the seller canceled this sorry sap's bid on
the seller's auction. Soon thereafter I noticed that both of my NPB's
userid's were delisted from eBay.

I have heard of "retaliatory feedback," whereby a non-paying bidder gives
the seller bad feedback in retaliation for receiving bad feedback. There
really is no protection for this other than the "respond to feedback"
option, where you can leave a response to the negative feedback left by a
NPB. Such is eBay...

--
Peter














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Dudley Henriques wrote:

"Newps" wrote in message
...

You're old and not expected to 'get it."

"I want you to know that I will not make age an issue of this campaign.
I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth
and inexperience."
Ronald Reagan-during a 1984 presidential debate with Walter Mondale.
:-))
Dudley Henriques
International Fighter Pilots Fellowship
Commercial Pilot/ CFI Retired
For personal email, please replace
the z's with e's.
dhenriquesATzarthlinkDOTnzt

I..... disliked Reagan...(trying to be nice here). But that was a great
line, and he was awesome at delivering them.

Oh man, I miss the days when a President could string more than three
words together and not trip on his face.

Dan.

"DanH" wrote in message
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I..... disliked Reagan...(trying to be nice here). But that was a great
line, and he was awesome at delivering them.

Oh man, I miss the days when a President could string more than three
words together and not trip on his face.

I miss the days when people paid far more attention to WHAT was said then
HOW it was said.

wrote in message
...

What's scary about Reagan is that there were reports of him falling
asleep during meetings, and then there was the issue of his Altzeimers
disease. It was diagnosed shortly after he left office. Think it
came on suddenly right after he retired? Knowing what I know about
aging and progressive dimensia, of which Altzeimers is merely one of
many related diseases, I doubt it. I think the only question is how
long had it been affecting him.


What's "progressive dimensia"?

I knew I'd get nailed for that!

"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message
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"Brad Z" wrote in message
news2MCc.177542$Ly.153404@attbi_s01...
His posts are pretty awful to read. I wouldn't want to be his english
teacher.

His "English" teacher!!

Go sit in the corner!!

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
hlink.net...

What's "progressive dimensia"?



All your life you are living in 2 dimensions then you get your pilot's
license and you are then working in 3 dimensions.