Pet Peeves On Ebay

Karen,
When ebay goofs or I overestimate the shipping by an ounce, I'll also send back a refund for excess postage paid. I usually do it right back through Paypal even if it's 20 cents. ebay's automated combined shipping system just doesn't work well when you have items of varying types. It would be fine if all items are the same weight, quanity and shape.

Will

Sellers that don't understand the difference between postal history and modern first day covers and list 10,000 first day covers in the wrong area.

My pet dislike is sellers who I pay in minutes after an auction but wait for my positive feedback before providing the same to me.

It not the only thing I dislike, but I don't have all day.

I'm a seller on ebay and I SHIP Worldwide the reason being is I learned after spending 12 1/2 years outside the US there is no right or wrong just differant and the sooner the rest of the 250 million people residing in the US learn this the better the world will spin.

Different people, different customs, easy.

ebay buyers who complain about feedback. Buyer feedback is a relic from a bygone era when a buyer's feedback actually meant something, when both parties were allowed to participate equally in the feedback system. Since sellers cannot leave neutral or negative feedback for buyers, it's now completely meaningless. By definition, buyers always have 100% feedback.

ebay should do like Amazon, where only sellers have feedback ratings. It's then one less annoyance/hoop for sellers to have to jump through, and one less thing buyers can neg sellers for... "You didn't leave feedback fast enough or pretty enough, so I'm negging you."

You've seen 'em. The listing titles that urge you to L@@K, or exclaim WOW! And the item is a bona fide P.O.S.(piece of *)
What's worse is when it's a dealer with prominent ads (as in, full page, full color, in this week's Linn's) who uses such tactics.
In one BIN listing for a Scott 687 line pair, he concludes the title exclaiming, "Nice!"
You want to see what a 'Nice!" 687 line pair looks like to this prominent Linn's advertiser? I'd like to show you, but evidently I don't have image posting privileges yet. But you can find it easily enough in a search for 687 line pair Nice!
Here, I'll save you the hassle. The perfs cut well into the design on one side, the line falls completely outside the perfs, and, to top it off, there is a pulled perf on one stamp.

But, boy, is it Nice!

Tedski

Tedski,

You can post images you just can't buy, sell or trade anything yet. Also there are some other posting rules listed above in the Rules button.

Karen

I see, now. You need to use the "Reply to Topic" link. I've been using the "Quick Reply" box.

: - )

Tedski

Speaking of BayPal, don't you find it annoying the way you have to jack with the numbers, when trying to issue a refund? If you want to refund, say, 60 cents, you can't simply enter that as the refund amount, because BayPal will refund YOUR 2c service charge to you out of that 60 cents, with your customer getting only 58 cents. So, before you finalize the refund, you have to remember to go back a page and add the service charge to the refund, to make the net refund come out right. Arrgh!

Tedski

Sellers that list 500 individual US Commemorative Stamps from 194-1950 for .25¢ each with postage of $1 instead of listing them all up under 1 collection. This just litters the pages and I now have to go and block the sellers listings so I don't have to wade through all of their items in which the postage is more than the value of the Stamp itself.

How can a vendor offer an $80 stamp scanned at about 12Kb?
I left the link, coin in pocket, albeit with a modicum of odium.
Assuming forgery.

I agree with Mr. Bus. It is a pain to find sellers who won't ship to certain countries. I know some countries don't have postal relations with Israel, so I can understand. Still, it's petty and short-sighted.My ebay petpeeves are:

1).Sellers who post the wrong photo of an item or incorrectly identify an item. These also seem to be the type who want to charge more than catalog or exact catalog price for common low value definitives but then they "Pad" the postage price to makeup for whatever financial "hardship" they incur in their auction.

2) Sellers who don't follow instructions. I've got 2 addresses (one in the US which forwards mail to me here and a regular Omani address. For kiloware and generally unimportant things, I use regular Oman post. I only use the forwarding service for expensive items and packages. Still, I have had sellers disregard my instructions and send items there. I dont want to pay $15 to receive my lot of 50 world wide.

3). In the past I've had sellers also charge me the ebay commission fee but I haven't dealt with this recently.

photos photos photos - I love those cellphone photos.

Also would it kill people to scan the back of a higher-value stamp when they include some caveat in the description like "tiny thin". I might even bid on something like that if they showed a pic., but without seeing the back, I assume that the stamp is held together with old hinges and duco cement.