Just one example- I had an issue with a buyer in Ukraine who was refusing to pay for registration on his purchase- the listing had it as required if over $30 and outside the US. I posted a question about it on Ebays International Trading board, hoping to get some feedbackm on others who'd sold there and how much of a risk it'd be to send as regular mail.
I got piled on by all the posters there- all seemingly regulars. I was an awful person, he was no dfoubt a very nice man, etc etc. They ridiculed my description, my scan you name it. I got asked what I was so worried about, after all, it's 'only stamps.' I replied and related a case earlier in which a buyer in Poland claimed non receipt and I lost $50, I was told my reply was 'silly'. I finished by telling them they were silly themselves and a waste of time. Funny, for a couple weeks after that I could't access the post function on their boards. I think someone suspended me for sassing them.
I can post there again now, but why would I want to. It's just a snapshot of all that has gone bad on
ebay in the past few years.
Posted 04/10/2013 8:47 pm
