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Help got neg ebay feedback I don't think I deserve

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Jjoshua2 said:
I do believeyou do believe....shit man you did make several mistakes!!
I made several mistakes. I don't believe that I deserve the trouble though and I doing incriminating things. I have heard people getting money taken from paypal and their connected banks basically randomly before and that there is no check and balances to the system. why should you be worried about checks and balances?? Your the one who screwed up...

I guess if she pays return postage if she pays what??? Dude your the one who misrepresented the item...you need to pay return postage!! That`s a crock of shit asking her to pay to return something that you essentially misrepresented!!

I haven't lost too much to refund her money and sell it again with all the changes suggested. I kinda bugs me to have to go out of my way for someone who doesn't know the difference between a power cable and a power supply who bought a monitor that they knew didn't turn on though. look doofus....none of this is her fault...no matter how much you try to make it her fault..you screwed the pooch..now man up..

As for paying $70 for a paperweight the last one went for ~$65, so I would really like to just refund the difference and call it good, but I want to do the right thing and not have ebay do whatever nastiness they can do to me. dude are you some kind of freaking moron or idiot? nothing matters other than you do what is right thing..it doesn`t matter that she doesn`t know the difference between..it doesn`t matter what the last one went for....you are 100% responsible for this mess not the lady who bought this piece of equipment that you deceptively described!

It seems to be pretty even split on people saying its mostly her fault or mostly my fault, but only a couple of people have given suggestions, which have also been split between nothing and full refund. look asshat it doesn`t matter what people think or not..you need to man up and do what is the correct thing to do..you also need to remember that well over 70% of the people who respond to threads are as freakin inmature as you are!!
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Man up.....quit looking for a way out! None of this is her fault!!
It is all your fault!! So grow up!!
 
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JEDIYoda said:
Man up.....quit looking for a way out! None of this is her fault!!
It is all your fault!! So grow up!!
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Really? NONE of this is her fault?

She bought a monitor labeled as broken, needing a PSU replacement, bought a new power cord and is mad it doesn't work and none of it is her fault?

You have to admit at least SOME of it is her fault.
 
Basically this would be like me buying a car from somebody with a known defect, bad starter, for example. Then I replace the battery and complain that it didn't fix the car. It's not the seller's fault if somebody doesn't know the difference between a battery and a starter, just like it isn't OP's fault that the buyer apparently doesn't know a difference between a power supply and a power cord.

And yes, we've been over the fact that the OP's auction could have been more clear. But the buyer isn't complaining about that, she knew the item was broken and what was wrong with it when she bid, so apparently it was clear enough. The issue here is the buyer figuring out she doesn't know how to fix this item, and now wanting her money back, even though OP held up his end of the deal.
 
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JEDIYoda said:
Man up.....quit looking for a way out! None of this is her fault!!
It is all your fault!! So grow up!!
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And you're just as bad as any sleaze ball buyer out there on ebay.

Here's a clue, learn to read the fucking description!

Sure, the OP's auction wasn't the clearest in the world, but does he deserver to take a $50+ hit for it. I don't know about you, but most people don't have the cash flow to just pony up $50 for a buyer's mistake (oh wait... this is ATOT, of course everyone does).

Like I said earlier. The buyer is gaming the system. She gambled and lost. She's inexperienced in repair, and for her inexperience, she expects the seller to pay. If I go to a garage sale and buy something as is, knowing it needs repair, I will not go and return it after said repair doesn't work. It really doesn't matter that he said that he's "quite confident that only the power supply is bad." That sentence is not an admission that he knows the exact problem. He's making an educated guess. Anyone who has a passing knowledge of the English language means that there could be an issue with something else in the monitor.

Also, look at the buyer's previous feedback posting history. She's handing out negs like candy,and unless she's the unluckiest buyer in the world, I doubt any of them are warranted.

It's a shame that you have to say BROKEN in big letters, but at the same time, the average ebay buyer probably has a 2nd grade reading level.
 
If you sold that in AT FS/FT, you would have been fine. If you sell that on Ebay, You need to write in BIG LETTERS a MULTIPLE AMOUNT OF TIMES that it is BROKEN. The iq of the average e-bay buyer is one standard deviation below average.
 
Hacp said:
If you sold that in AT FS/FT, you would have been fine. If you sell that on Ebay, You need to write in BIG LETTERS a MULTIPLE AMOUNT OF TIMES that it is BROKEN. The iq of the average e-bay buyer is one standard deviation below average.
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So true. Part of the reason I enjoy FS/FT is that people actually read my thread before buying / dropping questions my way. Most of them are quite nice and a pleasure to deal with as well.

eBay I use for certain stuff though, and have good feedback, although a good portion of the bidders there make me face palm.
 
I think you're an idiot. Ebay buyers are three steps above fish in intelligence, and you cannot sell an item like that without stating CLEARLY that it is broken. When you say power supply many people would assume power brick/power cord. This is AT FS/T.. it's ebay.


So, I'm piling on with the rest with the opinion that you're responsible and should refund her money.
 
feralkid said:
Refund.

And frostedflakes, what's your eBay name so I don't accidentally buy from you?
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I'm sure if you actually read the auction you would have no problem.

Seriously, just because someone thinks this woman should have read the whole thing and knew that a power supply was not a power cord he somehow a pariah to you?

She should not be shopping for things that need repair.
 
TruePaige said:
I'm sure if you actually read the auction you would have no problem.

Seriously, just because someone thinks this woman should have read the whole thing and knew that a power supply was not a power cord he somehow a pariah to you?
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No, she's probably out of her league, like you say.

Trouble is OP's failure to make it clearer in an eBay ad (just asking for trouble) and flake's failure to comprehend this.
 
feralkid said:
No, she's probably out of her league, like you say.

Trouble is OP's failure to make it clearer in an eBay ad (just asking for trouble) and flake's failure to comprehend this.
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I'm not saying he couldn't of been clearer, but the general unwillingness to think or even ask questions before bidding of some eBayer's these days shouldn't just be rewarded. especially when the OP didn't misrepresent anything.

She didn't even try to properly repair the item.
 
TruePaige said:
I'm not saying he couldn't of been clearer, but the general unwillingness to think or even ask questions before bidding of some eBayer's these days shouldn't just be rewarded. especially when the OP didn't misrepresent anything.
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But he DID misrepresent...big time.

Or perhaps you didn't notice his ad?

Good GOD, read it again.

The entire page is as if all is perfect...then the very last line tells the truth.

That's not cricket.
 
feralkid said:
But he DID misrepresent...big time.

Or perhaps you didn't notice his ad?

Good GOD, read it again.

The entire page is as if all is perfect...then the very last line tells the truth.

That's not cricket.
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The facts are the ad did contain wording to notify the buyer that the unit was dead. This is why you read the entire auction.

I think it could have been more clear but IMO we are dealing with 1.) A stupid seller and 2.) A stupid buyer so there are bound to be problems.
 
iFX said:
The facts are the ad did contain wording to notify the buyer that the unit was dead. This is why you read the entire auction.

I think it could have been more clear but IMO we are dealing with 1.) A stupid seller and 2.) A stupid buyer so there are bound to be problems.
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Agreed.
 
feralkid said:
But he DID misrepresent...big time.

Or perhaps you didn't notice his ad?

Good GOD, read it again.

The entire page is as if all is perfect...then the very last line tells the truth.

That's not cricket.
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Well the detailed item info is crap eBay adds in.

His actual description that he wrote is just this:

SOYO 24 inch LCD

Used just over a year and monitor no longer turns on. It is in good cosmetic condition and I am quite confident that only the power supply is bad. Before it failed to turn on the were no stuck/damaged pixels and sound bar on bottom worked perfectly. Comes in original packaging with all manuals, cables etc as you can see in the picture. For repair.
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SOYO 24 inch LCD

Used just over a year and monitor no longer turns on. It is in good cosmetic condition and I am quite confident that only the power supply is bad. Before it failed to turn on the were no stuck/damaged pixels and sound bar on bottom worked perfectly. Comes in original packaging with all manuals, cables etc as you can see in the picture. For repair.
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fatpat268 said:
Tell her to fuck off. Just look at her Feedback posting history. Over the past month, she's given out a ton of negatives for no reason.

Most of her negatives were for no tracking "and taking too long." And, to boot, most of these feedbacks were posted a week after her purchase. Her behavior is a product of ebay's policies because some buyers know that sellers can't do shit.

Unfortunately, it's her word against yours. Paypal and ebay will throw you under the bus, and stupid bitches like this one will continue to buy and act like an idiot like nothing's ever happened.

This is precisely why I don't do ebay anymore, or at least not in the capacity that I used to.

Edit: Not only that, it's extremely inconsiderate to leave a negative before the seller has a chance to rectify the situation. I mean... I'd be a lot more inclined to fix the problem if they withhold the neg feedback.
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I was going to call you a D-bag and side somewhere in the middle on this until I read this post.

Yes, you could have made this more clear. You could have given a better representation of the condition of the item in the advertisement. You could have made a bigger deal about it being "AS IS."

But all of this goes out the window once you learn that she replaced that power CORD to try to get it working. That means that SHE KNEW IT WASN'T WORKING WHEN SHE BOUGHT IT.

I would not so politely tell her to go suck an egg and to not contact you any more. Reply to her neg with, "buyer bought a monitor with a known issue, fixed the wrong part, then negged me for it not working. sellers beware!"
 
The OP's listing needed to indicate the monitor was broken I think that was the biggest mistake.
 
everything on ebay needs to be written so that people don't even have to think about what the words mean. and if you're selling a broken/for parts item it needs to be in the title.
 
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