Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Montie, Except that Howard is usually found in Hong Kong and Bali! I am curious - are citizens of CONUS unfailingly honest, and the rest of us are scamps? Cheers Jayanand On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:26 AM, Montie Talbert <montoid at earthlink.net> wrote: > Thanks Howard, good lesson here! ?SHIP CONUS ONLY (Unless you > know buyer personally). > > Montie > > >>>Hi Luggers, > > Thought you might like to know the follow up and conclusion to my > posting about the experience with the Paypal / Ebay scam I reported on > last week. > > My Ebay buyer in France acknowledged receipt of his package on Monday, > demanded a discount for late delivery (even though he had paid for sea > shipment which can take up to two months and in fact he received the > parcel in just over 6 weeks) and promised me he would reverse my > negative feedback if I have him one. You have to admire his chutzpah. > > Faced with this extortion (and sadly, inexplicably, lacking > confirmation from the tracking number that the parcel had been > delivered) I offered $10 off and requested the negative feedback be > reversed. ?He paid the reduced invoice this morning and reversed the > feedback so I am back to 100%, slightly older, out $10, and much wiser. > > In sum, neither Ebay nor Paypal were at all helpful to me as a seller > and the buyer could have gotten away with the goods and without paying > if he was so inclined. > > Needless to say I have put him on my ?do not do business with? list. I > was pleased to see that recently someone left him negative feedback. > Couldn?t have happened to a more deserving guy IMHO. > > Cheers > > Howard > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information