Unjustly Blocked

Yes this has happened to me, well sort of. I consider it a blessing.
This way I won't be dealing with the person who blocked me in the future.
Let it go and hunt down a better deal.
Should you accidentally bid on this guys stuff again and get the blocked message just say to yourself. Glad I am blocked by that loser!
I have actually asked people to block me, so I don't make the mistake of dealing with them again.
Hasn't happened a lot, but I've been there myself.
Just let it go. Their loss not yours.

I have been having a series of messages with this seller. I sent him one and told him that unless I heard from him as to why he had blocked me that I was going to tell the story on my coin forum. Here is his reply:

WE ARE FORWARDING YOUR MESSAGE TO ebay SECURITY BECAUSE IT AMOUNTS TO A THREAT AGAINST OUR BUSINESS WHICH IS NOT ALLOWED. WE ARE ALLOWED, AS A SELLER, TO BLOCK ANY BUYER FROM PURCHASING FROM US FOR ANY REASON. YOUNG8590

Here is my reply back:
Go right ahead. I'm glad you are doing this. I don't think an accurate post on a public forum about being unjustly blocked constitutes a "threat to your business". When you treat good customers unfairly, you can reasonably expect it to become public feedback. By the way it was not a threat - I have already told my forum about my experience with you. It is Coin Community in the ebay forum if you want to have a look and have a chance to respond.

Here is his last response:

You think it over.


- young8590

and my reply:

Only thing I can think of is that you are having a really bad day. Maybe you mixed my user ID with someone else? Who knows? I am really surprised to be having this difficulty with someone who has a 100% rating. Nevertheless, it is your right to block me if you wish, just as it is my right to tell the story on a coin forum. Good luck with your future business. By the way I am also a seller of coins on ebay and I have also blocked you, in my case with good reason.

Colin


At this point I guess I will let it go. Hard not to take it personally when there is NO reason and I have been removed from a good source of Red BU Lincolns that I need to buy. Nevertheless s--t happens.

G'day, bizarre.
I agree with all of what Wheezydog wrote, but especially: "... Their loss not yours."
Peter in Oz

I won't be buying from him in the future; some people are just too uptight and don't deserve your business.

A seller that will block a bidder for pointing out a minor listing error is probably a seller that you do not want to be doing business with in the first place

I got blocked once by some guy for asking if he offered returns. He got all angry and acted like I was trying to scam him. Seemed like a scammer himself =/

Pretty scary stuff man , I've never liked the fact ebay requires a landline and its displayed to a buyer.Theres no need for a phone number on the vast majority of transactions.

Okie-colin: I just read this thread today (June 8th) and I have to say that it sounds like a story straight out of The Theater of the Absurd. (And I'm talking about the seller - not you!)

I read the guy's ME page and he sure sounds like a regular old "salt of the earth" kind of guy...although folks who make religious references (as he does) always set off my radar. (...but that's probably just ME...)

Next, I looked through all of his listings for either a 1940 or a 1940-D penny. Most of his listings run for 30 days so I figured there was still a good chance that the penny you referenced on 6/3 might still be for sale. I found one of each for sale...each with at least 15 days remaining. I looked at the 1940 and read through the description and there is no mention of a D mint mark.

As a point of information, when an ebay seller makes a revision to his description, the date and time of the revision is noted in the listing just above where the description begins. I see no evidence of a revision to either the 1940 or the 1940-D pennies he is currently listing, therefore I have to conclude that he did not alter either of THESE listings as a result of contact from you.

The next thing I did was pull up a history of his completed sales between 6/3 and now. The only 1940 penny of any sort in that period was a lot containing both a 1940 and a 1940-S penny. The description for that lot did not mention "D".

The only other thing I can think of is that he pulled the listing altogether...and that just doesn't make a lot of sense either, but what else is there?

Please don't take this the wrong way...but sometimes emails can be misread or misinterpreted. When you're typing them out, in your head, you're hearing yourself say them with an inflection here or a pause there...and sometimes those things are critical to conveying what you want to get across. If you still have your email to him (it might be in your ebay SENT messages if you were doing it through ebay) is there anything at all that might be interpreted as threatening or adversarial?