Bad Ebay Experience Over The Phone

How about because, as a seller, I've encountered insane buyers who want to leave Negs if the Post Office takes more than 8 hours to deliver the coin? I've had snide emails the day after an auction ended, wondering where the coin was.

You don't get Feedback from me until you tell me the item is OK, or at the end of my return period after I know you got the item, and I track every item. As a seller, I can't leave Satan himself a Negative any more, so I'm gonna make darn sure you have no reason for ebay to allow you to leave me one.

SuperDave - I think that everyone who's been around this forum for any length of time knows YOU well enough to know that what you say about YOU and your selling experience is God's honest truth. But anyone who's been on ebay as a buyer long enough also knows that there are BAD sellers out there who have an artificially inflated GREAT LOOKING feedback records simply because they have manipulated the system (especially in the past!) by doing what I described earlier...holding the buyer's feedback hostage until they (the seller) get that positive, whether they deserved it or not. As I ALSO said, ebay has eliminated the option for the seller to neg the buyer as a simple knee-jerk reaction - it's now more of a "process" - and as a result, some of those games that sellers used to play are simply not as effective anymore.

I'll probably upset somebody by saying this, but I think that what you sell and who you sell it to (on ebay) goes a long way toward determining what happens after the sale. By that, I mean if you sell "really good stuff", like mint state coins - especially those that are slabbed - you're more likely to ecounter an annoying buyer who starts looking for his purchase to arrive at his door within 24 hours of payment and then gives you grief when it doesn't happen that way. It just seems to me that people who pay "good money" for something are a little more apt to be looking for the postman the next day than the people who buy the low end stuff that I sell.

My ebay feedback is a positive 2755, with no negs - EVER. And believe me, there have been closer to 10,000 overall transactions. Never in that whole time have I had anyone contact me within the first 5 days of closing to ask me "why isn't it here yet?" To be sure, I've had people contact me to report lost items or SERIOUSLY delayed items, but only after a reasonable time, like a week.

So I guess I'm saying my "less discriminating" customers are more laid back than the oil barons in Saudi Arabia that SuperDave sells his 1913 V nickels to! (yeah...I'm off in left field today, but you know what I'm saying...right?)

Understood.

Coin collecting is only a hobby for me. I do have a lot of experience with e bay, I find the bad sellers are pretty much a ratio of 1 in 50 approximately. I run 2 different businesses for a living & this seems to be about average dealing with people in general. There are some that will never be pleased. There is really nothing you can do in the end but smile & move on.