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Forum Dad
 United States
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However I can understand the gift requests
The thought of asking someone to break their own federal law so that I could cheat my government out of money would never even cross my mind.
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Forum Mom
United States
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Originally posted by Mike
People should be very careful about posting a negitive. If you post a negitive against someone the very best rating they can ever attain again is 99.9%. I know that's an impressive rating but to recover from a neg for most sellers is a long road. To me how a seller responds to a neg tells you more than the neg left! Also,remember many sellers are buyers as well! It is important to look as some negs can result from a simple "lost in the mail payment" to a shipping charge dispute. It pays to trake a liitle time and actually read the comments rather than make an opinion solely based on numbers! Mike
Actually, I think that a user can have 1 negative for every 2000 unique positives and retain a 100% feedback rating. And the comments themselves are very important. I have looked at a seller's negative feedback, followed it up by researching the feedback of the one who left it, and done this probably to the third or fourth level. It's amazing what you will find. |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Booby, is that an ebay rule? The math as I understand it would make a true 100% impossible forever! Would it not just be 99% carried out to three .999 and so on? Please no simple yes answer here! Mike... After all one out of a million = less than one million?  Edited by Mike
04/17/2005 5:39 pm
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Forum Mom
United States
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I believe it rounds up from the fourth digit.
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Rest in Peace
United States
2884 Posts |
Can you point out an ebay seller with negs that has a 100% rating? Mike |
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Forum Mom
United States
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We did for a second. We got one negative years ago by some idiot who thought feedback was a game (has since been NARU'd). We reached 2000 feedback and were back up 100%. We got a negative two days later from a buyer who felt that we were required to leave our feedback first (this one has ruined perfect records for a number of sellers).
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Forum Dad
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Every coin I send to Europe, regardless of where it is going is a "gift"! When trading I am giving them my coins in exchange for their "gift" coins and for the most part nothing was bought or sold-----just traded!
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Bobby, thanks for the link. Even knowing that ebay corrects back to 100% (as they should) is not much comfort to someone waiting to get back there! For smaller sellers it may never happen! I noticed that both NEG's left on the link you provided were posted by buyers that were pretty new to ebay, and allowed the seller no opportunity to correct the problem. Also your illustrated seller had a grand total of over 10,000 positives! That is one great record! Mike  Edited by Mike
04/18/2005 01:25 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Way to go Bobby you rock !!!  I didnt know that a person could out live a negative !! Rick |
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Pillar of the Community
Belgium
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Originally posted by crystalk64
Every coin I send to Europe, regardless of where it is going is a "gift"! When trading I am giving them my coins in exchange for their "gift" coins and for the most part nothing was bought or sold-----just traded!
I worked 23 years for the Monsanto company and have people that send me second hand american paperbacks and things as gifts the rules are as follows Next quote is myself quoting myself quote:
We are in the European Economic Community EEC same as Germany ( same custom rules )
A free non commercial SAMPLE will pass if the declared value is less then 22 Euros (mail and packing included in that figure )
Gifts from person to person will pass if the declared value is less then 45 Euros mail and packing included
Any internet transaction is excluded from any sample or gift rule I once had customs objecting because somebody left an old receipt thank you for buying in the package (like book readers often do with airline tickets ; should have kept all those stubs ) So I told customs I refused the gift and to send it back I got it free becase mailing it back costs them Edited by ageka
04/18/2005 06:38 am
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Pillar Of The Community
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I have been told by German collectors that EVERY package from the U.S. is opened and inspected, unless it is going to a hotel, so I never place a receipt in the package but might put a note stating "Here are the coins I promised you. Hope you like them"! I actually have a Belgium collector, who works in Germany, get all his packages at his hotel and they NEVER open his mail?
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Pillar of the Community
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Originally posted by crystalk64
I have been told by German collectors that EVERY package from the U.S. is opened and inspected, unless it is going to a hotel, so I never place a receipt in the package but might put a note stating "Here are the coins I promised you. Hope you like them"! I actually have a Belgium collector, who works in Germany, get all his packages at his hotel and they NEVER open his mail?
In Belgium all mail arrives at Brussels X postoffice There is three or more custom people who can put dirty fingerprints on coins and who are often too busy running in corridors so they are unavailable at the phone I think they open all packages hotel or not Lettres will depend . Labels on the outside and shopnames or company names attrack them So I told people not to send me anything in a Monsanto labelled envelope or package . Without implying anything the only registered fully insured package that disappeared on me was send from Switzerland to Belgium passing customs and containing an XF Victoria Shieldback After some kind of investigation I was simply sent the insurance money That stopped me from buying outside the EEC |
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I send coins (trade) to a Belgium collector but it is done thru a collector in the Netherlands, who acts as a middleman! All of our correspondence and exchanges go throught the Netherlands as nothing has ever been direct. We know each other by name and I wondered why we couldn't exchange directly. Apparently you have answered my question without me even asking it! None the less the arrangement, brokered by the collector in the Netherlands, has worked out very well as it eliminated sending extra packages as everything goes to one collector who in turn faces the task of keeping things straight! Works for me!
Ageka if you ever need anything from the U.S. or Canada I would be glad to help you out!
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Thank you for the offer Terry
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