Posted on 04/11/2010 12:32:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Malicious prosecution.
I don’t think it’s prosecution, unless it’s the state doing it.
Tort reform anyone?
I bet the lawyer is a bigtime democrat as well.
eBay is likely to lose long term from things like this. Fewer frank and honest reviews translate to less trust and fewer people willing to take the risk of buying through them. It would have been worth it to them to back the buyer in the lawsuits.
Definitely. Guys like Elliot Miller do this type of thing just for the fun of it.
Rule number one on eBay has been for a long time, NEVER leave negative feedback. Remember when Mom used to say, "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all."...?
I learned that one the hard way too. Work it out with the seller in another way. If you have to eat the $44 and your pride, do it.
Also, that’s why now when a job seekers previous employers are called as a reference, companies only confirm that the employee worked there, and don’t say anything positive or negative, because they could be liable.
You can’t leave a negative feedback, we made a purchase that never did even arrive. None of the 5 star options let you give an honest answer. So we wrote “Never did receive it”.....WELL..that is a no, no! Got a note from seller, “can’t blame me if the post office didn’t deliver it”. Duh! After we filed a complaint eBay refunded our $7.99, sure wasn’t worth all the grief we got.
I would be far more scared of a welder and what he could do to my physical body than a attorney from Miami....
Blood sucking parasites. All of them.
I've hired six and interviewed more than that and not a damn one of them were worth the cost of a bullet needed to put them all out of our misery.
EBAY is a cesspool of deceit.
So true. It's just not worth it. There are always ways to recoup your losses. Negative feedback is ostensibly to warn others to a bad seller. Number one...I look out for number one. I don't care if someone else gets taken by the same guy.
Number two, I do the research and unless I see 100% feedback...I don't buy from that seller. To me 98% is just as bad as 0%. But that's just me.
My rule is always pay with PayPal by putting the charge on your credit card. If you have a problem, call the credit card company. They will reverse the charge.
I have done this once by going through the credit card company since PayPal / eBay was dragging their feet. And I also [amazingly] did this even though I allowed PayPal to take the funds from my bank account.
I have an unusually good relationship with my bank [Wells Fargo shameless plug] ... and they simply put the funds back into my account. PayPal / eBay sent me an email saying that my compliant was resolved. End of story.
Bottom line, you have the ability to solve these problems by going around eBay. The easiest is having PP use your credit card.
According to opensecrets.org there's an Elliott Miller from Miami Beach who donated to both John Edwards and Ralph Nader
I’ve only ever left one negative feedback for a seller but a bunch of sellers on the Ebay forum weren’t at all pleased. I suppose they were friends of his. I always pay instantly, no one can complain about that, and I expect exactly what I ordered, shipped right away. So far, in about 120 purchases, I’m doing great.
Which would make you think they might help the guy out with legal fees and/or ban the idiot lawyer seller.
I once purchased a tavalera ornament frog that arrived with chips on its toes and other places. It wasn't due to shipping, it was just plain junk that the seller should never have sent out.
I left a "neutral" feed back saying it was damaged. The seller contacted me wanting me to change my feedback and asked why I didn't send it back to him.
I told I was just going to consider it my loss of money due to the hassle of packing the thing back up and driving to the closest UPS station. I also told him that if he had a shop he wouldn't have even put it on a shelf thats how badly it was damaged and that he didn't even have any business trying to sell it it......
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