I had an experience close to this. I ended up using the ebay ombudsman
service or whatever they call it, and if you check my feedback score (for
tristanjohn, not active for going on two years) you'll see my rep was not
adversely affected.
The fact is ebay is mostly populated with good people. There are always a
few stinkers, but the service tries to weed them out (and is usually
successful) as it only makes good business sense to do so.
It's best to be careful, of course, but you can only do so much to protect
yourself blind, and then there's always new scam around the corner. Such is
life.
Tris
SOBs, sounds like some are learning to work the system and screw people, as
usual. The first thing UPS would look at would be the outside box. As long
as that's okay, flash must have been shipped that way. Sorry to hear of
your problems. Maybe lens auctions should mention something like "some
internal dust specs are normal, will not affect performance and is therefore
not warranteed..."
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Griffin" <frankrad4@xxxxxxxx>
To: <Olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 11:29 AM
Subject: [OM] Ebay Jerks and Weasels
> I have had pretty good luck with buying and selling OM's on ebay,
> until recently. My latest deals have gone rather sour, because of two
> types of scams. Scam # 1 goes something like this: I receive T-32 with
> crack in battery box. This crack is obviously started from the inside of
> box with outward pressure, looks like it was done from user installing
> batteries. I e-mail seller and he says it was perfect when it left so
> just FILE A CLAIM ! with UPS. As far as I am concerned this is dead wrong
> because the box arrived in perfect shape, there was no outside impact and
> UPS did their job as far as I'm concerned. The seller says that is all he
> can do for me so I guess I'm screwed !
> Scam #2 goes like this: This time a buyer gets a 35-70/3.6 using "Buy
> it Now" for $245.00 from me. I notice that this buyer
> ebay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx has lots of feedback as a seller of camera equipment
> but not much of a track record as a buyer, so I start to worry, I figure
> he intends to sell the lens, but how can he make any money when he paid
> 245.00 for the lens ? In a few days I find out how, its called the shake
> down. He says there is some dust in the lens and goes on about how he
> doesn't know if it can be cleaned and If I refund him $100.00 it will be
> OK. Otherwise I should pay shipping both ways and the refund because the
> lens "was not advertised properly" so which would I rather do? I point
> out that I graded the lens KEH EX in my ad , which states "glass may have
> some dust, but no marks" and I provided a link to my auction page and the
> KEH grade page. His reply is to ignore this fact and say give me $100.00
> and we have a deal. I feel he is taking advantage of my 1000ositive
> feedback and no questions asked return policy. I would even refund
> shipping if my description was wrong. So do I eat the shipping, or the
> $100.00 or have this guy ruin my feedback if I don't submit to his
> extortion ?
> Frank
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