I'll watch out for him, James, but I don't generally buy from the USA
now. I have had bad luck with a lost XA4 and with import duties on
arrival in the UK. Add to that the charge levied by the carrier for
presenting the goods to Customs and the exhange rate advantage
disappears pretty quickly.
Bad luck.
Chris
On Thursday, Oct 23, 2003, at 12:01 Europe/London, James Royall wrote:
Seems to be the time to generally complain about auctioning, so...
I won an auction recently for a 24mm/2.8 lens at a reasonable price.
Auction ended around 3pm UK time on Sunday. I was busy so planned to
settle up on Monday. Woke up on Monday morning to find a string of
emails sent during my night (Florida based seller knew I am in the UK)
finishing with the news that he had sold it to the second highest
bidder. I mailed to say that I had won and wanted to complete. He
replied with "go ahead and leave negative feedback and I will too".
Now I remember someone saying that in this situation all that would
happen is that ebay would remove the feedback from both sides.
Thinking about it I don't think I've seen anyone with negative
feedback; most of the big sellers have the 98.6 percent type positive
and it strikes me that this is how they do it - they respond to
negative feedback with the same and both then get removed and their
record is untarnished. So am I right in thinking a good feedback
record is no indication of a good auction history? I searched through
the ebay site to try and mail them on this and couldn't find an
address - guess they don't care to interact with users.
James
FYI the seller's name is Patrick and email address is
Photohog64@xxxxxxx.
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