[time-nuts] eBay saga re: Test Equipment Surplus, eBay id jtsele, aka jts...

[SAIDJACK at aol.com]

Hi Chuck,
 
> have long maintained that the feedback system should be  changed
>to a blind system where no one could read the feedback until  both
>parties had submitted their comments
 
Caveat Emptor: there are tricks that can be used by sellers to get rid of  
negative feedback: i.e. the seller can try to get in touch with the buyer via  
the phone number given to Ebay. If they cannot be reached (say at 3am) then 
Ebay  will try to reach the buyer once(!) with one phone call(!) if they cannot 
reach  them, the feedback will be deleted, never to be replaced. I had a seller 
do this  to me once while I was out of town, there was nothing I could do to 
re-establish  my deleted feedback on his account, while his negative comment 
for me was left  on my account!
 
Insufficient packing seems to be a major problem for some sellers, I have  
received $65.000 (new) oscilloscopes packaged so badly that they crashed through 
 the actual thin cardboard box...
 
The best solution for this is to look at every single negative  feedback the 
seller may have (Mr. Joon has a huge number of negatives), this  will indicate 
the quality of the service.
 
Why take a chance. There are sellers out there with 1000's of only positive  
feedbacks!
 
bye,
Said