Comments on: TDK Systems Blue5 for Palm V/Vx Review http://the-gadgeteer.com/2002/05/01/tdk_systems_blue5_for_palm_v_vx_review/ Gadget reviews and news by Julie Strietelmeier and friends since 1997 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:27:19 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Judie http://the-gadgeteer.com/2002/05/01/tdk_systems_blue5_for_palm_v_vx_review/comment-page-1/#comment-15965 Judie Sat, 13 Sep 2003 01:18:18 +0000 #comment-15965 Scott, You could probably safely leave him Neutral feedback, stating something like what you just wrote. If he leaves you negative feedback, you can respond underneath it with a quick rebuttal. If your feedback is predominantly positive and if you respond with the facts (assuming he leaves negative feedback), then I don't think it will hurt you in the long run. The bad eBay buyers and sellers sure make it a pain for everyone else that is doing the right thing. Judie Scott,

You could probably safely leave him Neutral feedback, stating something like what you just wrote. If he leaves you negative feedback, you can respond underneath it with a quick rebuttal. If your feedback is predominantly positive and if you respond with the facts (assuming he leaves negative feedback), then I don’t think it will hurt you in the long run.

The bad eBay buyers and sellers sure make it a pain for everyone else that is doing the right thing.

Judie

]]> By: Scott R http://the-gadgeteer.com/2002/05/01/tdk_systems_blue5_for_palm_v_vx_review/comment-page-1/#comment-15964 Scott R Sat, 13 Sep 2003 01:05:20 +0000 #comment-15964 I recently purchased a lousy $16 power adaptor for my laptop on eBay (my cats chewed through mine). The seller had a rating of around 240 with maybe 4 negatives, none of which were recent. Well, after paying through PayPal, I got a confirmation email about the order (he seemed to have some sort of business that sold lots of stuff through eBay). That was the night of 9/1 (labor day). I didn't get any sort of confirmation about it being shipped or a shipment tracking # so I then started sending him emails (can't remember how many or how often) asking for that and finally got a reply from him late on Monday (9/8 - one week after I paid for the item) saying that he was the only one at the office but would send me an email the first thing in the morning. He didn't. I've since sent him an email per day (might have missed a day this week) and one of my more recent emails stated that if I didn't hear back from him that I could only assume that he wasn't planning to ship the item and I would deal with that accordingly (I think that was yesterday). He still hasn't responded. Do any eBay experts here know if there are really eBay scam-artists that are capable of setting up a mostly positive 240 rating and would go to the trouble of scamming someone over a $16 item? It just doesn't add up to me. If I had bought a $1000 item, I would have assumed earlier that he was ripping me off. But because it's $16, I just can't believe that anyone would go to that kind of trouble. Additionally, I emailed one of the people who bought an item from him the same day I did to ask if they got their item OK and they emailed me back today to say they did. I've also seen positive feedback for him within the last day. Worst case scenario, I'm out a lousy $16. No big deal. But I need that AC adaptor and I don't know if the guy's going to send it to me one day or if I should go ahead and bid on another auction. Here's another question...Assuming I do get the thing (late), is it "safe" for me to give him somewhat negative feedback (like, "Poor communication but the product eventually arrived OK") or would this likely prompt him to give me negative feedback? While I'd like to give him negative feedback, I don't want to mess up my feedback rating as a result. Thanks, Scott I recently purchased a lousy $16 power adaptor for my laptop on eBay (my cats chewed through mine). The seller had a rating of around 240 with maybe 4 negatives, none of which were recent. Well, after paying through PayPal, I got a confirmation email about the order (he seemed to have some sort of business that sold lots of stuff through eBay). That was the night of 9/1 (labor day). I didn’t get any sort of confirmation about it being shipped or a shipment tracking # so I then started sending him emails (can’t remember how many or how often) asking for that and finally got a reply from him late on Monday (9/8 – one week after I paid for the item) saying that he was the only one at the office but would send me an email the first thing in the morning. He didn’t. I’ve since sent him an email per day (might have missed a day this week) and one of my more recent emails stated that if I didn’t hear back from him that I could only assume that he wasn’t planning to ship the item and I would deal with that accordingly (I think that was yesterday). He still hasn’t responded.

Do any eBay experts here know if there are really eBay scam-artists that are capable of setting up a mostly positive 240 rating and would go to the trouble of scamming someone over a $16 item? It just doesn’t add up to me. If I had bought a $1000 item, I would have assumed earlier that he was ripping me off. But because it’s $16, I just can’t believe that anyone would go to that kind of trouble. Additionally, I emailed one of the people who bought an item from him the same day I did to ask if they got their item OK and they emailed me back today to say they did. I’ve also seen positive feedback for him within the last day.

Worst case scenario, I’m out a lousy $16. No big deal. But I need that AC adaptor and I don’t know if the guy’s going to send it to me one day or if I should go ahead and bid on another auction.

Here’s another question…Assuming I do get the thing (late), is it “safe” for me to give him somewhat negative feedback (like, “Poor communication but the product eventually arrived OK”) or would this likely prompt him to give me negative feedback? While I’d like to give him negative feedback, I don’t want to mess up my feedback rating as a result. Thanks,

Scott

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