Been selling a few items on Ebay recently and I happened to look at the feedback comments I've received – not something I normally do as I'm not a big Ebay seller
I had to laugh when I found the only negative comment I’ve ever had in my whole time using Ebay, alongside 175 positive comments, was from Mr Backhouse – I’m sure you can spot it in the list.
It has to be said that Mr Backhouse’s description of what he was selling was entirely inaccurate. They were described in the listing as Gottlieb 30” (sic) legs in excellent condition. Turned out they were Bally Williams 28 ½ “ legs, and when I later tried to use them it turned out one of them had stripped threads and so would not take a leveller. He also charged me for Royal Mail 48hr delivery but then sent them by Hermes who left them dumped outside our house in the rain when we were away for 5 days.
When I took it up with him he said he hadn’t inspected the legs but had “assumed” that as they had come with a Royal Flush he was restoring they would be the longer Gottlieb legs (in fact Royal Flush actually takes 27” legs anyway, so that would never be right).
He asked me to revise my negative feedback as it would damage his business, and was still unhappy after I raised it to 4* after he offered me a refund (which I didn't take since I didn't want to get into an argument about postage charges).
All the correspondence from him was of course rude and aggressive, with his trademark SHOUTY CAPITALS
All this chimes with another much more serious issue I had had previously with him under a different Ebay name (I hadn’t realised Deals-Are-Me was him when I ordered the legs or I wouldn’t have bothered)
As they say – BUYER BEWARE.
I had to laugh when I found the only negative comment I’ve ever had in my whole time using Ebay, alongside 175 positive comments, was from Mr Backhouse – I’m sure you can spot it in the list.
It has to be said that Mr Backhouse’s description of what he was selling was entirely inaccurate. They were described in the listing as Gottlieb 30” (sic) legs in excellent condition. Turned out they were Bally Williams 28 ½ “ legs, and when I later tried to use them it turned out one of them had stripped threads and so would not take a leveller. He also charged me for Royal Mail 48hr delivery but then sent them by Hermes who left them dumped outside our house in the rain when we were away for 5 days.
When I took it up with him he said he hadn’t inspected the legs but had “assumed” that as they had come with a Royal Flush he was restoring they would be the longer Gottlieb legs (in fact Royal Flush actually takes 27” legs anyway, so that would never be right).
He asked me to revise my negative feedback as it would damage his business, and was still unhappy after I raised it to 4* after he offered me a refund (which I didn't take since I didn't want to get into an argument about postage charges).
All the correspondence from him was of course rude and aggressive, with his trademark SHOUTY CAPITALS
All this chimes with another much more serious issue I had had previously with him under a different Ebay name (I hadn’t realised Deals-Are-Me was him when I ordered the legs or I wouldn’t have bothered)
As they say – BUYER BEWARE.