Here are a couple of my "curious" experiences on Ebay:
1. About two years ago I tried to buy a vintage M.I.B. Monogram slot car motor from a seller. He was evidently using Ebay's International Shipping Program but didn't know it! He ended up cancelling my purchase a day later after these PMs:
"But your shipping address is in Illinois so what’s going on here dude I got screwed out of a classic Frame somehow not that long ago and I think I sold it to you and for some reason it was shipped to Canada somehow but I shipped it to Illinois first and then it got lost and I had to give the money back on it maybe I should just end this auction and not even sell it to you because somethings seems really screwy about this I don’t ship out of the USA,look at the screenshot at the address."
I replied that I'd never bought a racing frame from him or anybody and that the last time I'd even been to Illinois was in 2001. His response:
"OK so if you didn’t get this frame from me then who did look at the screenshots I’m sending you I don’t know what kind of scam you guys got going but I’m not playing these games with you guys no more and that’s the bottom line I’m ending the sale on this and I’m refund and your money I’m not playing with you guys no more and you will be reported to eBay. So again you tell me why both of these addresses on these auctions are the same and you’re in Canada scam somebody else dude I’m not playing this game for real I’m a block you off of buying from my staff I hate to do that but I’m not getting fucked here."
Several weeks later he apologized after being enlightened by Ebay and told me he'd be glad to sell me the item. I ignored him since I have no patience with stupidity.
When Ebay asked me to rate my "transaction" including seller communications a few weeks afterward, I rated it very honestly. He then asked Ebay whether my feedback could be deleted because I'd not lost any money. When Ebay forwarded his request on to me, I refused to change my feedback because whether I'd lost money wasn't one of the questions and I'd given very precise answers to the questions that had been asked. I also mentioned that his stupidity deserved to be rewarded. Well Ebay deleted my feedback anyway.
2. Sellers often list premium coins incorrectly. For example they label Fightin' Warship or Space Coins as Airplane Coins. When I'm so inclined, I point out to the sellers that their listings are incorrect. Evidently I did so twice in about five months to the same seller. Apparently he didn't care whether his listings were accurate or not and was so annoyed with me telling him his listings were incorrect that he blocked me.
C'est la vie.
