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Dan BrettaI sometimes don't know what to think of the feedback scenarios on ebay. In November I bought a Sioux City Soos photo from a guy in Michigan, I paid within minutes of the auction ending with paypal. After two weeks and not receiving the photo I emailed him with no response, but in the meantime he listed some Lincoln Athletics photos which are truly up my alley and I bid and won them. Paypaled him immediately again and asked if he could just send the Soos photo along with the Lincoln photos...he advised me that he must have lost the Soos photo and that he would reimburse me with paypal. Well after about two weeks and still not receiving anything from him I emailed him with no response...started to wonder so I looked at his feedback and noticed that he is a very slow shipper on some items and other items he seems to be able to get out to buyers within days. Some of those people who got their items in a not so timely manner left neutral feedbacks and they all got hit with negatives in return....so I patiently waited and finally received the Lincoln photos after three weeks, but no paypal reimbursement for the lost Soos photo. Then about a week later I noticed he put up a bunch of minor league photos with a couple more Lincoln photos in it...I won them and emailed him that I would like to pay $10 less for this lot because he still owed me $10. Never heard back so I just went ahead and payed for the lot with paypal....got the photos within a few days. emailed and asked about my paypal reimbursement and he finally relented and payed me back. I left him three positives that were benign and didn't even fill out the "Stars". He decided not to leave me any feedback. Not sure where I was at fault in anything, but I looked and he left positives for everyone else he sold too in the last few weeks but me.
I would never have even given this guy business after he "lost" the Soos photo, but he had photos from an area that I collect and they are just too rare to pass up no matter the hassle.
As a seller I always leave feedback first - and have noticed that lately a lot of buyers just are not reciprocating. Maybe it's my winning personality? 