I hate eBay
I hate eBay.
I hate eBay.
I bloody frogging hate eBay.
I hate eBay and PayPal and Half (or more accurately, what they did to Half) and I hate that there is no real alternative to them.
Did you know that sellers can no longer leave negative feedback? So if they get frogged over, they can’t say that? Great. I thought that the idea that made eBay work in the first place was the whole rating system. That’s the only reason anyone with half a brain would trust a total stranger to actually send the products being sold. “Oh look, this guy has sold stuff to ninety billion people and only one guy had a problem with him. I think I’ll buy his stuff.”
Oh and sellers can no longer “solicit” cash payments. So if you’re a paranoid freak, off the system, hacking the internet access via satellites and shit, then guess what? No seller is going to accept your cash in the mail payment because eBay might just lock them out of their account if they find out. And eBay is a big enough of an ass to actually do it too. Of course, they might be required to accept PayPal. That’ll help a lot.
Especially when eBay locks your PayPal account for whatever reason. They do that one too. Hmmm… I wonder where all that interest goes when your money is sitting around in their accounts while you are locked out? That’s all well and good for them to make something off the service… besides the fees they charge of course. But when they lock your account because you cannot proceed with a “resolution” because none of the three options presented are actually relevant, then in my opinion they are running a scam and stealing your money.
I used to love Half. I bought my favorite game of all time on Half, Deus Ex. I started my Farscape collection on Half. I bought nearly twenty Mercedes Lackey novels on Half. Now, all I can find are scam artists over charging for used goods that I can find easier and cheaper on Amazon or eBay. Half got turned into what Yahoo! Auctions used to be. The place for the creeps to hang out. I can’t prove that one, of course, but I sure do get that vibe/feeling when I shop around.
What pissed me off today though was the feedback system. A few weeks ago I bought two items on eBay, a replacement camera knob for Jade and one of the missing Farscape Starburst collections. The seller for the Farscape DVD had returned my payment almost immediately, stating that the item in question had been discontinued by the manufacturer.
Side note: No bloody frogging DUH! That’s why I jumped all over your auction. Geez!
The knob for the camera seemed to take a really long time to arrive, so I had contacted the seller about shipping times and the seller was pretty quick on the response time. When the knob eventually did arrive it turned out that PayPal/eBay had once again supplied the wrong shipping address. I moved about a year ago and have since then updated my addresses and removed the old ones, yet PayPal/eBay still managed to retain my deleted information and supply it to the seller. My fault, though, because I should have paid better attention and caught the fault before the seller had time to ship.
So I logged into eBay today, intending to leave some positive feedback for prophotosd. The first thing that pops up though, is a message saying I need to pay for one item. It’s the Farscape DVD that the seller canceled on, returned my payment, and said was all clear. In fact, as I click around angrily trying to figure out how to deal with a non-payment dispute that shouldn’t even exist, it turns out that eBay is just being stupid. The deal with the DVD is done. Despite the alerts.
I finally stopped messing around with that and moved on to the reason I had come to eBay today.
Side note: that last sentence is horrible. I don’t know why.
I rated ProPhotoSD positive and gave them several five star ratings. And then clicked submit. That’s not good enough though. You have to say something too. And that’s offensive to me. I’ll say it if I have something to say, when I am ready to say. But I am absolutely not going to say something when I have nothing to say. When I don’t want to say anything. But I can’t leave this positive feedback unless I say … well, something.
So I said “.” and left it at that.
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