Stay away from this seller on Ebay
 

kencr250

I won 2 auctions for a complete set of Losi 8ight Buggy 2.0 shocks F&R's and they guy waited 5 days befor shipping them and charged me almost 8.00 for Priority and sent items First Class.
I seen he didn't use payPal to print the label and I asked for a tracking #, he ignored my emails for a couple days till I aquired his personal info via ebay and asked him WTF is going on. His reply was "Items were sent First Class" with no apology or explanation. Now I have to wonder if items will be as described ?
I know these are the chances one takes buying on Fleabay, Seller has a decent FB score and turned out to be a DOUCHE BAG. Hope your seeing this Ken, you dick hole.

that pisses me off too, and unfortunately seems to be more the norm lately. ebay, as well as forums to buy/sell (runryder, RCG, helifreak, etc.). i probably bought 20 things in the past month, from $30 receivers to a $600 heli... probably 90% didn't bother to communicate at all after they got their money. luckily i got my stuff, but i was really sweating it on a few of them.

I hear ya, I sell A LOT on Ebay. I do my own thing and run the Ebay store for my buddys LHS and I kiss ass through email doing everything humanly possible to keep customers happy and informed out of consideration. Even the morons that ask the dumbest questions get nice cheery replys while I'm thinking how I'd like to kick their head because their soo freakin stupid.
It seems the more Ebay changes it makes it harder on the sellers to make a buck, then fewer of them give a rats ass anymore. Ebays biggest mistake was taking the ability for sellers to leave Neg FB for buyers ! Ever since then I've had more dam unpaid buyers, then you have to jump through a hoop to get the credit and all the buyer gets is a remark on their feedback that doesn't even show to warm other potental sellers ????
This guy mentioned above has FB score of just under 700, you'd think he still has something to worry about getting a Neg FB, it'll hurt and look like shizz on his score. Aparently he's unconcerned, well see how he changes his tune if no partial refund is offered or refuses anymore communication ?

Sorry man that sucks, thanks for the heads up. I had that happen to me a while back, bought a bunch of parts from one of these chop shop type places and the shipping was more than the parts. When I left him positive feedback but mentioned that the shipping should be combined he stroked out. Even tried to leave me a nasty feedback, but fortunately the new policy had started that buyers can't be left negative feedback. And he is no longer on ebay or I would have done the same thing as you. Same thing will happen to this douche, no one will want to deal with him. :diablo:

Heres a email he just sent me

""I use priority on large things. First class on most things keeps cost down. Only way to cover actual costs ebay fees pay pal fees ink and so on, my feed back says it all every one gets things fast using 1st class. No complaints. Hope you won't be the first. Thanks ken""

Funny, on the auction page it says "PRIORITY" and charged me $7.49 for first class. He's in IL so I know it would have cost only 3.00 and change for FC and 4.80 for Priority and he still would have made a couple bucks, what a rump plugger.

Heres my response,


"When I purchased those shocks there are certain things to be expected, Priority shipping was one of them. Now you've compromised my RC build because the item will arrive way later than advertised. You made plenty of profit of the shocks not to ship them priority not to mention the $7.49. I happily paid the excessive amount for those items and the shipping because I needed them pronto, not a week later.

Your attitude is a little to care free for my tastes when it come to keeping customers happy, the "o-well" attitude doesn't fly.
You haven't made the first attempt of a apology, that speaks volumes, you flat out don't give damn.

Unfortuantely for you, I have 2 ebay accounts and sell hundreds of items a month between them, I know damn well what it cost to send those shocks FC and Priority, you just got greedy.

Hope you enjoy the FB you will be recieveing, you earned it."

What's funny about the usps is if I order something fom amain or losipartshouse I get the items in the same time whether it's priority or first class. If I order on Sunday I always get my order on Wednesday, first class or priority. :neutral:

its not like the usps truck will move slower with first class.. its just not "priority mail" so id think the only difference is handling time.

if they arent heavily backed up everything goes on the truck at the same time

that is my theory

And i thought i was crying about hotbodies charging me $7.23 for shipping for a wing. I ordered those 9 dollar diffs they had in the garage sale but they were out and they just refunded theprice for the diffs and sent the wing, if i had knew they were no longer available i would have not ordered the wing. i get a big box with a magazine and some sticker sheets.

dude,that's my account. PM me, I'll do what it takes to make it right.

I hope not Harold,Your busting my chops right ? If so ol' Ken needs displinary action.

He just sent refund and basically called me an asshole. Now I have to start all over again. Sheesh.

I think harold is into discipline.. Only paralyzed guy I know with kneepads and a robo-spanker.

You need to forward his message to ebay as recouping fees is strictly forbidden through shipping charges.

Ok, everyone on ebay is in trouble then, including myself.
Ereyone trys to make a little extra coin on shipping, but advertising priority and shipping FC is a dick move.

agreed.. I cant say that I dont charge an extra dollar or 2 on my shipping to pay for the ridiculous fees that are incorporated in using ebay and paypal (listing fees, final value fees, AND paypal fees) I lose easy 4-5 dollars on every 40 dollars I sell.

whatever, what do you want me to do. This is what Ebay had to say.

I agree you have to be careful Bond but I usually try to speak to the seller first in person via phone if he doesnt care enought to pick up the phone to make the sale then he is full of SH*T whether its a ten dollar item or a 1500 dollar sale maybe that should be a warning if he doesnt bother calling I have bought from several and I make sure I get called back first. this way you can annoy all day lol when they dont reply LOL

That's why when I sell anything I always put "standard shipping"......I once shipped somethng ground BC I lost a ton of $$$ shipping it priority ....the buyer wasn't too happy ESP when my auction listed priority shipping....I had no clue I put priority...anyways long story short...I bent over backwards to make this buyer happy...even refunded shipping costs....anyways...that's now why I list my sales as standard shipping...gotta keep the FB at 100%

You have every right to tack on a reasonable handling charge and cover what it takes to get it ready for the post. thats why they are called shipping and handling charges. but don't say you will do things you wont, and wait a week to send out something you should have had ready to go before the auction ended. there is no reason for a weeks wait to ship. thats just laziness!

I'm not that gullable buddy boy. Ebay didn't say shizz !

That is basically a joke though. Almost every auction I see on Ebay has an obviously inflated shipping rate.

Hmm.. many Chinese sellers do this. E.g.: Click
If I buy this ESC, and after that I notice that the shipping only was $10 dollar. Can I just start a PayPal claim, and get a refund for the shipping costs? :neutral:

He refunded shipping or refused the sale? I thought he already shipped the parts?

He supposedly did ship them, he says "I put a halt on delivery" I never heard of this let alone for FC shipping, aint no way USPS will do that ??
Now that he's refunded me if I still get the shocks he's SOL !
He's relisted them, maybe the lying A-hole never sent them ? They were supposedly in the mail almost 2 days when we started argueing.

i only use ebay australia for selling and i always use calculated shipping.
the reason being is when i use a fixedc price...I GET DONE :lol:
twice i posted a shipping price that i thought to be fair because i didnt know the data needed to enter the calculated shipping option. and both times shipping cost a LOT more than what i asked for :oops::whistle:

my nitro revo went to the middle of whoop whoop...outback australia, the desert part. dunno what he's gonna do with a race revo out there!

I ONLY ship Priority Mail w/ the 3 sized boxes. If it's bigger, I do a calculated... Then I take it to the post office, and I might not do Priority Mail if it's that expensive...
But I always get Delivery Confirmation

As far as communication, I talk to my buyers before, during, and after I ship.

You all are missing the point, while it is done, it is very stupid to admit to in writing.

There is many times a gray area on guilt, until the guilty is dumb enough to admit to it.

As I see it based on ebay rules, he has willfully and admittedly violated two major rules. I would send the messages to ebay, and see what they have to say. Covering shipping and handling costs is one thing and that's how it should always be addressed, however admitting that you are covering the ebay and paypal fees is a violation of both ebay and paypal policies.

On paypal you cannot charge extra to cover pp fees, you can however offer a cash discount.

There are some guys on several forums getting busted by paypal for getting paid as a "gift" as well, which eliminates paypal fees. The other dumb side of this is that the buyer has no recourse if their item doesn't show up.

FYI, I don't think Ebay is going to search forums for rules breakers when this guy is totally off the hook due to giving me a refund. I sent his emails to Ebay and they sent me one of their generic letters straight form their little rule book. And told me to leave a feedback with consideration towards the seller ? If they don't give a crap about this guy pulling douche moves I doubt very serioualy I have anything to worry about "being dumb enough to admit" what everyone does including myself ?

Constantly useing "gift" will have reprocussions, because PP is losing money. They follow that trail because they are money grubbing @ssholes

Last I recalled, paying via gift is now being charged.

You or the other party will be paying the fee.
For instance if I wanted to pay you $50, and the fee was.. let's say $5.

Either I would pay $50 + $5 fee, or you can pay the fee.

It let's you choose now, so I don't think there's a way around anymore...

It's ben a couple days but, I had my wife put $500.00 (from our tax refund $)in my paypal account and sent it as "gift". No charge on either end.
And her P.P account still has her maiden name.

The seller KENCR250 just recieved 7 Negative Feedbacks , Sweet ! ROAFLMAO :rofl::yipi::party:

What goes around comes around......