Re: [Thinkpad] How to buy a notebook on Ebay

one can also research the TYPE of item you are buying off an ebay seller..

if they have 1000's of positive feedback for $1 baseball cards and suddenly
they are selling plasma TV's or Nikon Camera's for unbelieveable prices all
auctions ending about the same time and for cash, no credit cards, then STAY
AWAY from that seller..

but all this should be pretty obvious to the sophisticated ebay habituate'..

FWIW, i get good deals all the time on ebay but when i buy something like a
garmin street pilot or a Nikon Camera i go to a real online vendor..
pay a little more but get a real vendor..
unless i want something that is used..

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Declain" <declain@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 8:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] How to buy a notebook on Ebay

> Now, more than ever, people are opting to not leave feedback, as opposed
to leaving neutral or negative, because too much negative is because of
retaliation. Before buying an expensive item, I do a completed items search
by seller, and then compare their recently sold items to their positive
feedback. If they have more than three items in the recent past with no
feedback (but based on time, should already have), I use that as the first
clue not to buy from them...
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Tom Franklin <reeler@gmail.com>
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> Sent: Thursday, March 9, 2006 3:31:18 AM
> Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] How to buy a notebook on Ebay
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> > Exactly the problem. I got a negative feedback this past weekend. I
> > bought a CD that arrived poorly wrapped and broken. I left a neutral
> > stating that, but that the disc played fine and that was good enough
> > for me. I got a negative feedback for leaving them "bad" feedback. The
> > seller has over 6600 feedback, and my neutral nearly killed them. :)
>
> Retalitory feedback on eBay is rampant. I left neg. feedback for a seller
> who sent me fake goods. He returned the favor saying that at the price I
> paid I should expect fakes. Paypal refunded my payment, but I was left
with
> negative feedback.
>
> I looked back in this seller's history and found he only left negative
> feedback in retaliation. I complained to eBay who did nothing.
>
>
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