Seems to be the time to generally complain about auctioning, so...
I won an auction recently for a 24mm/2.8 lens at a reasonable price.
Auction ended around 3pm UK time on Sunday. I was busy so planned to
settle up on Monday. Woke up on Monday morning to find a string of
emails sent during my night (Florida based seller knew I am in the UK)
finishing with the news that he had sold it to the second highest
bidder. I mailed to say that I had won and wanted to complete. He
replied with "go ahead and leave negative feedback and I will too". Now
I remember someone saying that in this situation all that would happen
is that ebay would remove the feedback from both sides. Thinking about
it I don't think I've seen anyone with negative feedback; most of the
big sellers have the 98.6 percent type positive and it strikes me that
this is how they do it - they respond to negative feedback with the
same and both then get removed and their record is untarnished. So am I
right in thinking a good feedback record is no indication of a good
auction history? I searched through the ebay site to try and mail them
on this and couldn't find an address - guess they don't care to
interact with users.
James
FYI the seller's name is Patrick and email address is
Photohog64@xxxxxxx.
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