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ebay and vision
Mar. 7th, 2005 08:44 amOkay, today started out kind of crappy as a broke one of my contact lenses. I've never had that happen before. Luckily, I always keep an old set as spares so I can at least get to work and drive and stuff. My vision is a little wonky (old prescription and I think the lenses themselves are 5 years old) but I'll manage. Hopefully, this won't happen again as I don't have the money to buy new lenses right now. I'm supposed to replace them every 6 months anyway... but I don't. And I'd rather spend the money on getting M new glasses anyway.
I sold one of my basses on ebay. The high bidder backed out saying that he thought the bass was all original but reread the description AFTER he won the auction and saw that I wasn't sure. Combined with someone telling him humbuckers weren't in use in that era (a blantant falacy) he no longer was interested in the bass but would make up the difference between what he bid and the next highest bidder if the next highest bidder bought the bass. The next highest bidder would have won for $90 less and is in Taiwan. He agreed to buy the bass and pay the shipping, but thought $40 was too much to pay for having the guitar packaged, I agreed to split it with him for $20. I told the high bidder of this and he's offered to send me $50 after I leave him positive feedback. WTF! Okay, $50 is reasonable, I can't complain about that, but asking me to leave positive feedback BEFORE he sends me the money? Now it sounds fishy to me. He's got 100% positive feedback and he likes keeping that. I'd likely have left no feedback of neutral feedback. He's dealt straight with me but I have a bad taste in my mouth over this. I don't like it at all and I'll have to figure out how I want to handle it.
I sold one of my basses on ebay. The high bidder backed out saying that he thought the bass was all original but reread the description AFTER he won the auction and saw that I wasn't sure. Combined with someone telling him humbuckers weren't in use in that era (a blantant falacy) he no longer was interested in the bass but would make up the difference between what he bid and the next highest bidder if the next highest bidder bought the bass. The next highest bidder would have won for $90 less and is in Taiwan. He agreed to buy the bass and pay the shipping, but thought $40 was too much to pay for having the guitar packaged, I agreed to split it with him for $20. I told the high bidder of this and he's offered to send me $50 after I leave him positive feedback. WTF! Okay, $50 is reasonable, I can't complain about that, but asking me to leave positive feedback BEFORE he sends me the money? Now it sounds fishy to me. He's got 100% positive feedback and he likes keeping that. I'd likely have left no feedback of neutral feedback. He's dealt straight with me but I have a bad taste in my mouth over this. I don't like it at all and I'll have to figure out how I want to handle it.
