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Post by johnnyhaggis on Jan 6, 2005 7:12:36 GMT -5
Hello again Mr. Lai (ebay ID pi111ta email timtoy9999@yahoo.com.hk)
As you can see from the heading of this email, I am also sending this to the Micropolis Embassy newsgroup. In case you don't know the Micropolis Embassy has 437 members who actively discuss and collect Microman, Henshin Cyborg as well as all kinds of other items such as Soul of Chogokin. I addition to the 437 members many others simply read the messages without posting.
I will also post the same thing at the Robot Japan message board which has 1419 members who collect an even wider variety of toys. I am not a member of other lists, but I will find out about any that exist and join them so that I can post this message.
On October 9th I bought a Cyborg99 figure which I paid $30 and $18 shipping for, which it turns out was not only uninsured but also not even registered. It costs $8 to ship the same thing from Japan. When I did not recieve it 3 weeks later I contacted you politely to make sure you had sent it. I am very tolerant of late packages because as a seller I know things can sometimes be delayed, or busy sellers occaisionally ship things a week or so after the item is won. Your reply was simply "will check with post office". After that I never heard from you again, and more importantly never recieved anything, 3 months later.
I know things occaisionally get lost in the mail, which is not the seller's fault, and normally I would not hold it against you. However you childishly avoided even answering any of my inquiries, and didn't even have the maturity to offer an apology, or at least to state that you are not responsible for lost packages.
Even worse on your part, while you completely ignoraed any subsequent emails where I again politely asked you simple things like what method you used to ship, whereas you initially had the good sense to disappear from ebay for two months, you now, with no shame you return SELLING THE EXACT SAME ITEM WHICH YOU FAILED TO SHIP TO ME, but this time for $10 leading me to believe that you may not have even shipped the item in the first place and SIMPLY STOLE MY MONEY. Calling you on the phone number provided by ebay was also useless since the number you gave me has no answering machine, not that you would have answered it had I left you a message.
You obviously are not ashamed or embarassed by this behaviour but now 1900 readers can be ashamed and embarassed for you. Anyone who enjoys being treated this way and not recieving their items, please by all means purchase from pi111ta!
Seeing as you obviously still have that figure, I would strongly recommend you removing it from ebay and sending it to me that way if you do I can at least post that fact here on these lists so that people can see that even if you are cowardly, you are at least not a thief.
Please ship to
[My name and address]
Canada
If your postal system is so bad perhaps you should consider using insured mail.
Good luck wih all your future ebay transactions!
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Post by muton53398 on Jan 6, 2005 19:07:15 GMT -5
I just bought a smoked neo 99 from this guy.  He has a pretty good feedback rating, the closed auctions that can still be read were also for cyborgs. Being devil's advocate, perhaps your parcel did get lost? Did you pay extra for tracked or insured postage? You've got me more than a little concerned now! Muton53398 |
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Post by johnnyhaggis on Jan 6, 2005 22:17:29 GMT -5
Actually, I do believe the package was just lost rahter than stolen. The guy was just a total asshole. I asked him once, he said he'd check at the post office. I asked again if he'd sent it registered or just normal, and he never responded to any emails about it after that first response about checking at the post office, he didn't apologize or even notify me that he wasn't responsible for lost packages.
And he obviously has several of these things lying around, this is the 2nd time he's selling one since mine was lost. If he just apologized I would have just forgotten it and been upset about my money. As it is now I want to kick his scrotes out of his ears.
He hid away for two months, and now he's back selling the same bloody figures, for $10!! I bought mine for $30 plus the $18 shipping.
He charged $18 for shipping which I assumed was registered, but he probably just paid $8 and pocketed the rest.
I wouldnt worry too much about losing your cyborg, unless it gets lost again which is rare, just worry about supporting a greedy cowardly weasely infantile sack of turds in human form.
You bouhgt a smoked Neo Henshin or a gunmetal 99?
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Post by johnnyhaggis on Jan 7, 2005 10:23:36 GMT -5
THis is why I avoid leaving bad feedback. Now this donkey rimmer is lying. I never got this bloody item, and if the post office there somehow did tell him it arrived, he never told me about it or sent me any proof! WHen you send somethig registered or just regular is there ever any proof that it arrived? Isnt that impossible unless you're using a courier or delivery confirmation? feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback&userid=johnnyhaggisNo w he makes me look bad. If he were in the same city I'd have him eating his own shi*t. |
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Post by Chen on Jan 7, 2005 10:42:04 GMT -5
If you send mail by registered mail you should have a tracking number, if the seller wanted registered with signature then you would have to give a signature to get the item. Normal mail has almost no way of finding out what happened. I would check your post office to see if it arrived but you weren't home to sign for it. Did the seller say what service he was using, Purolator, UPS ect because some services have there own drop off stores if they couldn't deliver the item. P.S Nice reply to his feedback, remind me never to give you bad feedback  . |
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Post by johnnyhaggis on Jan 7, 2005 11:23:50 GMT -5
Thanks Chen - no he never sent me any numbers or anything - right away I asked him what method he was shipping and he never even responded! I had assumed it was registered, but it was likely just regular.
Thanks for the compliment - I am good at insults, but bad at self-control! Now religious Christian sellers will no longer sell to me, I suspect!
BY THE WAY EVERYONE - If anyone here feels like writing that imbecile a letter about how they wont buy from him, or how theyll tell all their friends not to buy from him, please do so! I know most of you haven't had transactions with me and that you have other things to do so no obligation, but if you feel like it thatd be great.
Eventually this creep will feel scared for the only thing he cares about (except for doing it with his relatives) which is his wallet and he'll give me a refund or send me another one.
If he would have only apologized or at least answered my emails and told me hes not responsible for lost items I would have let it go. I hate immoral cowards.
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Post by hypnotator on Jan 10, 2005 6:30:52 GMT -5
I can see Johnny's point in that the worst thing anyone can do is go incommunicado, and it costs nothing to say sorry, it must be lost and there is no insurance or comeback. Dealing through the net is frustrating if things go wrong; you can't shout at anyone so the typed words get nasty. I had a giggle at some of your inventive terms of insult, Johnny.
I often get overcharged on postage because I ask if I can bid on auctions that say "US bidders only". They usually say okay, you can bid, but I have to win the auction and then wait and see what postage I will be charged. Usually this is far higher than the amount shown on the parcel because the seller couldn't be bothered to work it out, so they just overcharge.
I got a Microman Batman recently for only $12.99. this guy has loads of them that cheap (his ebay posts say "25 points of articulation") and the post is very reasonable INSIDE the US. But I got stung $19.90 and the parcel only cost $8 to send. I pointed this out and he threatened me with negative feedback, so I backed down because my ebay rating is too low to get negatives. It seems to me that I've been charged $10 for not being an American.
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Post by johnnyhaggis on Jan 10, 2005 10:09:27 GMT -5
Wow that parent-porker just sold his cyborg99s for $40! Oh well.
Hypno and all other non US buyers - ALWAYS ASK THE COST OF SHIPPING BEFORE YOU BID ON US ITEMS!!!!
Even if the ad says, "shipping to be determined after the auction" just ask anyways, they alsways answer. When you ask, make sure you quote them the actual postage rates, which you may know from expereince. For example, I know that a cyborg costs $7 actual postage from the US to Canada vi lettermail air, or $15 via Parcel Post (if you want insurance)and I always say so when I ask. It pressures them to keep it low and not invent figures out of thin air. They usually add a couple of dollars for PayPal fees. They also want to quote you a normal price so you make a bid. If you wait until afterwards they have you by the scrotes so to speak and they can ask any arbitrary sum, usually dependent on whther or not they got what they wanted on the auction.
It's true that cyborgs look better with no clothes, but I have a bunch of nude dudes already, it's good to have a couple in ridiculous attire!
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Post by hypnotator on Jan 11, 2005 5:06:23 GMT -5
You're quite right of course, Johnny, and I'll take a leaf out of your book and stand up for my postal rights. I'll also take less flack in general from the donkey rimmers. I was thinking of waiting until the 90th day then posting a negative about that guy just before the window closes, hoping that he doesn't notice in time to retaliate.
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Post by muton53398 on Jan 11, 2005 6:39:15 GMT -5
My cyborg 99 just arrived this morning safe and well from this seller.
It was wrapped in a plastic bag, then bubble wrap, then another cardboard box, brown paper then parcel string! It was clearly marked as gift and had 'Glass - Handle with care' stickers on it. It was posted on the 5th Jan from Hong Kong.
I wonder if your publicity has anything to do with this? I've done over 160 ebay transactions and I can honestly say this was the best wrapped parcel I ever received.
I did pay $20 for postage, so i suppose I should really have expected no less.
I certainly experienced no problems with the ebay seller pi111ta and would confidently buy from him again.
I know this post goes against the general feeling on this thread but i thought it only fair to report my experience.
Muton53398
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Post by johnnyhaggis on Jan 11, 2005 9:05:22 GMT -5
I don't doubt it Muton, I'm glad you had a good experience.
Like I said, I know the guy didn't rip me off, he was just a total bunghole. I checked my PayPal that I sent him, and as I sent it to him I asked him what shipping method he was using, and he of course never responded. 3 weeks later I wrote to say it hadn't arrived, again asked him what shipping method he used, and apologized for bothering him, but wanted to make sure he'd sent it as it had happened to me before that a seller was so busy that she forgot to send me something until I reminded her. His one email that he ever sent me said "Should be there by now, will check with post office" and that was it. I wrote him every two weeks since then asking what the post office said, politely, and no response.
I don't know what his post office could have told him, since they would have no record of the transaction unless it was sent registered or with tracking, which it obviously wasn't.
The least he could have done was say "I'm sorry there's nothing I an do, maybe it was delayed and you may get it later, but as you didn't buy insurance it's not my responsibility". If a package I'd sent to soemeone got lost I'd feel horrible about it, and inf act I always worry about that whe n I send anything. In the end what makes me angry is that when I was asking questions before I bid, he was happy to answer promptly, and once he had my money, any inconveniece was obviously so irritating to him that he couldn't be bothered. No one likes to be treated like used dog droppings.
HYPNO - waiting until the 89th day doesn't work, because once you leave feedback his time to reply is extended. In fact the 90 days had run up with this pi111ta guy, and then I sent a complaint to ebay and they didn't even bother responding, but all of a sudden I was able to leave him feedback, and him me.
Unfortunately you should leave negative feedback only if you're prepared to get it in return. You might want to leave it neutral.
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Post by hypnotator on Jan 12, 2005 6:21:49 GMT -5
Thanks for the tip, Johnny. I didn't know that and now I know not to leave negative feedback. I got my item, which was cheap anyway, so the extra $10 I will put down to experience, and request post estimates in future as you suggest. I always say "It's only money" but I appreciate that you lost more and what irked you about pi111ta was the lack of communication and the dishonesty. At least the guy I dealt with was up front. When he first billed me I paid, but remarked that the post was high and that I expected the cost of the parcel to reflect this when it arrived. He said it won't, that amount covers the cardboard box and the "handling", ie 5 minutes of an employee's time putting the item into the cardboard box. I still don't think $10 is realistic, but he was up front about it. Really, I was paying for him not to bother to work the post out before he posted.
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Post by johnnyhaggis on Jan 13, 2005 13:02:33 GMT -5
When I sell something on ebay, and for example someone froom australia asks me for a quote, I look up the rates on the Canada post website, and I give two possible rates, in case the weight is a few grams more than I thought and it goes to th next level. I try to go to the post office and weigh the package, but you don't always have time. Last time I charged a guy $8 too much because I overestimated the weight, but I just gave him a refund for the difference when it turned out that it was less. Most sellers just like that money and won't give it up once they have it.
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Post by johnnyhaggis on Jan 17, 2005 12:56:04 GMT -5
UPDATES:
My credit card company gave me a refund for this purchase! They said they'd do an investigation and if the seller could prove he sent it, then they'd give him back the refund.
Also, he's up there selling cyborgs again - $10!! I'd buy one if it wasn't him, but also now he put "(NO Shipping to Canada)" on all his ads!
ha ha I wonder why.
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By the way, if you guys want to bid on these things, don't feel guilty if I catch your logon names on the bidders list! I seem to have got my money back, so go ahead, although if theres any trouble don't expect any help or even courtesy from that guy!
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Post by bryanarchy on Jan 17, 2005 13:11:34 GMT -5
Johnny
no shipping to canada, hey?
THANKS JERK!!!!
hahah
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Post by hypnotator on Jan 18, 2005 4:30:00 GMT -5
If he's ruling out the whole of Canda just for one bad transaction, he really is a jerk.
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Post by bryanarchy on Jan 18, 2005 12:24:34 GMT -5
If he's ruling out the whole of Canda just for one bad transaction, he really is a jerk. Actually, johnny is the jerk, he's ruined it for all of us!!! Johnny, next time you get ripped off, don't create an international incident! hahhaha |
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Post by johnnyhaggis on Jan 18, 2005 12:55:33 GMT -5
Oops! If I can't have it - NOBODY CAN!!!
Maybe this teaches us a lesson - I accomplished basically nothing - I got bad feedback, I left bad feedback, some people wrote to harass this moron, now all of Canada is denied the benefits of Cyborg importation!
At least I got to write funny feedback. I did get a refund but I think I could have done that without all the shenanigans!
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Post by hypnotator on Jan 19, 2005 4:13:23 GMT -5
I still maintain that the seller is the jerk. If he thinks that avoiding transactions with all Canadians will prevent this happening again, he is clearly mistaken. In my view, this is a rather nationalist, it could even be argued racist, policy. He needs to be more honest and apologetic about the fact that if an item gets lost in the post, there is little comeback. Ignoring emails from an unhappy customer is bound to frustrate them further. But you are right, Johnny, in that your anger accomplished little. I try to avoid revenge, however appealing, unless I stand to gain something positive.
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