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E-bay Freebie ?

ROCKMAN · 2007-11-12 11:12:48

OK here is the story About 3 months back my partner bought an item on Ebay from a seller in Hong kong, Any way after waiting near 2 months for the item to arrive and numerous unanswered e-mails, She decided to start a dispute with the seller and post a very negative comment on line. With in hours of posting the comment…

12-11-2007 11:12am

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OK here is the story
About 3 months back my partner bought an item on Ebay from a seller in Hong kong, Any way after waiting near 2 months for the item to arrive and numerous unanswered e-mails, She decided to start a dispute with the seller and post a very negative comment on line. With in hours of posting the comment ,The seller contact her apolozing and offering a full refund including postage.
if she would withdraw the negative feedback . She agreed to withdraw the comment as soon as the refund was paid. Within a hour she was refunded and the comment withdraw. All this happen about three weeks ago
But here is where it get interesting , This morning the item arrived and it was not lost in the post as the post mark is dated the 5/11/07. So it cannot be the original item.

Result in my book ,she is not sure?
Anybody else experience similar ?

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#2 12-11-2007 11:17am

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Interesting indeed. If she's concerned or has moral qualms about keeping it, then tell her to try contact the seller again. If he doesn't respond this time then it's yours.

ps. what is it?

pps. can I have it?

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#3 12-11-2007 11:18am

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My dad bought a fairly expensive ornament thing off ebay and the seller insisted he pay for insurance. When it arrived it was broken so he got his money back and the seller got her money back too because she had insurance on it. He's convinced she sold it broken to get rid of it and still get money for it.

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#4 12-11-2007 1:44pm

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OP, there is a Online Buying & Auctions forum here if you want to find more ebay issues.

Is your question if she should keep the item?

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#5 12-11-2007 3:35pm

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Keep it, and place new feedback stating that they only send out your package when you start to bitch on their feedback page: they seem to just want your money and hope you dont cop on.

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#6 12-11-2007 4:09pm

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they would hardly send a free item if they were just after your money.

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#7 12-11-2007 4:22pm

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Overheal wrote: »

Keep it, and place new feedback stating that they only send out your package when you start to bitch on their feedback page: they seem to just want your money and hope you dont cop on.

Didn't she get her refund and the item she was trying to buy? ... or am I reading that incorrectly?

Hardly fair to bitch about that now, even if the transaction was hardly perfect ...

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#8 12-11-2007 4:46pm

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Theres a lot of businesses in Hong Kong with little or no ethics: play their own game.

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#9 12-11-2007 4:59pm

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Overheal wrote: »

Theres a lot of businesses in Hong Kong with little or no ethics: play their own game.

How do y ou know this is one of them?

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#10 12-11-2007 6:01pm

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Moved from AH.

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#11 12-11-2007 10:43pm

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Well if you have got the item you should really pay for it. I mean the dispute you opened with the seller was that you had not received the item and now this has been resolved.... twice.

Either the item or a refund will resolve that dispute and as you have got both one should be returned. Now that is either return the item or return the refund to the seller.

Youre better off contacting the seller and see what he says, he may let you keep the item and the refund as a courtesy. Though most people who don't receive an item automatically claim fraud and call the sellers scum, believe it or not items do get lost in the post. Especially when you have something coming from Hong Kong and other similar places, your item has to go through so many different hands to get to you you know.

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