Bumping sales threads.

fenderhutz · #1 12-06-2008, 10:18 AM

Since people bump all of the time for someone being "a great seller" is there something wrong with bumping sales threads for "not such a great seller" as well?

I know the answer to this but getting shafted on a sale with no resolution still kinda burns when the person shows back up to sell things on here.

Baryonyx · #2 12-06-2008, 10:27 AM

If they have shafted you you should make that public in their thread. A for sale area on a site like this must moderate itself via community feedback, and that includes letting people know if they are potentially about to deal with a rip off merchant.

Webtroll · #3 12-06-2008, 10:28 AM

i'm thinking that TB has not say in the transactions themselves, you're basically working out a deal and they're just facilitating the communication. if the deal goes sour then feedback is the mechanism in place for letting people know. if you leave him bad feedback and people still buy from him then it's a their own risk, isn't it? did you pay through paypal? you can try to dispute it through then, no?

fenderhutz · #4 12-06-2008, 10:30 AM

Nope. Someone can ship you a piece or garbage instead of a working item and you have ZERO recourse through Paypal if it isn't an Ebay transaction.

In other words, you have ZERO not as described coverage through paypal with non Ebay transactions.

I could list a fake Sadowsky on here. Send you a drawing of a Sadowsky and Paypal can't do a thing.

Don't think you have credit card protection either through Paypal, you are paying Paypal to send to money to the buyer and Paypal won't refund it to the credit card.

There are MANY assumptions made on here about Paypal, until you get burned you don't really know that Paypal only protects Ebay sales.

**David Wilson** · #5 12-06-2008, 08:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Webtroll

i'm thinking that TB has not say in the transactions themselves, you're basically working out a deal and they're just facilitating the communication. if the deal goes sour then feedback is the mechanism in place for letting people know.

That is correct. The feedback mechanism should be used to inform users of issues with transactions.