Unless you want disappointment you cheapass, don't fuckin' bid on auctions with tiny/blurry pics!!!! This person took a chance on a crappy picture and probably left low ("I felt I was being more than generous with my feedback") DSRs, IE, a "soft positive", jeopardizing the seller's account. Hence, why the seller was probably angry.
How she should have handled it in these days of DSRs ruining seller accounts is...Contact seller. Choose "other". Express disappointment. Receive refund/compensation. Don't leave feedback.
Of course she got tons of emotional support from fellow "ponies". Poor cheapass.
"great playable condition" means what it means, give them to a kid to play with, because they're too fucked up for a collection unless you want to work on them. A couple of pony-people sniffed that they'd never let their kids play with a pony with rust inside or haircuts. Kids do that sort of thing to them in the first place. Why do you think they're fucked up to begin with? Because they were in playable condition. LOL.
Dealing with angry Ebay seller?
Hey all,
I'm in a bit of a pickle as I received a bundle of ponies I won on UK Ebay the other day which were described as "great playable condition" with a warning that a couple had hair cuts. The ponies were G1 Gusty and Dazzle Glow, G3 Periwinkle, a McDonalds G3 and a fakie. There was one tiny phone camera photo on the listing and it was stated they'd been sterilised in Milton solution, so I gathered they'd been childhood toys being sold on by a non-collector.
From the photo, they didn't look bad. I figured they had a little snip at the ends of their manes and that was that.
I was in for a rotten shock...
They arrived on Saturday and I excitedly opened them up - I've been hunting for Dazzle Glow for a while - but to my horror, five of the nastiest looking ponies I've ever had the misfortune to buy fell out of the parcel.
Gusty had no red stripe in her mane left, and had a crew cut (obviously the photo was so bad it looked like it was flipped over the other side of her neck) as well as a tiny stub of a tail which was orange with rust. She rattled, and is covered top to toe in pindot. She's been drawn on with felt tip and biro.
Dazzle Glow had her mane cut about halfway up and had a stub for a tail which was also orange. The rust patch was clearly visible through her translucent body and spread across from her flank down her legs. She also has suffered pen and biro marks.
Periwinkle was filthy with dirt and had green ink marks on her face as well as having a cut tail and mane (although nowhere near as severe as the other two).
The fakie is covered in marker and the McDs pony simply had cloudy hair.
I considered opening a case but decided it wasn't worth it as the seller is clearly just someone clearing out, so to let other collectors know, I just put a positive feedback saying that they were quick to post but the ponies weren't quite the great playable condition described (pen marks) - I couldn't fit in rust.
Today I log into my Ebay account to find a really aggressive message from the seller being sarcastic about my "negative" feedback and telling me to return the ponies for a refund because they had "20 watchers who all wanted to buy them and hadn't been able to bid and they've asked what others were available". I'm really quite upset about this as I felt I was being more than generous with my feedback.
I've written a message back saying I wrote the feedback to let other collectors know (as I'm guessing the other 20 were probably collectors), and that they may not realise about the rust issues and pen marks being a big problem, but I feel like they're going to carry this on regardless and I don't want to patronise them as they're already so angry at me.
Sending the ponies back is not an option for me as I've already begun the painstaking task of restoring three of them.
I'm so done buying ponies on Ebay.
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