Monday, February 22, 2016

Comeuppance

Finally! Finally, my blocked bidders list has paid off. I got this message the other day about a doll I am selling for my friend:

Hi 

Do the items have a smokey moldy or strange smell? 
Does the doll have any missing fingers or toes? green ears? missing hair plugs? deep scratches? body stains? swingy limbs? Neck splits? facial defects? Thanks 
Do the clothes have any stains or tears? missing snaps? holes? etc. Are they marked Tressy?
Are the shoes marked Japan? 

Thanks
All red flags hoisted on this one. The username looked very familiar to me, and so I checked my ever-growing blocked bidder list and sure enough she was on it. I could not figure out for the life of me what it had been about, but assumed (correctly) that she had bought some of John's barbie clothes off of me. I didn't answer her questions, but I did edit the description of the doll. Today I get this:

Hi

Why are you blocking my bids?

Thanks

I go into feedback and see her name attached to some feedback for....drumroll please...one of John's Barbie outfits. I recall her then. (This is an excerpt from "Hot Live Euro Trash", January 22, 2015)
Hi

I received your package
today and I am disappointed.
The dress is very worn at
the bust and is not as blue
as your picture.
Also the other shoe is marked
Hong Kong. This means that
It does not go with this .
I Bought this because I
thought it was a complete
set. ( I had an extra correct
black shoe). I now have to
purchase a pair of black
shoes. I can not return this
because I bought it for my
daughter's upcoming birthday. ( This Wednesday)

Please advise.




Total BS. The dress I sent was nearly mint. Dark blue with no holes. I did not examine the shoes closely enought to see country of origin, because at that time I did not know how anal retentive Barbie collectors are about that stuff. I also was quite in love with the "I cannot return this" schtick. (She paid $9.50 with shipping being free - so she in actuality paid about $6.50 for the outfit - I refunded the whole thing so she would just fuck off, then blocked her)

So I wrote a reply:
The barbie outfits I sell, I do on consignment for a friend. They are not mine. He buys cases crammed full of clothes.

I do some research to see what color/pieces goes with what outfit. I check for flaws and holes. That is all. I am not a collector. I do the best I can as a non-collector of these items. I had no idea about markings on shoes or anything like that. All I knew was that I had a pile of shoes and this or that outfit came with that particular color.

As I recall, you bought one of those barbie outfits some time ago and complained about it. Something about one shoe being marked Hong Kong and you wanted a refund. I asked you to return it, you said you would not. I refunded you anyway. I was not going to short my friend, so I lost money on that outfit. When things like that happen, I will block the buyer to prevent such a thing happening again.
Straight to the point, and truthful. If she tries to circumvent the system, or pulls any stunts I will come down on her like a pile of bricks. I will report her ass. Now I've got to keep an eye out for 0 feedback bidders for the next 12 hours...fun.


Her reply (and I find it amusing that she thinks herself an excellent buyer, I am sure the sellers she has burned would disagree heartily):

I am an excellent ebay buyer.
Sometimes a seller makes a 
Mistake in the description. 
As a buyer I don't buy items to
Return them. My purchases are
Gifts for my daugther so It hard
To return. Usually a seller works
with me by issuing a partial 
Refund to replace the misrepresented 
item. 

Have a nice day. 

Yes, "excellent buyer" you count on some poor schmuck making a mistake in their description so that you can get freebies and discounts. "Hard to return"? How so? You can't return it and buy the so-called "correct" item from someone else before showing it to your probably fictional "daugther"?

Instead you'd rather take money from my family, and my friend and his family because it might inconvenience you to pop something into an envelope and return it (on MY dime anyway). Seems fair to me. It amazes me how far someone can shove their head up their asshole sometimes.

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