Death Dogs

 Every single week for the last 4 weeks I get at least 2 deadbeat bidders per batch of crap I list. Today was a "buyer" for a teddy bear I sold. There was an obnoxious flurry of bidding over the weekend and I got the feeling. "This buyer is not going to pay" and she did not. 

Instead of retracting her fucking bid, which would have given it to the second bidder albeit for less money, which I don't even care about, I just want the very large thing GONE so I can have the space back...the fucking bitch sends me a message after the auction ended whining that she had no money right now and to cancel the transaction. If you had no money, then what were you doing doubling the price on my auction a day before it ended, twat?

I reported her to ebay for "retracting a bid which negatively affected an auction" and added that bidders such as her were a waste of time and money for everybody involved and blocked her. Another one bites the dust. My blocked list is ridiculous. What I could have done and should have was let the damned thing run for 4 days and let her get hit with a non-paying strike but I wanted to offer it in a huge long shot to the second bidder in the hopes they'd still want it.

Lobster Bisque

 Today with a half hour left to go on a very large antique doll, I get a rather insulting ask from a potential buyer.

In the description I photograph and describe damage to the back of an arm. This maroon asks me to discount it and add buy it now because the arm is "extensively" damaged. Bitch, I OWN the doll, I can see for myself that the damage is not extensive - it's a 1/4 hole poked into the composition, not to mention it's covered by the fucking outfit it's wearing. 

A few days ago I had someone asking if the stringing was so loose that it could not be posed - I had said that it was loose in the listing! Loose means loose. I am so fucking sick of people trying to finagle discounts using things I've already described as excuses for it.

You know what, assholes? I saw the issues, I photographed and pointed them out and PRICED THE FUCKING DOLL ACCORDINGLY. Normally this same doll pulls $250-$500 - I priced this bastard at only $150ish and charged flat rate shipping which would would have killed me financially if someone on the west coast had won it. No. I will not be "discounting" it thank you very much.

I ended the fucking auction, took the fuckin' doll's clothes off and repaired it myself in 5 minutes with a small piece of milliput. Now I am going to tighten the stringing, make it a new wig with mohair yarn, style it better than the synthetic one that it has and raise the price by $50. I was willing to let it go for less because I was like "eh" about doing that stuff but now that I have cheapasses coming out of the woodwork, I'll go ahead and spend that 20 minutes and raise the damned price to what it should be.

Frosted Flakes

 Pony people are the worst flakes. I'll say this time and time again. I feel like I need to make a separate account just to sell ponies because of this because it is ALWAYS ALWAYS pony people that tank feedback.

I had several for sale this week, they were doubles I happened to have in a harder to find set. I always hesitate to sell them on ebay because - pony people = asshole mentality. I nearly always have a problem with one of them on there. This time was no exception. One didn't pay for their shit, one complained about the shipping price after he won it. This chick wanted me to sell it to her directly about 4 days before it ended and I refused. I believe the neutral she left was "revenge" for not selling it to her cheaper. *sigh*

Hey can I buy this from you? The auction will end while I’m at work so I won’t be able to bid, and I’ve been wanting this pony for a while. How much were you hoping to sell her for?

I answered saying that I prefer that bidders set the price since the price varies so wildly on this set. She apparently had time to bid because she won it, and for a kind of ridiculous price. Apparently because she was an idiot and let the bidding get away from her, now she would be expecting the pony to be minty fresh. Being 16 years old and out of the box, it would not be. 

No message, no nothing, just carpet bombed with a crap neutral feedback saying that an eye was scratched. I don't believe that it was, I used the magnify feature on the pictures and don't see it and did not notice it before packing it. It sat in my own collection for about a year and I never saw it, but had she taken a picture and told me about it via messages, I would have offered a small refund because I felt like she overpaid to begin with. If you're not coming out of the gate combative, I will work with you, but you come at me, or trash my feedback - you're done. So she's done. Fucking trashbag. I will be adding her to my ever growing blocked list. 

The Reign Of Terror

 Out of curiosity, I dropped in on ol' Judy's recent feedback left for others. Seems like she has a lot of "problems" that require sellers to "bend over backward" to correct. One was "very accommodating" IE probably doled out a partial refund to pay the asshole off because of feedback extortion. She's such a fucking bitch.

 Outstanding seller. Knows her doll history, advertises honestly and goes out of her way to accommodate the buyer. Thank you.

This seller has bent over backward to correct a problem caused by the post office. I highly recommend her as a very reputable seller.

This lady is a wonderful seller. My doll was damaged in shipment (not the fault of the seller) and she bent over backward in offering to make it right in any way possible. I highly recommend such a virtuous seller.

The Man

  In the past week, I have supposedly sold $230 worth of shit via eBay. The asshole that bid $200 on a doll never paid, it wound up being cancelled and I relisted immediately rather than play more games with the next two bidders. 

The other two that won dolls last week did pay - both were under $20. One tanked my shipping metrics by paying, then telling me they were leaving town and not to ship until Wednesday. One just paid, no BS no instructions, just mercifully paid. 

Suddenly, because they think I have $200 coming, eBay then charges me for a $69 international shipping label from last month. You know what I've got to show for $230 worth of sales? -$20.13. lol. Good ol' eBay. 

Today, they helped themselves to $1.00 I supposedly owed, despite last week threatening to restrict my account over $19, that they acted like they could not just take...lol. This bullshit is stupid and annoying. I don't like weird threats to take away my selling privileges over something they can just take care of themselves. I gave them the access to that account for that very reason - why can't they just shut up and take the fuckin' fees? They took the $1 no problem.

Meanwhile, I left my Etsy shop open during the "strike" and made $200 that I actually got paid. Man, if it was not for those stupid offsite ads, I would just move everything to Etsy. Sane people that pay for shit and lower fees for the most part. I've only had two nutcases in the last 11 years that I've been there. The Patty O'Green doll lady who was pissed about getting a refund instead of getting a doll, and the weirdo that thought I switched heads on ponies. 

I signed that petition for one reason and one only - Offsite Ads. I hate them. Of course, that's my nature anyway, being forced into something against my will has always rankled me.

The amount of times I took off from school and daycare - my Ma could tell you that...I don't like "The Man" telling me what I can and cannot do.

She's Like The Wind

 Ol' Judy's negative disappeared like a fart in the wind this morning - RIP. 😂

I go back to her stupid original message: 

I have been a seller as well.

If she was a seller that knew her shit, then she would have known not to threaten me in messages with negative feedback for "financial compensation". Dumbass. First rule of trying to get a discount, bitch, don't threaten the seller's feedback. It's called feedback extortion and is one of the reasons that eBay will remove a negative. I wasn't even worried. 

I wasn't worried about her returning it either, because if it did not come back in the same condition, well, TRS can deduct up to 50% . That would have covered the shipping at least one way and then I would have just relisted what was left of it, lol. Either way, she was screwed on this deal and I knew I had her dead to rights. I think she let the low feedback fool her. I've been around the block more than once and I smell fishing for a discount verbiage a mile away. It always has the same tone. But, what it basically boiled down to was: "You weren't on the ball. In one picture you were stupid enough to let the skirt cover the hand so I could try and lie about damage to get a discount". 

Ol' Judy MacAsshole

 So much for not being able to leave negative feedback for 7 days if you're Top Rated. If that is true, the bitch should not have been able to pull this shit for 5 more days. 

In any case, feedback extortionist extraordinaire Judy left me a negative. I immediately reported her for false claims and then messaged eBay for business to have the feedback removed. If they do not remove it, I will copy and paste her original complaint so other people can see she's a bullshit artist and an extortionist. 

In her negative, she gives herself away - She contradicts which hand is damaged. 

"Very disappointed in the condition of the doll. 4 fingers on her right hand were broken off at an angle which they seller did not mention in description. The photos did not show the damage. In one photo the hand was hidden in the skirt, and in the other it was photographed from the top so that is just looked like the tips were scuffed, not missing. The seller offered to take the doll back, but I declined. I love the doll - just disappointed in the seller's neglect to mention the condition."

Her original complaint about the left hand may have had had a tiny TINY sliver of merit - the left hand did have paint missing (but it was shown clearly), the hand she's talking about now had 0 damage - the middle, ring and pinky fingers are bent down like the doll is making a fist with the index finger out slightly more than the rest. Again, I am familiar with the arms/hands themselves in particular, having come from another doll of mine, I remember clearly what condition they were in, and how they were posed.