[Phono-L] Suckerpunched by eBay & Vic III for sale

[bruce78rpm at comcast.net]

That is very interesting. Since ebay knows what items have been sold, and they have an absolute restriction that the items must be paid for by using Paypal, I would assume they would eventually follow up on the sale to be sure they are getting there additional "Pound of Flesh" by  way of the paypal charge. I wonder what they would do, if they contact the buyer and find out he/she paid by personal check or money order ? suspend the seller? I just wonder how they could possibly police this situation for the millions of transactions taking place every week? it would be mind boggling to say the least. In any event the situation is in all aspects, morally intolerable from the standpoint of completing a sale. legal tender is legal tender, and why should they give a sweet you know what, how the sale is completed, as long as they are getting their commission charges ? 




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron L" <lherault at bu.edu> 
To: "Antique Phonograph List" <phono-l at oldcrank.org> 
Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2009 8:50:08 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: RE: [Phono-L] Suckerpunched by eBay & Vic III for sale 

Although you can't say it on The bay, I think you can tell buyers after the 
fact that you will accept other forms of payment.   

Ron L 

-----Original Message----- 
From: phono-l-bounces at oldcrank.org [mailto:phono-l-bounces at oldcrank.org] On 
Behalf Of john robles 
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 3:04 AM 
To: phono-l at oldcrank.org 
Subject: [Phono-L] Suckerpunched by eBay & Vic III for sale 

 Okay, it finally happend. Afte defending eBay (mentally if not physically 
on this board) for a long time, I got my comeupance today. Two days ago I 
put several items on eBa for sale, including a nice Vic III that I have. I 
am DESPERATELY trying to raise $2800 in a short time to buy a harp to 
replace mine (which developed structural problems).  I need to raise this 
money SOON!  So I listed some phonoe items that were near and dear to my 
heart, including the III. You may remember what I went through trying to get 
a back bracket for it. 
So this morning, I find that eBay has REMOVED my items because I did the 
unholy deed of saying I accept Paypal and personal checks (held for 
clearance). Apparently you cannot accept mone order or personal checks on 
ebay any more. I didn't know this because I don't read every piece of 
claptrap that ebay sends me. I use the Turbolister to create my listings, 
and it caugh that I offered to accept money orders, and it gave me an error 
code on that. So I changed it. BUT it did NOT give me an error code on the 
term personal checks.  So I guess some grunt at ebay whose job it is to 
check such things found it and pulled m auctions. I had $460 in bids on the 
III when it was pulled. They sent some sort of email to my bidders telling 
them the items were being pulled. I was FURIOUS. I wrote them an angry 
letter, and they basicall said too bad. They were nice about it, bt at the 
end of the letter it said I should not respond because they would not 
receive it. Nice 
 and caring.  Anyhoe I relisted most of the stuff, and the Vic III is item 
number 110374580209.  I am so desperate to raise the cash that my buy it now 
on this item is only $1995, which is less money than I have into it. So if 
you want a deal, there it is.  As for ebay, they disguise their corporate 
greed behid the veil of 'protecting their sellers from fraud'. They own 
Paypal, so of course they want you to use it exclusively. Arrgh. Thanks for 
leting me vent. And thanks for reading this far.  
John RObles 
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