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

[Abe Feder]

John,
You can take ck's you just do not put it in your add. If you not a very
small number say "Pay Pal account required" If they do I by pass them. I
send them in ask a question if they take cks or cc and they always say
yes.Ebay really messed up my account when they hit me with increased fee's
that I just did not know about. After three months of trying to get it
square-I just do not do pay pal.
Abe Feder

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 12:04 AM, john robles <john9ten at pacbell.net> wrote:

>  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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