Ebay seller tifny, cont.

I posted earlier about getting a quad of 7355 from ebay seller tifny that did NOT test as advertised. I have ebay configured to prompt me when 7355 tube show for auction.

Guess what? It appears that tifny has my tubes back up for sale! How do I know? I can't say for positive, but I saved the picture out of my auction, and the wear on the print on the base of the tubes looks identical to me.

NOTE: She now posts numbers off of her tester, NOT the phony TV-7 numbers she posted in my auction! ...however, she still claims that they are strong and matched, which they didn't test on MY machine.

NOTE: Tubes are not 'burned' as she claimed that I did to them (although all flasher areas had an ugly brown around them when they came to me).

NOTE: She also lied in my feedback and said that I broke a guide pin. There is NO broken pin in the pic. Hmmm, wonder why? SHE LIED.

NOTE: She rotates the brown flashing area away from view!

She also boosted the price!

People like this just piss me off. Have you reported her to eBay? Not that they would do much. Maybe if we got a dozen or two members of the newsgroup to shoot her some emails she'll pull the auction? I've sent emails to several people that looked like they were running a fraud, I mentioned the AGA and that everyone was aware of their fraud, and they pulled the auctions, at least at that time. They probably resurfaced with another name later on but they tend to scatter once they know that people are on to them.

Not all bad eBay experiences have a bad end. A while back, I entered the high bid for something within the last 12 hours and couldn't retract it. It was for the wrong auction. I got confused. I emailed the seller immediately and told him (her?) of my plight, told him that I was prepared for NFB and that I wouldn't be paying. As settlement, he asked me to pay his eBay fees on the auction, which I gladly did. And....he gave me POSITIVE feedback. I did the same for him.

Jim, you've got my sympathy. I think, though, your decision to let it go is the right one. Nothing good will come from further actions. Retailatory NFB is always a hazard. Too bad you are a victim. On the face of it, this person has a darn good FB record, 14 neg/neutral out of 949. Go figure.

PLEASE NOTE:

I got lazy and cross posted my last message, thinking it wouldn't get any/many responses. Perhaps that was a mistake.

If you respond, you might want to edit out the other groups.

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And now she has a B&K 707... hmmmm....

Kinda stings to be falsely accused of impropriety huh? LOL! I know exactly how it feels brother.

Regards, John 'SLEAZY' King

Hi - Listen, don't worry about the negative feedback she left you - at this point, people know how the whole 'feedback' system works - people are afraid to leave truthful feedbacks for fear of retaliatory negatives. So i don't pay much attention, unless the person's feedback ismore than 20% negative. I'm guilty of not leaving negatives when they where due - wasn't pissed off enough, not 100% sure the misrepresentation was intentional, shipped an item a week late myself once... So the whole feedback thing's a big charade - relax.

No, but anything that's not a positive is a negative when I read FB. It's like getting a D in college. It doesn't count as a failing grade, but you can't graduate with a D average.