My first ebay disaster.

[wash&where?]

don't get mad.....get even

I had this also happen to me with a Sunbeam Mixmaster. The seller shipped it UPS and it arrived demolished. When I contacted the seller about her poor packaging, she just said thats why it is insured. She could have cared less. The clincher is when items are shipped UPS, the shipper is the one reimbursed for damage, not the person receiving the package. So I requested the seller to reimburse me and then make a claim to UPS, since she would be the one getting reimbursed. She refused and I was furious. I thought that stupid bxxxtch was not going to get paid twice. Once by me and then by a UPS damaged claim. After she refused to do the right thing and reimburse me, I knew I had to figure out a way to get even. So when I left her negative feed back, I also included my e-mail address so that anyone considering a purchase from her could be told the entire story from me. I had several potential buyers e-mailing me for quite some time. I slammed her every chance I could. She finally either changed her ebay name or quit all together. If the seller is nasty, you might try the same thing.

 

[mixedup]

In my case the seller eventually made good, but it took months. She wouldn't file the claim, said I had to do it. She gave me some sob story about how she's got cancer & going for treatment. Well that's terrible, but what the heck does that have to do with putting some decent packing in the box!? So I called UPS and told them the story & that it was the seller's falt due to extreme carelessness. The UPS person said to hold on to all the broken bits for 5 days in case they UPS wanted to inspect the package/item. After 5 days I could do as I wished with it if I hadn't heard from UPS. Well I never did hear anything until last week the seller emailed me the check's in the mail. She had used one of those shipping stores, So UPS had to pay the claim to the store, who then paid the seller who finally sent me a check!

 

[wcd63]

Reply to Mixedup and everyone

I bought a Filter Queen model 31 from some stupid woman who did not pack right eather, NO packing at all just thrown in the box and sent to me. It arrived with the attachment crown broken, wheel on dolly badley bent and the machine with dents in it.
I got the same storey about the cancer. must be some seller. no refund yet as promissed. I cant believe that a grown up person could be that stupid and dum and so IGNORANT to do that. She blamed it on some one else and said she gave it to that person to mail out for her. that dame sure has a good scam going for her. Must have been same seller. sad part was she was tooo stupid to have it insured.
I was able to fix the vac so that it was useable and I have been using it for a couple of weeks. the best part of this is that my neighbor borrowed it and loved it and I sold it to her and made a profit on it as well so my gain the dum broads loss!! I hate sellers like that. I also had one bad seller who did not tell the truth about an Electrolux the fans were busted and bad bearings just used machine for parts and tossed out the rest. need less to say I left very nasty feed back because his resopnce was("it worked when it left hear") and would do nothing. those were the only ones that have been bad for me.
It is a shame about that beautiful model 31 but I am sure some one will have the handel bail for you.

WCD63