| Original Message: Retaliation has also happened |
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After contacting a seller about a misrepresented set of beads, I had the distressing experience where the seller purchased a small item from me and then left negative feedback to "get even". I contacted eBay but they would not remove the comment. Even more disturbing was the fact that this particular seller lived in an adjacent town (what a weird coincidence, or, bad bead karma coming back to me) and thus had my home address from the shipping label. This made me paranoid for around 6 months and I started using a P.O. Box for eBay sales. After a couple of years of no further problems I went back to using my home address. Still wonder sometimes if I might not run into difficulty from this guy, but it's been over 5 years now. However in the meantime I have contacted plenty of sellers with mis-rep's but just recently decided to stop due to the sometimes blistering replies... I've never been blocked, though, as far as I know. But I blocked the aforementioned retaliator. My all-time favorite mis-rep was the Venetian bead advertised as a "First Century Islamic" bead. Try to get someone to understand that Islam was not in existence until the early 7th century... let alone that the bead was late 1800s Venetian. All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users |
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