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phosfate ([personal profile] phosfate) wrote2007-05-02 10:36 am
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i go mad one, mad two, mad three...

Still mad, but, and this is important, much, much less mad than before. Not helped by my supervisor thinking that we can fit 20 pages' worth of material into a 12-page document, or by the eBay seller who suddenly doubled his shipping fee after the auction closed. But! Less mad.

Hope to get the next bit of Black Dolls up this week. Apologies for the delay, but...mad.

Making shit for MediaWest art show. Suggestions welcome.




Also, a letter:

Dear t-shirt bootleggers:

"Sandford" has two D's in it.

Your pal,

Ann

[identity profile] cybertardis.livejournal.com 2007-05-02 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I ordered a Sailormoon pencil board from him once upon a time. The board was $3.00. A bit pricey, but since it was an import I was willing to go along with it. Plus, I really wanted it, so there was that, too. He advertised first class shipping in the US for $3.50. Come to find out, "first class shipping" to him meant wrapping the pencil board (which was cardboard and not plastic but oh well) in a dirty papertowel, stuffing it into a cheap and flimsy envelope and sending it along to me via media mail.

I left him negative feedback, citing the overcharged shipping and the cheap way it was sent. He left me negative feedback saying that I had agreed to a contract about the shipping and had no right to leave him negative feedback. I replied and agreed that we had a contract which he violated, then told him that I did not deserve the negative feedback because I had done everything a buyer was supposed to do (paid on time, etc) and that leaving me negative feedback was uncalled for. We went back and forth for a bit, but I got my point across in his comments. It ended with him telling me never to buy from him again (like that would ever happen).

He hadn't sold a lot of things prior to that, but he didn't have any negatives. I don't know if I was a fluke or what. And, while it may seem petty to get into a flamewar over something that ultimately cost only $7.50, it was the principle of the thing, you know?
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[identity profile] annlarimer.livejournal.com 2007-05-02 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Jesus! He sounds like a piece of work.

I've noticed that most sellers now don't leave feedback until they've had it from the buyer first, which is unutterably lame.

[identity profile] cybertardis.livejournal.com 2007-05-02 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, the tit for tat feedback thing is some serious bullshit, IMO. I only sold a few things on ebay but I *always* left positive feedback for the buyers as soon as I'd been paid.