posted on November 7, 2003 04:58:12 PM new
Here's the sitch:
A bracelet was inadvertently put aside for a couple of days and not shipped. When I discovered the error, I shipped it and notified the customer. She has been emailing me 3 to 4 times a day since then because she still hasn't gotten it. I have responded to two of her emails.
This is her latest effort, and I post it here because, in its own way, it is a work of art.
Once again, I have waited for a response from you regarding my item I paid for and won on OCTOBER 19TH!!!! and paid for immediately to you $7.00 for the item, plus $5.00 for shipping. I can't leave negative feedback YET, because you consider that the end of the transaction and I will NEVER see my item. I have been patient and hope that as an ebay seller you could be honest and forthcoming to let me know WHERE MY ITEM IS??? HAVE YOU SHIPPED? TO WHERE, AND WITH WHOM?? WHAT IS YOUR SHIP DATE??? If you haven't shipped, do you plan on it?? Or do you just take peoples money right away and send whenever you feel like it???
So, I will continue to email you until you respond. If I have to wait more than a month, which is a coming up soon and is absolutely absurd I have to wait that long, I WILL FILE A COMPLAINT WITH EBAY. AND YOU WILL HEAR FROM MY ATTORNEY AS TO A BREACH OF CONTRACT. I save all of these emails, and yours, so there won't be a problem, WILL THERE?????
And so again, here is the information you so desperately need to fulfill this transaction.
(name, address and auction number deleted)
Response:
Item was shipped to:
(deleted)
According to the Postal Service web site, the parcel is still in transit.
I realize that nothing short of my sacrificial disembowelment at the hands of crazed cannibals will satisfy your blood lust, but this is all the information that is in fact available.
I am afraid you will just have to wait for it to arrive.
End.
I wrote that knowing that nothing in the world will infuriate this woman more than that last sentence. She is not used to being made to wait.
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posted on November 7, 2003 05:07:10 PM newI can't leave negative feedback YET, because you consider that the end of the transaction and I will NEVER see my item.
LOL! Does this woman think you are holding her item hostage?
posted on November 7, 2003 05:10:46 PM new
ROFL @ your response!
Some husbands you just gotta feel sorry for
there is no way in hell I would believe this woman could even GET a husband!
"I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it." - A Few Good Men
[ edited by wgm on Nov 7, 2003 05:11 PM ]
posted on November 7, 2003 05:14:58 PM new
Send a copy/paste of the threat to leave negative feedback to Safeharbor...if she/he does leave a neg, it may be removed.
Not supposed to threaten negative during a transaction.
posted on November 7, 2003 05:42:25 PM new
She must be a relative ebay newbie?
She sounds like the one lady on every street that turns in her neighbors for the slightest possible rule infraction. I always feel sorry for the spineless, pathetic henpecked husbands that get mired with these types.
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posted on November 9, 2003 09:13:01 AM new
Sounds like a woman I waited on years ago. Her boyfriend came in to buy her some jewelry. We took a long time finding something. The man reminded me of this of a scared little dog. He was so proud of his purchase, coudldn't wait to give it to her.
A few days later this huge scary woman came into the store (I am 4'11 so everyone is huge to me). She threw the box at me and started yelling, "this is what he thinks of me!" She was insulted! She wanted me to take the pendent and earrings back. Then she wanted to be shown the diamonds.....
posted on November 9, 2003 09:35:38 AM new
When my wife and I were newlyweds, we were once in a pizza shop. A couple walked in, the husband about 5 feet tall and 100 lbs, the woman about 5' 6" and 250 lbs (I think she was taller lying down). They took a seat near the door. The wife tells the husband to order her flounder. He timidly said it was a pizza shop and probably didnt have it. There was a menu of all the choices on every table and posted over the counter. She told him to ask anyway. He walked across the dining area to the counter and they told him it was a pizza shop and didnt serve fish. He walked across the room to the table and told his wife. She told him to ask if they had crepes. After several trips back and forth asking them for things you would not expect to find in a pizza shop and getting the counter man more and more disgusted, he decided to just stand at the counter and shout at her. "No, they don't have onion soup!" She shouted back, "As them if they have egglant parmesian." The counterman shook his head. The husband called back, "No, they don't." Eventually she yells out, "What kind of stupid place is this anyway? Let's just leave." I think the whole place wanted to burst out into applause. When we finished laughing, I told my wife that if she ever did that to me, it would be grounds for immediate divorce.
My kids know the story and it's become a family joke. If one of my kids gets unreasonable, we'll tell him or her, "Go to the shoe store and ask him if he sells fish."
posted on November 9, 2003 10:50:54 AM new
Love your story, yisgood!
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posted on November 9, 2003 03:11:37 PM new
Fluffy, your are lucky some of my customers start sending this kind of email the same day they pay. I had a customer about a month ago that took 2 weeks to pay. The next day she started emailing me asking if I shipped yet. I wrote back saying, Let me see if I have your email straight in my mind or not. You took 2 weeks to pay and now less than 24 hours later you are asking me if I have shipped yet. She never replied.
For the first time in 2 months I took a 1/2 day off Saturday and almost a full day off today Sunday. I will bet you money tomorrow morning I will have emails asking about shipping on items that were paid for this past Friday. Ebay customers are very spoiled, all they have to do is push a few buttons on a computer, pay their money, and a few days later a nice item shows up at their door. How spoiled can you get. The seller does all the work the buyer has all the fun. That's O.K. with me (its my job) as long as the buyer doesn't start NAGGING on me for no good reason.
posted on November 10, 2003 11:43:09 AM new
Think that's bad? My latest NPB newbie:
Somehow this woman was able to work her way through the Ebay registration process (possibly her 6 yr old did it for her) where she then stumbled on to my seller list, bid on 2 auctions, winning both, and then poof! Vanished! She ignored those pesky check out instructions and 5 emails from me (two WBNs, two payment reminders, and one personal note from me explaining I had a trip coming up and I really needed to get her box taken care of before I left). After my trip, still no contract from her. Thinking she may be having computer problems, I obtained her personal contact information from Ebay. Sometimes that gets their attention, and sometimes I do call them, but when she got the email from Ebay with MY contact info it it, SHE CALLED ME! In a very irate tone of voice, she demands to know WHY Ebay sent her my address and phone number (proof she is receiving email, huh?). I explain. I tell her it is about the 2 purchases. Her answer:
"I picked out the little tumbler to buy it, but then I saw the bowl and I wanted it instead. I emailed Ebay and told them I didn't want the tumbler, but they didn't even answer me. They just kept sending me bills that were wrong because they still had the tumbler added on. I really wanted the bowl, but I just won't do business with people who don't do what they are supposed to do and won't even answer my email." While I was recovering from my dazed state of shock, she hung up on me. And I thought I had heard em all! Aaauuuggghhhh......
posted on November 10, 2003 06:43:21 PM new
Oh boy I want to share my story about some husbands you just gotta feel sorry for. It doesn't really have anything to do with Ebay but I can't resist. I worked in an office and one woman client would call up and just rant and rave and be mean even when we were working overtime on her file. I made a MINOR mistake and she came into the office and called me every name in the book. When she left, I said, "I've never met her husband, but I sure feel sorry for him!" Fast forward to two years later, I kept running into a guy with our mutual friends and just knew him by his first name. After we discovered we were both divorced and started to hit it off, I found out HE WAS THE HUSBAND I had felt sorry for! I said well most men complain about their ex-wives but I know for a fact everything you are saying is true! Happy ending - we have been married for 7 years and are soul mates.
