Re: Can someone give some advice?

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:55:36 -0400, R. Totale <slangtruth@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:03:37 -0400, tony cooper
<tony_cooper213@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

He has to file that to get his eBay fee back. He's not singling you
out by doing so. He's just following eBay's rules for getting his fee
back. Even if he refunded the shipping costs he'd have to file this
dispute to get his fee back from eBay.

Why does someone who sells defective merchandise deserve to get
his eBay fee back? If I go to MegaloMart and buy a defective chainsaw
and return it, do they go to the local newspaper and ask for a refund
on the ad they bought which brought me in in the first place?

No, but you don't get reimbursed for the gas you used in going back to
MegaloMart.


Yes, but one needs to pick their battles. This isn't a good one to
pick because you are sure to lose. It isn't a good one to pick
because - even though he supplied an inferior product and treated you
rudely - he's still better than most because he did give you a refund.

"Thank you for only beating me with the ruler, sir. The baseball bat
hurts so much more". Threatening the innocent buyer who bought their
defective product if she won't help them defraud eBay is not the mark
of a "better than most" seller.

Where's the threat? We have the OP's version that the seller was
"rude" and the product was inferior. How many people pop into this
newsgroup with complaints about buyers or sellers where it turns out
that the whole story wasn't revealed? Or an edited version of the
story was offered? Or even an outright lie was typed?

Had you checked things out before you made the purchase, the advice
would have been never to buy ink cartridges on eBay and never to buy
no-name cartridges. The savings isn't worth the risk.

On the contrary, just yesterday I installed a brand new sealed OEM
laser toner cartridge in the original sealed factory carton, bought
from someone on eBay for less than 1/3 the best retail price I could
find on the Web (including shipping).

You do understand that "no-name cartridges" are not the same as OEM
cartridges, don't you? It's possible that a "no-name" is made by the
manufacturer of the printer's branded ink, but by no means assured.

I had to search three or four
times over the course of about a week and a half, removing all
"compatable" and "Remanufactured" items from the search, rejecting out
of hand anyone asking for a $15 shipping charge for this >2 pound
boxed item, and looking for an actual product photo, but it wasn't
that hard. The advice is to be smart about it, not avoid it altogether.

Does "Sweet Polly" seem like a person who did similar research? Or
would know how to go about it?

My advice to her stands: Don't by ink cartridges on eBay or no-name
cartridges from anyone. Walk away from this transaction.

I use an Epson printer and Epson ink and Epson photo paper. I print a
lot of photographs, but only a lot for an amateur photographer. I'm
not going to *** around for couple of bucks savings for the amount of
ink I use, and Epsons suck up a lot of ink.

If she's a pro in graphics or photography, she has even less reason to
put her reputation on the line for a couple of bucks of savings.

--


Tony Cooper
Orlando, FL
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