Charlotta wrote:

In addition to the ususal scams going on at eBay, all in favour of
the seller, sellers are once again stacking the deck in their favour
by boycotting midweek transactions in favour of weekend pileups.


A lot of people listing stamps on eBay do it part-time and list when
they have time to list i.e. on their days off from their "real" job. I
don't think it's a conspiracy that there is more stuff running on the
weekends.



I did get scammed by Hoaser247 last week when I discovered a set
of stamps I had never received. Every now and then somehing like this
slips through on me and I regret it. Admittedly I won at $13.50 for
a $65 set, but that was high bid and nobody else was offering more
so I won. Hoaser247 didnt like it at all however. He sat and did
nothing. I had to request an invoice five times - finally one appeared
in my email. I sent the guy $17.00 to insure good shipping and again
Hoaser247 sat and did nothing - for 90 days! I suddenly woke up and
emailed asking where the stamps were but no replies from Hoaser247!
So I filed a Dispute - he still didnt reply. Finally eBay forced him
to say
something and of course "Never got the payment", he said. The set has
already reappeared on eBay. I gave Hoaser247 negative feedback and of
course he gave me the same.


OK, fair enough -- people shouldn't do that. If you list items
starting low, sometimes you'll get burned as a seller (not often if you
know what you're doing as a seller, but it happens) and the only
responsible thing is to sell the item at whatever it went for. If you
buy from people who have not been on eBay very long and/or have little
feedback, they are more likely to pull this kind of thing on you.

And Ruby Stamps has finally blocked me from bidding. Why? Because
I finally got ****ed at chasing them around all the time, for
invoices, for their address, etc etc etc. What really did it was his
filing a Dispute
against me for nonpayment only to find out he had been sitting on my
check for one month! But, assholes must always punish the innocent.
Ruby has now blocked me so my quick payments will no longer sit around
on his cluttered desk for him to have to dig for - he would
rather file Disputes against people just to keep up the illusion that
Ruby is in control!

I've bought a few things from RubyStamps (actually Davitt Felder after
he got exposed in a bid rigging scandal) and always got them on time.
(The rigging had nothing to do with eBay -- it was a collusion issue
involving large collections sold at live auction.)