I've been working on replacing my lost airsoft gear so I can get back into playing as soon as possible, and eBay has been a great resource for that so far. One of the goodies I found was a Tokyo Marui Steyr AUG-A2 (the black civilian version) with internal upgrades, a Phantom silencer kit, and accessories. I watched the item for a few days, and after there were no other bids I went ahead and placed my own. Someone tried to snipe me at 30 seconds left on the item, of course, but I was watching and wasn't having any of THAT.

I paid up immediately after winning the item, as usual. Pretty standard eBay experience - the funny part is the correspondence with the seller afterwards:

"Thank you for buying my airsoft gun and for paying in such a timely manner. I will have it in the mail and on it's way as soon as possible."

"No prob - I lost my AUG in an apartment fire, and this looked like just the thing to replace it. Someone tried to snipe the auction out from under me, too. Lucky you I guess, haha, it was going for $350 until Asshole #1 decided to intervene, lol!"

"Yeah, he made the price jump $100. Then again, it wouldn't be
much of an auction with one bidder, LOL. I'm sorry to hear about
your fire, so good luck getting back on your feet."

Skip forward a day or two. Here's the part where it gets amusing:

"The Shipping ended up costing significantly more than I expected: $78.55 dollars for packaging and shipping. I'm sorry I misjudged shipping costs, but this is a big deficit and it would be great if you sent me the money for it. If you need to see the receipt, I can email it to you."

Did he... Did he just tell me he wants ME to pay for the extra shipping HE failed to calculate for? Oh, this is too good! At this point I choose to politely tell him to go pound sand... I mean, there's no reason we can't be civil, right?

"I'm sorry, but I bid on the item based on the price and shipping *you* set. I hate to say "tough nuggets," but I'm already paying $*** plus shipping as is."

And, his response... the comedy continues.

"Alright, that's fair. With that said, this will still influence my review."

So now he's threatening me with negative feedback, which gave me a bit of a chuckle. I thanked him for the tracking number which he sent shortly after, and politely pointed out that as long as he was civil with his feedback, I would see no reason to mention him asking me for more money after I paid for the item, in mine.

I love eBay, lol.

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CPL Sean Maio A01/TQ2.0.72156E1
Public Relations Division (Temporary Cross-Assignment)
M-56 Smartgun Operator, A/3Btn, II CMEF, USS Sephora

Don't worry. Under E-Bay's new rules, sellers can't leave Negative or Neutral Feedback.

Which is great for you in cases like this, but sucks when you sell something and the buyer just never pays.

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-Spat

It sucks the guy lacked the class to just suck it up. I recently sold my DC-15S clone trooper blaster to another 501st member and the amount I ended up paying to send it out priority mail with insurance and delivery confirmation ended up being about $20 more than I estimated and charged the buyer. Unlike this guy, I just ate the difference.

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I eat shipping charges all the time. It's part of the business. It's almost impossible to estimate the shipping charges on every item to ship it to everywhere it can ship.

And on the other end, if I charge for shipping and the actual shipping is a lot less than what I thought it was, I refund the difference.

But a lot of people are not like me.

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-Spat

Yeah I misjudge shipping costs all the time. Always the buyer comes out better than me except in rare occassions.

The new eBay system does not allow the seller to neutral or neg you... but you can neutral his ass for trying to pull that with you. I would.

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(Im gonna beat Kev to this one)

From what I hear thats not all you eat Spat.


Glad to see your getting everything back together Sean...


Derek

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RIP Pvt. Chris Chulamanis A14/TQ4.0.66993E7 You are missed.

Has it become that obvious now?

Anyway- as has been said, don't worry about the threat- he can't leave a negative or neutral, just a positive or nothing.

It does help with "revenge" negatives a bit- but having sold my own share of goodies I don't like the idea of not being able to leave a "stay away- deadbeat bidder" warning when necessary.

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I told you I'd shoot, but you didn't believe me! WHY DIDN'T YOU BELIEVE ME!?!

It's true. Spat refunded me $5 for shipping on some naughty "Spat Goes Wild" videos I just ordered. Now the wife gets the $5 back. I would have gladly taken a beer in refund at Dcon instead. Curse you Spat!

Mike

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There is nothing more impressive than a bloody big Alien wiggling on the end of a sharp stick!

That's funny.
He didn't even ask, he just said it would be great if you sent the money.

I'd respond, 'yeah it would be great....but its not going to happen. Please send what I've already paid for and calculate better. Thank you'

But....you can't blame him for trying
Glad you're getting on your feet Sean....this little bit of humour courtesy of the seller must just be a bonus

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Yeah, I wasn't angry so much as amused at his attitude Thanks, Tony

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CPL Sean Maio A01/TQ2.0.72156E1
Public Relations Division (Temporary Cross-Assignment)
M-56 Smartgun Operator, A/3Btn, II CMEF, USS Sephora