I need a cathartic release and figure others could as well. But in no particular order here's a few things that are currently eliciting this reaction: 
- from me on Ebay.
Sellers that do not lodge feedback until the buyer lodges positive feedback on them
One of my real bugbears - now I get all the rationales for this but generally this only made sense back in the bad old days on Ebay where if the one person lodged negative feedback the other would automatically do the same so it was a lose-lose/mutually assured destruction deterrent. But now that sellers can't NEG buyers it's pointless to hold off lodging. And as the buyer really all you have to do to complete the side of the buy is pay....thats it.
So jerk sellers who don't lodge feedback either have to be asked to lodge it or you get by without it. Small peanuts I know as ain't a big deal on most feedback levels but it's just annoying and petty unprofessionalism.
Sellers who take unbelievably long times to post the items once they're paid for
Again this shytes me to tears - if you're taking my money then pull your finger out and send them item I paid for to me within atleast 3 working days! I just realised that some Aussie seller (literally 3hrs drive from me!) I bought a few razors from states up to 16 working days to send the items - I could ride a unicycle to his house to pick them up sooner!). Now to be fair perhaps I should have not bid if that was an issue BUT by the same token whilst I don't expect same day postage I do expect a vague effort to be made to get the item posted once it's been paid for.
Items posted without proper packaging/protection
I had the misfortune to deal with a real twat Aussie seller recently. The Gillette New OC I bought was packaged with the endcap/baseplate with a piece of sticky tape holding them together and that was dumped loosely into an unpadded, standard satchel with the handle....ALL LOOSELY rolling around whilst it was on route to me.
Now thankfully none of the teeth etc were damaged but there would certainly have been scratching/surface damage on route.....but not something major enough I could ID it from the auction photos.
So when I raised it with the jerk of a seller he said "it arrived 'undamaged' and so thats all there is to it."
This REALLY pissed me off for as I stated he was a collector of razors as well and if he'd received one posted like that he'd have found it unacceptable and yet he did it to me....and all for what? A piece of scrap bubble wrap or even wrapped in newspaper would have stopped any scratches in transit but when I flagged this with him he conceded NOTHING and implied I was just being petty as the end justified the means. Oh and he refused to lodge feedback as well so an absolute a$$hol3 of a seller (IMHO).
Haha anything else getting on others goats?
- from me on Ebay.Sellers that do not lodge feedback until the buyer lodges positive feedback on them
One of my real bugbears - now I get all the rationales for this but generally this only made sense back in the bad old days on Ebay where if the one person lodged negative feedback the other would automatically do the same so it was a lose-lose/mutually assured destruction deterrent. But now that sellers can't NEG buyers it's pointless to hold off lodging. And as the buyer really all you have to do to complete the side of the buy is pay....thats it.
So jerk sellers who don't lodge feedback either have to be asked to lodge it or you get by without it. Small peanuts I know as ain't a big deal on most feedback levels but it's just annoying and petty unprofessionalism.
Sellers who take unbelievably long times to post the items once they're paid for
Again this shytes me to tears - if you're taking my money then pull your finger out and send them item I paid for to me within atleast 3 working days! I just realised that some Aussie seller (literally 3hrs drive from me!) I bought a few razors from states up to 16 working days to send the items - I could ride a unicycle to his house to pick them up sooner!). Now to be fair perhaps I should have not bid if that was an issue BUT by the same token whilst I don't expect same day postage I do expect a vague effort to be made to get the item posted once it's been paid for.
Items posted without proper packaging/protection
I had the misfortune to deal with a real twat Aussie seller recently. The Gillette New OC I bought was packaged with the endcap/baseplate with a piece of sticky tape holding them together and that was dumped loosely into an unpadded, standard satchel with the handle....ALL LOOSELY rolling around whilst it was on route to me.
Now thankfully none of the teeth etc were damaged but there would certainly have been scratching/surface damage on route.....but not something major enough I could ID it from the auction photos.
So when I raised it with the jerk of a seller he said "it arrived 'undamaged' and so thats all there is to it."
This REALLY pissed me off for as I stated he was a collector of razors as well and if he'd received one posted like that he'd have found it unacceptable and yet he did it to me....and all for what? A piece of scrap bubble wrap or even wrapped in newspaper would have stopped any scratches in transit but when I flagged this with him he conceded NOTHING and implied I was just being petty as the end justified the means. Oh and he refused to lodge feedback as well so an absolute a$$hol3 of a seller (IMHO).
Haha anything else getting on others goats?
