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A sense of decency and fair play? :rolleyes: I think there’s still a procedure in place for reporting non-payment, but I’m not sure how it affects the non-paying buyer’s feedback. I’ve had one buyer not pay me, and you can bet I reported his ass in addition to giving him negative feedback which specifically mentioned his non-payment.
When eBay instituted its new policy regarding feedback there was a lot of discussion about it, particularly since they also raised their selling fees at the same time. Here is a previous thread about it.
I haven’t sold on eBay since the new policy went into effect, although it was for other reasons. I do have an increasing pile of stuff I will probably want to sell on eBay, but before I do I’m going to check out their current policies and fees very carefully.
I just don’t see what the problem would be in having “secret” feedback. In other words, you both can leave feedback, positive, negative, or neutral, but you don’t see what the other person left you until you either leave them feedback, or the window of time to leave feedback has expired.
Yeah, it sucks that there are sellers that are so childish that they’ll wait until they get feedback before leaving any, and will leave negative to the buyer, even if they paid right after the auction ended, if they got negative feedback, even if it’s legitimate, like an item was damaged, or not as specified in the auction. With a secret system, this problem is avoided.
Because I can think of no other reason not to give immediate feedback. Unless they are lazy.
I just saw that. WTF? Now sellers have very little recourse for non-payers. Contacting Ebay seldom works.
I’m sure there isn’t one. It’s just the proper, courteous thing to do. Why wouldn’t you leave immediate feedback after all of the feedback’s elements have been satisfied. What are you waiting for? Oh yeah, that’s right. You’re saving it for revenge in case the buyer leaves a negative feedback, warranted or no.
Actually, when I sold something I generally waited until the buyer left his feedback before I left mine, just to be sure that they received the item and were satisfied. The only times I would consider leaving negative feedback were if no payment was ever received, or if the buyer did something blatantly dishonest.
You WANT feedback??? ::ROARING THROUGH EARPHONES::
AAAARRRRRGH!!!
oops…wrong feedback.
If the negative feedback were unwarranted, wouldn’t that mean that giving the buyer a negative feedback would be a legitimate use of feedback?
Not that it matters, now.
I mini-pit the dumb lady that was too busy gawking at the accident on the two-lane road we were on to complete her right turn and allow me to get the hell out of the way of an ambulance rushing to the scene. What are you, lady, new?
I should make this rant a file and just keep it on my computer - look, directors, shaky cam was cool when it was used judiciously for effect in, say, “Saving Private Ryan”. Using it all the time in every movie now is, well, I can’t think of a word for how irritating and frustrating it is for me to watch a good movie spoiled by that effect*, but please, just stop. Please. PLEASE! PLEASE!!! I’m begging you in size 7 font to just stop it!
And this goes out especially to director Peter Berg - we just went to see “Hancock” (quite liked it), and he shot about 90% of the movie in extreme close-up. As in, every pore is two feet across close-up. Dude. A little of that goes a looooooong way, just like the shaky cam.
*Nauseating comes to mind.
A mini follow up to my rant a few pages ago about the bullshit my boss is putting me through. I’m not the only one who has been ordered to obtain a Family Medical Leave form in our team.
The union is now involved. She put the whole thing as “coaching” us to build up our sick time. County manual and our contract explicitly state if we do not have sick time we can use vacation time. She is not allowed to “coach” us on having what she feels is appropriate sick leave balances.
Our contract states that she can request proof of illness if our absences are patterned, habitual, and another word. She stated our absences are excessive. That is not for her to decide, according to our rep. What she considers excessive means nothing.
Due to the union calling her on the carpet she has now taken to nitpicking everything we do. I seemingly have gone from the number one worker in our team to a miserable excuse of flesh. It amazing - she had an email rant about decisions I made on a case. The decision I made was supported by our county attorney and very clearly noted on the case. According to her it’s not up to the county attorneys office to direct my work. Uh, if a county attorney says under no circumstances will they touch the case, that severely limits any action I can take. So yeah, they CAN direct our work.
I have a doctors appointment this week to discuss the FML crap. sigh
Law of grocery store checkout duration:
If you buy ice cream or popsicles, the lines automatically become at least four deep at all the registers, and the people ahead of you write checks, have lots of coupons, or argue about the price. I swear, it sometimes seems to happen instantaneously as soon as I put the Dove bars in my cart…
The is a wall around the compound where I live, they are building a road next to the wall outside. The ground here is rock…not sand as one would think. There are rock breakers going from 6 am to 5 pm with an hour break for lunch, 6 days a week! In the heat of the summer, the government says outside workers HAVE TO SHUT DOWN from 11-3. Last summer and the year before this was enforced, this year not at all.
THE THUMPING IS DRIVIN ME MAD :mad:
Hey. Yes you - Amazon and Best Buy. As you both know, I really like the show House, M.D. and have bought every season on DVD so far. But you’re sorely mistaken if you think I’m gonna pay 34 fucking dollars for season 4. They only crank out 16 episodes, and I get NO DISCOUNT WHATSOEVER. Fuck that.
Unpaid auction strikes. You get so many strikes and you’re out. Forever.
Most sellers wait to post feedback to ‘remind’ buyers to post feedback for them. And there are some auctions where the buyer doesn’t want feedback. I bought a birthday present for my SO on eBay and while I was very happy with the transaction I didn’t want a public record that I had bought it. Contrary to CSI, someone can’t just look and see everything you ever bought on eBay without subpoenas and lots of legal hoops to jump through.
And since this is the rants thread.
SDMB
nuf said?
Engineer Dude, if you buy at Target, you get a $6 Target gift card. So that is a little subsidy.
But I agree, you should get a discount. Maybe there are more bonus extras to ease our troubled souls, she said hopefully? Like more commentary and deleted scenes.
But probably not. Bastards.
I’m starting to get a really good picture of what a die-hard is - from looking in the mirror.
I’m doing a bit of a job search. Is there a job site out there that doesn’t suck? Hotjobs must be the worst. I’m in IT, which hotjobs lumps into the “Technology” category, along with the Vet Techs, Auto Repair Techs, and Alarm Installers. Those are all fine careers, but, jeez, could you narrow down the categories a litte? I’m sure the transmission repair guys don’t want to sift through DBA ads either.
And, I hate the large-company sites where you have to re-enter your resume in their format and fill out a bunch of preliminary questions. I spend 30 minutes on the damned site just to apply for some job I have about a 10,000-1 chance of getting.
I also hate the company sites that have a search feature that does not allow you to filter by department or function, but does provide a text search for job title. Yeah, that’s fucking useful to me. Do you know how many different titles can be dreamt up for my job? Oh, I know, I’ll use the keyword search for the job description…I’ll search for “IT”. Luckily there is no other use for that combination of letters.
Believe it or not, since I’m an NL fan, I’ve never heard of the antics you described except for the Youkilis incident. I know Manny has a “reputation,” but I’ve never known the specifics. Maybe the SoCal air and ocean breeze will make him a new man?
You people who live in --ah-- the middle of the United States, please stop telling us about your three-figure mortgage payments, and how by brown-bagging your lunch, stopping the magazine subscriptions, or canceling cable you were able to pay off your mortgage 15 years early. Also when you hear that somebody spent $X on a personal item or household object, don’t say ‘OMG, that’s as much as my monthly house payment’. It may be at least partly a result of the fact that your house payment is as cheap as ‘X’, rather than ‘X’ being as expensive as your house payment.
I am sick and tired of people using cutesy names for various sex acts to define a person’s sexual identity. If you label a lesbian as a “rug muncher” or a gay male as a “fudge packer” it’s not cute, it’s not funny, and it is a good way to perform a convincing impersonation of a bigot.
Can we fucking pretend that a person’s sexual preferences are their own damned business?