[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] Ebay issue

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 19 July 2005 00:35, Neil Morrison wrote:
>There is no doubt that eBay has real problems with fraud and the
> like. However, to get the seller's contact info you can place a bid
> on the item then request the info. You can then cancel the bid for
> some specious reason if you need to do that.
>
Yeah, but when you login to place the bid, the bid gets associated 
with your account at your home email address.  If you aren't there to 
get the message, tough nouggies.  They were an absolute castiron 
bitch about it claiming they had no way to verify that I was whom I 
said I was.

>As for the computer they send to, I use Hotmail accounts for eBay
> and Paypal so I can access the info from anywhere.
>
>Neil
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
>
>> Good luck getting it Neil.  I've found them to be very very
>> difficult to deal with when you've bought something and they
>> insist on sending the sales data and contact info ONLY to your
>> home account, in this case over 2000 miles from where I was on a
>> (spit) winblows box.  They cost me almost a week and the tv
>> station I was playing fireman at probably $70,000 or more in lost
>> revenue when I needed a mylex scsi card to fix a disk based
>> commercial server that was down, and no tape backups.  Only when I
>> had our attorney commit a little barritry by threatening to sue,
>> with the damages accrueing by the hour, did they relent and give
>> me the sellers email and landline data so I could arrange to
>> overnight a check, and get the card back the same way.
>>
>> I have had less than pleasant feelings about ebay since. 
>> Something pertaining to them, and the camel that rode in on them
>> if you get my drift.
>
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