... BY compiling a user generated list of e-bay sellers who scam / abuse us collectors it would allow us to better gauge who and who not to do business with. As a community I think we owe it to ourselves to look out for one another. By watching other peoples back we perform a potentially invaluable service for our 'community' members. So long as the discussion / list is conducted in a civil and adult fashion free of flames and trolls (on both sides).
It would be extremely unwise on several fronts. First is that it uses a forum owned by someone else to vent the displeasure of posters—
who do not own the forum despite their membership of its community—about eBay transactions. It is the someone else who has to suffer any legal comebacks as a result of statements in posts. That is something for all enlisted posters in this or any forum to keep in mind.
Second, it relies on one-sided accounts of the supposedly unsatisfactory transactions, with no possibility of other posters' being able to verify the facts of the matter. Third, as we have had well demonstrated recently, it invites retaliation from named sellers or respondents even beyond posting a response to such allegations. Fourth, it encourages self-justification and self-exculpation from the OP, which is no more necessarily a matter of Revealed Truth than was the original post.
Fifth, in short, it is the kind of thread that this Army needs as much as it needs an outbreak of STD.
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