eBay nastiness

[MrFahrenheit]

Was it shown that it only had a SE board inside or a SE/30 in the auction description . Was it shown in the profile of the system was powered on? Was it asked if it had a SE/30 board? A lot was left out. Sounds like a typical buyer that looks for any excuse to get money back! And a seller that had no idea what was being sold. Happens a lot.

So you go through my post history, in an attempt to reply to something that I previously posted, trying to make me look like a fool? Wow. Just… wow.

“Sounds like a typical buyer that looks for any excuse to get money back”. Excuse?

I think you should excuse yourself from these types of conversations.

 

[Brett B.]

eBay should be "buyer beware" as far as I'm concerned. I guess if I was the typical person off the street who knows nothing about old computers, and ran across a vintage item that seems to be worth good money, I would not feel bad listing it for what it appears to be rather than really digging into it to verify that everything is correct. 99.999999% of the population are not experts in old computers nor should we expect them to be. Ignorance is totally excusable in cases like this and I wouldn't necessarily fault the seller unless there was evidence to prove wrongdoing.

I have an old pickup that I restored that is titled as an '88 Ford Ranger STX and to most people that's exactly what it appears to be. It would take an expert eye to pick out the '92 interior, '92 engine, '93 transmission, '92 frame, '92 Explorer rear axle, '94 front axle............. I could go on but I think it's fair to assume that people selling things are not experts on what they're selling and there is nothing wrong with that.

 

[Phipli]

eBay should be "buyer beware" as far as I'm concerned. I guess if I was the typical person off the street who knows nothing about old computers, and ran across a vintage item that seems to be worth good money, I would not feel bad listing it for what it appears to be rather than really digging into it to verify that everything is correct. 99.999999% of the population are not experts in old computers nor should we expect them to be. Ignorance is totally excusable in cases like this and I wouldn't necessarily fault the seller unless there was evidence to prove wrongdoing.

I have an old pickup that I restored that is titled as an '88 Ford Ranger STX and to most people that's exactly what it appears to be. It would take an expert eye to pick out the '92 interior, '92 engine, '93 transmission, '92 frame, '92 Explorer rear axle, '94 front axle............. I could go on but I think it's fair to assume that people selling things are not experts on what they're selling and there is nothing wrong with that.

Hum... eBay just wouldn't work if it was just buyer beware. If it was ok to intentionally crop damage from photos or list things as working which don't, you'd have to assume the worst for everything and everything would be worthless. No sales would be made, no money would be made.

People would use fBay where you could send things back if they weren't as described.

 

[Brett B.]

I joined eBay back in 2002 and it was exactly like that. Buyer beware. I seem to remember that it worked just fine... at some point it became more of a marketplace for new items and that's when they really started adding buyer protections - for better or worse.

There's no excuse to intentionally misrepresent an item and that was NOT what I was referring to. If I gave a botched SE/30 to a random person on the street and told him to list it on eBay, he wouldn't know that it wasn't the real deal - without a bunch of research, it just appears to be a valuable old computer.

 

[Cory5412]

We don't need to go years back in someone's post history to find something to one-up them on.

Nowhere better this can go so I'm locking it.

Thanks!

Best,
Cory5412.