I was watching The People’s Court on TV, and they had a man and a woman who had an eBay transaction that went bad. She bought a dishwasher from the guy on eBay. When it arrived via UPS, it was damaged. But she (the buyer) had paid for insurance. UPS came out and inspected the dishwasher, and admitted that they damaged. There was a claim filed, and a check was sent back to the seller (the guy). The check was made out to the guy’s PayPal account name. He tried to cash it at his bank, and the bank wouldn’t cash it. He says he tried to get UPS to send another check. Meanwhile, she had the broken dishwasher on her porch for months. She says she sent the seller guy emails, but never got responses. It was too late to leave a negative feedback on eBay at this point. Frustrated, she bought some cheap items from the hosehead, just so she could leave some negative feedbacks for the guy with messages like Where is my check? Apparently her eBay account was suspended because she used the hosehead seller’s first name in one of the feedbacks. It was reinstated after about a week and a half, but her negative feedbacks were deleted.
Anyway, now they are the show. She is suing for what she paid for the dishwasher. The hosehead seller TOM is countersuing for defamation of character (the negative feedbacks). The above stuff all comes out, but then it comes out that the check from UPS had actually been cashed months earlier. Hosehead eBay seller Tom says that his wife had resubmitted the check, and then the bank cashed it. But he claims only to have found out about it that morning. Huh? Let’s get this straight…he is going on The People’s Court TV show and he only finds out from his wife that morning that she had cashed the check months earlier. The check that was at the center of the whole dispute? I would think she would know he was going on The People’s Court and why! He said on his way out that he had a tape recording of his call to UPS that morning regarding the check, and said the tape proved he didn’t know about it. But the tape was never played. I think the hosehead seller was trying to keep all of the money, and the call to UPS that morning was an effort to try and cover his butt.
Sellers like him make good sellers on eBay look bad!

Posted by Rob in Whatever on April 27th, 2006 |