eBay goods have arrived eight weeks after paying

I’m a bit of an Ebay newbie. In fact I’ve only performed 2 Ebay transaction. The first went flawlessly. I paid by direct transfer to his bank account, got the goods within days, exactly as described, and we both wrote positive feedback about each other.

Then I lost my mobile phone charger, and found I could buy a replacement for Euro 4.48 including versand, sofortkaufen from some commercial trader called highclasstrader. I paid using paypal.

2 weeks later no goods, contacted seller, told payment hadn’t arrived, please provide account number, blz etc. Replied with paypal transaction number. Again asked for account, blz etc. This time sent screen shot of paypal transaction.

No response to next 4 Emails. Then took kauferschutz from paypal which involved sending him an Email through paypal to which he didn’t respond. Got money back from paypal, put up negative feedback on him. He puts negative feedback on me giving me 50% positives.

Next get an email saying the product has been shipped. This was the first contact that actually gave a phone number. It arrived yesterday, works and I want to keep it.

I could just relax happy that I’ve got it for free, or could tell him I do want to pay.

If I withdraw my negative feedback, his negative feedback on me is automatically withdrawn, and I still have about 2 weeks left to do this. But I want to leave negative feedback because for 6 weeks he ignored all Emails. He’s still got 99.1% positive with 51827 points

I suggest not spending more than about 20 seconds longer considering this. Just not worth it. Probably just reverse the feedback - fuck it - its a bad old world out there.

I agree with JE, although the feedback question is up to you. Unless you plan to sell things on eBay, your feedback reputation isn't important. Part of what you paid for was having this moderately priced item delivered in a timely fashion. Since it arrived late, I'd say you're even. And now the 20 seconds are up.

Leave the feedback. The seller was unreliable and others should be warned.

If you only have 2 transactions then set up a new id and start buying on the new one.

And what about paying him for the goods. Keep the money and fuck him seems to be the concensus?

My negative feedback is a drop in the ocean of wierdly positive feedback. They're all: super, total nett, fantastisch in English, German and French, really a bit over the top for people who got a charger, or shocking pink phone cover.

Bugger this is taking more than 20 seconds.

Exactly, getting negative feedback now is irrelevant because you can (and should) just open a new account. When you have 150 feedbacks, 100% positive, then you want to resolve such issues.

You've only got two transactions to your name and you were the buyer on both occasions. The other guy is running a business with thousands of transactions.

If I were you in that situation I'd leave your negative feedback as it is and then ditch that account. You wouldn't be giving up very much and the other guy gets the feedback he deserves - of course it wouldn't make a significant impact on his %rating given the number of transactions that are involved BUT it would give any potential buyer looking at this guys track record some indication of the potential problems in dealing with him.

EDIT: Rebecca beat me to it.

Feedback, if you are a buyer is important, as a lot of people won't sell to you if you have a low feedback. Just remove your negative feedback, as it's not really going to effect his overall reputation, but it's obviously harming yours considerably.

Be happy that you got it for free, then forget about it.

Nonsense. Feedback is more important for SELLERS because people won't buy off people with a low feedback rating. Sellers, meanwhile, have little say over who buys their item. They can block bids from buyers with a negative feedback score, but this neither applies to the OP nor is common.

As already discussed ad nauseum, this negative feedback does the OP no harm whatsoever because with only two feedback ratings the account can easily be abandoned in favour of a new one.

Send him a fiver in the mail to clear your conscience and forget about it. Or donate a fiver to a worthy cause and forget about it.

Agreed, send him the dosh, after all you did get the goods didn't you?

Leave the neg feedback based upon poor delivery performance.

Hi,

I'd leave neutral feedback.

But you must pay for the goods...otherwise its a criminal offence.

R

Footnote on this. It may just be a coincidence, but after a few succesfull recharges my phone is now dead. No more, an ex phone, a phone departed from life, need I say more, it is a not phone.

So I strongly suspect I was shipped a crap charger that killed my darling phone. Of course it could just have been its time to die, I have no expereince in this because normally I lose my phones long before they die.