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Another Bad Ebay Encounter
I just purchased an item from A1MusicSupply http://stores.ebay.com/A1-Music-Supply on Ebay. He has sold THOUSANDS of items and a good portion of the feedback mention slow shipping. Those that flagged the comment as negative or neutral were flamed by him with a comment like "rude ebayer, seller's beware". I'm now over two weeks into my transaction and have not received my item. I'm now foreced to deal with PayPal, as this douche-bag seller won't respond to my emails.
I've contacted several of the buyers of past transactions and nobody had nice things to say about this seller.
Its disturbing to me that so many people have left a Positive feedback flag while at the same time saying how the shipments were unusually slow. I suppose the buyers were happy just to have received the item. Unfortunately, I purchased my item (paid within minutes of auction close as I ALWAYS do) before reading his feedback detail which was summarized as 99% positive on the auction screen.
I'm considering paying the $30, or whatever it costs, to file a claim with Square Trade in the hopes that it will somehow get this guy banned from ebay. Though I don't beleive that is the purpose of Square Trade.
I'd also like to get some sort of "Ebay class action" against this guy by contacting all the people he has wronged, though from what I've read here and elsewhere, it seems Ebay doesn't care.
I'm also concerned about leaving negative feedback for this guy, as his history is to flame the buyer who leaves anything but positive feedback. I wish there was some other way to alert people to the potential hazards of purchasing from this guy.