Oh a long, long, long rant this will be.
Sometime end of June the hubby and I bid on an item on eBay-Malaysia
-(we have a joint account – c’mon! Stop vomiting!) and what we thought would be a simple transaction stretched out to till NOW, the middle of August!
Why? Because the seller is a first rate moron.
Now mind you folks I am an old eBay hat, having had my account in-Australia-since last millennium and same for the hubby. It was a little while back that we decided to join both accounts and our total of 69 positive feedbacks and zero negatives gives us a rating of 100%.
So we bid on said item, and we won the bid. Protocol dictates that we contact the seller within 3 days to complete the transaction. We did so. Moron Seller replied 3 days later telling us to Paypal. We tell Moron Seller that we don’t subscribe to Paypal (because they are shady thieving bastards with a shoddy track record) and if we could do a bank transfer instead.
Moron Seller then kept us waiting for a week before she replied our email stating that she doesn’t want to give us her account number but could we buy a bank draft in her name instead?
We agreed and did so but we told her that it would be easier for her to just allow us to transfer the money into her account. Regardless, we bought the bank draft at RM5.00 and we sent it to her in-Singapore
-(she listed the item in eBay-Malaysia-in Ringgit but her account and residence is in-Singapore) via registered mail. We get fuck-all from her for another 9 days regarding the payment so we sent a chaser email asking her if she had died or vanished off the planet.
3 days after the chaser, she sent us a wishy washy reply about how the draft must have gotten lost in the mail and for us to send her another bank draft. Our patience wearing thin, we canceled the 1st draft at RM15.00, bought a 2nd draft at another and this time we couriered it down to her. But before we did so, we emailed her again asking her for her phone number so that the courier company can contact her in any case. She replied 3 days later, refusing to do so stating that she “will be in to collect the draft”.
Obviously, she was not.
We emailed her yet again, telling her that we were sick and tired of her bullshit and lack of communication and that she needed to get her head out of her rear and go collect the draft and send us the item that we paid for, and we gave her a deadline of 5 days to do so before we go to the authorities to charge her with breach of contract – and regardless of how things turn out, she WILL DEFINITELY be getting negative feedback from us.
1 day shy of our deadline, Moron Seller FINALLY emails back saying that she received the payment and that she will be sending our item. Mind you, we paid her RM6.00 for postage and do you know how much care she took to ensure that we received the item? Snail mail. With 2 stamps. Which we only received 6 days AFTER that email of hers. And the item was faulty.
So as per eBay protocol and true to our promise (as a seller you give feedback to the buyer upon receipt of payment, and as a buyer you give feedback upon receipt of item) we left her negative feedback.
Moron Seller then freaks out at the negative feedback and lodges a complaint with eBay on the grounds that hubby and I “cheated her with a defunct bank draft that she cannot cash in and that she wants us to return the item and therefore making the contract null and void and our negative feedback also null and void.” Then she accuses us for “not knowing that this is an international transaction” and we should have “bought the bank draft in US$”.
Hey I got news for you dumbass. You listed the item in eBay-Malaysia-in Malaysian Ringgit. When we asked you for the total sum of the item plus shipping, you told us the amount in Malaysian Ringgit. You asked us to buy a bank draft in your name in Malaysian Ringgit. And for crying out loud, if your bank refuses to accept the draft in Ringgit, go across the border – its free and its only 45 minutes (if you’re on the furthest end of your puny country) to get across the causeway and you can go to the first bank you see and cash it in there.
It’s really funny that the dumb bitch has no idea who she’s playing fire with. I didn’t do trade and tax law for a year and a half with my housemate for nothing you know. We cheated her? For a faulty item. We didn’t want to pay her? 2 bank drafts in her name – one which we posted by registered mail, the other with a door to door courier. We were stupid not to know it was an international transaction? How about listing items in your own country’s eBay and in your own currency?
We have proof of the full range of emails that we went through – inclusive of crossed referenced calculations of the time she took to reply every single one, the cost of our total incurred expenses due to her stupidity and pictures of the faulty item. We have proof that real money was used in the buying of both bank drafts and real money was used in the sending of both drafts to her, and the real money that we’re loosing to cancel both drafts and send back her faulty item. And of course with a solid case we’ve built you think we won’t threaten her with a very real lawsuit to claim back what we lost and more seeing that we had to suffer her lack of IQ and all the time we wasted and heartache endured?
You wanna play, bitch? Bring it on.
