Bad Seller Warning

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I think $3.95 shipping and insurance is theft when it can be mailed for 37 cents. The seller FRANKCOINS refused to reduce the shipping to a fair amount. Just wanted to warn everyone.

You’re insulting a powerful figure in the TX numismatic community. Just look at all those seals and symbols he’s purchased to show on his "About Me" page. Prepare for incoming spam at your inbox. I’d like to know who does his hair. Lumpy — Silver Donuts For Your Ears. Now in two flavors! http://www.digitalcartography.com

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I think $3.95 shipping and insurance is theft when it can be mailed for 37 cents. The seller FRANKCOINS refused to reduce the shipping to a fair amount. Just wanted to warn everyone.

Yawn.

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I purchased this ebay item for $9.38 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3933676490 I think $3.95 shipping and insurance is theft when it can be mailed for 37 cents. The seller FRANKCOINS refused to reduce the shipping to a fair amount. Just wanted to warn everyone.

You have no kick coming. The shipping was listed clearly in the ad. If you didn’t like it you didn’t have to bid. — GWClay

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Your subject should be Bad Buyer Warning. You are dead wrong.

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KanTokens posted: I purchased this ebay item for $9.38 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3933676490 I think $3.95 shipping and insurance is theft when it can be mailed for 37 cents. The seller FRANKCOINS refused to reduce the shipping to a fair amount. Just wanted to warn everyone.

I think ‘kantoken’ has a hair across his ass; the payment & shipping terms are very clear; but yet he bids, and then complains when the seller refuses his honor his proposal to violate the auction contract by not paying what he contractually agreed to with his bid. Yet another bidder to block, DanlK, FYI Services www.FYIS.org

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I’ve seen worse, look up flash data storage, those things weigh a half ounce, some sellers charge $15 S&H, rip! Lloyd

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I purchased this ebay item for $9.38

Sounds like a good deal if it really is worth $35. I think $3.95 shipping and insurance is theft when it can be mailed for 37 cents.

Sure, it can be shipped in a ENVELOPE with one stamp on it for .37. But then when you don’t get it, would you prefer to be out the $10? No. $3.95 is priority shipping, with delivery confirmation. The seller FRANKCOINS refused to reduce the shipping to a fair amount. Just wanted to warn everyone.

$3.95 is a fair amount. And congratulations, I think you’ll find you’ve just been added to many people’s blocked bidder list. — To reply, remove TheObvious from my e-mail address.

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The seller FRANKCOINS refused to reduce the shipping to a fair amount. Just wanted to warn everyone.

You’re blocked! Thanks for the warning! I don’t want anyone bidding on my auctions who tries to reinvent my terms after the auction is over! — Scott Ehardt http://www.scehardt.com

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You are a moron. The terms are clearly spelled out in the auction.

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"mj" Thanks for the warning. You are on my block list. How’d you do that, MJ? I searched members for KanTokens for the same purpose, but came up empty. David Hakala

His actual user name is kantoken. Block away… (I did!) mjoann

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I think $3.95 shipping and insurance is theft when it can be mailed for 37 cents. The seller FRANKCOINS refused to reduce the shipping to a fair amount. Just wanted to warn everyone. You’re insulting a powerful figure in the TX numismatic community. Just look at all those seals and symbols he’s purchased to show on his "About Me" page. Prepare for incoming spam at your inbox. I’d like to know who does his hair. Lumpy

Change your glasses, Lumpy. That’s not hair, it’s a sleeping muskrat. *I* want to know how he makes his fingertip glow red like E.T. did in the movie. — Ty Who is mostly just a slightly skewed Donna Reed

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I purchased this ebay item for $9.38 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3933676490 I think $3.95 shipping and insurance is theft when it can be mailed for 37 cents. The seller FRANKCOINS refused to reduce the shipping to a fair amount. Just wanted to warn everyone. You have no kick coming. The shipping was listed clearly in the ad. If you didn’t like it you didn’t have to bid. — GWClay

Further, your posting is auction interference which is an actionable offense. For which you can and should get staked to the nearest anthill. — Many thanks, Don Lancaster Synergetics 3860 West First Street Box 809 Thatcher, AZ 85552 Please visit my GURU’s LAIR web site at http://www.tinaja.com

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Um guys, we’ve been trolled. Seriously. Yeah, the Trollmeter over here was reading about 8.3

the reference auction was won by kantoken, it’s unlikely to be a devious troll.

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How’d you do that, MJ? I searched members for KanTokens for the same purpose, but came up empty. David Hakala His actual user name is kantoken. Block away… (I did!) mjoann

Done! Thank you!

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Thanks for the bad bidder warning. It’s always a public service when you can let seller’s know about bidders who buy stuff and then squawk about the terms they agreed to. You have been added to my blocked bidder list. TS Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle-Motion.

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I purchased this ebay item for $9.38 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3933676490 I think $3.95 shipping and insurance is theft when it can be mailed for 37 cents. The seller FRANKCOINS refused to reduce the shipping to a fair amount. Just wanted to warn everyone. He stated his shipping in the auction description. When you bid, you agreed to pay that amount. Get over it! Rather than not bidding on his items, i’ll add YOU to my banned bidders. Moron. Om

um… read the split-off thread appearing right above this one in your reader

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Um guys, we’ve been trolled. Seriously. Yeah, the Trollmeter over here was reading about 8.3

So what’s the troll’s current eBay ID?

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Um guys, we’ve been trolled. Seriously. Frank, is the known asswipe who was caught spamimng his customers (and this newsgroup) and had his ebay id "suspended" and then reinstated after that suspension.

Gosh, really? — Ty Who is mostly just a slightly skewed Donna Reed

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Further, your posting is auction interference which is an actionable offense.

Yeah, ’cause it would be a cryin’ shame for people to actually be able to raise what they felt was a bad seller. Oh wait, I forgot, there are no bad sellers, just bad buyers. You say auction interference, we say consumer activism. — Craig Wagner, craig.wagner(at)comcast.net Portland, OR "Don’t ban high-performance vehicles, ban low-performance drivers!"

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – muttered something like: um… read the split-off thread appearing right above this one in your reader Um… in my newsreader this thread is the first (top) one. Newsreaders differ and messages propagate to news servers at varying times; any two people reading a group are likely to see the messages in different order. -Bertha

that actually explains a lot more than you think….

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reference auction was won by kantoken, it’s unlikely to be a devious troll.

I dunno. Why would a guy complain about $3.95 shipping on two coins while simultaneously auctioning a can of old motor oil starting at $9.99 with "actual" postage estimated at "between $10 and $20?" http://digbig.com/4byfk OTOH, as was noted elsewhere, Power Sellers tend to become psychotic. David Hakala

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um… read the split-off thread appearing right above this one in your reader

When you get a chance, ask someone to explain how usenet works. — Ty Who is mostly just a slightly skewed Donna Reed

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It doesn’t appear that the shipping fee was a secret when you bid… if you had a problem with it, you should have bid accordingly and/or tried to work something out AHEAD of time. You have absolutely no business winning an auction and then inventing your own terms. The seller is reasonable, and it sounds like you are being a nightmare bidder! mjoann

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"mj" Thanks for the warning. You are on my block list.

How’d you do that, MJ? I searched members for KanTokens for the same purpose, but came up empty. David Hakala

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I think $3.95 shipping and insurance is theft when it can be mailed for 37 cents. The seller … refused to reduce the shipping to a fair amount. Just wanted to warn everyone.

The shipping cost is clearly stated as a flat rate, along with an offer of $1 for each additional item. Assuming a handling fee and some good packaging, and considering the seller’s outstanding feedback, I’d say you’re overstating your case. He looks like a good seller to me, with a modest S&H charge. Perhaps he could include the word "handling" in his listing to be entirely square, but I don’t see a problem, certainly not "theft."

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