Nomination for Dumb Buyer Hall of Fame

[loblolly986]

Imagine sporting a 97.4% feedback rating simply because you sold something to this intellectual.

[TelePlay]

Calling that buyer dumb is being nice.

The listing does say "CD" and the description says it's 5 catalogs.

Can't you contest the negative feedback with eBay? Given the circumstances, I do believe eBay will remove that feedback.

[loblolly986]

To clarify, I'm not the seller. I just happened to see this featured in the feedback section at the bottom of one of the seller's current listings, and thought it was entertaining enough to post. It's my understanding as well that sellers can dispute negative feedback with eBay, but this seller may not know that or was unsuccessful.

The exact listing the buyer purchased is no longer accessible, but as you picture (and also linked below), the seller's most recent iteration of the listing is still in the completed listings. From looking at past feedback, "all on CD" has been right there in the title of these listings for a long time.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/286303379568

[TelePlay]

I think calling the buyer illiterate would the case. Since you are not the seller, here's the listing, description and feedback for posterity. The description couldn't contain more detail to indicate the listing is for 5 books on 1 CD.


Item description from the seller

Early Rare Western Electric Telephone Catalogs on CD 1908 to 1923

**The most important and best info from Catalogs #1,2,3,5, & The 1912 Catalog Bulletins**
***A Great Gift For the Telephone Collector or Western Electric Collector***

GREAT REFERENCE MATERIAL!! The best info from early Western Electric Catalogs on CD. Includes over 250 pages of pics & info from catalogs #1(1908), 2, 3, 5, and 1912 catalog bulletins. Loaded with pics and info on Wall Phones, 2-boxer Wall Phones, Cathedral Top Picture Frame Front WALLPHONES, CANDLESTICK phones - which shows most all model numbers and their configurations; DIAL Candlestick phones with models #'s, Dials and dial parts views, WIRING pics, special phones, RAILWAY phones, MINE phones, SCISSOR phones, COIN collectors, PAYPHONES, phone BOOTHS, TOOLS, TRANSMITTERS, and what phones they are used on, RECEIVERS, CORDS, SWITCHBOARDS, test sets, ringers, testing apparatus, magnetos, terminals, calculagraphs, subsets, ringer boxes, extension bell boxes, switch hooks, pics showing candlestick cross sections & parts views,etc.etc. You name it - it's in here.

Extremely High quality & High resolution scans.

Why pay $500 - 700 for the originals when you can view & print out these pages over & over again without fear of damaging the originals.

Winner to pay with Paypal.  Good luck & thanks.

[Kellogg Kitt]

Seller should have gotten eBay to remove the feedback instead of posting a reply.  Clearly, the title and description say this is for a CD, not the original books.

I have read quite a few postings on Reddit from experienced eBay sellers, and they say that eBay will indeed remove negative feedback if it is unjustified. 

That 97.4% does not look good at all, and the angry reply does not look good, either.  The worst thing was disparaging eBay in the reply.  That probably will not help seller's case when trying to get the negative feedback removed.