Beedster

And I only say this because I've been the victim so many times by the way

I rest my case

I rest my case

Absolutely. Everyone raved about the first wave of Fender Fleas, and a pretty high percentage then sold them. Those dopamine pathways in our heads are telling us we're going to feel so much better when was have the new bass, but they stop saying that the moment we get it, which is when the cognitive dissonance starts kicking in! Strikes me that if fender thought an MM PUP in a Jazz Bass body was a good idea they could have done it a long time ago, without waiting for Flea to suggest it.

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Does make me laugh, I wonder what Sterling Ball thinks. Flea moves from EBMM to Modulus and gets them to essentially make him a Stingray (well, Cutlass), and them moves to Fender and gets them to essentially make him a Stingray. IME Fender make great basses (all two of them) but often pretty crap active circuits, certainly compared to those that go into Stingrays and Moduli. Interesting to see how this lands.....

You and me both mate

That's it 100%. People get punished by eBay for being bad sellers, but never for being bad buyers. This guy is just that, doesn't stick to the stated terms, tries to push his angle on the deal, gets really arsey and aggressive with sellers if he doesn't get his own way, eventually forcing them to concede or back out of the deal. In the latter case he leaves really negative feedback. He appears to do this for a significant percentage of his deals; if you factor in the feedback I had removed last week, it means that in the last month alone 80% of the feedback he left for others was negative, and it is no doubt way more than shown in his profile as most sellers would have eventually managed to get the feedback removed). He's a bully but eBay support him and no doubt many more.

This is, amazingly, still rumbling on, so I checked the guy's feedback leaving habits. Interesting that a lot of people appear to cancel deals with him, and then he leaves aggressively negative feedback. Bit remiss of eBay not to recognise that there are guys out there who create problems in a significant percentage of deals, but that even given this, eBay still appear to believe and side with the problem people, and against all the evidence they have in heir message system?

Looks like fun

Folks I've frankly had it with eBay and PayPal following a lengthy battle to get them to sort out a situation between me and a really quite untrustworthy and unpleasant buyer. I won't go into details, but they're here if you'd like to see more Problem is that this has come at a point in time when I need to offload a lot of music gear to cover the overspend on a recent build at our house. So, a guy who was going to buy one of my guitars through eBay suggested that I re-list the gear on Reverb. I used Reverb once - as a buyer - and it wasn't a great experience to be honest. So, has anyone here used it as a seller, and has anything to say to either encourage or discourage me from selling gear there. I'm especially thinking in terms of getting paid to be honest; it all looks too good to be true, and my worry is that I will face just the same set of problems I've faced with eBay/PayPal, but with a platform that, as far as I can tell, links directly to my bank, which thank God, PayPal didn't! Thoughts, experience, comments most welcome Cheers Chris

I refunded him as soon as I cancelled the deal, but he is, I guess, one of those obsessives who rather than realising that he wasn't going to get a quick £600 profit, decided that he was going to try to bully me into the deal again. He told me "eBay have told me that my next step is to contact the Police and report you for theft". Um, theft of what, I have my bass, you have your money? I think in his head I owed him the £600 quid uplift he thought he as going to make on the bass (funnily enough the guy who eventually bought it from me saw the other listing, and then when he saw mine, initially thought I was a scammer. He in fact very nearly bought it from the idiot, but contacted me just to be sure). I'm not sure I understand any of this any more so I'm guessing no-one else has got a clue!

Sorry, did I mention that this was now resolved? I wish. I finally sold my Ovation 12-string yesterday, the buyer paid immediately by PayPal, and PayPal in turn sent me an email saying that the money would not be in my account until 27th of June as the transaction is considered 'High Risk' by them. So, I called (not easy to get through) and apparently this is on account of the previous eBay buyer having raised a claim with PayPal as well as with eBay. I don't get the logic of his being able to do both, as eBay and PayPal are surely in effect the same organisation when you buy and pay on eBay, and eBay found in my favour anyway. But apparently that complaint, about which I knew nothing, is still live. Nice one eBay/PayPal