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Market => Rumor mill => Topic started by: TheUsualSuspect on March 03, 2012, 11:06 pm

Title: DocBob, are you just kind of an asshole?
Post by: TheUsualSuspect on March 03, 2012, 11:06 pm
So a few weeks ago, user DocBob makes an order from me. This was several weeks before my recent trouble (which is all resolved now) and before I devised my current scheme of twin listings with one discounted for early finalization. The order was not huge, but that is not the point.

DocBob waited a full 7 or 8 days after he received the order to finalize. He did not contact me to say there was an issue with the order or anything and he left good feedback but IMHO a full week waiting to finalize is unacceptable. Did he wait until he had consumed them all, not just verified receipt and tested. So at that point he was already half way to my problem buyer / blacklist for poor etiquette.

Now, two weeks ago when I started my FE discounts, he makes another order, same product I think but chooses the FE listing (everybody does, I have been here a while and they are cheaper. Look at my feedback and see that people who have made the leap are receiving their orders and why wouldn't you?) He waits to finalize, so either he was taking his sweet time again or he did not read the listing description, which I have to admit makes my blood boil. Who places an order for anything anywhere without at least reading the basic description of the item. I can not remember if I contacted him before hand, but after 4 or so days of no finalization on an item that clearly stated finalization was required BEFORE the item would ship, I cancelled the order and sent him a message explaining why.

He left me a 2 out of 5 with the comment "understand you have to finalize early with this guy" which anybody can look at my listings and tell is not true. I do not require customers to finalize early. There is always an identical item available for slightly higher that is a traditional escrow listing and does not require early finalization for shipping. Customers are free to choose and are still served in the same order, regardless of which method they choose.

So what is it DocBob? Are you just kind of an asshole? Are you just lazy, don't read listings, and finalize when you get around to it? Then you have an order cancelled because you didn't read, have it explained to you, and leave a comment that is not true. Do you just have a feeling of entitlement or something? Care to comment?

Fellow vendors, I would not sell to DocBob unless you like having your funds tied up in escrow for a week after he receives his order from you. DC#s are not infallible, but DC#s that show a delivery date and correspond with other orders mailed the same day are pretty reliable, so I know when the order was delivered.

Normally I would not make a new thread of this nature, but when I saw the feedback and comment, I just couldn't resist.

TUS
Title: Re: DocBob, are you just kind of an asshole?
Post by: twon on March 03, 2012, 11:20 pm
I saw that in your feedback and wondered what the guy was thinking.  I know he was smoking the blue dragon.