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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: rockymtnhwy on May 05, 2013, 05:39 am
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So I haven't been around SR very long, but I have been around long enough to have a bad experience with a vendor. As a newbie, I expected vendors to ask me to finalize early since I didn't have a purchasing history. I bought some pills, some blow, some more pills and FE'd with no problem with several vendors. (Thanks to vendors: Vicodin, Dragoncove and Peels4U!)
I went to buy some pills from a different vendor and he asked me to FE. Now this vendor had a 98-99 rating at the time, and he seemed to have a long history of being honest, so I didn't flinch when he asked, since I assumed my transaction would go as smoothly as his previous sales. His vendor page proudly declared that he would send me the tracking number. He told me 'the mailing label was printed' and my product was going to the post office as soon as I FE'd. After four days of nothing in the mail I sent a message asking for the tracking number. Two days later I get a cryptic message about "needing to explain the whole situation" to me. I then noticed his vendor page was updated that same day with a tepid apology about overselling on his product, and how he had refunded all the people who had bought product he didn't have in stock. All the people 'cept me.
So SR goes up and down and up and down for a week, but I manage to sneak in a make some successful orders with other vendors. I send the "over-sold vendor" messages telling him to refund my BTC, and give him several virgin wallets he can deposit my $200 in to. He can always send it directly to my wallet on SR as well.
Mind you, SR was down for about 4-5 days, but this fella has been avoiding me for 10 days. Whenever he does contact me it's always platitudes about how he wouldn't screw me over, yada yada yada, but he always ignores the part about refunding my BTC. I finally get fed up and go change my initial 5 rating to a 1, since that seems to be my only recourse after finalizing early. Then another customer of his leaves a 1 rating the next day, telling the same story about FE'ing with this guy.
So after another 5 days of nothing, I track the vendor down on this forum. He explains to me that the two bad feedbacks have ruined him, since he's now in the low 90's and not the high 90's. He won't be able to sell anything now, and that has screwed him up financially. He then asked me to change my feedback so that he can make some sales. He didn't come right out and say it, but I read between the lines and see that he needs to make some quick sales to pay me back.
I have this gut instinct that I'm either going to get screwed again, or even if the vendor does pays me back, it would be with dirty BTC that he basically stole from some other SR customer.
So I pose this question: what do I do?
Do I stand my ground and insist the vendor pay me back first, and then change my feedback to favorable? Do I cut my losses after 2 weeks and just let my feedback stand and give up hope on my $200 being returned? Or do I cut the guy a break and change the feedback, hoping that I get paid back sooner while just kicking the proverbial can down the road?
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Say you won't change it back to "5" until he refunds you. Then don't actually change it. ;)