Originally Posted by d2create

Regardless of if the "scratches aren't that bad", they are prominent enough to should have been displayed in the auction. The mere fact that they were not, and only described (somewhat falsely) on the listing just proves that the seller was trying to hide it and hope the buyer wasn't anal enough to care. Or care enough to pursue a refund and bother sending it back.

And as far as shipping goes, the cost and quite honestly the red tape/hassle of shipping out of the country is exactly why I will not ship ebay items outside the usa anymore. And when asked I'm honest and tell people that I'm too lazy to deal with it, sorry.

Originally Posted by NEILLRR

To further add to the discussion - would I be considered a nutjob if you were the seller and I replied and mentioned the irregularities with the seatpost and the actual condition? What would you do? With eBay sellers not allowed to leave negative feedback, is the current system worse for sellers? It used to be as a seller you either gave positive feedback or none at all, just in case the sellers had a beef with you...

I'm a bit disturbed by some people's mention of price and "it's not too bad". While I am not like this all the time, I have over 600 positive feedback on eBay, so it's not like I go nuts with every transaction. I've gone so far as to not say anything for very low dollar transactions when I've not received them - this was when sellers were allowed to leave negative feedback just to be jerks.

If you have to ask