You all know i like ebay, but i am just about fed up with it. I suppose i will get over it, but i am currently very frustrated with it. I just bought some fiesta. Some was fine and some was not. I really do not have a good source for fiesta other than ebay. There used to be a store on the north side of houston that delt in fiesta seconds but they closed and i cannot find another one. I could buy from the factory or from online stores but you end up paying so much more and the selection is more limited. Ditto, and more if i were to buy from department stores.
But here i am… i bought a bouillon cup that has a messed up edge. It is not so messed up i can’t use it, but it is messed up. I recently bought a plate that was supposed to be lightly scratched and is deeply scratched. Depth of scratches is a matter of opinion, after all. Then today i received a plate that is a second and is supposed to have minor bumps and scratches (and i am fine with minor flaws. I don’t want to pay what you have to pay for firsts; Seconds are expensive enough) but it has a rough place no glaze that is 1/4×1/8 inch on the top surface of the plate! That is not something i consider minor. Of course i wrote the seller, but the listing says no refunds and all sales final and all that sort of thing. Probably the only option i have is to leave bad feedback, which means i will also receive bad feedback and that is so unfair.
I wanted to write to ebay and suggest that they create a place for me to mark bad sellers. As it is the only way i can mark a bad seller is to mark them as favorite and make a note that they are bad. I dislike doing this in part because i think ebay gives points to sellers marked as favorites. I have tried to write ebay before. I always forget what a pain it is. I finally gave up. They have very specific categories and none of them are for suggestions or for things not covered by their categories, and every category i tried wanted me to send specific information that made it clear i was not in the right place. I finally gave up…. after i spent almost an hour trying.
I am about ready to go break my lousy flawed plate into a satisfying number of pieces (if only breaking it would give me any satisfaction) and blow off the 4.99 plus shipping (which was at least a great price) and blow off ebay. If they would just let me leave honest feedback without getting retaliatory negative feedback in return it would not be quite so frustrating.
