[geeks] ebay jerk sellers and dealing with nonpaying bidder acusations

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Wed Jul 3 14:11:27 CDT 2002


On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 02:06:25PM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:

> Certified mail, return-receipt requested is your friend, especially when
> dealing with jerks who might try to shaft you later.  It's court-worthy
> proof of having received an item in the mail.  In fact, the court uses it
> to send out summons and subpoenas.

Yes, but they cost money, which shouldn't be required just for making
a payment.  More and more I'm liking the idea of only using ebay
payments.  They already backed me up once against a jerk who claimed I
underpaid (he hadn't takening his claims to ebay's warning system yet
though). 

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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