Radiosrfun said something like:
"Jack" wrote in message
news:mnHGh.3978$Tf.2138@trndny03...

"maxfoo" wrote in message
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On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 14:52:39 GMT, "Thomas G. Marshall"
. com wrote:

Report the seller to ebay's fraud department and have the idiot banned
from
ebay. If more people would report these scammers it might make it a
better
shopping experience.
http://pages.ebay.com/securitycenter/?ssPageName=f:f:US

Pretty extreme retribution toward someone whose product was 96%
satisfactory and who was working with the buyer to resolve the problem.
Perhaps you could share your Ebay id with the group so we could avoid
doing business with you.


Do we "really" know the seller was working to solve the problem? OR just
blowing off the buyer with a bunch of questions - he himself may have had
no
clue of? I'm not saying the seller wasn't trying to resolve the issue -
but
there is no way to prove it. It is as we've seen, a far stretch to imagine
"cardboard shipping container" to short out batteries. OR some being dead
as
I believe was also the case.

All such notions were mine from the start. The buyer isn't the one with the
questions. He is just interested in what I discovered, and seems to be
genuine in this, or so I think.


In buying bulk, you're probably always going to have some defective
product
show up - I've had it happen to me. Actually, maybe the seller could have
offered to reimburse some money for loss - but if "he" wasn't BSing the
buyer, then he had about as much knowledge and chance for a refund - as
the
buyer seems to have had. Us trying to prove the case for the buyer OR
seller - most likely won't make a damned bit of difference to the original
supplier if the seller indeed relied on one.

Your wording here is a little unclear to me, but I'll try to clear it up by
saying that the seller *did* offer me a full refund. I didn't press him on
this to see if it included shipping or not, but I think he would have.
*Plus*, he also without me asking to put in a small package of 16 AA's (some
unknown brand) for free. I really just get the sense that this is a guy
attempting relying on feedback and because his feedback has been almost
entirely positive he simply was unaware of any issues.


When you factor in all the product in a "bulk" deal - you figure out your
per piece cost and then see what you've lost. Is it worth dicking around
trying to prove anything - or just toss in the trash and forget about it?

Discussions are valuable when they instruct, so this seems like a worthwhile
conversation. There's much here for me to learn about the consumer battery
world, and I'll leave it at that.


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