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My eBay seller has suddenly become "not a registered user". What's that all about?
There's nothing even remotely negative among his recent feedback comments and the guy is a powerseller based in Hong Kong selling computer games. He's not a pirate or anything, but after buying and paying yesterday, I've noticed in my eBay profile that he is now "not a registered user".
The automated email I have from him says that it is Chinese New Year at the moment, and nothing will get sent out until 14 Feb, which is fine with me, but is he still likely to honour all his existing deals and send out my game, or should I file a claim with Paypal now. With nothing sinister in his comments history, surely he deserves the benefit of the doubt at the moment, especially with Chinese New Year in this part of the world, but I can't understand why he's sudeenly been suspended. Any theories? Should I start worrying?
He has several thousand positive feedback comments and has honoured every other recent computer game deal, so I doubt he's a con artist. I'm just curious as to why his account seems to have been suspended. Maybe he's had a few complaints over the past week or so with the Chinese New Year thing and he is being penalised for that - other users being impatient. He doesn't seem to be a dodgy seller. There would be a lot more negatives showing up.
Just had a closer look at his feedback. Some people mentioned that his games are pirates, despite his listing saying otherwise. Even so, at least he's sending stuff out! I'll be happy with that, as long as it works! It's just a question of whether he will honour the deal now. That I'm not sure of.
39 negatives since Dec 2004 - 3581 positives, all for the same kind of stuff. One or two comments indicate they believe his stuff to be fake, but gave a positive anyway. A smattering of neutral comments indicates the same thing. Only nine comments were mutually withdrawn. There's nothing that sinister about someone with a 98.9% positive rating, surely?
Forgot to add - none of those 39 negatives are especially recent, and he was still getting positive feedback as of yesterday 11/2.
7 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavourite answer
I get from your wording that you checked that his positive feedback was for the same kind of merchandise. And you know that the number of withdrawn negatives is noted somewhere on the feedback page?
You can't tell what happened in Hong Kong. The seller may have died and the heirs pulled the plug, his story may be true, or Ebay put the account to rest. Reasons for the latter could e.g. be a violation against selling stuff with age restrictions to the wrong people; since laws are different in each country, sellers may be quite unaware of what they were doing. He may still honor the deal even without Ebay, if he has your data.
Unless Ebay's time limits for a complaint are running out, I'd wait till after the 14th.
- naturistLv 61 decade ago
Well if his feedback is so good and he says that there might be a delay in his posting your item, give him the benefit of the doubt and wait for 7-10 days. If your goods haven't arrived by then, pursue the matter through ebay. I've just bought an MP4 player from Hong Kong and it took 10 days to arrive after I had paid for it. I must admit I was very wary of buying from a seller in another country but this one turned out just fine.
- Sal*UKLv 71 decade ago
Probably simply not paid his fees - you have 90 days to start a PP dispute though. Worryingly though Powersellers have the ability to get negative feedback removed sometimes, so maybe keep a close eye on him - and start dispute maybe a week after the 14th. Thats fair to him and gives you plenty of time to do it.
- Nicky♥Lv 51 decade ago
Someone has obviously reported him (maybe he's selling copies). I would definately get in contact with eBay and explain your situation. They will also ask you to contact PayPal though if you want to instigate a dispute.
- LB67Lv 51 decade ago
no reason to worry perhaps he can't send if postal sevice has time off because of holiday, ridiculous that you would even consider reporting him if you won yesterday and he said it will be shipped after thursday give the guy a chance to do what he said he would do
- Anonymous1 decade ago
duno a think you have bin conned