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Old July 12th 18, 12:10 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]
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On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 18:00:07 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:


The same could be said about any online site. Users have reported
problems with Newegg, and Amazon, and Walmart (all of which operate
storefronts for other sellers so you may not be buying from the site you
visit, especially Amazon who doesn't sell anything themself). Every


Amazon certainly have sold things themselves in the past; not only right
at the beginning when they started as a bookseller, but more recently I
have still seen things "provided by Amazon something" on them (might
have been a year or two ago though). But you are right, they're _mostly_
at least just an alternative to ebay. (IME more limited selection and
not as good price, though the latter isn't always the case; they also
have reviews - how trustworthy is up to you to decide, but at least
they're there, and sometimes they answer a question you might have -
which mostly ebay don't, for items rather than sellers anyway.)
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I dealt with ebay one time and got screwed not just by the seller but
ebay themselves. It was ebay's attitude more than the screwing over
by the seller which convinced me to *never* again deal with them.

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To say such nonsense that *all* businesses can give one a problem is
hyper reaching for an example. Ebay give loads of people problems.
As far as I'm concerned, they are crooks. They support the thieves
over the honest customer.


My recent experience with ebay has been extremely positive: where
problems have arisen I've generally received refunds, in at least one
case extremely rapidly, and in several cases with the seller not wanting
the goods back. I guess we're all going to have had different
experiences. It _might_ be that of late I've tended to only buy from UK
suppliers and am maybe better protected by our legislation, though the
few cases where I _have_ bought direct from China things have been fine,
just slow (though not any slower than promised).
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