Barnacle boy

So Steve, did you ever receive your cable? To be honest, I think this bitrom guy is a little dodgy. Not a *total* scammer, as then he would soon have no more business, but I strongly suspect that his strategy some of the the time is to take the payment but not actually send the item until the buyer contacts him to ask what's going on. If they don't contact him or just forget about it, he's ahead. If they do, he can apologise and say he'll send another, no questions asked, and they think they're getting good customer service. Remember, this is just my suspicion, so take it at face value, but in my case I ordered a cable from him and I waited for ages and it never came. When I followed up about it, I said I'd wait a bit longer, and then after another week or so contacted him again, at which point he said it must have got lost in the post and he'd send another. Sure enough, it arrived just a couple of weeks later, and there was something weird about the date on the parcel too... I can't remember exactly, but it was something like it had been sent a week before he said he'd send it again, like it was send straight after I first flagged up I hadn't received it. Now have a look at his feedback: http://feedback.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.d...0&items=200 There are a few people leaving negs because they didn't get their item. (Perhaps some of them went straight to leaving a neg rather than hassling the seller for their missing item?). More interestingly, there are a surprising number of people leaving positive feedback who mention that they didn;t receive their item the first time around, but that the seller resent it. There are also a number of people saying he has good communication and good customer service, and I can't help wondering if some of these people are buyers who are just thankful to have received a 'replacement' after the first one 'went missing.' Notice too that most people mention the shipping took a long time. It could just be slow shipping, or it could be that he doesn't even send until they start asking where it is, at which point he could say 'It's on its way, just wait another two weeks' and send it the next day. Again, I'm just speculating, and bear in mind I could well be wrong. But based on the feedback, you have to wonder whether he has a habit of not dispatching the item the first time around, or if the Polish international mail service is really bad.