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mumbai

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  1. Another request here to be added for one (1) Lock-On 2600. Thanks.
  2. There's no call for this sort of remark. It is not unreasonable to ask for (future) consideration of tracked shipment, especially given the way the request was put by @alortegac.
  3. I believe this may have been made in reference to the "JuiceBox" that was produced a couple years back, which was iffy at best, as I can think of no other extant clones.
  4. A Flash Gordon derivative was released on the Atari 2600. There's a Knight Rider game for the NES. DuckDuckGo suggests there was an A-Team game for the MSX. Or did you mean for the ColecoVision? The one word answer is probably: licensing.
  5. I see what you did there, though perhaps unintentionally.
  6. Crazy. Always nice to see that "eBay’s former director of safety and security" was involved in this misconduct. I wonder what takes place in eBay's "global intelligence center"? This remark by the US Attorney involved is pretty telling: "I don't think I would characterize the conduct as rogue, because as seen in the complaint, the directive to do something about this goes pretty high up the chain within eBay." Wow.
  7. Thank you again. The updated .app works now as intended.
  8. Great! Thanks! The issue still remains with the bundled SDL framework (see posts #338 - #340 in this thread) not loading in macOS (for me, macOS 10.14.6), so users on that platform still have to install the framework independently to use CoolCV. Looks like the version string in Info.plist also needs to be bumped to 0.6.7, unless it's 0.6.6 in the "almost all" zip archive for macOS? Crashlog attached. crash.txt
  9. Here, it isn't acceptable because it wasn't even the arrangement made ahead of time. The two repeated reminders after the first stunt went unanswered. As did the two requests for explanation before the last two returns were even shipped back. eBay is paying out of pocket on this and opening themselves to further courtesy refunds down the road. I guess someone did a cost-benefit analysis (refund v. future final-value fees) to justify letting sellers like this continue unchecked.
  10. One last follow-up, then I'll shut up (whew! right?). Predictably, "coolo23" did the exact same thing with the remaining two returns, without explanation. Partial refunds of 46% and 43%, but that percentage improvement masks the fact that these transactions were for significantly larger amounts than the first time. ? ETA: eBay again stepped in with courtesy refunds. This will do nothing to curb the seller's behavior in the future, but I guess this all is over. My feedback was again erased by eBay's system, but whatever.
  11. They did, unlike these. I believe you are correct. The sister auction with Spinnaker games includes a Jukebox with a copied label with non-rounded corners like these F-P games (never mind the shells).
  12. Cross-posting from Issue Tracker here (not sure which is better location for visibility):
  13. This. That's what eBay does in resolved return/refund cases.
  14. This moves further away from the original topic under discussion, but Amazon is becoming a no-go for me when it comes to used books (basically all I buy from third-parties there). For all the ire directed toward eBay, Amazon's Marketplace is filled to the brim with questionable booksellers, amongst others. My wife frequently fails to recognize when she's buying from a third-party instead of Amazon proper, and more often than not, her good nature leads to being taken advantage of. Oh, well. I agree that eBay is harder on sellers (and buyers) who don't see the loopholes in their system. I'm not suggesting that bad rap isn't necessarily deserved, but everyone should take their lumps the same if for the same reason. Both sides take advantage of these undeserved outs. eBay grants courtesy refunds, forfeits final value fees, and devotes call-center time in cases where I think they really shouldn't. I fail to understand why eBay doesn't save itself the headache (if nothing else) by blocking the most obvious dodges and calling it a day. Again: oh, well.
  15. As I seem to be (re)discovering now, feedback below 100% for sellers with over a few hundred seller feedback ratings is less about poor service and more about not knowing how to game the system to have non-positive feedback removed or blocked from being left in the first place. Yes, there are crackpot bidders who neg without cause, but there's unscrupulousness on the other side of the fence, too.
  16. eBay seems to have switched to a call-back system now, so there's no "hold". The delay to return call has been minimal of late. I wish I didn't know that, but I do.
  17. One last thing... The kicker: I left negative feedback last night for one of the purchases. It disappeared from both our feedback profiles inside of an hour. eBay explained that closure of the return claim triggered removal, even though: (1) eBay stepped in to complete the refund and (2) eBay support had earlier told me to leave negative feedback if appropriate -- in their words, the only downside the seller could face here. Absurd. I'm done chasing my tail over it all.
  18. In these cases, I don't really think I have any choice but to leave negative feedback. The seller's already profited off eBay's goodwill toward me with the courtesy refund, likely to be the first of several such rewards for ill behavior. I'm a reformed man thanks to you.
  19. Oh, I meant the "none of my [imagined] previous customers have ever complained about just this sort of packaging job" script. But, yes, you're 100% correct that the relative weight and cost difference is something easily grasped. I know that's the risk. Every time something like this comes up (which is increasingly frequent, I apparently hang with the wrong selling crowd) I have an internal debate over whether to neg. The weak excuse I use to justify not is that people will likely just ignore warnings posted in feedback or those warnings will get lost amongst other, positive feedback for sellers who churn out 100s or more transactions a month.
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