Dear Moderators / Owner
I am writing to you as I have a serious issue with one of your senior members from a number of posts which I find very offensive and are causing me a great deal of stress. I do a lot in hi-fi circles all over the UK and over various forums and what he has been writing online is slanderous, offensive and stressful to me. I have screenshot all the slanderous, derogatory comments as evidence and for someone who claims to own a small school they don't seem to mind freely and openly using foul language to express their feelings either.
This is the thread in question.
http://theartofsound.net/forum/showt...r-wanted/page8
Some have actually acknowledged the seller here and I appreciate that. There are people there also who are giving this member support but only seeing one side of the story, and I have actually met and know who quite a few of these people are in person. I am not a multi-million pound outfit like M&S like some have mentioned, who can afford to take a hit if a customer brings something back that they dont like or has developed a fault. And I'm not the owner of any pretentiously named business in Spain either, I've got a lowly job here in the UK which I pretty much only do just to support my family. As much as I don't want to see anyone unhappy, what left me was a superb and fully working CD player and if I took it back I'd be left pretty much with a £3000 CD player which will probably never be fixed. I cant be held responsible for something once someone starts using it, and reading through this thread its pretty much anyone's guess to what's actually happened here, but I can assure you I did not and would not sell anything as good working order to anyone.
Why would anyone honestly think that someone would send something faulty hoping that a buyer would just not notice (especially out of the UK). I've got almost 800 positive feedbacks as a private seller on ebay, this is my first dispute ever!
I'm just a single hobbyist who enjoys audio equipment. I cant afford to keep everything I buy and if I want something else I need to sell things which usually works out ok. And on that note I've had hundreds of CD players over the years and I know when something is substandard or faulty even in the slightest. I used that CD player with 3 different amplifiers here at home, a number of different speakers and 3 different high quality headphones/amps also for some 'very close' listening. Which is why this whole ordeal has and still is causing me a lot of frustration and stress. That was an amazing player and I was using it daily before it left, never with any issues.
Who buys a 3 grand CD player when they only have 1 CD anyway ( the other one he mentions, I left in the packaging!). You might have sold something yourself which was extremely valuable (relevant to your income) can you imagine this happening to you?
I am now being forced by eBay to take the item back in whatever state its in now and refund plus the postage to Spain. 'I didn't even want to send it to Spain' and there were others contacting me about it locally as well but this Spanish ('English') buyer seemed very keen. This case is not sorted yet and I may even seek further legal advice on the situation yet but I hope you understand the situation from my perspective now.
Thank you for your time.
Kind regards
Eddie
PS
And I don't appreciate being called a 'dickhead' Marco as you put it. I am certainly not someone who tries his luck selling dodgy goods on ebay. I do hope you have a better understanding of that now.