| As a newbee to eBay I sold a LOT of things. I | | | | when I posted the auction I described the |
| looked around our farm and I found a TON of | | | | dimensions as "100' by 6'" ...I had misplaced a |
| stuff that I was interested in getting rid of. Old | | | | semi-colon with a colon. The long and short of it |
| metals, seeds, wood, cattle, dogs, wife...(well, truth | | | | was that what I had sent him was about 93 feet |
| is she got rid of me first, but that's another | | | | short of what I had advertised! |
| story..) | | | | The next day, I had about 50 new pieces of mail |
| But you know, after awhile I got tired of the | | | | in my inbox. Questions ? Comments ? Frustration |
| hassle of packaging and posting everything. Then | | | | ? Anger? It would be difficult to categorize them. |
| one day I was looking at a piece of metal called | | | | Once I had explained the situation, most of my |
| brass shim stock and a bell went off inside my | | | | customers where amazingly tolerant and |
| head! You see, brass shim stock is mostly used in | | | | understanding. One of them jokingly razed me for |
| machine shops to adjust tooling, but I | | | | trying to get into his pockets. He also teased me |
| remembered my grandmother using it to make | | | | about my user name (richer-u) , and said I should |
| decorations. And I was off to the races! | | | | change it to "richer-me". I explained to him that |
| I found a supplier on the internet and got a very | | | | by the time I reimbursed him ..AND paid for the |
| good deal.. Then I placed an auction on eBay and | | | | brass, there would not be much point! |
| crossed my fingers and SURE ENOUGH, it started | | | | Well, to make a long story short; I killed the ad, |
| selling like hotcakes. I was contacting my supplier | | | | made good my commitments etc etc. It was a |
| several times a day, giving instructions on where | | | | funny thing though, I put the ad back up on eBay |
| to send the stuff. I was VERY excited! And then | | | | with the proper dimensions and never got a single |
| something unexpected happened... | | | | bid. Who knew that just a couple of DOTS could |
| I got an email from an irate customer! He | | | | make all that much difference? What a difference |
| complained that what I had sent him was NOT as | | | | a DOT makes! |
| my auction described. (dang it!) It seems that | | | | |