EBAY Buyer Leaves Neutral Feedback,Gets Sued For $10,000

[Kor37 9]

eBay Buyer Leaves Neutral Feedback, Gets Sued for $10,000 by Seller

by Tim Stevens, posted Apr 24th 2008 at 2:49PM

 

A few months back eBay made the controversial decision to remove the ability for sellers to leave negative feedback about buyers. The site said it got too many complaints and decided that the system wasn't worth the trouble. So, with that ability gone, when a seller of some collectible coins felt jilted by a less than positive review from a buyer, he did the purely logical thing, which was to sued said buyer for $10,000.

 

Steve Shellhorn was the buyer in this transaction and didn't like the packaging job done by the seller. When he received the package, he found that many of the coins were unprotected in an envelope. So, when the seller requested feedback, Shellhorn left him a less than complementary, but still not negative, report. The seller responded with the lawsuit, which was ultimately tossed out of court, but only after Shellhorn had to pay $500 for an attorney. That's the kind of auction fee that nobody needs. [source: King5, via Fark]

 

:P :blink: :P

[TJ Phaserman 2]

suing the buyer just because he left neutral feedback? man people on ebay are dumb

[ddillard 2]

I am very glad that this was thrown out of court, it is ridiculous.

[Bethlehem 8]

If the guy had been smart he would have tried to sue e-bay they would have had deeper pockets