"If your opinion is the only one that matters why did you even bother with all of this."-buttonfinder48
Because, as I have said over and over, it is done and over with now. Read the post. I asked for input, received it, then acted. This was started in an attempt to help me form a reasonable opinion and I did. The rest of this discussion is after the fact, I already made up my mind early in this thread and did what I decided was appropriate. That was why I started this, not for the debate that followed.
IP, I am a very tolerant person with a fuse a mile long. If someone is open and honest with me, I will overlook almost anything. That is why I say if he had been civil and decent, I would have overlooked it. Him being hateful caused me to take offense, and I took it from there. At this point, I don't care about credibility anyway. It's over. I have learned two things from this: (1) Have a separate account for buying on ebay. (2) Standards across the board are much lower in our society than I thought, as evidenced by the comments here. I never thought people would think I was wrong for following the rules, question whether I was even telling the truth or not, accuse me of threatening to welch on a deal, and being responsible for some seller's associated costs of selling. I came here with a problem on ebay where the seller broke the rules, broke a contract, cheated me on shipping, lied, sent nasty messages (before I left any feedback) and threatened me. And then some of you guys point the finger at me. That tells me I am conversing with the wrong crowd.
Once I bought the item, it is mine. I am therefore concerned about it's safe shipment to me. I also wanted it fast. He took a risk with MY PROPERTY by sending it insufficiently. If it arrived broken and I had to send it back, it would have cost me shipping PLUS he would have made money off of me on shipping, so he could sell broken junk and still make $5 every time he sold it, get it back, and sell it again to someone else, and on and on and make $5 every time. I would be out $15 shipping on an item that didn't cost much more than that to start with.
Thank you for your time, but at this point the conversation is mostly me and a couple others defending my position and a few others attacking it... and a whole lot of me having to repeat myself. Now my credibility is somehow brought to the table over this and it has gotten ridiculous. That could go on forever and it won't change the outcome. Thanks to the people who chimed in on both sides of the fence.
