Well, we have some good and bad. Seller turned out to be a little old lady
consignment store who knew nothing about tools and didn't give it a second
look. Plastic base cracked, speed control knob missing, and the high adjustment
lever/pawl was cracked.
The good? I got them to give me $40 back so it's a $25 router, and I can work
the speed control with a screwdriver. Also came with a very large combination
panel bit of some sort.
The perils of buying online.
GTO(John)
JB- Sounds like you've had some bad eBay experiences. I guess I've been
lucky as I've sold about 500 items and bought about the same number off eBay
and only had two problems. Two out of 1000 is probably a better percentage
than anywhere else I've shopped. Maybe you've just hit a bad streak.
--
Larry C in Auburn, WA
"J.B. Bobbitt" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> > Well, we have some good and bad.
>
> RELATED TO AN E-BAY PURCHASE?!?!?!? AMAZING!!!!!!
>
> > Seller turned out to be a little old lady consignment store ....
>
> uh huh.... And they took "gullible" out of the dictionary (go look it up
> and see.....)
>
> > who knew nothing about tools and didn't give it a second look.
>
> uh huh .... "..who knew exactly what he/she was selling and the price
they
> could get..."
>
> > Plastic base cracked, speed control knob missing, and the high
adjustment
> lever/pawl was cracked.
>
> " ..... Let's just leave that part out of the description, 'k
> grampa'?....."
>
> > The good? I got them to give me $40 back so it's a $25 router, and I can
> work
> > the speed control with a screwdriver. Also came with a very large
> combination
> > panel bit of some sort.
>
> Good thing you stood up. We all need to learn that lesson (been there,
> drank that... errrr... I mean. "done" that).
>
> >
> > The perils of buying online.
>
> ... from E-bay professionals. Who knows, maybe they're the kind-hearted
> people you described. Maybe they're E-Bay pro's (this is the
> i-n-t-e-r-n-e-t). Odds?
>
> -JBB
>
>
> Well, we have some good and bad.
RELATED TO AN E-BAY PURCHASE?!?!?!? AMAZING!!!!!!
> Seller turned out to be a little old lady consignment store ....
uh huh.... And they took "gullible" out of the dictionary (go look it up
and see.....)
> who knew nothing about tools and didn't give it a second look.
uh huh .... "..who knew exactly what he/she was selling and the price they
could get..."
> Plastic base cracked, speed control knob missing, and the high adjustment
lever/pawl was cracked.
" ..... Let's just leave that part out of the description, 'k
grampa'?....."
> The good? I got them to give me $40 back so it's a $25 router, and I can
work
> the speed control with a screwdriver. Also came with a very large
combination
> panel bit of some sort.
Good thing you stood up. We all need to learn that lesson (been there,
drank that... errrr... I mean. "done" that).
>
> The perils of buying online.
... from E-bay professionals. Who knows, maybe they're the kind-hearted
people you described. Maybe they're E-Bay pro's (this is the
i-n-t-e-r-n-e-t). Odds?
-JBB
I buy and sell a lot of tools on eBay (onwards and upwards with the
collection), and I've found deals like this to be mostly uncommon, although
they're getting more frquent at a disturbing pace. You can sorta see how stuff
this like happens, at least in the honest seller cases. Some toolhound going
broke, contractor selling his worn-out junk, or crackhead theif walks into a
little store and says he has a lot of great power tools. Plugs 'em in ("it
makes noise, works fine") and runs off with the money. They write up a
description that says as much, and away we go.
Of course, they are a hell of a lot of flat-out crooks.
These folks were pros and had high pos feedback. I supopose just not pros with
stuff other than Hummels. No one would expect a buyer to be happy with
something in this shape, and they're not making any money by letting go for $25
shipped in the end.
GTO(John)
>... from E-bay professionals. Who knows, maybe they're the kind-hearted
>people you described. Maybe they're E-Bay pro's (this is the
>i-n-t-e-r-n-e-t). Odds?
>
>-JBB