Thread: Thought I found a bargain!

He deliberately blitzed the auction title with keywords to attract people doing searches (and not just for shaving soap.) He accidentally mislead people by having a nice photo where his product is mixed with other items (ones mentioned in the auction title.) The auction includes a wall of text that is difficult to plough through.

His way of dealing with the predictable consequences is to shoot his mouth off about how stupid ebay buyers can be.

Then he says: "You will find us to be polite, courteous,concerned, and as helpful as we possibly can be; we expect the same treatment and respect in return."

He isn't doing himself any favours TBH.

(Using Photoshop to blur relevant parts of the photo occurred to me too.)

I thought I had posted a link to the image in my original post, but my office connection blocks most images so I couldn't tell that it wasn't included. Hopefully this will show the image:



My original message wasn't meant to be a slam against the seller. Instead, it was meant to poke fun at myself for reacting to an auction image before actually reading the content of the auction itself.

Still, I agree that the seller's picture is somewhat, um, *distracting* to those of us that browse initially by images, and I'm sure that's why he posted the image in that way. If he posts images like that he should be prepared to hear words like "midleading" and "confusing", and I feel that the box text is a bit too defensive.

Lesson learned on my end. Glad I didn't pull the trigger before reading.

- Mark (S-4-C)

The ad is deceptive, and they know it… In all there other auctions with multiple items in the photo, everything is included in the sale. It seems the ad generates more traffic than any of there other ads, so they pretty much don’t care what you or anyone else thinks. And if you read between the lines you will realize they are not as friendly and easygoing as they would have you believe. But then, it’s typical of the average eBay seller.


They have some reasonably good items for sale/auction though... but some other friendly vendor will get my soap money.

The guy's a jerk! All that nonsense blaming the customer when all he has to do is put up a better picture. I'd send him a message to tell him so, but he might "blacklist" me

Originally Posted by Strapped-4-Cache

I thought I had posted a link to the image in my original post, but my office connection blocks most images so I couldn't tell that it wasn't included. Hopefully this will show the image:

And after 2 minutes in the free graphics program, GIMP:

Originally Posted by Rajagra

He deliberately blitzed the auction title with keywords to attract people doing searches (and not just for shaving soap.) He accidentally mislead people by having a nice photo where his product is mixed with other items (ones mentioned in the auction title.) The auction includes a wall of text that is difficult to plough through.

His way of dealing with the predictable consequences is to shoot his mouth off about how stupid ebay buyers can be.

Then he says: "You will find us to be polite, courteous,concerned, and as helpful as we possibly can be; we expect the same treatment and respect in return."

He isn't doing himself any favours TBH.

(Using Photoshop to blur relevant parts of the photo occurred to me too.)

Sorry you feel that way about us. I feel that our feedback speaks for itself. ~ No hard feelings here though, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, doesn't matter who's right or wrong. Right?

Originally Posted by RazorTalkin

Sorry you feel that way about us. I feel that our feedback speaks for itself. ~ No hard feelings here though, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, doesn't matter who's right or wrong. Right?

I have no particular feelings on the matter. But as I said, you weren't doing yourself any favours by adopting that tone in your auction.

Thanks for taking the time to explain some.

It is so nice when this community freely helps one of its fellow members. Because of our comments, the page has been redesigned. It’s now so friendly. I am sure the soap sales will go up a few percentages since the change.

He’s probably very busy with the increase in sales, but I am sure he will be around to thank us soon.

For any one interested here is the link:
Shaving Mug Soap For Straight & Safety Razor Shaving