Here's a story that you might find interesting.
This seller is so unscrupulous that she deserves her very own blog entry. She is one of those sellers with a large following that is, in reality, pretty darn unethical. She was suspended from ebay for several months for shill bidding (although on her ebay 'about me' page, she claimed that her account had been hacked).
She has bought contemporary adult clothing, made some alterations, and misrepresented the clothing as vintage. Oh, and let's not forget to mention the children's clothing. Apparently, it's become trendy to wear little kid's apparel. So, it's common for this seller and other popular sellers to buy contemporary (and vintage) children's clothes and pass them off as XS or XXS adult sizes. What's the huge deal about this? Well, I'll save this subject for another day. This particular seller has done worse.
This seller intimidates & threatens those who write unfavorable things about her. But worst of all, this seller STOLE a dress from another ebay seller and then listed that dress in one of her own auctions. What the hell! How could this happen, you ask??
One day, the victim seller was looking through vintage clothing auctions & saw her stolen dress listed by this dishonest seller. Needless to say, she was shocked & dismayed. She posted her concerns on the ebay Vintage Clothing & Accessories discussion board. Was she crazy, she wanted to know? Was it the same dress? This seller was very distraught and confused. She wanted some honest opinions. She had very detailed pictures of her dress that she sold to this person AND the pictures of the dress that this unscrupulous seller had posted in her auction. When comparing the pictures side by side, it was obvious that it was the SAME dress. Of course, the dishonest seller denied privately to the victim seller over and over that it was the same dress. AND, even tried to smooth things over with the victim seller by depositing $150 into her Paypal account, which the victim seller promptly returned. When that didn't work, she intimidated the victim seller by sending threatening emails and calling her house. The victim *was* going to file for an independent, federal, postal fraud investigation into the matter. Well, the victim seller dropped the matter for fear of retaliation or worse.
How did this dishonest seller steal a dress from another, you ask? OK, let's backtrack for a moment. Sometime earlier, dishonest seller used a buying I. D. to purchase a couple of dresses from the victim seller. Well, unfortunately the victim seller didn't put a delivery confirmation number on the package that she sent to the theif seller, who paid via Paypal. Thief seller *knew* that she would win a Paypal dispute against victim seller since she couldn't prove that the package got delivered. Well, she won the dispute with Paypal, of course, and got her money back from the victim seller. That's right. She got the money and kept the dress, which she later listed in her own auction.
And how much did this dress originally cost the popular thief seller, who easily commands three figures for some of her auctions? It was less than $20. She ripped off this other seller, who doesn't do *nearly* as well as she does, for less than $20.
Perplexing, isn't it?