Klarinet Archive - Posting 000063.txt from 2003/10

From: "Ken Shaw" <mvinquist@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Almost bought a Stolen German System Clarinet
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 09:11:58 -0400

Ormondtoby Montoya said: > If you look at the "feedback" on this seller,
he or she has a lot of negatives. Perhaps this should've been a
warning sign?<

Sue Raycraft said: >You know, the seller has 32,857 POSITIVE feedbacks,
and 357 negatives. That doesn't seem like a LOT of negatives,
percentage-wise. Not enough to be any kind of a "warning sign" anyway.
I don't imagine they even knew that clarinet was stolen.<

Sue -

Crooked eBay sellers disguise themselves as buyers and give themselves
thousands of positive feedbacks. The only important statistic is the
number of negatives, and 357 is a HUGE number. I would turn and run
from anyone with more than a few negatives, and even there, I'd want to
see reasonable explanations inserted by the seller. IMHO, any seller
with that many negatives has to be assumed to be grossly negligent, or
worse.

Best regards.

Ken Shaw

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