Susan Erickson wrote in
:

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 01:38:13 GMT, "Bill Landers"
wrote:

Hi Susan-
It would probably be a waste of time to complain to eBay. The seller
could easily claim a "mistake" in uploading the correct image for the
particular item. I guess the the old CAVEAT EMPTOR applies here. I
truly believe that the average person shopping for plants on eBay is
generally not all that well-informed on what they are bidding on. For
example, sellers are listing seeds of named hostas, when we all know
that they will not come true-to-name, and if you spend any amount of
time perusing the listings, you can find many more instances of this.
Is it deceptive? Some sellers may not know any better, but I suppose
that others do and don't really care. I posted the original item this
morning because this seemed more careless than usual, and the seller
in question has a history of sloppy listings. But then again, his
feedback rating is 99% plus, so what do I know?!? Bill Landers


Is it possible to kill the feedback rate with comments about the
error in the posts?

I hate to see new bees flim-flamed by scam artists. We had one
link to our pix one time and say this was the plant he was
selling. He was selling a seedling of the cross not the awarded
plant in our photo. And it was not directly related except to be
the same hybrid... made at a different time.
SuE
http://orchids.legolas.org/gallery/albums.php


This seller has been around for a time and his/her auction listings have
always been on the erroneous side.

As far as complaining to ebay believe me it's a waste of time. Their
support people in India think $32 is a fair price for shipping a 4 ounce
item via parcel post. If you do shop Ebay check the shipping price first as
I've seen shipping higher than you could buy the item in the store.
Complain to ebay and you get an email stating We don't see a problem with
the auction you discribed.

Ever since AOL took over Ebay it has been as follows

WE ARE EBAY! Resistance is futile, assimilate or leave.