Nebuchadnezzar wrote:@Sideshow : I can't see anything that I could disagree with. You have your point of view. There are a lot of guys who could disagree with you about junkies/iq etc but drugs is a huge theme & I wouldn't like to express my complete opinion. Of course you know that laws change every day so it's not illegal (at least not all of them) so it's not the only common point. Maybe you confused my comment for a member of the board about rip-offs, that was an exception, everyone feels sympathy for the ones who have been ripped off (especially if that happened to you/me too). I just can't accept that all those guys who are buying generation of boots are taking refund or leave positive feedback because they are satisfied with the refund or they are happy because they don't know that a cheap cd-r doesn't deserve $80 as a price. How many guys are willing to send back a cd (especially overseas) paying from their pocket the s&h costs? Just a few, So if your friends or other guys who were aware of similar activities didn't leave negative don't blame on me but on them. It's not only Sam, check the feedback of a few other American sellers with boots or even Greek ones. They have higher than $99. The buyer has no more the fear if he leaves negative that he will get a negative too, so how all those "power sellers" are still around? Ebay cares only for the fees if we won't fuck up their feedback or making them to loose a star, nothing gonna change.
Yah, I'm sure some would disagree with me. It all goes back to how we view life and our perspective on things. No two people are exactly the same. I do admint that I might have misunderstood what you meant about those that got ripped off. Rather easy to do that, though, on a message board (things sometimes don't "read" how they would "sound" if we were talking, ya know?).
As I said, I really can't explain Sam's feedback (and all the other bootleg sellers). Both my mates that bought from him didn't leave him any feedback, but they both admitted they didn't pay much for the boots they got and they did get their cash back. I wasn't blaming you, and do apologize if it came across as such. Not much any of us can do to stop them, though. WE know better than to buy from them, but like I said, we're a minority. Too many people out there that don't know better, or don't care what they get, or are just plain naive about what they are getting.
And I wholeheartedly agree on eBay. They only want the money and REALLY don't care what people are selling so long as they get the fees (and one of the big movie companies / record labels / book publishers doesn't threaten legal action on a listing). The only time I've EVER seen them take action on a seller was when that person was listing major corporation material (Metallica bootleg live shows, etc). I've seen a handful of the bootleggers (Greek, Chinese and American alike) get shut down, but they just popped back up under a different name and started all over again...
