Aug 02, 2016 20:27
item:accessory,
item:jumperskirt,
!ds,
color:black,
alice and the pirates,
color:white,
color:cream,
metamorphose,
color:pink,
item:miniskirt,
moi-meme-moitie,
color:red,
color:blue,
mille fleurs,
item:novelty,
item:bag,
baby the stars shine bright,
item:blouse
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This:
A statement that would be binding is, "I plan on purchasing your blouse, but need to know the measurements first. I will leave my PayPal to reserve my spot", or, "I plan on purchasing your blouse, but I need to know the measurements first, could you please hold the item for me until the measurements are provided so that I may see if it will work for me?"
.. Is all I wanted to know.
Two more considerations though:
However, please be respectful in understanding that I AM a moderator for this community and have been for quite some time, I do thoroughly know and understand the rules and my word is as good as any other mod's would be. If I give an answer on a scenario DO NOT try and go over me to someone else to be told what you want to hear, because it isn't going to happen.
I think I have the right to ask to someone else for advice since you and I are the interested parties here and our judgement would be clearly influenced by our own interests. You could be the most honest person on earth, best moderator ever, whatever you like, but I don't know you: I felt treated unfairly, turns out the rules allow this kind of thing to happen, can't do anything about it, end of the story.
But I will seek - wait, there's also some rule that forbids to ask another moderator for help if you're not convinced by the one already provided? - someone else's opinion or help inside the community everytime I will feel that I need to, just like should usually happen where power/duty/responsability roles do not come with the 'I'll be always right about everything and there's nothing that you common user can do about it' bonus. And I hope that at least this won't change inside this community.
And - but I don't consider this to be related to this case specifically:
8. Selling via private messages is fine, so long as the post remains available for viewing and the seller can provide screencaps of the conversations if requested by the mod team for conflict resolution or feedback purposes.
I hope we're all aware here of what kind of risk this brings. I don't think that any moderator of any LJ domain is allowed to check the livejournals platform logs, which leads to the questions: how much effort does it take to create fake conversations? What kind of guarantee is given to buyers that the seller isn't selling via private message to someone that offered more for an item that wasn't on auction?
I get the fact that no one here is paid to keep the community a safe market environment but .. Why not keep almost everything public (paypal address could be sent via PM to finalize the transaction)? It would be a very simple but effective solution. Is there a reason why this changed? .. Or maybe I just got lucky in the past and I always participated to sales that were handled with full transparency.
At the end of this story it seems to me that sellers are legitimate to do mostly whatever they want.
"Than you're free to go buy somewhere else."
Yeah, I know.
I'll keep all this in mind next time, thanks again for your time.
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