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I just updated the OP. eBay is removing the feedback and submitting this user to the Trust & Safety team. Hell yes.

I doubt he'll search his own name, but eBay might if they actually investigate. Once the case is closed I'll put it out there in the world. Best to cover my bases.

Told the story to a friend of mine who just sifted through the feedbacks this guy left for others. They're a fucking treat, let me tell you. Many of them are "got damaged in shipping thx for partial refund" and "was a little bent so got partial refund." It's just his little scheme on eBay. Unreal.

Not really sweating any long term ramifications. Just currently very angry about there being so little I can do about it. THERE'S GOT TO BE A BETTER WAY

Clever! Will PM the username to anyone who wants it. Don't want him to be able to Google his own username and find it- want to make sure the eBay review shows no wrongdoing on my part (i.e. calling him a dickbag).

Just blowing off steam here, really- feel free to ignore. I've got 2000 positive feedbacks over 15 years on eBay. I do a lot of selling. Some records, some DVDs and whatnot. Last year I went through my collection and started an eBay store with everything I didn't really need anymore- gave up variant collecting and all that. Mostly positive experiences, with the occasional dickbag. But this one has me really furious. I have a record up at $15 OBO. I had two copies of it for sale, so I was willing to let them go for $10 each. A guy writes and asks what my lowest price is. No problem- totally fair question. I reply that I'd take $10, but that I probably set the auto-decline to $10.01, which s something I do out of habit. I'd take any offer above that. He submits an offer of $10.02 and I accept. He immediately messages me with just this: "???" I reply that I'm not sure what his question is. Apparently, he has also submitted an offer of $9 which got auto-declined so I didn't even see it. He replies, "oh just wanted to see if you'd take $9" I'm a bit annoyed at this point, but my girlfriend suggests that maybe he's slow. So I reply very politely: "Sorry, $10 is the lowest I can go on this record. Do I need to cancel the transaction?" "naw dont cancel will you take $9.50?" Now I think I'm being fucked with so I just cancel the transaction. The story should end here. But eBay is a buyer's market, so he has to accept the cancellation (even though the reason I gave is that the buyer made a mistake) before it actually gets canceled. So of course he declines my cancellation request and replies, "ill do it for $10 plus shipping sorry. no offence just tryin to get as low as i can sorry again" Okay, he's sorry. But I've already got a bad feeling about this transaction. Someone that desperate to save $.50 on a record is not someone I really want to be dealing with. So he pays and sends two separate messages. One asking to write "Do Not Bend" on the package- no problem there, totally fair and legit request. But he also asks this in that message: "and if you have a bonus extra or free bee can u send it with it and pack it well pls and thanks" Dude has the balls to ask for more shit from me after harassing me about $.50. The he asks me to send him the newest looking o of the two, with the best sticker on the sleeve (it's a pic disc). I'm annoyed that I should even bother, but I look at both stickers and one has a little more wear than the other so I send him the cleaner one. As expected, as soon as dude gets the record, I get the dreaded "Item not as described" message from him. Here's how it goes: did you send me the better one of the 2? because theres some damage in the center where the hole is that i didnt know about? and there is no uk sticker on my plastic sleve? sorry and thanks "Yes I sent you the better of the two. There was wear on the sticker of the other (the one with the import sticker). The "damage" you speak of is prom the production. As far as I know, the record I sent you has never been played." yah the record store i just took it to said it was at least played on 1side forsure and maybe both? but like i said the paper is pushed in alitte and wear in the center circle/hole? can you please give me a small partial refund and we can be done with this matter... ttys Holy shit. Dude thinks I'll believe he took it to a record store to get checked out. To be clear, the description of the record was NM- and there's now way there was anything wrong with this fucking record. It was fine. I'd had it in my collection for 15 years. So I reply: "You are welcome to return the item at your cost for a full refund, per my return policy." I figure I'm fucked at this point. He'll leave negative feedback and there goes my 100%. Whatever. But then he goes on to say no offence and no thank you i spent enough already lol? can could and or would you give a small partial refund at least please? then i can do five star5 on everythin thanx best regards and happy ebaying Ahhh... the jig is up. Dude wants to extort some money from me to maintain my feedback. Well I'm not giving in. "The answer is no. I'm sorry I couldn't provide a 5 star experience for you." His response? sorry ur sorry. and u cant even do $2 or something im not looking or asking for much my fellow ebayer?? thanks I'm done replying at this point. The next day I get this: sorry n no offence, i gave u a day to chill/think.. can u give a 2$ partial refund at the least please? it was played on one side for surely///.... thanx And then, tonight, this: there goes your 100%, ow well you dont care and didnt care!! thanks soooo much for helping me out not even a tad or a little anyway happy ebaying shot2the head kobean ha ah.... The latter bit is a gag on my Nirvana-related eBay name I guess. So I go through all the hoops of submitting a feedback review request and mark that last message as feedback extortion with eBay. I have no idea if they'll even look at it, but I am absolutely furious that I have no real recourse other than to reply to his negative feedback with a "Dude is a lunatic. Ignore this." and wait for it to fade off my radar. I can't even smite the dude. At any rate, just needed to get that all down while I'm still angry about it. Anyone else have experiences with douchebag feedback extorters on eBay? I guess I could've just given him the $2, but I don't want the terrorists to have won, y'know? UPDATE I almost don't believe it myself, but after submitting the Feedback Extortion report, eBay gave me a number to call and I just talked to an actual person about this. I gave him the rundown and he read through the messages and the other feedback he'd left concerning getting his precious partial refunds. The feedback will be removed within the hour and the buyer has been reported to eBay's Trust & Safety team. I've gotten so used to having no recourse for this sort of thing that I'm almost in shock. Sweet, vindictive shock. NEW UPDATE (07/24/12) Dude called me on the telephone yesterday about a new record I listed. No joke. Skip ahead to page 3 for the full story. He is actually insane. Please block users m6m6m6m and kanebly.

Cancel that. They only allow you to buy 3 at a time now. Or there's only 3 left. Either way, another group buy isn't an option. Bummer!

http://www.bagsunlimited.com/c-280-storage-boxes.aspx I got the cardboard ones on top of this page from Bags Unlimited. They get a little pricey with shipping but sometimes they offer good coupon codes. Plus you can stock up on other supplies like poly sleeves if you need them. Or 7" white paper sleeves for those cheap punk rock labels that just put the disc naked into a hard paper sleeve!

Looks like there are only 4 peeps so far. Figure it's only worth it if we get around 10.

I'd start up another group buy if there were enough buyers. PM me and we'll see if it works out!

Thanks for the ideas- I'll give him another shot. The only Loved Ones song I've heard is the one on the Chuck Ragan split and that doesn't really count. "Pray for Tucson" seems to be the hit based on plays and whatnot, but when I heard it I thought it sounded identical to "Meet Me By the River's Edge" by Gaslight. The vocal melody is super similar to me. Am I crazy?

Can someone give me a recommendation on the best Dave Hause stuff? So many people I know love this dude, but I just Spotified "Resolutions" and found it... not super impressive. Are there some deep cuts I'm missing by just listening to that album?

Bought this even though I know Saddle Creek is doing another version of it soon. I guess the collector in me isn't dead after all... Looking forward to receiving it!

With only 100 of each letter, they'll NEVER get to his Pop Will Eat Itself collection! Super bummed. (That sounds like a joke, but I'm serious).

Gah. Looks like Cursive is gone. I'll have to get a normal one from SC I guess.

Their first record is straight up punk. Sounds like MC5 a bit. I truly love it.

The dream of the '90s is alive in Minneapolis. Soul Asylum is one of my favorite bands of all time, though their '90s output is by far their weakest... err... second weakest next to the 2000s... or the 2010s...

Only ever got into Korn's first album, but was significantly into it. The second one came out and I had literally 0 interest. Limp Bizkit you couldn't pay me to see. Can we change the title of this thread to "Teenage Nostalgia Apreesh"? Love having my nostalgia justified by others who share it!

uhh, you know this exists right? http://www.discogs.com/Spooky-Kids-The-Lunch-Boxes-Choklit-Cows/release/1267856 i'd like more of the demos to be released, but this is legit. Daisy Berkowitz lawyered up to get the rights back to the demos and released them under The Spooky Kids, since he couldn't use the name "Marilyn Manson". I did not know this existed, but it's still missing my favorite tracks (including "Filth"). Will definitely check it out though- thanks for the heads up!

I've got this impression of it though I've never been. Figured it'd be all older dudes with long hair asking $100 for a copy of Mellow Gold telling me they can "sell it for that all day in their shop." I'd love to be wrong, but the $7 to find out might be better spent at Reckless I feel...

Haven't heard the new track yet and haven't really listened to anything since Mechanical Animals, which I hates passionately at the time. But I will say that the 1996 Anitchrist show I was at was without a doubt the best arena-level shows I've ever been to. Better than NIN/Bowie which I saw the year previous. Still holding out hope for a source-mastered Spooky Kids rarities disc... my old cassette boot rips are pretty unlistenable, but some of those tracks are rock solid jams.

Somehow missed this notice. Ordered. Wish I could order all of them right now.

I would fully purchase a series of Harry Potter 7" storybooks like the Star Wars and Gremlins ones I had as a kid. Kind of surprised a boutique company hasn't started up to provide such nostalgic wankery to people like me.

Does Greg disown this record? It's definitely an outlier in his catalog...

Once saw a grey go for something stupid, too. Seems like once every year or so, someone pays out the ass for this $20 record. Maybe someone in a time machine from 1998 who MUST hear what Conor does on his later records. Pretty good idea for a movie, that....