You can't please all of the people....

I hope all of you are having a fabulous new year. I wish all of you the best one ever!

I waited a while to make this post. I was pretty agitated when it happened. If you haven't noticed, I received my first negative feedback on eBay - after 7, plus years of buying and selling. I suppose I knew that perfect feedback couldn't last forever. No matter how hard anyone tries, there is bound to come along a person who cannot be made happy.

In any event, let me put my version of events here. I sold a K serial Rolex Datejust 16220 to this girl for the unbelievable price of $2157 (here). If you have bought or sold Rolexes for any time, you know that most dealers would jump on that price - not to mention an end user. In any event, the watch was missing two links. The number of links on the watch was ABSOLUTELY visible in the pictures. Furthermore (and most significantly) the nature of USED watches is that they are not LIKE NEW. This can mean many things, but it often means that links have been removed to fit the last owner and then those links have been lost. That is very often the case and I almost never think to say how many links are in a band. I get many questions about what size wrist a particular watch will fit, and am happy to answer them. No such question came in this case.

I offered to take the watch back. After all, the price was such that I could certainly sell it for more the next time. That's not what she wanted, though. She demanded that I buy her new links. Before we finished corresponding, she hits me with a negative.

Here's the best part: I wait until now to write this, as i wanted to cool down before I did anything. When I went back a few minutes ago to get the details for this post, I see that she is NO LONGER A REGISTERED USER! Believe it or not, when I started thinking of telling the story, I was going to suggest that you go back and check every now and then to see if she was still registered (because of the low feedback). Well, she beat me to the post. It seems that she has had a problem with eBay even before I could write this.

Again, HAVE A GREAT 2007!