Yahoo Japan is also full of pricks !

I'm well pissed off this morning ! I put a bid for a mint Mark III copy of Fantasy Zone Maze on yahoo auctions and won it for 100 yen which is an amazing bargain. This was about 2 weeks ago. Yesterday the seller gave me bad feedback saying that I had not been in touch with him yet the little sod hadn't been in touch with me at all to give me any shipping charges or bank details for payment. So how the hell was this my fault? The seller ALWAYS gets in touch with the buyer first. Anyway, because of this guys bad feed back I can not bid on the transparent Neo Geo CD since that seller won't allow anyone with a Negative feed back to bid. What makes this worse is that I was the winning bidder until last night when Eric (who I personally know) from japangames.com out bid me. That I don't mind since it's a free market and everyone is entitled to bid but what I do mind is that I can't bid again to out bid him due to that F*ing wanker who left me bad feedback just because he didn't want to sell his item at a cheap price.

Sorry for my rant but I just had to get it out.

Yakumo

 

Odd, on ebay the buyer usually contacts the seller first.

 

not on yahoo, it's the other way around. It's all down to politeness you see. I had another arse do something similar once. Importaku asked me to bid on a sealed game. Once that auction had been won the seller told me that his kid had opened the game on it and played it. I then told him I didn't want the item since Importaku only wanted it if it was factory sealed. You know what the guy did? Gave me bad feedback because I wouldn't buy the item :drool: What a git ! So of course he got a really nasty one back.

0 feedback members are not welcome either.

Yakumo

 

You probably should have bothered him if you didn't (though I'd assume you did). Some people are just naturally lazy.

Bad luck Yakumo.

 

I've had similar things happen. In fact, the one negative feedback that I have was from a bidder saying I never contacted him. I have a suspicion that sometimes it's they who are pricks, but sometimes their ISPs or e-mail clients. I don't know if it actually happens, but I'm suspicious that Japanese ISPs tag non-Japanese e-mails as spam, and so they get deleted, or at least put in the recipient's bulk mail folder...

I've had to send the seller an e-mail from my Japanese cellphone after he didn't contact me in 3 days, just to make sure he received my message.

 

Yakumo:

That's not always the case. It usually is, but the automated mail you're sent after winning an auction tells you. It's actually a setting set by the seller, whether the buyer is supposed to wait for contact, or conctat the seller directly. I would check that mail closely before railing on somoene.

It has happened to me before, but in that case, they usually mail me in a few days asking what the fuck my problem is (in a polite manner of course).

The only negative feedback I got was for an item I forgot to pay for. Just flat out forgot. He negatived me, and then I sent the money. He didn't take the negative feedback away, blacklisted me, and mysteriously the item never showed up. "Lost in the mail", he said. Yah right. If a parcel gets lost in the mail in Japan it makes the fucking 18:00 news!

You'll need some help from a friend. Get someone else to open an account, and you guys buy and sell shit to each other.

 

Yeah but I sent the bugger my address, phone number and name automatically like I do with all Yahoo auctions. It's the first thing I do. So he has no excuse from what I can see. Could be a racist once he found out my real name. I refuse to use a fake name. Still, 98% of the yahoo people I deal with are great. Done 4 or 5 deals this week without the slightest problem. Oh well.........

That reminds me of a funny news story late last year./ Someone had stolen a post box (old style cylinder type like we have in the UK as well) and it made the main news on all channels :lol: :nod: :lol: So funny at times, the Japanese news is.

Yakumo

 

theres no paypal like service in japan? you have to deposit money? meh....

 

I prefer deposit with internet banking over stuff like Paypal...

btw, my parcel that was sent back from Japan did get lost for 3 months..whether it was the Japanese post or the Dutch post their fault, I'm clueless..

 

Possible, but not likely. At leat not in my practices. I've done about 1000 transactions, and race has never come up, other than a few people that said, "BTW- - this is my first time to talk to a foreigner."

No, no paypal, and it's wonderful.
Click me. Details in that 2-page article. Honestly, why the fuck do we need Paypal? Why are US banks SO fucking afraid of electronic bank remittance.

I'd bet my house it was the Dutch side, even though I don't have one. Japanese are very reliable on some things. Mail and public transportation they just don't mess up.

 

Well, they did manage to send my friend to the wrong post office to pick up my parcel 3 times.. after which he was too late and it was sent back.

 

There is Japan Net Bank payment, which can be done on-line by your computer. But I don't; I'm happy to do the bank transfer whenever I pass by my bank. (Costs 350 yen each time, though)

 

JNB is much cheaper, and as you said, convenient. But even w/o a JNB account, you don't have to get ass-raped by Paypal.

 

Normally they are very good but things seem to be slipping or I'm just very unlucky. This year twice the post office has delivered something to my house that I actually posted ! The fact that there's a Japanese post office stamp on the parcel doesn't seem to even get noticed by them.

Yakumo

 

Happened to me once too. I went to the post office to mail a parcel, and they delivered it back to my apartment that afternoon. Now that's service!

Because of that, I make it a rule to put the "TO" & "FROM" text in both English and Japanese on my parcels.

 

I was wondering if there is an 'ask seller a question option' on Yahoo Japan like on ebay? You could tell the seller the reason for the bad feedback and he might be understanding and let you bid on the item? I think lots of sellers on ebay ask you to contact them first if you have any bad or not much feedback.

 

yes there is an ask the seller a question option which I've used and he has ignored. I seriously think he just didn't want to sell the item so cheap.

Yakumo

 

Another thing; Yahoo now keeps the auctions open after they have finished = GOOD.

 

Now that I actually have had, a few times. Just take it back and explain and they'll ship it. It's not really lost though, they just gave it to the dislexic mail carrier.

I don't quite follow this. You mean non-members can view the auctions after they've finished? Members always could. As such, I think you could view them through a surrogate bidders web proxy.