thewriterscloset are less then honest , beware! for they will look for untracked parcels then deny delivery.
Posted Apr-19-07 08:57:13 PDT
Just fair warning to all that deal with or might deal with thewriterscloset, they will take advantage of you if you are or were ingnorant and trusting, like myself. If you do deal with them ,use tracking information! It is to late for me, as I have been taken for $310 from these people.
within my first 100 sales ,I trusted everyone. thewriterscloset purchased three watch's from me worth $310. I shipped the 12x12x8" box to them and they claimed to have never recieved it and accused me of not shipping at all, even though I sent them a copy of the scanned reciept. I even called their postmaster in snow hill,md. and she told me these people make claims all the time and I was the 14 person to call in a month. these people are bad juju.
to cover yourself with paypal ,YOU MUST HAVE A TRACKING NUMBER!, if you don't have a tracking number, you will lose your case.
I pasted the postal reciept showing that I shipped the watch's to these people and they keep having it removed from my world, because they don't want the truth revealed.
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In the middle of March 2007 I placed a watch on eBay for bidding, and within several days a person connected to thewriterscloset (I discovered the connection after the auction was over due to both eBayers having exactly the same mailing address) sent me an email wanting to buy it directly without bidding on it. I knew the watch's final winning amount had a large variance and kindly told them no thank you.
Well, several people bid on the watch, and the person involved with thewriterscloset had won. They paid within a day or two via PayPal (which I had taken as a good sign about the post-auction completion) and by two days later, I mailed the watch through the US Postal Service using Priority Mail. I thought everything was OK, as I had sold another watch during the time period as the oringinal watch and had no problems what so ever.
The person associated with thewriterscloset waited until 3 days before the Easter holiday to email me with a short and simply written sentence saying they had not gotten the watch yet and it was for an Easter gift. I thought the idea of giving a somewhat expensive watch as an Easter gift sounded a bit suspect, but all I was concerned with being a good eBay seller, was seeing that the winning bidder was completely satisfied.
I emailed the person back, apologizing for the delay and said I would contact USPS and find out what I could about the missing package. As I figured, since the package did not have Delivery Comfirmation nor Signature Comfirmation there was little I could do as far as tracking the shipment. I was informed by the person on the phone that according to Priority Mail the package still had four days after Easter for it to be considered lost.
I sent another email to the bidder connected to thewriterscloset and told them there was not much I could do since there was no way of tracking the watch and I would see what I could do after the cut-off date for the Priority Mailing passed. I again sincerely apologized for the shipment not arriving. So I hear nothing from the person, and two days after the latest date for the shipment's arrival I email them explaining I would begin the USPS paperwork for lost/missing packages and advised them to place a claim with PayPal for recovery of the the funds they has used. I apologized again and showed my good faith by refunding their shipping and handling fee.
I hesitated on the USPS lost/missing item paperwork, as it was multiple pages of info that in the end, would not find the missing package since there was not a tracking number to locate its whereabouts. Giving the whole situation some thought, I decided for everyone's best interests and to make sure the bidder was taken care of in this unfortunate situation, that resolution through PayPal was the best option.
I responded again to the eBay person affiliated with thewriterscloset, letting them know that it would be best for recovery of their funds to use the PayPal resolution program by filing a claim. They did within several days and I reunded all of their money used to bid on the watch.
Having everything taken care of as smoothly as possible, I still had a nagging doubt that something was not right with the entire process. I began keeping track of watches like the one that went missing and discovered that thewriterscloset had several similar ones up for bidding. Their location shown on their auction pages is really general, but I began to wonder if they were in the east coast state I had sent the watch to.
Still not completely thinking everything was OK, I began searching on eBay and the Internet for information on either thewriterscloset or the person who had won the watch. I took a look at both eBayers Feedbacks and discovered that there were at least several negative Feedbacks for each eBayer concerning sellers who had their items go missing, according to thewriterscloset or their associate. The sellers were not happy with the shipments gone missing, and were reponded with less than business-like behavior by the buyers.
At the thewriterscloset's eBay store I discovered several watches exactly like the one I had and I truly believe it is there up for sale. My guess is that the person I dealt with tries to buy items from sellers at the lowest possible cost. And upon winning things that do not involve any way of tracking the package, they conveniently claim the package "never arrived". Oh, they do enough successful business with completed transactions, but every so often it is my belief they let one slip through to have both the item to resell on eBay and to recoup the funds used for the bidding. The few negative Feedbacks they get is nothing to the large amount of above board transactions handled.
I have also noticed some multiple auction wins and gushing Feedbacks for thewritescloset from the person to whom I sold the watch to. Ironic, isn't it that both the supposed buyer of the watch and thewriterscloset share the same mailing address? I have noticed other groups of buyers on thewriterscloset's Feedback listings and believe that if no one bids high enough or there are no bids at all thewriterscloset has one of their lackeys bid and win the item. More positive Feedbacks makes thewriterscloset seem like they are a completely reputable eBay seller.
I certainly do not expect to recover any of my spent funds from this scam, but I want to warn people to think twice about selling to or buying from thewriterscloset. And if you do, please take advantage of Delivery Comfirmation for your own safety; or it will be thewriterscloset taking advantage of you.
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