I agree with Anil reg. the phone no. being constantly engaged or not responding, but I have encountered another problem with the sellers. The sellers after the receipt of payment do not ship the items within a reasonable time. I am a newbie on ebay but this has happened twice with me in this short span of time. All the emails go unanswered and when contacted over the phone their answer is 'my system was down', meaning that they had no access to the computer. I fail to understand how a person can do ebay business in the absence of a computer.
Even if we accept their plea of non accessibility of a computer, it is totally unacceptable that there is no public computer nearby. The fact seems to be that after receiving the money they feel smug and do not care about their responsibility of shipping the item within a reasonable time frame. The idea of complaining about such sellers by name is totally abhorrent to me, but such actions by some, though a very small percentage, unscrupulous sellers leaves a very bad taste. I strongly feel that eBay should do some independent third party verification before allowing registered users to sell on eBay or take some other suitable steps to remedy this situation. This definitely shakes ones faith in the efficacy of eBay as online shopping mall.
Ardaman
