DirtyFingers wrote:The free nickel is a good deal but I had an odd experience when I ordered one late in August. It was 99¢ as a minimum to keep Ebay happy, I hit BIN and of course Ebay asked me to pay for it now. So, per instructions from the seller, I didn't pay for it, left the seller glowing feedback and upon me doing that he would mark it as paid and send me the nickel. He sent the nickel but didn't mark it as paid. Several days later I receive a email from Ebay reminding me to pay for the nickel. I send the seller an email asking him to please mark it as paid. Nothing happened, 3 or 4 more days go by and I get another email from Ebay telling me that I had until such and such a date to pay for it or some of my privileges would be suspended. I send another email to the seller asking him to please help me to get this straightened out. In the meantime, the feedback I gave for the seller disappeared! I didn't hear anything back from the seller and a day later I sent him another email asking for his help and this time he wrote back and told me not to worry that Ebay would send me as many as 3 or 4 notices before privileges are suspended. I wrote back and told him I had a clean record with Ebay and I would kind of like to keep it that way. Only I wasn't so nice to him this time. He finally did a cancelled transaction, right after that Ebay tells me that the unpaid item case had been closed, the seller left me a positive feedback and I've still got the nickel. I never did figure out why the feedback I left him disappeared. I am guessing Ebay deleted it when they opened up the unpaid item case on me.
WHEW!!! All this for a 5¢ piece. Now I like nickels as much as the next guy, but the "free" part of that particular free nickel wasn't really worth it. Hope you guys have better luck then I did. The nickel I received had bad juju from the start.
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