[Judge Smails]

What a piece of work this guy is...he "won" a "buy-it-now" listing of mine...in MARCH...for a SEVEN DOLLAR smog pump. I ship to US only, he's in Norway...grrr...but I later discovered he supposedly has a US address available at a shipping terminal when I went ahead and sent the invoice anyway. FOUR WEEKS LATER after ABSOLUTELY NO RESPONSE of ANY kind, I filed an Unpaid Item report (wow, was THAT ever productive!). Finally responded (feebly) and said he'd send some form of pymt I've never heard of. No further response AT ALL after several more attempts at contact. THREE WEEKS later, I finally gave up and negged him (in May). Lo and behold, YESTERDAY, JULY 14TH, he gave me a retaliatory neg-- in complete jibberish, no less-- for this listing which closed on MARCH 17TH! Thus, my 6+ yr, 100% rating is history because of this...and ebay never even refunded the (pitifully small, but still) Final Value Fee! I also, judging by what I've heard of past incidents like this, don't expect them to lift a finger to remove this neg, at least not without expecting me to agree to a mutual withdrawal (fat chance). No wonder people are leaving ebay in droves!