members with no feedback?

If you have no feedback yet, you should expect special, or extra scrutiny on your first transaction, especially if you are selling something. No way I would do anything in that instance unless there was an escrow arrangement. Stuff on here, in general is too expensive, and there are too many crooks out there.

Also Wpines, did you really complain that you accepted multiple offers and someone left you bad feedback? That shows a lack of integrity right there. Why would you do that? Once you accept an offer, it's done. You get paid, then you ship it. If you were going to take another offer, because of no payment for a certain amount of time, then you should have contacted the original buyer, and given them a deadline, and put the other buyer on hold; because you already made a deal. That's the kind of feedback I am interested in when someone has something for sale.

Ya gotta start somewhere!

In addition to my encounter with the A'gon buyer w/no FB I posted above, I had another one on Fee-bay a few years ago.

Back when Fee-bay sellers didn't have to take paypal, & could offer money order, personal check, whatever, I listed an expensive item "BIN", clearly stated no paypal, cashier's check only. Of course someone with no FB, bought it, then started demanding to pay by paypal. No matter how many times I explained that I hadn't offered paypal, & that he shouldn't buy items unless he agreed to the terms, he didn't care, didn't get it, seemed incapable of understanding the concept. Then he wanted a local friend of his to come over to my "store", had assumed I had a B&M "store".

I read a FB given by a Seller on Fee-bay once about a troublesome Buyer: "Typical Newbie: Me, Me, Me, Me, Me....." Doesn't mean all Newbies are "bad" at all, but there's a possibility of being Totally Clueless....

I was fortunate to have no issues when I became a new member on Audiogon. I bought and sold items and quickly built up my positive feedback. In fact, I bought and sold so much, so quickly that I built up more feedback than most of the Audiogon registered dealers, when suddenly, one day I received an e-mail from the Audiogon staff that I was now going to have to register as a dealer. After several e-mail exchanges I convinced Audiogon that I wasn't a dealer...and by the way, I am still NOT a dealer. (o:

I did it one time. Never again. Was told the Totem's were 6 months old, an e-mail to Totem confirmed they were 9 years old. I payed via paypal immediately, only to get the run-a-round for a month until I finally disputed it with paypal and Visa. Money was retuned to my account within 24 hours.