I had a Discogs seller who sent me the wrong thing after letting a week elapse after payment to even ship the CD.
It was the holiday season, so I had some grace for the fact that my CD actually arrived 1 month after payment, but was not impressed with the week-long interval between payment and shipping.
Then, 1 month after payment, I received the wrong CD.
Considering the seller responded quickly to my message of this and, with contrition, mentioned that an inventory search was pending and would keep me apprised, I felt things were cool.
A week later, nothing.
I messaged again to say, “I have still not heard back regarding receiving an item different from the one I purchased.”
A week later, nothing.
At this point,
a) 2 weeks had elapsed since I informed the seller as to their shipping the wrong item and, despite an attempt to receive an update, had zero messages from seller during that time, and,
b) 6 weeks had elapsed since I purchased the CD, with the actual shipping not occurring until a week after my payment.
At this point, I just left negative feedback.
The seller got back to me then 🤣
The seller sent me a message (I’m assuming the seller couldn’t be bothered to actually write the thing because it appeared to be dictated to a microphone with horrible grammar and ‘autocorrected; ‘…delay of the CD…’ was written as, ‘…delay of the city…’ and, ‘…it’s been crazy around here…’ was written as, ‘…spin crazy around here…’) blaming the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol building for his failures.
This behavior only reinforced my sense that negative feedback was fair.
I think that’s the only time I’ve ever given negative feedback despite plenty of problems as a buyer.
