Bad experience with a seller named Ivo Christov from
http://www.E28.nl. He also goes by ovide_nl on ebay. Do not know what his user name is here but assume he is a member.
I think everybody here knows me and my name, however I still didn’t get yours, in your emails you never had the decency to put your name in, weird…..(and not even on this tread…wow)
You never asked for my name and I never asked for yours. Your name is listed in the listing
I bought something from him on ebay and he said he had some other parts for sale.
My exact words to your question were:
>Just bought this dead pedal from you. What other alpina parts do you have?
<Not much, besides wheels and an instrument cluster
I agree that is exactly what you said
I keep asking him for a week for pictures and a price and I get replies that he will take the pictures tomorrow.
No you didn’t, you wrote:
>Do you have the cluster listed anywhere? Might be interested in it.
<Not yet, can make pics tomorrow
That is what I said Oct-10-16 "Do you have the cluster listed anywhere? Might be interested in it."
You said Oct-10-16 Not yet, can make pics tomorrow
The 12th I said "Send me some pictures and a price. I might still be interested."
The 12th you said "sorry but I now realize the cluster is E28..."
The 17th I said "Send me some pictures and a price. I might still be interested."
The 17th you said "Let me know if you received the pictures Met vriendelijke groet, With kind regards, Ivo Christov http://www.E28.nl (you did include you name as talked about above)
The 18th I said "did not receive the pictures or the price. Still waiting so we can wrap up our dealings."
The 18th I said "I found the pictures you sent. Ebay did not notify me of them. What is the price?" (The pictures came in the 17th but ebay did not noticie me so I did not know I received them the 17th.)
He never sends me a price after being asked about 4 times in a week.
No you didn’t, please don’t lie and abuse this board about things that aren’t true…..
You only asked once a second time, after that I replied.
<sorry but I now realize the cluster is E28....
>Send me some pictures and a price. I might still be interested.
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The 12th "Send me some pictures and a price. I might still be interested."
The 17th "Send me some pictures and a price. I might still be interested."
The 18th "did not receive the pictures or the price. Still waiting so we can wrap up our dealings."
Then the 18th "I found the pictures you sent. Ebay did not notify me of them. What is the price?"
That is 4 time in 6 days for the price. (I don't like being called a lier)
After a week finally get some pictures this morning.
He turns right around and opens a none payment case on me.
That was eBay, not me. I have the automatic unpaid assistant on.
Received that response after I posted to this board 'Sorry about that but that is an automatically setting caused by eBay I didn't do that.
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I still have not gotten a price on the other part and I keep telling him send me a price so we can complete our deals. He lives in the Netherlands so I want to ship everything together.
I wouldn’t have shipped the part if you had paid, knowing that we were still discussing other parts. This is how a professional seller works
I did get a price of 995USD later on that day.
Not happy with him at all and I would not recommend doing business with him.
Fair enough, I wasn’t too quick with posting pictures of the rare Alpina cluster, so point taken here.
I apologize for that.
At the time of posting nothing had be resolved. Had an unpaid case, no pictures, no price, nothing.
update:
He claims the unpaid case was automatic from eBay. May have been or may not have been, don't know.
I can prove it, but I don’t see the point.
Posted an update so people knew conversation was still open and that you said it was automatic by ebay and that I can't speak to the validity of that as I don't have a clue what Ebay's policy might be.
I did get a price which I thought was high and went ahead and paid for what I had bought to take care of the unpaid case. I just don't like being forced to pay in the middle of dealing with someone.
You could have just asked again….I would have answered you politely
Nobody was forcing anyone
I am not sure what you are saying here about asking again. I was referring to the unpaid case forcing me to pay. Not that I did not get a final answer to my request for pictures and a price.
It would be like going to the store and having to pay at the end of every shopping aisle and not when you are finished shopping.
Dude, it’s not a store, it’s eBay.
Everything that is in my eBay store is ready to put in your shopping cart and pay for at the end of the aisle.
I was talking about the cluster you did not have listed. I tried and tried to get an answer to the price and get some pictures. If it was listed it would have been a simple decision on if I wanted to buy it or not as all the information would be readily known.
Again, I’m sorry if I didn’t meet your expectations of digging out a rare item that was not listed on eBay when you did your purchase.
I do have 2 jobs, a house, a dog, a wife and a life to take care of as well…..
I would have not thought much about it if an unpaid case did not get opened on me. I know we are all busy and we all have better things to do than dig out parts that someone may or may not buy.
I would say the take away from this is nothing about it is relates to the product purchased. It is a simple cause and effect. The unpaid case getting opened caused an effect of immediate action being taken to conclude the transaction in a rapid manor. The buyer received what he purchased. The seller received payment. Communication was never lost. The unpaid case is what caused the problem in this transaction. 
