| BDD with GENOVA (Jenn) |
[May. 2nd, 2012|11:41 pm] |
First and Foremost I dont visit BDD often and didnt realize that my account had gotten deleted but I am the same person as TuSabesBlythe JOEY I just had to open a new account..this one TuSabesBlythe1
So my bad dolly deal is against Genova (jenn)
I purchased a Cherry Berry from Genova on Blythe Kingdom, on April 22nd when I purchased the doll she told me that the doll was completely stock the only thing wrong with the doll was that her eyelashes on the left eye were a bit wonky, which honestly didnt bother me. Well the doll arrived today on May 2nd and the doll is not at all what was described, Jenn claimed that the doll was completely stock but the back of the dolls head had clearly been sliced open with an knife of some sort, the flange on the doll is stuck in the gutter of the doll so it was just sliced open. Jenn did not mention this in her post, she also did not mention that the dolls original eyemake up had been removed and some green eyeshadow using pastels had replaced it. All of the dolls eyechips have been replaced as well on the the doll and it appears to have SBL eyechips so once again the doll is not completely stock. I contacted Jenn as soon as I got the doll early in the morning 10am and posted pictures made private and added her to them so she could see what I was talking about. I didnt hear back from Jenn all day so around 5 pm I checked my messages one last time and saw that she had read my message and logged onto BK around 4:30 pm, so I wrote her a second message letting her know that I knew she had seen my message and asking her why she didnt respond, an hour and a half later she replied that "she was at work and would reply after 7 when she got home". Well she didnt reply until very late in the night 11:30pm and was very rude and threatening...I might add here that she didnt responded to my messages on BK but by commenting on the photo of the doll, that I had taken earlier in the day. This is what she had to say:
"I never did this to this doll. I would never sell a doll this way I have been in the blythe community for over 7 years, and I think it's shocking you are posting photos and pointing fingers at me. I would have gladly issued you a return should you not have altered this doll, I am not letting you walk all over me just because I couldn't respond since 830 am this morning because I was at work."
after posting the above message on my photo she then sent me this message on Flickr as well then BLOCKED ME!
How dare you. I am not impressed and i will fight you, You have no right to do what you have done, I am not a dishonest seller, and I am fully prepared to stand up for myself. I am sorry I was at work all day and didn't have a chance to reply to you before you went crazy on me. Trust me I will be getting moderators involved and I will not let you bully me,
When I tried to reply to her on flickr it was now that I noticed she had blocked me and so then I decided to send her a reply on Blythe Kingdom.
This is what I wrote:
The doll arrived this way, I do NOT use knives when customizing dolls, or opening dolls, and what reason would i have to do this to the doll when I REALLY wanted her? It makes no sense...I dont care if you are impressed or not big deal. I've been collecting LONGER than 7 years..whoopie! Are we bragging of our status now? You sold me a doll, that was NOT as you described, the doll had been opened and the scalp cut in the back. The doll arrived this way and I want to get my money back. The green eyeshadow on the doll is not original, this doll was suppose to have pink eyeshadow if its a Cherry berry. are you going to say that I did that too? These photos are private and I added you to them so you could see what I am talking about...You are the only one who had access to view them. So Im not bullying you...I was letting you see what arrived today so that you wouldnt think I was making this up. I wanted this doll desparately and had been looking for a Cherry Berry for a month so WHY on earth would I cut it with a knife and ruin the doll? Your logic makes no sense....I was super upset when I got her because I felt you lied blatantly when you said her wonky eyelash was the only thing wrong with her.
At this time I went to go and copy and paste the description of the doll from BK but noticed that the description was now magically gone and in its place was a small new description that only stated:
"SOLD nude cherry berry ebl blythe 135 CND + shipping
The description which is missing clearly stated the doll was in good condition and completely stock and that only flaw of the doll were the eyelashes on the left eye which were wonky towards the end also that she had bought the doll awhile back and had her stored away.
I then filed a paypal dispute and have left the matter with them.
Jenn contacted me one more time and had the following to say:
I am going to deal with moderators, so future communication with you will be through moderators, I do not need to put up with this abuse from you and will not. I will handle this like an adult. I never opened this doll, I never did anything that you are claiming I did and I will not be conversing with you furthermore. I am sorry you are displeased and I am sorry you have taken this route, and yes I have been selling dolls a long while, and I definitely know the difference between WRONG and RIGHT.
~genova
I honestly feel that Jenn (Genova) has left me no recourse, she refuses to work this out and is being childish by attempting to hide behind the moderators skirts when it is well known that the moderators on BK do not like drama and do not get involved with transactions which happen on the boards.
It was at this time that I sent the following message to Genova (Jenn):
the moderators have been contacted by me, they do not get involved in transactions between members so regardless you are going to have to settle this with me. I have photos that I took early in the morning right after the doll arrived at 10 am so you really need to fix this situation.
I am posting this BDD because Jenn is clearly attempting to say that I cut this doll up, which is super silly when I really wanted the doll, also I have the original photos of the BK auction and in the shot where the you see the dolls back the photo stops right before the scalpline where the dolls scalp was cut, so she had to have seen this before mailing the doll out. |
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| Ebay member fruitpants |
[May. 11th, 2012|07:46 pm] |
She has been a dream doll of mine and when I saw she was for sale on ebay my heart nearly stopped. I had to have her! I messaged the seller and offered them a reasonable BIN price of $1200US which they refused saying they paid more for the doll so wanted to continue the auction.
So I waited the foreverness it seemed to take for auction to come near to end, set my alarm to get up early to bid in the last minutes. I won! But already my heart started to sink as my winning bid $1025US was lower than the BIN I originally offered to the seller.
Immediately after auction close the seller sent me message
"There were irregularities in the bidding on this item. I will have eBay investigate. Do not send payment until we figure it out.
Thanks" I hadn't heard from the seller for 2 days after messaging them for an update about the 'investigation'. So I contacted ebay live chat, told them the above and they told me there was no investigation on the item and I was in my right to demand the item, that seller was bound by contract, legal issues etc. So I messaged the seller and told them what the ebay rep told me and added that I hoped we could sort this out peacefully. The seller didn't reply for another day so I sent a message to ebay support detailing all of the above. Later that day I got a response from seller:
"I am sorry and understand your disappointment at the way the auction turned out. Approximately two to three hours before the auction ended I removed the highest bidder (located in Russia) because I believed they were the cause of bid suppression. I also tried to end the auction but ebay would not allow me to, I'm guessing because it was so close to the auction's end. I understand that this isn't fair to you, but it isn't fair to me either. I don't understand how bid suppression works, it has never happened to me before. It is impossible that no bids were placed on this item in the 48 hour period leading up to the close of the auction. I am unsure who was responsible or how the tampering occurred. It may or may not have been the Russian high bidder. For the above reason I am not able to sell you the doll and can not safely relist it until/unless ebay can shed some light on what transpired." There was 30 bids so I doubt there was any 'bid suppression'. Her auction went for 9 days, people were bidding first few days as she started at 99cents, there was a slow down in bids for the couple of days leading up to auction, but I have seen that happen a lot with custom dolls. And now they have opened a 'cancel transaction case' which is waiting for me to decline or accept.
I have not had a response from ebay support as yet. :( UPDATE:
Just got response from ebay.
Response from ebay confirms the dodgyness of this seller: "Hello Alanna, Thanks for contacting eBay with regards to the inappropriate trading
activities you have noticed on the site. I understand that the customer,
fruitpants, has a habit of not honouring the binding contract that
encompasses a transaction within eBay. Let me look into this for you. " I have now declined the case to cancel transaction. But I will not be going through the sale, as the seller has proved they're deceitful I am suspicious they would send me something other than doll then close their paypal etc. It is such a pity though that such a beautiful doll is now lost to the blythe community, as the seller is not a flickr member as I asked if they had a flickr account when they first listed her. |
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| EDIT: RECEIVED!!! *Bought a Doll on Etsy From thomaslee20120111 & Now the Store is Gone!** |
[Mar. 14th, 2012|10:07 am] |
EDIT ** TODAY SHE ARRIVED! She is perfect and I'm excited that she is even nicer than the first one I bought from a different seller because this one has all special Chips***
So in the end the Tracking Never did update, and Customs TORE Her apart and had made a note about they were sorry for the inconvenience so it would seem the US Customs messed her around a bit!
ORGINAL MESSAGE:
So yes I was one of the impatient ones that has been dying for a Factory Alexis Emerald since I rarely buy a NRFB doll with Stock lately (Trying to not spend as much money)
Well I saw the dolls on Etsy, and yes its a handmade site and Blythe dolls don't really belong there, And the guy had No feedback but it was Alexis and so I was blinded by her hairs (Like possibly a Few others were?)
As soon as I saw the store was missing I opened a Paypal Claim at the advice of Etsy who does not do anything for you if a Store is closed... they told me to take it up with Paypal.
So on March 5th I wrote the seller Right when I did the Paypal claim and did not hear back for two days, well finally he realizes I have a claim and he says will I cancel the Claim if he Proves Shipping. I said Sure.
On the 10th I wrote him again and said PROVE Shipping or I am escalating my claim, He was silent.
On the 11th I escalated the claim and He wrote me BEGGING me to cancel the Claim and that he could prove tracking, but then about an hour later he said he would not send the doll till I canceled my claim O_O So now he claims the doll wasn't sent, I went and told Paypal that.. Today Paypal says he updated with tracking but it doesn't work yet so I don't know what to think, I'm leaving this in Paypal's hands.
I just wanted to say if you are one of the ones that bought the factory dolls off Etsy, did you get your doll?
And if you haven't I recommend keeping an eye on the situation and possibly taking it up with Paypal.
I will update when I have further information. Thanks. |
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| BDD on Tiffiny F. aka Crazy4Blythe |
[Feb. 27th, 2012|09:45 pm] |
I listed an SBL custom forsale on ThisisBlythe and Blythe Kingdom and the buyer contacted several times about wanting to purchase the doll. The doll was a silver snow custom and I mentioned that the doll was not perfect and therefore she was being sold at a discounted price "as is". In the listing I mentioned that she had been boggled, gaze corrected, eyelashes replaced, nose carving and rounding, eye sockets were rounded a bit more and made bigger, she got 4 new pairs of chips and her make up was all replaced via airbrush, pastels and acrylic paints she also got sleepeyes and pullrings. I normally sell my customs for twice the amount that I sold it to Tiffiny and I did share several photos of the doll to her prior to her buying it. Photos were listed on my Flickr and on both websites, different views were available for her to see. Originally I bought Silver Snow to customize and keep for myself but I had just sold several of my girls so I decided she needed to go too. I did not realize while customizing her that I had accidentally smudged her blush with my thumb and sealed her with MSC. It wasnt till the next day that I noticed this but still decided to sell her "as is" at a discounted price which was 155.00 including priority shipping w/delivery confirmation. In my opinion this is an exceptionally great price for a custom especially because she is super pretty and well done. Granted the doll has one small flaw but other than that the doll is in good condition. I used the hot water method to open her up so Im not sure how Tiffiny arrived at the conclusion that I "sawed her in half" unless she has done something to alter the doll. Also when I reglued her scalp I made certain it took all the way around and that no gaps were visible. I honestly believe this is a case of her not reading the descriptions given and also just not being familar with Blythe molds, which led to the following.
I recieved an angry email from Tiffiny while I was out of town demanding a refund because I failed to mention that the doll had been opened and her scalp removed? She also mentioned that her blush was uneven and my work was shotty? I reminded her that the reason for the blush being uneven was due to the thumbprint that had removed the blush and I also mentioned to her that the doll was sold in "as is" condition and that I didnt issue refunds on items that were discounted or reduced in price. I mentioned to her that there were several people interested in the doll and if she just wasnt happy with the doll she should just turn around and sell her. I am very confused as to how Tiffiny thinks that I boggled, gaze corrected, carved the eyesockets, added sleeprings and airbrushed her make up if the doll was not open? The doll was a full custom and the for sale posts mentioned this, they also mentioned that the doll was not perfect and thus the price. Well after recieving my reply Tiffiny then proceeded to file a Paypal dispute claiming that the doll was damaged. I no longer do customs as I retired a couple weeks prior to this sale, this doll was originally intended for my small doll family. I am only posting this as a warning to other sellers in case you run across this buyer in your dealings. In my opinion Tiffiny simply did not love the doll as much as she did in the pictures and was looking for any excuse to get her money back, grasping for straws if you know what I mean. Below is a photo of Tatsi Enchante the doll Tiffiny purchased so you can see for yourself the doll was not in bad condition : |
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| Botched Alpaca reroot |
[Feb. 17th, 2012|12:21 pm] |
I am a bit upset and heartbroken that after being patient in waiting for this person (Mnemone) to reroot my doll because she was moving and ended up sending my scalp with very short hair and very uneven. I sent 2 ozs 12-14" of alpaca hair per her request and it's really sparse and short in the back. She offered to fix but I had to send additional alpaca as some will know Alpaca is not cheap and also cover shipping. Now I'm out a HS scalp and hair and an Alpaca scalp gone wrong. This is the first time that this has happened to me. Not to mention the person feels like they have done nothing wrong and pointed out that there was a 2" difference O__o um the doll is 11.5" tall and this is a knot method so even at 12" I don't think it would be this short? I had a previous reroot done by another person and she used 1.5 oz of 9" - 10" of mohair and it's gorgeous and not short at all like the one I received from Angela. She refused not to reimburse after she charged me $190 for the reroot and I paid $94 for the Alpaca. Please beware of this person I would hate for this to happen to someone else.
Just an FYI about how Paypal works when it comes to services. Basically you have no protection the customer rep was really nice and gave me the link in regards to this. It's an unfortunate situation but he did say that if they get more claims on their account they will close it. So at least she is on their radar.
PayPal Purchase Protection only applies to PayPal payments for certain tangible, physical goods. Payments for the following are not eligible for reimbursement under PayPal Purchase Protection:
13.3 Ineligible Items. PayPal Purchase Protection only applies to PayPal payments for certain tangible, physical goods. Payments for the following are not eligible for reimbursement under PayPal Purchase Protection:
2. Services |
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| BAD DOLLY DEAL AT EBAY AUCTIONS |
[Feb. 5th, 2012|05:30 pm] |
BAD DOLLY DEAL AT EBAY AUCTIONS This is about the three auctions at ebay which ended last January 31 2012 at 11:35AM Philippine (PH) time. The seller's usernames are whorrifficzombies at Ebay, Leannarchy and garagesaleleann at Dolly Market and at Live journal. Here are the links: http://www.ebay.ph/itm/220939257546?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2648
http://www.ebay.ph/itm/220939253689?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2648
http://www.ebay.ph/itm/220939252378?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2648 I won the three Pullip dolls Jupi, Chicca and Mercu but right after the bidding Whorrifficzombies(Leannarchy) is cancelling the transactions without even telling me. I have to pm her why she is cancelling them.
She said she did not expect a low winning bid price for them.(She said it in so many word but this is the ball part of it.) . My winning bid are Jupu 81usd, Mercu 86usd and Chicca 92usd. What she wanted(more or a little less) was the price in her DM/LJ listing. She priced Jupi at 125, Mercu 125 and Chicca at 200usd. Ebay had given me 7days if i will agree to cancel the transactions. On Feb 3 pm (PH time) I read her pm, that reads: "I'm telling you that I cannot afford to take a loss here for these dolls. Maybe there is a language barrier or something here and I apologize that I can't make this situation clearer to you. I'm not cancelling the transactions simply because I "didn't like" the prices they sold at. It would be a big difference if I was taking a $10-$20 loss but they sold for far less than that. I'm cancelling them because it would be foolish for me to let these dolls go from my personal collection for such a low price when I paid so much for them. I don't have money to throw around on dolls any more which is the reason why I'm selling them. If I'm not getting back what I paid for them then there is no point for me to sell them, see? The only error I made was not setting a reserve price. You said you can do without Jupi, how about agreeing to cancel the transaction for that one? I don't want to split up Chicca and Mercu but maybe we can work something out. You want some of Chicca's stock and Mercu's head. I could sell you mercu nude and chicca's complete stock but that would still require cancelling the transactions since those auctions were for the complete dolls.” After insulting me she now wants to compromise? By now i don’t feel like compromising.I pmed her: “Are you insulting me? I very well do understand what you mean, loud and clear!
Oh! Admit it, you do not like the price, since it is not what you expected it to be. I won the auctions fair and square, the rules are meant to be followed not broken.
If you want to sell the dolls at a specific price that is up to you. But do not auction your dolls and have low starting bid just to entice people to join the auctions, then once the auctions did not meet your criteria, you will cancel the bidding. That is foul.
I do have a business. Once i make a deal, whether i lose or gain, i honor my commitment. Because if you don't, next time, nobody will believe you and be marked as unscrupulous person. And this is true whatever transaction you went into.” On February 4 at 11:45am, i decided to deny all her request for cancellation. And at around 12pm she wrote this: “I really don't think you need to be this rude to me when I'm trying to cooperate with you. the dolls cannot be sent, sorry.” Now I am rude????? |
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| Magma Heritage, Singapore |
[Feb. 5th, 2012|12:33 pm] |
I placed an order for a Romantic Alice (Pink Version) from Magma Heritage, which is located in Singapore. I was told that since the pink version Alice was a limited edition, I would have to put down a deposit first, and that I would be informed when they arrived. I paid a deposit of $54 in order to confirm my order. This was in August 2011.
As it was already February 2012, and I had yet to receive any email/call from them regarding my order, I decided to email them. While checking their website for their email address, I noticed that the Alices were already sold out. When I emailed them to ask for my deposit back, they were extremely rude, telling me that the phone worked both ways and I should have called them to check. They refused to return my deposit unless I went down to the shop personally. I had proposed a bank transfer for the return of the deposit, as it is a 1-hr trip from my place to the shop, and the whole journey back and fro would have taken me 2 hrs. However, they refused, and told me that even if I were to bring the matter to the Small Claims Tribunal, I would still "lose out" as I would have to pay $10 to lodge the claim against them.
I was under the impression that as the sellers, they should have kept records of all orders, and surely it is not too hard to email everyone on the list who paid deposits for the Alices? Now I am out both money and doll, while they refuse to return my deposit even though they did not bother to contact me at all about my purchase. Will definitely not buy from them again, and will discourage any who are considering purchasing from them. |
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| moth balls (PLEASE read!) |
[Feb. 3rd, 2012|10:32 am] |
Hi! I recently purchased a petite Blythe Kingyo-Bijin (Goldfish Beauty) from belinda_blythe on ebay and it came smelling horribly of MOTH BALLS!
Just wanted to let you all know! She stated in correspondence that she stores ALL of her dolls in MOTH BALLS!
She has many Blythe dolls listed! Do not buy from her!
Unless you like the smell of moth balls. =| |
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| (no subject) |
[Jan. 8th, 2012|08:13 am] |
Edit #1: I've filed a Paypal dispute, so hopefully one way or another this will be resolved soon! ):
Edit #2: I filed the dispute and within an hour received a response from her that she "does not have internet access every day right now". Apparently she is at her mother's while the receipt is at her father's, so she'll be getting back to me with it tomorrow. She also blamed me for now not having $50 in her bank account to pay for her textbooks. Wow.
I find it strange that now all of a sudden she can log on to get back to me again. Hooo this is fun so far! :|
Edit #3: I did get my package, but there was a whole lot of (what I feel was) BS leading up to her actually shipping it out. When she went to "look for" the receipt, she found my package (!) that she hadn't mailed out. She apparently mailed "another package" to Canada which the thought was mine, and then mine was forgotten. She did end up shipping it out though, and I got it the next day (which is why I knew it couldn't have been mailed in the first place) so all is good. I cancelled the dispute once I had the head.
Overall I'd probably not deal with this user again, but since it did work out (and in the case she actually just DID think my package was another she'd sent) I don't want to post her username up here.
So this is not quite a BDD yet but I think it might turn out that way. ):
I posted about a month ago on ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif?v=92.2) pullip_sales looking for bait heads. I had a user PM me about a head she was selling. We worked it out to $50 shipped since she lives about 3 hours from me. She told me it would be mailed on Monday (Dec 19) at the latest (I think I paid on Sunday).
A couple weeks go by and there's still no package, so I messaged her asking when she shipped it, and let her know I was worried since it didn't have far to go. She replied telling me she shipped it, and that it was probably just delayed due to being shipped around the holidays. She offered to try and find the receipt as proof as well.
I told her I'd like a picture of the receipt and haven't heard from her since. :/ it's only been a couple days but her replies until now have been within hours usually. I mentioned to her that even with holiday mail, we are 3 hours apart and it definitely should have been here by now. I also mentioned that I've received packaged from the UK, Norway and Japan in that time and they were all shipped during the holidays.
So. As it's getting close to the Paypal claim cutoff date, I don't know what I should do. I'm assuming she shipped it without tracking, as I have no number. Do I file a claim and wait for the package to come in, then send the money back if it does arrive? I know I could wait and see her reaponse to me asking for proof, but I feel that three weeks is more than enough time for it to have arrived. ): |
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| BDD Queenie, Shelley, Shell B |
[Oct. 18th, 2011|07:13 pm] |
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![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.2) jerseygrljenn- October 18th, 19:05
On Sept. 3 I paid several hundred for an original Piccadilly Blythe. I paid immediately and was told she would be shipped Monday following including delivery confirmation and insurance. Package not mailed, but things happen....then she says her husband mailed it but never gave me the tracking. After asking several times I got a tracking # wich I checked weekly for one month. After a month of communications about how she was checking with the postal service but they did not have info for her SHE OFFERED ME a refund.Iive it a few more days, cause she was just so darn nice and I really wanted this doll--even though people informed me that it would smell like smoke because of previous probs. Sale never told this truth. So another few days go by and Oct 16 I aske for the refund. She apologizes and says she's gotta work a couple of days but will do it Fri. Friday comes no refund. I send emails that are NEVER ANSWERED EVER AGAIN. I send pms, then I try a paypal dispute which apparently was also ignored. So no doll, no money, I escalate to claim. All said and done I got my money back. The weird part is she had happy feedback from someone the week she sold to me-in her own area. I'm not interested in doing interest free loans oversees, thanks. Also she portrays herself as the nicest person in all these mails...sweetie this, so sorry that...obviously judging by her track record here, its all some kind of game. Do not buy even if you have good word of mouth-not worth the hassle.
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