The Ebay Seller and the Fear of Feedback

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The Ebay Seller and the Fear of Feedback

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Recently I was passing time fishing on the Bay and won, with a really rather very low bid, a small bunch of old caps with some Wima TFFs lurking in the listing-picture.

Then came a mail
"woops, wouldn't you know it, I've sent your package to China by mistake…"

Yeah, yeah, I was about to delete and forget it, when I noticed the seller was offering to make good out of his "5 kilo" stash.
So I replied that I was only interested in WIMA TFF 400V, 630,V 1000V and listed those values which we prefer.

Daily reports by mail arrived with the blow by blow progress of searching for TFF among hundreds of old caps, plus suggestions of what I could write in the feedback and that I could get 3 or 4 times more in the end. Then really a lot of photos were sent so that I could say yes or no to this cap or the other. I just sent short "OK" replies each time.

Today the package arrived :-) and I left the feedback, word for word, as specified by the seller.
There was a bonus too - the pile in the background. Those deep red ones are from f+t which I have never seen before. Most of the other look good, S+H, Ero Eroid etc.
I believe this is what you call a score, correct?

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Candy! Sho'nuf.
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Re: The Ebay Seller and the Fear of Feedback

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Well, I don't know what you paid, but given that you said it was low, I'd say you did indeed score. :)

PM me if you want to sell any of the Wimas.
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