Shopper sued for posting negative feedback on eBay

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http://www.news.com.au/technology/s...feedback-on-ebay/story-e6frfro0-1225853417348

AN ONLINE shopper is being sued for more than $15,000 for posting negative comments on eBay about a man who sold him a broken clock.

Michael Steadman accused Elliot Miller of having the "ethic of a car salesman" after the $US44 clock arrived in pieces, Florida Today reported.

Mr Miller, a lawyer, claims the negative feedback has ruined his "100 per cent" eBay rating and commericial reputation and is suing for damages.

Mr Steadman said that the case had so far cost him $US7,000 in legal fees.

"It's not safe to say anything online," he told Florida Today. "Because I don't have the money to fight, I'm losing. It's not right."

Mr Steadman was looking for a clock that would time stamp his employees cards for his welding business in Cape Canaveral.

He spotted one on Mr Miller's eBay page, which sells electrical components and hardware, and send off the $44.

However, the clock arrived in three shipments and the parts appeared to be from different models and were incompatible, he said.

He filed a complaint with eBay and got his money back, but said he wanted to leave the negative feedback to warn other potential buyers.

Mr Miller says in his lawsuit that the clock was "plainly offered for sale with the following language: 'We cannot give you any guarantees and must offer it on an as-is, where-is basis only'."
I can only imagine how the courts would get tied up with arcades related lawsuits if this kind of stuff ever caught on! Haha!
 
Heres hoping a judge throws it out and forces the Plantiff to cover all legal fees. That's one thing the British courts do better.
 
I think I'm confused. The Lawyer who sold the shitty stuff is the plantiff, correct? The guy who left negative feedback and is being sued is the defendant. Maybe I read wrong?

That is how I read it. Lawyer (seller of said clock) is plaintiff. Clock buyer is defendant.
 
WOW! So one negative feedback rating, ruins a mans business.

Amazing, I did not know that!

What is this internet world coming to...
 
That's lawyer's for you. Doesn't cost them anything but a little of their time to screw you over and make life that much harder for you.

I had a buddy that owned a flooring company and he said that the only people he ever had problems with were lawyers and doctors. He figured since they had good professions they were good payers. Not the case. He had one doctor refuse to pay for flooring after it was installed. My buddy ended up having some bikers go to his house park in his driveway and rev their engines and spin their tires one day. He got his check the next day.
 
I'd sue ebay for giving me the opportunity and encouraging me to post negatives when I have a negative experience. I mean shit, the dude is only doing what ebay ENCOURAGES, right?

Screw lawyers. We'd all be better if 99.99% of them were dead or dying.
 
I have been threatened with a lawsuit from a klover, and I don't have all that many posts or transactions. Anyone else here been threatened with or felt they needed to initiate a lawsuit related to dealings here?

mclassic threatened me, and others, with lawsuits, even going so far as asking me to call his lawyer.
 
Brochure from a pharmaceutical company:

"No animals were harmed in the development of these products. All products were tested on lawyers for two reasons.
(1) The researchers were less likely to form emotional attachments to the lawyers, and
(2) There are some things, even rats won't do."

ken
 
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