> If you do not agree with the s&h charges
> then you simply should not bid on those
> auctions Wayne.

S&H charge of $1.85 for a single chip is fine. But $16.65 for nine chips in a white business envelope sent for $1.29 postage is way out of line. Would you be happy with that?

> It's pretty simple.

Yes, it is, and it's a wonder why you don't get it by now.

> eBayers are under no obligation to combine
> s&h charges.

They are if they combine shipping, which you did. That's the whole issue. Why is it so hard for you to understand?

> You didn't even ask prior to bidding.

Ah, but I did ask prior to a subsequent auction, and you refused to answer! (No kidding!) It really wouldn't have mattered if you were intent on gouging for extra profit from S&H fees.

> If you had I would have told you no --
> that's the way the auction was priced.

You would be, then, the only seller who made that refusal for the sole reason of making a little extra profit at the expense of a customer - the only one that I have encountered in about a year of heavy eBay bidding on casino chips. You're the only bad apple.

> Even after bidding you were told that s&h
> charges would not be combined and you went
> ahead and made the purchase anyway --

That's not exactly true. I sent the full payment with a note of dissatisfaction over the unreasonable charge, and a note on my PayPal payment that I expected a refund of any unused funds.

> this tells me that you thought the overall
> price was reasonable else you would not have
> went through with the purchase.

That's most likely because you have a reading and comprehension disability, or you are intentionally stupid. My message was "I expect a refund of any unused postage and handling fees, else you will get a negative feedback" and your message here is "Hmmm, sounds like a satisfied customer." Duh.

> I've seen several auctions where the seller
> does not even list the s&h charges and
> notifies the buyer after the auction ends.

I've won quite a few of those auctions, and each one ended up with much more reasonable shipping and handling charges than you gouged me with. You were by far the worst, in almost 1000 casino-related lots purchased in the past year and a half.

> They often times increase the s&h charge to
> make up for a less than expected sale price.

Good! Now you know how people feel when you do the same thing to them.

> I've bid on one of these auctions and when the
> s&h charges came back I declined to buy the item > because I thought the total cost to me was
> unreasonable.

That's because a negative eBay feedback for reneging on the deal doesn't bother you, since you were happy to sell out your reputation for a few measly bucks on our deal and a few chips from Charles Kaplan's round robin. I hold a much higher value on my reputation, as does virtually everyone else hold to theirs. It's an integrity thing - something you couldn't hope to understand.

> You obviously thought otherwise or you
> wouldn't have mailed the check.

It was an eBay payment, jerk. And you read, but couldn't understand, the message that I was definitely NOT satisfied with paying that much for shipping unless it was in nine separate envelopes. You combined shipping, but you did not combine shipping charges, because you are greedy.

> Now stop whining, really.

As soon as this matter is resolved, I certainly will. But this is far from resolved.

> You feel slighted, but you only did it to
> yourself.

This is why I feel it is necessary to remind old members and explain to new members on this board that, among other ethical issues of yours, your customer service strategy is nothing more than "I screwed you. Get over it." Do you mind if I use your quote in a boiler-plate form letter which I'll post from time to time here?

> No matter what the final bids on my multiple
> auctions I'm smart enough to mail the items in
> the most cost effect method which I did,

That was one of the stupidest things you could have done, smart boy! You charged heavily for a service you did not deliver. It's fraud, plain and obvious.

> so while the actual "shipping" was combined
> the "shipping charges" were not -- that's the
> seller's call.

Right - it's the seller's call whether to screw the buyer or not. You chose to screw me, and refuse to make good on it. That was a bad call.

> Do you search on my name every time you check
> the ChipBoard just to harass me?

Not at all. I mainly lurk on here and use TheChipBoard as a source of very valuable chipping information, some leads to storage equipment and chip bargains, even some daily humor (Thank You Phyllis!). Your presence here disrupts the flow - here's a guy, Vic Galante, who is looking for trades on a message board while refusing to make good on a swindle against one of the members involved in the same message board. How stupid can you get?

> Really, what's the point after almost a year?

It's actually been more than a year and a half, but here we agree: getting you to understand why what you did was wrong, and getting you to make good on your previous swindle, is pretty much hopeless. The point, though, is to warn other would-be traders about your sterling "customer service" policy.

> It's obvious that I'm still an active
> participant in the ChipBoard and in the hobby.

What is obvious is that you disapper for two weeks at a time, then return to butter up posters on this board in anticipation of higher sales on your eBay crap. You aren't ethically qualified to join the National club, and you were kicked out of your local South Florida club for ethical reasons. Your "active participation in the ChipBoard" largely consists of you staunchly refusing to make good on your S&H scam with me, and refusing to admit when you're wrong.

> Seems childish and I'm surprised some of the
> other ChipBoard participants aren't more vocal
> about your repeated rude remarks.

Shouldn't that be a big hint to you that maybe, just maybe, you're wrong? I got three emails from ChipBoard members, just from this latest appearance of yours, and they were 100% positive! In fact, I've never gotten any negative response at all to my "reminders" for you.

We've given up on getting you to understand why what you did (and what you refuse to do) is wrong - since you've proven several times that your reputation is not worth the $12 or so you overcharged me. From now on I'll let your own customer service policy hang yourself - "You got screwed, get over it." That's not even as noble as "We screw the other guy, and pass the savings on to you."

WMD