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2- hurt competition (he is also selling autographs)
When you talk to eBay this is a key point you need to slip into the conversation as in "blah blah blah blah AND he's a competitor in the same category".
Hello 'lady.stark',
<< please take a look at the response he left to my response.... . . . I am totally baffled by his behavior.>>
Wow, that's really shocking. But when you consider that he is a competing seller, I think that explains what he is up to.
You will have your voice back soon and when you do, spend as much time as necessary on the phone to ebay to get that
entire mess removed.
Ebay will see all your messages - as well as his. And as the other poster mentioned, proving to ebay that this guy is
a rival seller who seems to think this is a good way to eliminate competition may even damage his account, especially
when ebay sees all the negs he leaves.
He may also have a lot of 'notes' on his account that are not visible, - if he has done this to other sellers. A member who
behaves that way should be booted, - he poisons the environment for everyone.
Best wishes for a speedy recovery, and do not let this go until you are left with a clean slate. 
Hello again, 'lady.stark',
I'm glad to hear you are feeling a little better. You really caught a whopper there, didn't you. 
<<I tried to find a phone number in the Online Customer Service, but all I got was links to report a buyer. . . .
Can someone point me in the right direction?>>
The easiest thing would probably be just to use the number 'sylviebee' provided. But the way I get through to a number
and pass code is:
Click the Help & Contact at the top of the page.
Scroll down to the bottom button that says Contact us and click that.
From the 1) buying/selling/account offerings that appear at the top of the next page, choose Selling,
then pick Resolve selling problems.
Under that, choose Appeal a defect or feedback.
From there scroll waaaay down to the bottom of the page and click 2) the Call us button to get a phone number and pass code.
Also, I think no matter what you say on the phone ebay will see how the land really lies and recognize that you did
all you could and the buyer steadfastly refused to assist in his own complaint. From the feedback link I provided earlier
in the thread here, ebay says they will remove feedback when:
A buyer has shown a pattern of leaving disproportionately high rates of low Feedback or low detailed seller ratings.
In light of the stats you have provided, this clearly qualifies. Sellers trying to ruin other sellers is not new, so gather up
all the **bleep**nal you can against this person and focus on his violating ebay's policies and codes as much as possible.
Telephone attendants hear whines about "unfair negatives" all day long so you will want to calmly demonstrate how this
guy is using his account to be deliberately destructive.
<<course, I *could* also try to negotiate a feedback revision with this guy,>>
You do what you must, but I would strongly advise against this. A request for revision is usually reserved for those
situations in which a genuinely annoyed buyer can be mollified with a partial refund or a sincere apology or something.
If you give him money and he revises, he will most certainly leave a neutral which you may not be able to get removed
at that point.
Moreover, an attempt to seek a revision on your part will make it appear as though you admit to being at least partially
at fault. Instead, when you are feeling well enough, call ebay as often as you need to and get the whole thing taken off.
(Sometimes you will find a particularly intransigent person on the phone so all you can do is gently thank her for her time
and call back later when you're up to another round.)
Best of luck
Haha, good grief! I got bleeped. The word means armaments, ordnance, ammunition, . . . you know the one.
Sheesh, . . . censorship has truly gone too far. 
@dmil8030 wrote:
Haha, good grief! I got bleeped. The word means armaments, ordnance, ammunition, . . . you know the one.
Sheesh, . . . censorship has truly gone too far.
LOL 
-- I just saw what it was they bleeped. How absurd, although I imagine it was a "bot" censorship. It's similar to what the bots keep doing on these boards with the ID of 'toby*bleep*zu', where the last 6 letters of his ID are the name of a tiny lap-dog from the orient, you know, the Sh--zu. Ridiculous.
Let's hope a real live moderator would not have blanked out the middle of your word just because a few letters happened to line up in a descriptive but hardly offensive noun for the anterior part of the human body.
I suppose that means we can't discuss nuclear **bleep**nals then? Or the recent excellent documentaries by that CBC reporter, Adrienne **bleep**nault? Or the possibility of **bleep**nic toxicity in local streams? Or **bleep**nio Hall? Ha-ha, chew on that you robotic morons.
Down with the bots!
Well, well, the bots zapped that message before it even got posted! LOL
I guess I've used up most of my Board Brownie Points for this year. No more "bleepable" words from me for a while.
<<Well, well, the bots zapped that message before it even got posted! >>
But it was wonderfully funny to read, all that!
I don't mind 'bleeps', really, I think they're funny. I just read them as they are and don't put anything into it.
Like those little dogs, -- bleepzus.
I once had a post removed because of the word "feckless". That takes not just one but two uneducated people.
One to report it and one to remove it. It means aimless, frivolous. But I suppose some people just see an f and a c and a k
and just naturally leap to the obviously erroneous conclusion.
Well thanks for that raucous good laugh. A super way to start my day. 
