@i*m-still-here wrote:
@marnotom! wrote:
You don't generally go into a lot of details about your purchases, but I would surmise that a lot of those "issues" that you're encountering in your purchases are with the sellers, rather than with the GSP itself.
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marnotom: You surmise incorrectly.
In the past I have gone into lengthy detail about my very unpleasant GSP purchases and was viciously attacked every time I did so.
Now I come here to glance at the thread now and then because the GSP is a major force in my every day eBay buying experience but I no longer go into detail for obvious reasons.
(Speaking generally here — not toward any one person...)
This is the sort of atmosphere I am starting to hate at these forums and thus part of why I've scaled back my posting, consider:
Every time someone has a bad GSP experience and posts about it, there are a select group of individuals at these forums that feel the need to point out holes in the post in a format that comes off rather passive-agressive. This makes these forums rather unwelcoming if there are a group of older members who constantly go around saying "Yes, but you're wrong..." all the time. In my view it makes these forums outright hostile for some where a new member may feel they're being slighted by the more experienced memberbase while already stressed about a transaction gone wrong (e.g. spending more money than they were shown). Often this slighting includes cherrypicking bits and pieces of the complainant's post and responding to it as if the rest of the post doesn't exist or treating them as if they're seeing things that aren't there.
Every experience is valuable and should be orderly accepted as another perspective on this issue. These forums should not be a means to try to convince their issues did not happen. The fact people are posting in confusion or frustration about the GSP at all is a sign that the programme is flawed in its structure. Sure if it was one or two posts per month, there'd be reason to treat them as the exception but now GSP issues in Canada have become the rule for the reasons highlighted in this very thread.
I would encourage older members on these forums to understand that while yes, you may hold all kinds of resources, data, details and so forth that you should formulate your posts to be open and accepting of the poster's plight, perhaps instead of trying to post all kinds of data and legal/policy resources, what would be a better perspective is ask questions, try to open up dialogue, try to understand and address the issues with their perspective in mind, not with "But the CBSA does X while eBay does Y" or "But $4 is to PBI, $10 to shipping center, can't do any different". While these may be the facts, it makes people feel that all "expert"/"experienced" responses on these forums are from a can or expressly designed to shut down GSP conversation rather than encourage it to add more data points to the issue at hand.
I would encourage experienced members to understand the emotions but try to work information out from those emotions that can be used as empirical data about the GSP's performance, don't waste those opportunities for the sake of being "right". You may be right in all intents and purposes, but understand that on forums there's more than simply being right, these forums are a conversation tool, not a Q and A site like "Yahoo Answers".
The GSP may not be the most flexible of programmes and may not have recourse mechanisms against the programme itself, but at least let these people feel they can get their situation out there via these forums and have a sense of recourse.
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