Hi - this is marcimouse -
and I am sorry to read all of the statements above
I guess most on this board assume the worst immediately
so to explain
I went on vacation - disney had a pin cruise - a villians pin cruise that i reserved last year on their last pin cruise. it was a pin event on a pin cruise. sorry you werent aware of this.
i have no other excuse and am not trying to excuse what has happened.
I set up a friend to handle the 7 auctions that were scheduled to close during my trip. and he was also going to handle any payments that came in for buy it now items out of my ebay store (which are not auctions and were not scheduled to close until the end of the month)
i left thinking everything was fine - got on a boat where there is no cell tower at sea and that was it.
i did not PM (i dont even know what PM is) anyone while I was away - I didnt even email friends - the
disney cruise charges $40 to go online for the cruise - I didnt think necessary to pay that when I was trying to take a vacation from it and had a friend working at my house covering the shipments for me.
i did not respond to any feedback or list any new auctions during that time at all - I use ANDALE.com - they post automatic feedback rotating between 5 different cute comments for anyone posting feedback for me. I have nothing to do with it.
I also use PAYPAL.com - they offer an instant winner notification to contact the buyer immediately (within the first 3 days) as contact to the buyer.
with the amount of items listed in my store = i use these so the buyers have a faster process instead of waiting for me to send emails of how to pay and then waiting for me to post all of the feedbacks (about 200 per week) -
one mistake on my part that happened this month - and all of a sudden it is a bashing session with non-truths and wrong assumptions.
again, I know it was a mistake on my part, and I shoul dhave had another friend lined up in case the first got sick - i just thought I had my bases covered.
i got home and began checking emails and found out about it - and immediately started to respond by statting I was away... It had nothing to do with lies or deceit or trying to make up something to appease 6 people on a message board.
my apologies for being human and making unforgivable mistakes
mar-c