Am I just an old curmudgeon or would others also start to lose their cool trying to communicate with someone who is either stupid and/or too lazy to actually read and understand what I was saying/asking ?I decided I did not want to send any of my money to someone this bad, as I could just imagine the difficulties if there happened to be anything wrong with the tool or it went missing in the mail.
The bloke was just downright rude to you, what does he mean with his 'bid on it or move on' comment, I think I would have bitten at that. The whole thing reads like he got caught out with a misleading description and just didn't like it.
I'd have posted his name here as well so that other people don't deal with him.
I have had problems with another eBay "seller".He listed a very rare and valuable MT with an absolute bargain "Buy-It-Now" price, so of course I (being a fully-fledged MTo collector) swooped on it like a starving seagull after the last chip (fries) on the beach, paid immediately and asked that it be sent tracked and insured (offering to pay the extra postage costs).I heard nothing for a while, then the seller sent me a message saying he wouldn't sell to me because I wasn't a US buyer (I had given him "my" US postal address as the listing stated "Will ship to United States"). So I said if that was the problem then sell it to my US friend instead, but no, "We've decided to hold off on the sale at this time." Translation: "We've realized we sold this to you way too cheaply, so we refuse to honour our obligations, and we'll use any excuse we can to weasel out of the sale". Oh, and so far not even an offer to refund the money I've already paid to him. If he had been honest enough to tell me he made a mistake and admitted he wanted to sell it for more I would have been bitterly disappointed but accepted the truth and moved on, but he didn't so as a result he has annoyed me enough to give negative (but factual) feedback, and I will open an eBay case for an unsent item as soon as the time allowed for delivery has expired.So, if anyone sees this 10th Anniversary gold-plated PST (No 83 of 200) being offered for sale then I would advise extreme caution in dealing with this seller, to the point of only handing over your money when you actually have the tool in your hands.
In looking for a Surge on ebay I found listings with a picture of an old Surge but description of a new Surge and listings with a picture of a new Surge but description of an old Surge.