eBay Trading Store (drop-off) Boss suing employee for account suspension.

[nicolia]

Ah...smart people do exist

Thank you rmet4nzkx for an intelligent answer.

I did try to find the original post, but only found postings from gjs8806 in strings that he/she did not author.

 

[You Are Guilty]

So, from your statements, HomeGuru, I am able to draw that you simply believe this person should not be addressed because of the negative nature of his post?

I suppose that we are also to assume that this declaration of yours is to apply only to gjs8806? Otherwise, we could easily assume that you are also stating that this forum is no longer to reply to you or IAAL.

Call me crazy, but HG and IAAL are not the ones asking for free legal advice and copping a bad attitude about it. Frankly, given that if CA prices are anything like NYC (I'm sure they are), IAAL and HG have people paying them $400 and up per hour to hear the same legal advice they give people here for free.

If someone doesn't like the free advice that's posted, each and every person out there is entitled to go pay someone the $200+ it'll take to get the same answer from their own lawyer.

(Come to think of it, if anyone wants to speak to a private attorney because they didn't like the free advice they got here, I'll gladly charge you only $150 to tell you the same thing. If I do it while sitting on the can each night, I can make an easy $500 more every day!)

For our really dense readers, the point is that you ought not to complain when you get a very expensive item for free, even if you don't like it.

 

[nicolia]

Serious Doubts

I have serious doubts that anyone would pay money for the following "legal advise"

"Since this has to do with E-Bay, we don't care what happens to you, your boss, or the situation in general. We're burned out on E-Bay problems." - IAAL

Now maybe I'm wrong, perhaps IAAL and HG have built exceptional practices based upon giving their clients the above advise...however I stand by my title.

 

[You Are Guilty]

I have serious doubts that anyone would pay money for the following "legal advise"

"Since this has to do with E-Bay, we don't care what happens to you, your boss, or the situation in general. We're burned out on E-Bay problems." - IAAL

Now maybe I'm wrong, perhaps IAAL and HG have built exceptional practices based upon giving their clients the above advise...however I stand by my title.

Since the language you quoted isn't legal advice (or "advise" either), you're probably right that no one would pay for it. (Feel free to check http://www.m-w.com for the definition of "advice" if you don't believe me).

Being a free advice site, it's also every posters' perogative whether to respond to a post or not. If someone is tired of stupid Ebay questions, they can be the foremost expert on internet commerce on the planet, they still don't have to reply.

Yet I'm constantly amazed at the number of people here who get mad because they not only get free legal advice, but it's (apparently) not the advice that they wanted to hear, even though it's correct.

 

[nicolia]

My Point Exactly

I think we are on the same page...in an odd sort of way.

My point is that neither IAAL nor HG ever gave the author advice...and they rarely ever do.

You state that people should not get mad when the advice they get is free, however, your statement is only correct if the person actually receives advice (and I'll assume we both know what “advice” is, since you nicely posted a link to the definition).

I also agree with you that experts "still don't have to reply". This was my main point - simply do not reply (especially if the post does nothing but ridicule and deride.)

And I COMPLETELY agree with you that it is not acceptable when people get mad at correct advice. However, I would say that many times those people are getting mad at the personal attack that often accompanies the free advice.

 

[gjs8806]

What exactly is your boss claiming you did to damage the company?

I've had previous accounts on eBay which were suspended because I was under 18. And his account, (the store's account) was then suspended because I had logged onto it from my home computer, this triggering my ip logging in under his account and eBay then suspended it for being associated with me.

When you get to the bottom of this, no he didn't know I had previous accounts, so eBay really shoudl reinstate his because of the fact I am no longer with him.

However he wants me to pay for the items that sold and were never paid for because of the suspension which is rediculus.


I reccomended he should register a new account under the store's name, not his, being that it is a business account, not a personal one.

 

[gjs8806]

Nicolia, If you read the original unedited post you would have seen that OP was underage and running a scam on eBAY and trying to get someone here to aid and abet him, no one is going to do that, especially with his attitude.

Woudl you like to tell me what scam I was running? I'm pretty sure there wasn't one...but obviously you seem to know more than I do.

I was simply listing items for the trading assistant store that people come and drop off for us to sell. There is NO more to that part of the story.



I'm not mad at the "advice" mainly due to the fact that there is none. I'm mad that instead of posting an intelligent response at these forums, people choose to instead write a personal attack. Most people that come here have been wronged, or were wrong, are not denying that and want to know what would be best for them to get it over with.

 

[nicolia]

Obvious Question

Did he ask you to log in under his store ID? If so, why did he ask you to do such? In other words, why didn't he ask you to log in under your own ID?

Also, did he know that you were 17?

 

[You Are Guilty]

And I COMPLETELY agree with you that it is not acceptable when people get mad at correct advice. However, I would say that many times those people are getting mad at the personal attack that often accompanies the free advice.

Perhaps, but that's one of the benefits (from my point of view) of free advice. While I can't tell an idiot client who's paying me $400/hr that he's an idiot (even though it may be painfully obvious that he is), I certainly can do so here

As far as whether people post advice or slams, I'd say most people here with more than 10 posts to their name have, somewhere, offered some sort of advice. (Whether it is useful or correct advice is a separate issue). Just because the post or 10 you happened to run across leans more towards slam than advice doesn't mean that that's how every post of that author's reads.