Crazy Cat Buyer Beware

For the last 5 days I have been dealing with a real psycho on Ebay. I hate to be mean but this lady has issues. Either that or she is a 12 year old child. It started out with a simple question. I have a huge, and by huge I mean 30 inches huge, plush cat listed on Ebay. It has free shipping.

Eleanor (fans of the Simpsons will get the reference) messaged me asking if I could sell her the cat for $10. I responded with my standard "Thank you for looking at my items but at this time, I am not accepting offers." Usually that will make them go away. But no, not Eleanor.

Her next message tried to play on my heartstrings. " as a mother of 4 as it says in your description, you know how sad it is when a child wants something but can't have it" I tried explaining to her it would cost me $8 to ship to her and after fees, I would be selling it at a loss.  I thought maybe she would understand simple math. 

She was getting desperate and asked if no one bought it before it was about to end, would I sell it to her. Again, I told her I would be losing money. She continued to persist and I told her maybe she could find one at Goodwill. 

Eleanor told me she was not able to go to places to search for this item. Of course not. She is a home bound crazy cat lady. I decided maybe, just maybe, ignoring her would make her go away. Nope, this made her more desperate. 

By this time, I had already blocked her but she was still able to message me. 4 messages filled with the word please. I had enough and called Ebay. The first rep told me she would send a report and see about being able to prevent Eleanor from messaging me. Good, I thought this ordeal was over. Then I got another message. I responded with "Please do not contact me again. Your message will continue to be reported to Ebay and this could result in your losing your privileged to transact on their site, under any user name." 

I called Ebay again and explained my situation to another rep. I asked her if Ebay could send her a message telling her to stop contacting me. The rep assured me that she would get this taken care of but it might take 24 hours. 

In the mean time, Eleanor responded to my do not contact me message: 

"look you can report me to eBay as much as you want and I will message you if I please and you know what I was trying to be nice and give you money when lets face it no one else will and you know what I don't need your item resellers like you are heartless and defiantly not "amazing people" I have tried being nice and you know what I hope you never get anything sold so you and your "4 beautiful children" go bankrupt and guess what you are going to wish you accepted my offer because you would have got $2 but now you won't get any hope you are happy" 

ahh the true side of her begins to show. I was going to ignore it but I had enough of her and Ebay not doing anything to end this harassment. During this time I had been posting my dilemma on a FB Ebay page. One of the members suggested part of this response. (She had called Eleanor a nut job and I removed that part) 

"What? I don't know what your problem is but I am done being nice with you. So listen up. I sell on ebay FOR MY KIDS.. so they can have clothes on their back and food on the table and can get back and forth to school and activities.. but oh yes Im sure that some total stranger having a used stuffed animal is far more important to them than eating or being clothed. Once I pay for shipping and ebay fees and packing material the whoppin 10 cents I might make on this sale would certainly keep them fed and clothed"

Again I called Ebay, this time the call center in Utah and asked to talk to Trust and Safety. I explained my situation to the 4th rep and she told me I didn't have Eleanor on my blocked list. I wasn't logged in to check and I said I'm certain I blocked her. (I did have her blocked and the rep was wrong) The rep also told me if Eleanor was violating any policies, they would deal with it.

So is this the end of my story? Not quite. I woke up this morning with 2 more messages. Apparently she found another seller willing to give her stuff away. 

"Look I'm sorry I'm gonna stop messaging you only because I'm tired of this and I got a deal on another one of these and the seller was very nice and helpful thanks for not being like her enjoy not getting even 10 cents and yes your right "some random stranger" who wants a used cat us more important" 

What a freakin flake. A used cat is more important than feeding my children? 

and at last an attempt at an apology. 

"Fine I'm sorry I shouldn't have said those things that was mean I'll stop messaging you good luck selling your cat"