mods that dont do there job...

locutus12 · 16 Dec 2006 at 21:54

whilst i am very thankful of the efforts most of you put in around here ive got a problem that neads a mod / admin to deal with it and quite frankly its getting ******* ridiculous.

allow me to explain, i had an MM transaction go wrong, a member on these forums took nearly 3 weeks to cough up half of the payment for a cpu i sold him via paypal and told me he would put the other half in my bank account.

Two months later I was going through my bank statements and suddenly remembered the money for this cpu and realised it was no where to be seen. so i go in touch with the buyer via e-mail, to no avail. after several e-mails i got a reply back informing me that a pin had come off the cpu and therefore he wasnt going to be paying me the other half of the money and this is over 2 months after he initially got the cpu.

This CPU spent its life inside my PC without being removed once, when it was removed it was done so in the professional manor with which i have removed HUNDREDS of cpu`s in the past, it was packaged in its original AMD retail packaging and posted to the seller via special delivery BEFORE i had received the payment as he claimed he needed it urgently and i am stupidly naive.

now a mod was supposed to be dealing with this, i wont mention his name as i dont want to be that petty but quite frankly he`s been about as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike. allow me to give you an example...

first contact sent on October 15th,

reply received of

Will investigate.

Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

sent e-mail on 20th october asking if there was any news, no reply.

sent again on the 24th no reply

again on the 27th october no reply

came in here on november 1st and complained and suddenly i get a reply, apparently his spam filter was grabbing my mails... odd that it didnt grab the very first e-mail i sent him :confused:

received mail off mod on 3rd november saying he was "in a discussion with him"

mailed mod on the 16th november asking for any news... no reply

mailed on the 28th november

reply received of

Sorry man. I'm really busy with work at the moment.

I'll look in to it later today.

and since then... no reply.

i mean FOR THE LOVE OF GOD what more can i do ?

cleanbluesky · 16 Dec 2006 at 21:57

name and shame... just for entertainment value

Scuzi · 16 Dec 2006 at 21:58

The mods are volunteers and are under no obligation to sort out your problems. They have a hell of a lot of work to on the forums, on top of their 'real life' stuff. I'm sure the case with most if not all of them is that real life comes before the forums.

Give them a break, it's not their fault you handled the deal poorly and got stung as a result.

Oblivious · 16 Dec 2006 at 21:58

To be fair its not really the mods place to regulate transactions between members of the forum. To offer advice to sellers/buyers, set ground rules etc fair enough.. but you exchanged goods with the other member as a private sale.

Simply by helping you slightly, they are doing more than they are required to do.

cleanbluesky · 16 Dec 2006 at 21:59

Oblivious said:
Simply by helping you slightly, they are doing more than they are required to do.

Bear in mind that the mod has promised to do something, yet has not - regardless of whether that is their 'role' they have given their word.

Mr Gimp · 16 Dec 2006 at 21:59

Why do you need a mod to sort it out? It's a private sale right? :confused:

locutus12 · 16 Dec 2006 at 21:59

Scuzi said:
The mods are volunteers and are under no obligation to sort out your problems. They have a hell of a lot of work to on the forums, on top of their 'real life' stuff. I'm sure the case with most if not all of them is that real life comes before the forums.

Give them a break, it's not their fault you handled the deal poorly and got stung as a result.

so by your logic the mods are under no obligations to remove con men from the OCUK forums ? nice.

also he took the job on in the first place.

Oblivious · 16 Dec 2006 at 22:00

cleanbluesky said:
Bear in mind that the mod has promised to do something, yet has not - regardless of whether that is their 'role' they have given their word.

Means nothing.

PardonTheWait · 16 Dec 2006 at 22:00

It's not really their place to sort out your problems, the MM is a free service, and they're not obliged to do anything for you. That they're helping at all is a favour.

For you to post a snotty post like this is a little ungrateful, don't you think?

Also.. it's not their job.

cleanbluesky · 16 Dec 2006 at 22:00

locutus12 said:
so by your logic the mods are under no obligations to remove con men from the OCUK forums ? nice.

[Dirtydog] You realise that the title should read 'their', right? [/DirtyDog]

cleanbluesky · 16 Dec 2006 at 22:01

Oblivious said:
Means nothing.

I wish debate were that easy my friend, merely saying 'means nothing' doesn't necessarily make it so

Mr Gimp · 16 Dec 2006 at 22:02

I had to refrain from posting my initial reply to this thread as I would have been banned, but needless to say I think that you are being an arse.

PardonTheWait · 16 Dec 2006 at 22:02

locutus12 said:
so by your logic the mods are under no obligations to remove con men from the OCUK forums ? nice.

I'm sure they will, but bear in mind these people are just people. Everything they do is unpaid and voluntary, and on top of any work, business, social interests they have 'in real life', and bitching about them isn't going to make them get any more helpful, is it?

cleanbluesky · 16 Dec 2006 at 22:02

Mohinder said:
For you to post a snotty post like this is a little ungrateful, don't you think?

He has little to be grateful for, they owe him nothing and vice versa but the mod shouldn't have promised to sort it if they couldn't or wouldn't end up doing so

yhack · 16 Dec 2006 at 22:02

Go around the person's house and beat the hell out of them with this(it got 5/5 stars, it must hurt!).

Oblivious · 16 Dec 2006 at 22:02

cleanbluesky said:
I wish debate were that easy my friend, merely saying 'means nothing' doesn't necessarily make it so

Poor by the mod in question to promise something, however consider the volume of emails that individual gets. We are speculating here anyway, this thread will close soon and we have only heard one side of the argument. Which is biased.

PardonTheWait · 16 Dec 2006 at 22:03

cleanbluesky said:
He has little to be grateful for, they owe him nothing and vice versa but if the mod shouldn't have promised to sort it if they couldn't or wouldn't end up doing so

He's been provided with a very useful place to buy and sell, for free, which he's been using. So yeah, he should be grateful.

He should also be grateful that whoever this don is has tried to help him, and not be stamping his feet when the don doesn't put this stranger's problems in front of his own.

cleanbluesky · 16 Dec 2006 at 22:03

Oblivious said:
Poor by the mod in question to promise something, however consider the volume of emails that individual gets. We are speculating here anyway, this thread will close soon and we have only heard one side of the argument. Which is biased.

What is the threshold of e-mails I can receive before I can start breaking promises?

I agree about the bias

Mr Gimp · 16 Dec 2006 at 22:03

cleanbluesky said:
He has little to be grateful for, they owe him nothing and vice versa but if the mod shouldn't have promised to sort it if they couldn't or wouldn't end up doing so

I can't see any promises anywhere?

locutus12 · 16 Dec 2006 at 22:04

cleanbluesky said:
He has little to be grateful for, they owe him nothing and vice versa but the mod shouldn't have promised to sort it if they couldn't or wouldn't end up doing so

thats pretty much my point, if the mods had of come along and said "tough im afraid, nothing we can do" id of just gone and visited the guys house but instead investigation was promised that simply hasn't materialised.