{"id":715333,"date":"2010-04-13T10:31:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T14:31:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:15:12","slug":"that-negative-ebay-comment-could-get-you-sued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/715333","title":{"rendered":"That Negative eBay Comment Could Get You Sued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/ebay-thumb-158x115-39219.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>A Florida man is being sued for $15,000 for leaving a negative comment on a transaction to buy a $44 clock, breaking his perfect rating, NBC 2 of Florida reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Steadman says the clock arrived in three pieces of varying models that didn&#8217;t fit and couldn&#8217;t stamp a card, as advertised.<\/p>\n<p>He returned it and got a refund through PayPal, but wanted to warn others.<\/p>\n<p>On Miller&#8217;s profile he wrote, &#8220;Bad seller; he has the ethics of a used car salesman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Do you think the suit has any merit? And will this news change the way you rate transactions on eBay?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc-2.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=12291318\">Man sued for $15k over negative eBay remark<\/a> [NBC 2 Florida]<br \/>\n<em>(Thanks, Ryan!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida man is being sued for $15,000 for leaving a negative comment on a transaction to buy a $44 clock, breaking his perfect rating, NBC 2 of Florida reports: Steadman says the clock arrived in three pieces of varying models that didn&#8217;t fit and couldn&#8217;t stamp a card, as advertised. He returned it and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-305D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816935,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715333\/revisions\/816935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}