Listia should be list*lie*a....

So recently I tried the online auction site Listia.  How Listia works is - you don't buy things with cash.   You buy them with Listia credits.   You get a lot of them for signing up, and doing other tasks like filling out your profile and referring friends.   Of course the fastest way you get credits is by listing things in listia auctions.  You do not get paid for them.   Instead you get Listia credits that you use to bid on auctions you want.

As you can imagine,  there's a lot of not-too-fancy stuff on there.  Yard sale leftovers, miscellaneous items...  but that's the beauty of it or so I thought.  It's a place where all those common items can clear out of your life and go to someone who really wants them.

So, I signed up, and sold my first item :  a book.  I had enough credits to bid on an auction I wanted - and I won!  I sent the seller my address...  weeks went by and no item.  I filed a dispute with Listia ....  I thought I was told that my credits would be held neutral until it was solved.  Well - my credits were given to the seller in spite of the dispute I filed.

I wrote to the seller who never answered.

I went to leave negative feedback and to my surprise I couldn't leave negative feedback.  Only positive or neutral on account that I had filed a dispute.  Listia.   Set up for scammers.

So I told the lady what I thought of her actions.  Told her she must be hard up to scam people out of fake money to buy bits and bobs on listia........