{"id":525919,"date":"2010-04-13T10:31:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T14:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10004460"},"modified":"2010-04-12T23:40:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T03:40:47","slug":"that-negative-ebay-comment-could-get-you-sued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/525919","title":{"rendered":"That Negative eBay Comment Could Get You Sued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/ebay-thumb-158x115-39219.jpg\">         <\/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":4514,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}