Seller wants the rating changed and threatens to sue if this is not done | Rating

ehham47 · 2026-02-21T12:52:17.378000Z

The situation is as follows:Last Sunday I won a motherboard at auction and paid for it immediately afterward.After I sent the seller a message, he said the shipping would still not happen, and the message still had NOT been answered by the time I left my review.I then rated as follows:Item will NOT be shipped; apparently the sale price is not as expected. Then don’t offer it as an auction! No reply to PMs. Since the item was actually supposed to arrive by tomorrow at the latest but hasn’t even been shipped yet, WITHOUT showing any reaction at all, there is a THICK, RED rating.On Thursday evening, then, a response in the form of a message from the seller: Hello XXX,thank you for the purchase. Sorry, I had completely forgotten about the items.I’ll take care of everything tomorrow.VGAlexanderThen on Friday there was still no reaction by evening, and no tracking number had been provided by then either, so I opened a case: "Item not received". Today at noon I get a request to change the review with the following content:"Hello Erich,I sent you back the requested amount as a gesture of goodwill. I’d like to apologize again for the inconvenience. I would like to point out that you bought from me with binding effect and you are obliged to pay.I responded to your message within one day. Your review is completely exaggerated and inappropriate. I kindly ask you to revise this review. I will send you the corresponding request for this. Please note that you only have 10 days to process the review; after that it is no longer possible.I want to be upfront. I make an annual turnover of around 2,000 euros on eBay. Your review has a negative effect on my sales and my turnover. If you do not change the review at least to a neutral one and do not remove your accusations and false statements, then I am forced to file a lawsuit and claim corresponding damages from you.Kind regards" In short:A private seller makes €2,000 in sales a year. Well, that may be true or not, because the seller only has about 20 ratings, and one of them is my negative one.Can anyone give me a reasonable reason why I should change the review? And what exactly in my review is a false statement? And what does a private seller want with damages?

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