I don't know. I don't remember what you wrote 3 or 6 or 12 months ago where I decided to block you. I may be very happy to sell to you- just not through the eBay website, and do understand that eBay IS EBAY, it is NOT my homepage, it is an auction site where I pay commission fees for a tiny booth in a tiny corner of eBay. I do have my own website, you're on it now. The HomePage button above will take you to my own showroom.

So you're blocked on the eBay- means nothing really. All ya gots to do is click the HomePage button and you can buy whatever you want, probably for less money overall because here I can offer easy to figure flat rate shipping, and I don't have to pass on to you the 12% plus eBay fees.

And if I have something showing on the eBay that is not here on my own site, just write me and I'll fix it.

And now (drumroll please) why are you blocked?

Did you ask if you could pay with a money order and I said "Yes, but don't click the buy button on the eBay", and then you clicked it anyway? As you know, the eBay policy is PayPal only, so you are not an eBay buyer. DO NOT CLICK THE EBAY BUY BUTTON. I may have blocked you so you don't go clicking it again.

Did you ask me to risk prison by marking your Customs forms that your kit is a 'Gift'?

Did you ask me to quote shipping on all different assortments of kits? Quote once yes, but not over & over.

Did you whine about my shipping rates or send me a link to the USPS website, like I'm an idiot?

Did you write "Just for my information" that someone sells X kit cheaper than me? Because I don't care.

Did you send me your version of "a fair offer"? My pages do not invite YOUR opinion of a price on MY kits.

Did you write me "Help an old guy", or tell me about your fixed income, so you DEMAND a $70 kit for $20? Maybe if you can't afford what you're shopping for, you'd be better not to tease yourself shopping for it.

Did you ask me "Is this kit new?" Duh. With roughly 500 items showing and some of them NEW RELEASES.....

Did you ask me "Are you selling factory returns?" Read the page. I have a real hobby shop.

Did you demand a free kit because you're a model club and want to "write a review"? Try the kit MAKER.

Did you threaten me with a 5000 reader strong newsletter damning my site if you didn't get a free kit?

Did you write me in 'text message speak'? I'm not wading through that mispelled non-puncuated gibberish.

I hope you found your answer here. I make mistakes, I may have wrongly blocked you. But with the amount of and type of abuse eBay generates, I'll go ahead on with my methods.

I don't hear any of this nonsense from people who shop on my own website. If I were an armchair or psych student I think I would have to wonder why I only get such rudeness from selling on eBay.

I used to sell at flea markets sometimes, fresh air, that wonderful tacky carnival food, and you expect to get harrassed some and people wanting to dicker you know, because it's a flea market.

And like a flea market, many many wonderful people shop on the eBay. But there are a few weinies too and they can spew forth garbage like we NEVER heard at ANY flea market.

Like I've been totally slammed because "a woman shouldn't be selling model kits". Called every dirty name in the book and a few phrases that aren't in the book.

And eBay's version of wisdom is that the customer is always right. Of course the customer is NOT always right. Even the mega corporations who INVENTED that PR flag don't fly it anymore. Mostly it just created a mindset that if you bitch loud enough someone will give you what you want to keep you from creating a scene. It doesn't play that way here at The Workshop.

Well, that's it. You're quite welcome to shop here on my own website, our brick & mortar showroom is open the normal hours, or if you're one of those who think I should be barefoot in the kitchen, you can get together with the others like you, and ya'll can start the 'I hate Rebecca' model club.

Ciao! -Rebecca