This is an interesting one. A Venkat Reddy Medapat...

This is an interesting one. A Venkat Reddy Medapati from San Jose recently left me negative feedback on eBay without any communication and an erroneous claim that the Henge Dock designed for and used by me for 6 years on a 15" Mackbook Pro and sold to them by me "does not work on a 15" Mackbook Pro", which is patently false. I have sent the receipt to the buyer - and the part number provided with the item includes the abbreviation "15MBP", which means 15" Mackbook Pro.

It gets even better. Since it was shipped to a Venkat Reddy Medapati in San Jose, and they joined ebay in 2010, I did some research on Linkedin and found a San Jose based Venkat Reddy Medapati who looks very similar in their photos and their original internship with eBay started in June 2011, not long after they joined eBay in 2010, I can only presume that this is the very same Venkat Reddy Medapati who works for eBay as a Senior Product Manager. (And who uses their real name as an ID on eBay unless they work for eBay?)

If this is all true, and it appears to be, it would mean that an eBay employee wrecked my 15 year old 100% feedback rating since 2002 - when I started using eBay, on a false pretense. That's highly unethical if you ask me. If true, I started using ebay and building my 100% positive rating 8 years prior to this buyer / eBay employee - in 2002 he was just a sophomore at a university in India.

I certainly intend to find out more over the coming days as to whether or not my presumption is accurate - there is more than Venkat Reddy Medapadi in the world, but in San Jose with such a resemblance and using their real name on eBay? Stay tuned for an update!