A term describing the effort of a buyer to bully or harass a seller online into selling an item below listing amount. Similar term Gaslighting. The buyer threatening to leave a seller negative feedback because the buyer didn’t get their way. A buyer placing a order on eBay and claiming it wasn’t delivered. A buyer leaving a false review that puts the seller on the defensive. Being a terrible buyer.
eBay seller 1- I had a buyer pull the Holda Maneuver on me.
eBay seller 1- Well the first time dealt with this buyer I had no problems but once I refused his offer on another item he started harassing me thru my inbox and eventually left me a negative review claiming I was calling him names and causing drama. I simply refused his offer.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)