I wrangled up Dragon Warrior IV with the manual, possibly the other paper too, but I'll never know. It was $49 shipped and well my money for now is gone and I have no item. Won it on the 30th, had a 2 day ship period so on the 3rd I ebay mailed the dude asking if it went out. The guy contacts me (only time ever too) saying he tried to send it media mail and the post office held it. I paid for parcel post and media mail got stopped since he broke the rules. He claims to have sent it priority mail and I had mentioned at this rate I needed it quick as I'm moving so he said good luck on that in his response. Well the week rolls by, then the weekend with Columbus Day and nothing still...and still nothing today. eBay refused to open a case for another 2 days despite the delivery window expiring so I went over their head and made a case with paypal. It will take 10 days but unless the con man can provide tracking delivered to this address he'll have his account sucked clean of my cash on the 22nd. So much for a good deal eh?
That sucks.. guy on e-bay did that to me as well. I got ISS2000 for n64 for $24 bucks!! Couldn't believe it. He sends tracking information that says "Item not yet scanned into system". Waited 7 days being patient and he contacted me.. Which was fishy enough.. and asks if I got the item. I told him no, but it's probrably gonna be here soon. Not another e-mail was exchanged and he refunded my money. It's been over a month, no game. . Left neutral feedback since he didn't communicate with my about why it was never scanned into USPS for delivery and why he refunded me so quickly. PISSED.
Well the original deal was supposed to be for $100 but the seller took off $25 when she couldn't find the ac adapters. The deal was she would look for the ac adapters and take another look for the 1st 4 years of NPs that she says she thought she tossed. Well, she ends up finding the adapters and wants to meet last weekend so I could could give her the $25 and I could get 2 adapters. As it turns out, she can only find 2 and one was for a sega genesis. Well, I got busy and forgot to call her. Sunday night I get an email basically calling me a scumbag and how she wasted her whole day waiting for me to call. Oh and she tells me she was going to surprise me b/c she found all those minty NP magazines. Needless to say I emailed her right away and told her I could meet any day this past week and at anytime. We immediatly arrange to meet Friday at 3:30pm. I didn't want to wait all week, but she said she was busy until then so OK, fine.
So yesterday rolls around and I shoot her an email at 12:06 confirming our meeting. Well apparently she never gets the email and she leaves me a voicemail on my cell about 30 minutes after that. I do NOT get cell coverage in house so I never got he voicemail. Well I drive 1/2 way to meet her (about 30 minutes) and pull in at 3:30pm on the nose. I figure I would call to let her know I;m there. Well, when she picks up the phone, she is pissed that I never called her to confirm the appt.(that was never discussed mind you). I explain that I DID email her confirmation at 12pm (she says she did not get it). Then she tells me she was so angry and fed up with me she stopped on the way home and threw the magazines and adapters into a recycling bin. WTF!!! I practically beg her to go back and get them but she is pissed and tells me it's too late and hangs up. I call my voicemail and sure enough she left me a message. No wonder she's pissed. Well I call her back and email her and try to explain the myriad of mistakes that led up to 20-24 perfectly minty mint NO magazines were tossed.
She is empathetic but unwilling to help me recover the mags. She lives 60 minutes away, so I'm not about to go searching every green closed recycling bin in her town. I'm so bummed. Not just b/c I didn't get the magazines and adapters but that no one did and they're now trashed. Ugh...
Did I just make a mistake not bidding on this? I was at the last 6 seconds and was SO close to putting in a bid.
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Now the thing is, the seller has nothing else up for sale, 0 feedback (usually a NEVER in my book of buying), had a really shitty quality picture, and it all just seemed too shady for me. But it only sold for $43!?!?
This game usually goes for that much cart only right? So I'm thinking whoever got this got a steal! But tell me, do you think I really lost out on this? Or was it better to be safe?
How likely is this? I personally don't believe the guy, but I just thought I'd share this just in case I really lost something.
So I put up an ad on craigslist saying I would buy old video games and some guy messages me this:
"hi i have 5 copies of the snes game Earthbound i was wondering what u would offer all of these are in mint condition and play good as well also i have a snes game called E.V.O
and a nintendo 64 Game Called Conkers Bad Furday plz sen back a offer of what u would pay thank you "
And then I ask about it and he says
"yes i sure did but im sorry i have already sold these copies a person offered me $200 and i needed the money but thx for ur time "
Now with the way this guy types, and how he looks (looked him up on facebook lol), I really doubt he had all this, but wouldn't it be crazy if he really did? And sold it all for $200?
That's why it just seems so unlikely to me. But still.
Went to a local used media store, and talked to one of the people there. I asked if he'd seen any rarer games blow through - and he tells me that they had a Donkey Kong Competition Cartridge in recently. He doesn't know if it made it to the sales floor or if an employee picked it up.
Yeah YellowGameboyColor he was either trolling you or trying to feel out the competition. Definitely didn't have any of that. Personally I always flag ads like the type you post trying to get them taken down and run the posters off. Probably a dick move but hey that's the way competition goes... not to mention every single one who posts those in my area admits they're a reseller right in the ad.
Here's my recent one: I'm browsing around on Craigslist and see a huge game lot for $60 that includes a Sega Nomad, Lost Vikings 2, and some other consoles and okay games (Mario 64 etc.). I could have sprung on the whole lot and made a fair bit of money selling back what I didn't want but I decided I only really wanted to hassle with the Nomad and Lost Vikings 2. I contact the guy and ask him if he'll take $20 for those 2 things and he says yes and asks where I live. I tell him and he asks if I can come pick the stuff about 45 minutes away, which I am very incapable of doing at the moment. Begrudgingly I tell him no but I'd be happy to meet him about halfway... never got a text back. Assuming someone jumped on the whole lot for $60. -_-
Missed out on a mini SNES plus Super Mario Allstars/World and another game. Seller wanted $40 for everything. Texted him as someone just bought it and was walking out the door. Ughh!!!!
Couple weeks ago at a goodwill I noticed something out of the corner of my eye on a shelf. Walked up and it was a Ocarina of Time Master Quest for gamecube, 1.99. Opened it and there was all the inserts and the disc. I was having a mini dance party in my head by then. Then I realized, it wasn't the right disc. It was an Action Replay disc..
I'd have bought it just for the case and inserts at $1.99. Plus an Action Replay might be fun
You're not the only one lol it was gone a couple days later too lol
That seriously is a lower weeper now because you obviously don't know about the gamecube action replay. If it is the max, it's about $100.
I went to a yard sell this year that had a box with some NES games in it. I started looking saw Snow Bros was there, and asked how much the games were. Then this old guy said in a rude tone that he bought the whole box and then grabbed it. When he was going to his car I asked if he could sell me one of the games, and when I pointed at Snow Bros he said thats a $200 game on ebay. After he said that I wanted to bitch smack that bastard.
This is the most painful story I can think of, aside from story about a roughly $1000 lot that I almost got for $150.
A while back on CL, some guy had posted that he was selling a few Snes games for $5 each. So a click on the ad not expecting much, but still hoping for a couple decent titles. My jaw just about dropped what I saw what the games were, now keep in mind that there was literally only a 2 minute gap in between when he posted this ad and when I emailed him. The games were the following, Chrono Trigger, Super Mario World, Super Mario RPG, Wild Guns, Earthbound, Metal Warriors and a few others that weren't worth remembering. Needless to say I was as quick and tried to be as non obvious as possible. He had like 12 games total so I offered to buy them all for $60 and asked him where he would like me to meet him.
Ten minutes later I get an email from him telling me that, that seems like a lowball offer don't you think? Well I decide to sort of play dumb and tell him that his ad says it's $5 for each Snes game. The emails me again stating that someone offered him $300 just for Earthbound and proceeded to accuse me (and apparently a few other people that emailed him) that we were trying to scam him. Well at that point I knew that I wasn't getting them for anything close to what he wanted originally, but I tell him that it's not scamming when you're the one that names the price and fails to do the research and I leave it at that.
It sucks that some idiot offered $300 right off the bat, which wasn't even accurate since it was just the cartridge, no box or anything.
This is the most painful story I can think of, aside from story about a roughly $1000 lot that I almost got for $150.
A while back on CL, some guy had posted that he was selling a few Snes games for $5 each. So a click on the ad not expecting much, but still hoping for a couple decent titles. My jaw just about dropped what I saw what the games were, now keep in mind that there was literally only a 2 minute gap in between when he posted this ad and when I emailed him. The games were the following, Chrono Trigger, Super Mario World, Super Mario RPG, Wild Guns, Earthbound, Metal Warriors and a few others that weren't worth remembering. Needless to say I was as quick and tried to be as non obvious as possible. He had like 12 games total so I offered to buy them all for $60 and asked him where he would like me to meet him.
Ten minutes later I get an email from him telling me that, that seems like a lowball offer don't you think? Well I decide to sort of play dumb and tell him that his ad says it's $5 for each Snes game. The emails me again stating that someone offered him $300 just for Earthbound and proceeded to accuse me (and apparently a few other people that emailed him) that we were trying to scam him. Well at that point I knew that I wasn't getting them for anything close to what he wanted originally, but I tell him that it's not scamming when you're the one that names the price and fails to do the research and I leave it at that.
It sucks that some idiot offered $300 right off the bat, which wasn't even accurate since it was just the cartridge, no box or anything.
That actually almost sounds like another instance of someone trying to feel out his local competition to me. I can't imagine anyone throwing out a $300 offer for a cart only EB when the seller is asking $5 in the ad.
That actually almost sounds like another instance of someone trying to feel out his local competition to me. I can't imagine anyone throwing out a $300 offer for a cart only EB when the seller is asking $5 in the ad.
I thought about that, I was honestly shocked by the $300 offer on a cart only copy of EB, so it was probably either that, or it was some guy purposely trying to ruin it for everyone else. I know if someone offered me anything over $100 for something I was selling for under $10, it would prompt me to look up a little more information on it.
Originally posted by: YellowGameboyColor
Were they all CIB? That sucks man.
I'm not sure to be honest, he didn't have a picture up for them. Either way though, yeah, it sucked. Lol
This is the most painful story I can think of, aside from story about a roughly $1000 lot that I almost got for $150.
A while back on CL, some guy had posted that he was selling a few Snes games for $5 each. So a click on the ad not expecting much, but still hoping for a couple decent titles. My jaw just about dropped what I saw what the games were, now keep in mind that there was literally only a 2 minute gap in between when he posted this ad and when I emailed him. The games were the following, Chrono Trigger, Super Mario World, Super Mario RPG, Wild Guns, Earthbound, Metal Warriors and a few others that weren't worth remembering. Needless to say I was as quick and tried to be as non obvious as possible. He had like 12 games total so I offered to buy them all for $60 and asked him where he would like me to meet him.
Ten minutes later I get an email from him telling me that, that seems like a lowball offer don't you think? Well I decide to sort of play dumb and tell him that his ad says it's $5 for each Snes game. The emails me again stating that someone offered him $300 just for Earthbound and proceeded to accuse me (and apparently a few other people that emailed him) that we were trying to scam him. Well at that point I knew that I wasn't getting them for anything close to what he wanted originally, but I tell him that it's not scamming when you're the one that names the price and fails to do the research and I leave it at that.
It sucks that some idiot offered $300 right off the bat, which wasn't even accurate since it was just the cartridge, no box or anything.
I only ever had 1 experience with craigslist, and it was enough to turn me away from the site, and I will never look back. It was maybe 3 years ago, and my PS3 had just broke. Someone had listed a 60GB PS3 with 2 controllers and I think 3 or 4 games and he wanted an offer for the stuff. I sent him an email and offered him $250 for it, and he said I could have it for $270. He lived in newark, DE which is about 15-20 minutes away but I wanted to meet in a public place. I also told him that I wanted him to call my cell phone so I had a way to contact him.
He called my cell phone and we briefly spoke, and I told him to meet me at the college where I worked at 4PM. He agreed and that day I withdrew the money for the system and went to work, eagerly awaiting this guy's arrival. Well, I'm waiting for him to show up, and 4PM comes and goes. 4:30 comes and goes. Now it's 5 PM and I'm getting tired of waiting. I call his cell phone and nobody picks up. I'm really wary now, so I call it again and a different person answers. Apparently it's one of his co-workers. He worked for a tow-truck company and used his truck's cell phone to call me. I ask the guy "Do you know Jason?" "Yeah, I know him." "Is he there?" "No, he don't work today!" "Ok, well he used this phone number to organize a deal on craigs list" Then, all of the sudden "THIS IS A WORK PHONE, AND YOU'D BETTER NOT CALL IT AGAIN! CALL THIS PHONE AGAIN AND I'LL REPORT YOU TO THE POLICE!" The mood swing was sudden, and just came out of nowhere. All I said it "Well, whatever. The police will just laugh at you, but don't worry I won't call again." Then I hung up and went home. It was a huge disappointment, but I learned my lesson. Screw craigs list.
I only ever had 1 experience with craigslist, and it was enough to turn me away from the site, and I will never look back. It was maybe 3 years ago, and my PS3 had just broke. Someone had listed a 60GB PS3 with 2 controllers and I think 3 or 4 games and he wanted an offer for the stuff. I sent him an email and offered him $250 for it, and he said I could have it for $270. He lived in newark, DE which is about 15-20 minutes away but I wanted to meet in a public place. I also told him that I wanted him to call my cell phone so I had a way to contact him.
He called my cell phone and we briefly spoke, and I told him to meet me at the college where I worked at 4PM. He agreed and that day I withdrew the money for the system and went to work, eagerly awaiting this guy's arrival. Well, I'm waiting for him to show up, and 4PM comes and goes. 4:30 comes and goes. Now it's 5 PM and I'm getting tired of waiting. I call his cell phone and nobody picks up. I'm really wary now, so I call it again and a different person answers. Apparently it's one of his co-workers. He worked for a tow-truck company and used his truck's cell phone to call me. I ask the guy "Do you know Jason?" "Yeah, I know him." "Is he there?" "No, he don't work today!" "Ok, well he used this phone number to organize a deal on craigs list" Then, all of the sudden "THIS IS A WORK PHONE, AND YOU'D BETTER NOT CALL IT AGAIN! CALL THIS PHONE AGAIN AND I'LL REPORT YOU TO THE POLICE!" The mood swing was sudden, and just came out of nowhere. All I said it "Well, whatever. The police will just laugh at you, but don't worry I won't call again." Then I hung up and went home. It was a huge disappointment, but I learned my lesson. Screw craigs list.
same story happened to me last week. used ps3 for 60$ no controller (didnt mind as it was for my kids room for playing movies). small problem tho i never spoke to him. he gave me an adress which didnt even exist at all ! i was pissed off. emailed him the next day and he answered like "STOP BUGGING ME I ALREADY SOLD THE PS3". what a fucker, scammer and looser. upon research on his email, i cam across another guy that got scammed by the very same guy 2 years ago. stupid poeple are still stupid poeple years after years.
It was last week, maybe 2 weeks ago, but someone was selling a complete super turrican 2 for $200 and I was thinking if that was too much for me. I had to let it go by force since I didn't have the money.
I never got it. I bought it on the 30th. I paid and it never shipped out by the end of the estimated period. I mailed internally, they said it went out media mail(I paid for parcel post) which is illegal by USPS rules, so they said the USPS sat on it and when he came in he paid for priority and apologized. When I wrote on the 10th I said I'd be moving on the 18th but forwarding my mail, he was nice and said he'd do that priority to get it to me. As time peeled along, 2-3days priority was a no show, so I wrote a couple times, nothing. Got pissed. Ebay would do nothing over a 2wk claim period, so I bypassed them through Paypal. Paypal saw the contact and him ignoring, issued me a refund on the spot. First try failed as the seller tried to block it, second try worked so I guess they billed the prick.
Once in Louisville I left negative feedback on the 24th of October saying -> Never shipped lied about it twice ignored contact had to use PayPal for refund.
The jackass put a rebuttal of: Buyer moved left no forwarding address.Item was returned and I gave a refund.
Liar once on media mail, liar twice on priority, and liar again about the refund he was forced to do after blocking it. I called ebay, they told me they refused to remove it despite the evidence (which he wouldn't look at on the phone) and told me they have a right to their own OPINION as I do, and that unless it's illegal, inflammatory, or otherwise law breaking it stays and then told me have a nice day and got me off the phone. Screw em both.
A few years ago, back when I did not collect and didn't know rarity of games, I sold a Zelda Collector's Edition to GameStop. My step dad realized it was rare before they bought it for ten, and made them bump up the price to 30 or something. I don't know, but it was not THAT rare because it was game only. I found it in a random gamecube box, if I recall. I want it back though!!!
Some time ago I found a loose Little Samson (PAL) in an NES lot so I contacted the seller. I told her that I wanted it for 8 Francs (8 dollars) and she told me to call her mother, which I did the following day. She wanted to sell it for 50 Fr., and right now I don't have much cash on my hands. Fucking bitch!
I was at Target today and I asked the electronic department manager if they had any video game displays they were going to throw out that I could have, and they said no. T.T
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Originally posted by: Tanooki
I wrangled up Dragon Warrior IV with the manual, possibly the other paper too, but I'll never know. It was $49 shipped and well my money for now is gone and I have no item. Won it on the 30th, had a 2 day ship period so on the 3rd I ebay mailed the dude asking if it went out. The guy contacts me (only time ever too) saying he tried to send it media mail and the post office held it. I paid for parcel post and media mail got stopped since he broke the rules. He claims to have sent it priority mail and I had mentioned at this rate I needed it quick as I'm moving so he said good luck on that in his response. Well the week rolls by, then the weekend with Columbus Day and nothing still...and still nothing today. eBay refused to open a case for another 2 days despite the delivery window expiring so I went over their head and made a case with paypal. It will take 10 days but unless the con man can provide tracking delivered to this address he'll have his account sucked clean of my cash on the 22nd. So much for a good deal eh?
That sucks.. guy on e-bay did that to me as well. I got ISS2000 for n64 for $24 bucks!! Couldn't believe it. He sends tracking information that says "Item not yet scanned into system". Waited 7 days being patient and he contacted me.. Which was fishy enough.. and asks if I got the item. I told him no, but it's probrably gonna be here soon. Not another e-mail was exchanged and he refunded my money. It's been over a month, no game. . Left neutral feedback since he didn't communicate with my about why it was never scanned into USPS for delivery and why he refunded me so quickly. PISSED.
http://www.nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=10&threadid=87108
Well the original deal was supposed to be for $100 but the seller took off $25 when she couldn't find the ac adapters. The deal was she would look for the ac adapters and take another look for the 1st 4 years of NPs that she says she thought she tossed. Well, she ends up finding the adapters and wants to meet last weekend so I could could give her the $25 and I could get 2 adapters. As it turns out, she can only find 2 and one was for a sega genesis. Well, I got busy and forgot to call her. Sunday night I get an email basically calling me a scumbag and how she wasted her whole day waiting for me to call. Oh and she tells me she was going to surprise me b/c she found all those minty NP magazines. Needless to say I emailed her right away and told her I could meet any day this past week and at anytime. We immediatly arrange to meet Friday at 3:30pm. I didn't want to wait all week, but she said she was busy until then so OK, fine.
So yesterday rolls around and I shoot her an email at 12:06 confirming our meeting. Well apparently she never gets the email and she leaves me a voicemail on my cell about 30 minutes after that. I do NOT get cell coverage in house so I never got he voicemail. Well I drive 1/2 way to meet her (about 30 minutes) and pull in at 3:30pm on the nose. I figure I would call to let her know I;m there. Well, when she picks up the phone, she is pissed that I never called her to confirm the appt.(that was never discussed mind you). I explain that I DID email her confirmation at 12pm (she says she did not get it). Then she tells me she was so angry and fed up with me she stopped on the way home and threw the magazines and adapters into a recycling bin. WTF!!! I practically beg her to go back and get them but she is pissed and tells me it's too late and hangs up. I call my voicemail and sure enough she left me a message. No wonder she's pissed. Well I call her back and email her and try to explain the myriad of mistakes that led up to 20-24 perfectly minty mint NO magazines were tossed.
She is empathetic but unwilling to help me recover the mags. She lives 60 minutes away, so I'm not about to go searching every green closed recycling bin in her town. I'm so bummed. Not just b/c I didn't get the magazines and adapters but that no one did and they're now trashed. Ugh...
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Now the thing is, the seller has nothing else up for sale, 0 feedback (usually a NEVER in my book of buying), had a really shitty quality picture, and it all just seemed too shady for me. But it only sold for $43!?!?
This game usually goes for that much cart only right? So I'm thinking whoever got this got a steal! But tell me, do you think I really lost out on this? Or was it better to be safe?
So I put up an ad on craigslist saying I would buy old video games and some guy messages me this:
"hi i have 5 copies of the snes game Earthbound i was wondering what u would offer all of these are in mint condition and play good as well also i have a snes game called E.V.O
and a nintendo 64 Game Called Conkers Bad Furday plz sen back a offer of what u would pay thank you "
And then I ask about it and he says
"yes i sure did but im sorry i have already sold these copies a person offered me $200 and i needed the money but thx for ur time "
Now with the way this guy types, and how he looks (looked him up on facebook lol), I really doubt he had all this, but wouldn't it be crazy if he really did? And sold it all for $200?
That's why it just seems so unlikely to me. But still.
He never had those games.
Ah well!
Here's my recent one: I'm browsing around on Craigslist and see a huge game lot for $60 that includes a Sega Nomad, Lost Vikings 2, and some other consoles and okay games (Mario 64 etc.). I could have sprung on the whole lot and made a fair bit of money selling back what I didn't want but I decided I only really wanted to hassle with the Nomad and Lost Vikings 2. I contact the guy and ask him if he'll take $20 for those 2 things and he says yes and asks where I live. I tell him and he asks if I can come pick the stuff about 45 minutes away, which I am very incapable of doing at the moment. Begrudgingly I tell him no but I'd be happy to meet him about halfway... never got a text back. Assuming someone jumped on the whole lot for $60. -_-
Originally posted by: danstens
Originally posted by: Alder
Originally posted by: danstens
Couple weeks ago at a goodwill I noticed something out of the corner of my eye on a shelf. Walked up and it was a Ocarina of Time Master Quest for gamecube, 1.99. Opened it and there was all the inserts and the disc. I was having a mini dance party in my head by then. Then I realized, it wasn't the right disc. It was an Action Replay disc..
I'd have bought it just for the case and inserts at $1.99. Plus an Action Replay might be fun
You're not the only one lol it was gone a couple days later too lol
That seriously is a lower weeper now because you obviously don't know about the gamecube action replay. If it is the max, it's about $100.
Guy just posted the ad today at 11am and just sold it about an hour ago. Damn school...
A while back on CL, some guy had posted that he was selling a few Snes games for $5 each. So a click on the ad not expecting much, but still hoping for a couple decent titles. My jaw just about dropped what I saw what the games were, now keep in mind that there was literally only a 2 minute gap in between when he posted this ad and when I emailed him. The games were the following, Chrono Trigger, Super Mario World, Super Mario RPG, Wild Guns, Earthbound, Metal Warriors and a few others that weren't worth remembering. Needless to say I was as quick and tried to be as non obvious as possible. He had like 12 games total so I offered to buy them all for $60 and asked him where he would like me to meet him.
Ten minutes later I get an email from him telling me that, that seems like a lowball offer don't you think? Well I decide to sort of play dumb and tell him that his ad says it's $5 for each Snes game. The emails me again stating that someone offered him $300 just for Earthbound and proceeded to accuse me (and apparently a few other people that emailed him) that we were trying to scam him. Well at that point I knew that I wasn't getting them for anything close to what he wanted originally, but I tell him that it's not scamming when you're the one that names the price and fails to do the research and I leave it at that.
It sucks that some idiot offered $300 right off the bat, which wasn't even accurate since it was just the cartridge, no box or anything.
Originally posted by: Deathmore
This is the most painful story I can think of, aside from story about a roughly $1000 lot that I almost got for $150.
A while back on CL, some guy had posted that he was selling a few Snes games for $5 each. So a click on the ad not expecting much, but still hoping for a couple decent titles. My jaw just about dropped what I saw what the games were, now keep in mind that there was literally only a 2 minute gap in between when he posted this ad and when I emailed him. The games were the following, Chrono Trigger, Super Mario World, Super Mario RPG, Wild Guns, Earthbound, Metal Warriors and a few others that weren't worth remembering. Needless to say I was as quick and tried to be as non obvious as possible. He had like 12 games total so I offered to buy them all for $60 and asked him where he would like me to meet him.
Ten minutes later I get an email from him telling me that, that seems like a lowball offer don't you think? Well I decide to sort of play dumb and tell him that his ad says it's $5 for each Snes game. The emails me again stating that someone offered him $300 just for Earthbound and proceeded to accuse me (and apparently a few other people that emailed him) that we were trying to scam him. Well at that point I knew that I wasn't getting them for anything close to what he wanted originally, but I tell him that it's not scamming when you're the one that names the price and fails to do the research and I leave it at that.
It sucks that some idiot offered $300 right off the bat, which wasn't even accurate since it was just the cartridge, no box or anything.
Were they all CIB? That sucks man.
Originally posted by: ColdStatic
That actually almost sounds like another instance of someone trying to feel out his local competition to me. I can't imagine anyone throwing out a $300 offer for a cart only EB when the seller is asking $5 in the ad.
I thought about that, I was honestly shocked by the $300 offer on a cart only copy of EB, so it was probably either that, or it was some guy purposely trying to ruin it for everyone else. I know if someone offered me anything over $100 for something I was selling for under $10, it would prompt me to look up a little more information on it.
Originally posted by: YellowGameboyColor
Were they all CIB? That sucks man.
I'm not sure to be honest, he didn't have a picture up for them. Either way though, yeah, it sucked. Lol
Originally posted by: Deathmore
This is the most painful story I can think of, aside from story about a roughly $1000 lot that I almost got for $150.
A while back on CL, some guy had posted that he was selling a few Snes games for $5 each. So a click on the ad not expecting much, but still hoping for a couple decent titles. My jaw just about dropped what I saw what the games were, now keep in mind that there was literally only a 2 minute gap in between when he posted this ad and when I emailed him. The games were the following, Chrono Trigger, Super Mario World, Super Mario RPG, Wild Guns, Earthbound, Metal Warriors and a few others that weren't worth remembering. Needless to say I was as quick and tried to be as non obvious as possible. He had like 12 games total so I offered to buy them all for $60 and asked him where he would like me to meet him.
Ten minutes later I get an email from him telling me that, that seems like a lowball offer don't you think? Well I decide to sort of play dumb and tell him that his ad says it's $5 for each Snes game. The emails me again stating that someone offered him $300 just for Earthbound and proceeded to accuse me (and apparently a few other people that emailed him) that we were trying to scam him. Well at that point I knew that I wasn't getting them for anything close to what he wanted originally, but I tell him that it's not scamming when you're the one that names the price and fails to do the research and I leave it at that.
It sucks that some idiot offered $300 right off the bat, which wasn't even accurate since it was just the cartridge, no box or anything.
Probably just craigslist trolls.
He called my cell phone and we briefly spoke, and I told him to meet me at the college where I worked at 4PM. He agreed and that day I withdrew the money for the system and went to work, eagerly awaiting this guy's arrival. Well, I'm waiting for him to show up, and 4PM comes and goes. 4:30 comes and goes. Now it's 5 PM and I'm getting tired of waiting. I call his cell phone and nobody picks up. I'm really wary now, so I call it again and a different person answers. Apparently it's one of his co-workers. He worked for a tow-truck company and used his truck's cell phone to call me. I ask the guy "Do you know Jason?" "Yeah, I know him." "Is he there?" "No, he don't work today!" "Ok, well he used this phone number to organize a deal on craigs list" Then, all of the sudden "THIS IS A WORK PHONE, AND YOU'D BETTER NOT CALL IT AGAIN! CALL THIS PHONE AGAIN AND I'LL REPORT YOU TO THE POLICE!" The mood swing was sudden, and just came out of nowhere. All I said it "Well, whatever. The police will just laugh at you, but don't worry I won't call again." Then I hung up and went home. It was a huge disappointment, but I learned my lesson. Screw craigs list.
Originally posted by: Rooster
I only ever had 1 experience with craigslist, and it was enough to turn me away from the site, and I will never look back. It was maybe 3 years ago, and my PS3 had just broke. Someone had listed a 60GB PS3 with 2 controllers and I think 3 or 4 games and he wanted an offer for the stuff. I sent him an email and offered him $250 for it, and he said I could have it for $270. He lived in newark, DE which is about 15-20 minutes away but I wanted to meet in a public place. I also told him that I wanted him to call my cell phone so I had a way to contact him.
He called my cell phone and we briefly spoke, and I told him to meet me at the college where I worked at 4PM. He agreed and that day I withdrew the money for the system and went to work, eagerly awaiting this guy's arrival. Well, I'm waiting for him to show up, and 4PM comes and goes. 4:30 comes and goes. Now it's 5 PM and I'm getting tired of waiting. I call his cell phone and nobody picks up. I'm really wary now, so I call it again and a different person answers. Apparently it's one of his co-workers. He worked for a tow-truck company and used his truck's cell phone to call me. I ask the guy "Do you know Jason?" "Yeah, I know him." "Is he there?" "No, he don't work today!" "Ok, well he used this phone number to organize a deal on craigs list" Then, all of the sudden "THIS IS A WORK PHONE, AND YOU'D BETTER NOT CALL IT AGAIN! CALL THIS PHONE AGAIN AND I'LL REPORT YOU TO THE POLICE!" The mood swing was sudden, and just came out of nowhere. All I said it "Well, whatever. The police will just laugh at you, but don't worry I won't call again." Then I hung up and went home. It was a huge disappointment, but I learned my lesson. Screw craigs list.
same story happened to me last week. used ps3 for 60$ no controller (didnt mind as it was for my kids room for playing movies). small problem tho i never spoke to him. he gave me an adress which didnt even exist at all ! i was pissed off. emailed him the next day and he answered like "STOP BUGGING ME I ALREADY SOLD THE PS3". what a fucker, scammer and looser. upon research on his email, i cam across another guy that got scammed by the very same guy 2 years ago. stupid poeple are still stupid poeple years after years.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=271070109247
I never got it. I bought it on the 30th. I paid and it never shipped out by the end of the estimated period. I mailed internally, they said it went out media mail(I paid for parcel post) which is illegal by USPS rules, so they said the USPS sat on it and when he came in he paid for priority and apologized. When I wrote on the 10th I said I'd be moving on the 18th but forwarding my mail, he was nice and said he'd do that priority to get it to me. As time peeled along, 2-3days priority was a no show, so I wrote a couple times, nothing. Got pissed. Ebay would do nothing over a 2wk claim period, so I bypassed them through Paypal. Paypal saw the contact and him ignoring, issued me a refund on the spot. First try failed as the seller tried to block it, second try worked so I guess they billed the prick.
Once in Louisville I left negative feedback on the 24th of October saying -> Never shipped lied about it twice ignored contact had to use PayPal for refund.
The jackass put a rebuttal of: Buyer moved left no forwarding address.Item was returned and I gave a refund.
Liar once on media mail, liar twice on priority, and liar again about the refund he was forced to do after blocking it. I called ebay, they told me they refused to remove it despite the evidence (which he wouldn't look at on the phone) and told me they have a right to their own OPINION as I do, and that unless it's illegal, inflammatory, or otherwise law breaking it stays and then told me have a nice day and got me off the phone. Screw em both.
I'll be copying this into the HOS.