ive never sold anything with a reserve but have a question. I hate reserves and would never use them because whats the point...just start the auction at the price you want. but anyway
I saw an auction that had a reserve and then had 4 bids all by the same person. First thing I think of is a seller shill bidding up so anyone who bids and gets the high bid will break the reserve. Since it takes 2 people to reach a reserve price. When I asked them what the reserve was, the seller told me 85 and that the bidding was only 5 dollars less than the reserve last time and didnt sell. How would they know this since the high bid was 55 with 1 bidder bidding 4 times? I wouldnt think a seller can see a high bid on a reserve not met auction with 1 bidder. So hmmm.
I don't see why they wouldn't be able to see the bids if they were 4 separate bids. Makes sense to me. Then again, I've never sold anything with a reserve.
This idiot sent a best offer on an item I have listed and when it was auto rejected, he complained to me through a message. After telling him that I can price my items at whatever I want, and his message was unnecessary, he said exactly this: "I am going to leave you negative feedback."
I'd block him to be safe, but he doesn't seem to bright.
UGHHH SO MANY INTERNATIONAL BUYERS ASKING if standard post or economy shipping has tracking number lately and if ill ship all this expensive shit economony shipping.
INSTA-BLOCKED
Hate when customers ask me that. Might as well say "So can I rip you off on this package?"
Ok, so this guy posts up his video game collection on Craigslist, and I'm just interested in his Atari 7800, Lynx, and a few games. We agree on a price of $45 on Thursday but I tell him I can't meet until Saturday due to his location. He's fine with that. Saturday morning I text to make sure he stil has it. He says yes and asks what price I had in mind (should have been my first clue this deal was gonna go south). Anyway I tell him we already agreed on $45 so he says OK. And I tell him I'm on my way to his area (he still doesn't give me a specific location to meet at). Once I'm at the mall in the general area, he says OK (I just kept getting a bunch of one-word answers). Finally, when I stop at a thrift store to kill some time and wait for a specific location to meet, he replies and says he just got an offer of $70 just for the Lynx. So I say we had a deal and I just drove an hour to come get it. No reply. I ask if he'll take a little more, and no reply. He just completely stops responding to me. I'm thiking of texting him from a different number and giving him the runaround. He wasted more than an hour of my time and gas, so why not waste some of his?
This happens to me alllllllll the time. Sellers just don't respond to me. Then hours later they tell me it already was sold to someone who didn't ask questions (like a list of games or pictures). This is specifically on CL. On eBay I've had a couple of cases I've had to open because sellers won't respond to complex questions like, "Any update on shipping? It's been a week since I paid and you haven't marked it as shipped yet." I'm dealing with that situation on eBay right now in fact. It seems like I always get sellers who have little integrity and NEVER check their freaking messages!!!!
Completely agree with you on this one too... I believe it's the problem with turning to places like Craig's and Ebay now though. Since the people never really have to be face to face with you they will treat you however they want. Personally I prefer going through swap meets and garage sales looking for items mainly for this reason alone.
So I got some retribution! I decided to mess with the guy a little and had my wife text him from her number and offer to buy everything at his asking price ($300). Of course, he jumped at the chance. We had him drive out to a Target Parking lot, made him wait about 30 minutes, then texted again that we accidentally went to the wrong place. So another 30 minutes later, we texted again saying we got a flat tire, and we'd have to pass on the deal for now. That was going to be the end of it. He wasted an hour of our time, so we wasted an hour of his. But! Today I noticed he still had the ad up, so I had my wife text again, and try to work out a deal just for the stuff I wanted. He decided to just meet up and work out a deal in person. So all in all, we ended up getting everything from his ad for $70, minus an old Xbox 360 and an original GameBoy. That includes an Atari 2600 with about 150 games, NES with 4 games, Atari Lynx with 2 games, Atari 7800 with 3 games and a butt load of controllers and wires and stuff. The 7800 looks damn near brand new and everything else is in really great condition.
Turns out he was some punk hick teenager (which I called from the second we started texting). He was probably just as shitty to anyone else who was asking about the ad, which is the only reason I can think it was still up after a week, even at $300 it would have been an OK deal, and of course he had OBO in the description. Is it bad that I take joy in the fact that I screwed this kid over?
Ok, so this guy posts up his video game collection on Craigslist, and I'm just interested in his Atari 7800, Lynx, and a few games. We agree on a price of $45 on Thursday but I tell him I can't meet until Saturday due to his location. He's fine with that. Saturday morning I text to make sure he stil has it. He says yes and asks what price I had in mind (should have been my first clue this deal was gonna go south). Anyway I tell him we already agreed on $45 so he says OK. And I tell him I'm on my way to his area (he still doesn't give me a specific location to meet at). Once I'm at the mall in the general area, he says OK (I just kept getting a bunch of one-word answers). Finally, when I stop at a thrift store to kill some time and wait for a specific location to meet, he replies and says he just got an offer of $70 just for the Lynx. So I say we had a deal and I just drove an hour to come get it. No reply. I ask if he'll take a little more, and no reply. He just completely stops responding to me. I'm thiking of texting him from a different number and giving him the runaround. He wasted more than an hour of my time and gas, so why not waste some of his?
This happens to me alllllllll the time. Sellers just don't respond to me. Then hours later they tell me it already was sold to someone who didn't ask questions (like a list of games or pictures). This is specifically on CL. On eBay I've had a couple of cases I've had to open because sellers won't respond to complex questions like, "Any update on shipping? It's been a week since I paid and you haven't marked it as shipped yet." I'm dealing with that situation on eBay right now in fact. It seems like I always get sellers who have little integrity and NEVER check their freaking messages!!!!
Completely agree with you on this one too... I believe it's the problem with turning to places like Craig's and Ebay now though. Since the people never really have to be face to face with you they will treat you however they want. Personally I prefer going through swap meets and garage sales looking for items mainly for this reason alone.
So I got some retribution! I decided to mess with the guy a little and had my wife text him from her number and offer to buy everything at his asking price ($300). Of course, he jumped at the chance. We had him drive out to a Target Parking lot, made him wait about 30 minutes, then texted again that we accidentally went to the wrong place. So another 30 minutes later, we texted again saying we got a flat tire, and we'd have to pass on the deal for now. That was going to be the end of it. He wasted an hour of our time, so we wasted an hour of his. But! Today I noticed he still had the ad up, so I had my wife text again, and try to work out a deal just for the stuff I wanted. He decided to just meet up and work out a deal in person. So all in all, we ended up getting everything from his ad for $70, minus an old Xbox 360 and an original GameBoy. That includes an Atari 2600 with about 150 games, NES with 4 games, Atari Lynx with 2 games, Atari 7800 with 3 games and a butt load of controllers and wires and stuff. The 7800 looks damn near brand new and everything else is in really great condition.
Turns out he was some punk hick teenager (which I called from the second we started texting). He was probably just as shitty to anyone else who was asking about the ad, which is the only reason I can think it was still up after a week, even at $300 it would have been an OK deal, and of course he had OBO in the description. Is it bad that I take joy in the fact that I screwed this kid over?
Congrats on the pick up finally! On the one hand, I think that teaching this kid a lesson on how it feels to be stood up is valuable, but I don't think it will click for him and make him an upstanding citizen the rest of his life. On the other hand, doing this to a teenager sits awkwardly with me, because I have dealt with my fair share of children posting stuff on CL and NA and want to be treated like adults, but then back out at the last minute for their own (literally) childish reasons. In those instances I feel pissed that I feel the need to be the adult with a child about old video games. The fact that this seller was a teenager and treated you this way, makes me more sad for his generation because that seems to be the climate of things and there seems to be this seller Vs. buyer game that has been created in relation to what Rival said previously that sucks the fun out of two people being happy with a deal and instead has two people trying to get the other for all they're worth because of some pride or machismo-like complex...
Ok, so this guy posts up his video game collection on Craigslist, and I'm just interested in his Atari 7800, Lynx, and a few games. We agree on a price of $45 on Thursday but I tell him I can't meet until Saturday due to his location. He's fine with that. Saturday morning I text to make sure he stil has it. He says yes and asks what price I had in mind (should have been my first clue this deal was gonna go south). Anyway I tell him we already agreed on $45 so he says OK. And I tell him I'm on my way to his area (he still doesn't give me a specific location to meet at). Once I'm at the mall in the general area, he says OK (I just kept getting a bunch of one-word answers). Finally, when I stop at a thrift store to kill some time and wait for a specific location to meet, he replies and says he just got an offer of $70 just for the Lynx. So I say we had a deal and I just drove an hour to come get it. No reply. I ask if he'll take a little more, and no reply. He just completely stops responding to me. I'm thiking of texting him from a different number and giving him the runaround. He wasted more than an hour of my time and gas, so why not waste some of his?
This happens to me alllllllll the time. Sellers just don't respond to me. Then hours later they tell me it already was sold to someone who didn't ask questions (like a list of games or pictures). This is specifically on CL. On eBay I've had a couple of cases I've had to open because sellers won't respond to complex questions like, "Any update on shipping? It's been a week since I paid and you haven't marked it as shipped yet." I'm dealing with that situation on eBay right now in fact. It seems like I always get sellers who have little integrity and NEVER check their freaking messages!!!!
Completely agree with you on this one too... I believe it's the problem with turning to places like Craig's and Ebay now though. Since the people never really have to be face to face with you they will treat you however they want. Personally I prefer going through swap meets and garage sales looking for items mainly for this reason alone.
So I got some retribution! I decided to mess with the guy a little and had my wife text him from her number and offer to buy everything at his asking price ($300). Of course, he jumped at the chance. We had him drive out to a Target Parking lot, made him wait about 30 minutes, then texted again that we accidentally went to the wrong place. So another 30 minutes later, we texted again saying we got a flat tire, and we'd have to pass on the deal for now. That was going to be the end of it. He wasted an hour of our time, so we wasted an hour of his. But! Today I noticed he still had the ad up, so I had my wife text again, and try to work out a deal just for the stuff I wanted. He decided to just meet up and work out a deal in person. So all in all, we ended up getting everything from his ad for $70, minus an old Xbox 360 and an original GameBoy. That includes an Atari 2600 with about 150 games, NES with 4 games, Atari Lynx with 2 games, Atari 7800 with 3 games and a butt load of controllers and wires and stuff. The 7800 looks damn near brand new and everything else is in really great condition.
Turns out he was some punk hick teenager (which I called from the second we started texting). He was probably just as shitty to anyone else who was asking about the ad, which is the only reason I can think it was still up after a week, even at $300 it would have been an OK deal, and of course he had OBO in the description. Is it bad that I take joy in the fact that I screwed this kid over?
Congrats on the pick up finally! On the one hand, I think that teaching this kid a lesson on how it feels to be stood up is valuable, but I don't think it will click for him and make him an upstanding citizen the rest of his life. On the other hand, doing this to a teenager sits awkwardly with me, because I have dealt with my fair share of children posting stuff on CL and NA and want to be treated like adults, but then back out at the last minute for their own (literally) childish reasons. In those instances I feel pissed that I feel the need to be the adult with a child about old video games. The fact that this seller was a teenager and treated you this way, makes me more sad for his generation because that seems to be the climate of things and there seems to be this seller Vs. buyer game that has been created in relation to what Rival said previously that sucks the fun out of two people being happy with a deal and instead has two people trying to get the other for all they're worth because of some pride or machismo-like complex...
To be fair, I didn't know he was a teeanager when I originally started contacting him. I just figured by his communications that he was not a courteous, responsible adult. So I was not at all surprised to find out it was in fact a teen. Normally, I am very friendly with sellers, and am more than willing to work with them. I don't like the Us vs. them mentality either, because I am also a seller at times, and I like to live life by the golden rule. However, this kid just pushed me over the edge. As I said before, he was just not pleasant to deal with in the first place, so when he finally nixed the deal, that was the last straw, and I guess I just snapped so to speak. I know he didn't learn anything from our little interaction, but I still like to know I wasted a little of his time and I got a great deal on his games. I'm not super proud of my behavior in this transaction, but I'm not ashamed of it either.
Ok, so this guy posts up his video game collection on Craigslist, and I'm just interested in his Atari 7800, Lynx, and a few games. We agree on a price of $45 on Thursday but I tell him I can't meet until Saturday due to his location. He's fine with that. Saturday morning I text to make sure he stil has it. He says yes and asks what price I had in mind (should have been my first clue this deal was gonna go south). Anyway I tell him we already agreed on $45 so he says OK. And I tell him I'm on my way to his area (he still doesn't give me a specific location to meet at). Once I'm at the mall in the general area, he says OK (I just kept getting a bunch of one-word answers). Finally, when I stop at a thrift store to kill some time and wait for a specific location to meet, he replies and says he just got an offer of $70 just for the Lynx. So I say we had a deal and I just drove an hour to come get it. No reply. I ask if he'll take a little more, and no reply. He just completely stops responding to me. I'm thiking of texting him from a different number and giving him the runaround. He wasted more than an hour of my time and gas, so why not waste some of his?
This happens to me alllllllll the time. Sellers just don't respond to me. Then hours later they tell me it already was sold to someone who didn't ask questions (like a list of games or pictures). This is specifically on CL. On eBay I've had a couple of cases I've had to open because sellers won't respond to complex questions like, "Any update on shipping? It's been a week since I paid and you haven't marked it as shipped yet." I'm dealing with that situation on eBay right now in fact. It seems like I always get sellers who have little integrity and NEVER check their freaking messages!!!!
Completely agree with you on this one too... I believe it's the problem with turning to places like Craig's and Ebay now though. Since the people never really have to be face to face with you they will treat you however they want. Personally I prefer going through swap meets and garage sales looking for items mainly for this reason alone.
So I got some retribution! I decided to mess with the guy a little and had my wife text him from her number and offer to buy everything at his asking price ($300). Of course, he jumped at the chance. We had him drive out to a Target Parking lot, made him wait about 30 minutes, then texted again that we accidentally went to the wrong place. So another 30 minutes later, we texted again saying we got a flat tire, and we'd have to pass on the deal for now. That was going to be the end of it. He wasted an hour of our time, so we wasted an hour of his. But! Today I noticed he still had the ad up, so I had my wife text again, and try to work out a deal just for the stuff I wanted. He decided to just meet up and work out a deal in person. So all in all, we ended up getting everything from his ad for $70, minus an old Xbox 360 and an original GameBoy. That includes an Atari 2600 with about 150 games, NES with 4 games, Atari Lynx with 2 games, Atari 7800 with 3 games and a butt load of controllers and wires and stuff. The 7800 looks damn near brand new and everything else is in really great condition.
Turns out he was some punk hick teenager (which I called from the second we started texting). He was probably just as shitty to anyone else who was asking about the ad, which is the only reason I can think it was still up after a week, even at $300 it would have been an OK deal, and of course he had OBO in the description. Is it bad that I take joy in the fact that I screwed this kid over?
Congrats on the pick up finally! On the one hand, I think that teaching this kid a lesson on how it feels to be stood up is valuable, but I don't think it will click for him and make him an upstanding citizen the rest of his life. On the other hand, doing this to a teenager sits awkwardly with me, because I have dealt with my fair share of children posting stuff on CL and NA and want to be treated like adults, but then back out at the last minute for their own (literally) childish reasons. In those instances I feel pissed that I feel the need to be the adult with a child about old video games. The fact that this seller was a teenager and treated you this way, makes me more sad for his generation because that seems to be the climate of things and there seems to be this seller Vs. buyer game that has been created in relation to what Rival said previously that sucks the fun out of two people being happy with a deal and instead has two people trying to get the other for all they're worth because of some pride or machismo-like complex...
To be fair, I didn't know he was a teeanager when I originally started contacting him. I just figured by his communications that he was not a courteous, responsible adult. So I was not at all surprised to find out it was in fact a teen. Normally, I am very friendly with sellers, and am more than willing to work with them. I don't like the Us vs. them mentality either, because I am also a seller at times, and I like to live life by the golden rule. However, this kid just pushed me over the edge. As I said before, he was just not pleasant to deal with in the first place, so when he finally nixed the deal, that was the last straw, and I guess I just snapped so to speak. I know he didn't learn anything from our little interaction, but I still like to know I wasted a little of his time and I got a great deal on his games. I'm not super proud of my behavior in this transaction, but I'm not ashamed of it either.
Well you have to remember that the kid is the seller, and it's really his responsibility to know what it is he's selling and to come up with a price that's fair for himself. If he's willing to take what he took, there's no "taking advantage of" anybody, since he agreed on the price.
You can of course laugh at him for being foolish and a punk kid because of how tough he was to deal with, though.
Purchased a sealed nes game on Sunday evening, although the top right corner on the back looked iffy. The right side of the box (facing the front) picture was not displayed.
Having already dealt with sellers and their ability to manuevre games to look mint by leaving out angles I wanted to get clarification on item. So I sent a message 4 hours prior to closing.
No response
O rly?...win auction.
Send Seller message literally the minute I win auction to explain I need 24 hours to forward payment (having a personal track record of immediate payment on all my purchases) as I had a question for ebay regarding shipping the product to VGA for grading and what the terms were relating to buyers protection if I'm not the one who receives it. Also include how I still want (in a very polite and appreciative tone) the pictures relating to these sides not photographed. No response/confirmation
Wait till morning...call ebay.
-Ebay confirms I have buyers protection if shipped to different address and I am not the one who opens it.
-Ebay confirms I have right to request pics before payment process.
Send seller another polite message requesting pictures several hours ago.
Mind you its in Hawaii and its still working hours I'm assuming, so I wondering what will happen.
Seller generally has a very positive rating except for 2 negatives. Both negatives state item was not as described (with one indicating liar) and one of the negs was a sealed Chip n Dale 2 NES.
UGHHH SO MANY INTERNATIONAL BUYERS ASKING if standard post or economy shipping has tracking number lately and if ill ship all this expensive shit economony shipping.
INSTA-BLOCKED
Hate when customers ask me that. Might as well say "So can I rip you off on this package?"
Thats because Economy comes with tracking international. Or you can upgrade to international track and sign 2nd class/Economy.
At least through parcel force. Euro's not on that shit tier North American postal service bruh
Purchased a sealed nes game on Sunday evening, although the top right corner on the back looked iffy. The right side of the box (facing the front) picture was not displayed.
Having already dealt with sellers and their ability to manuevre games to look mint by leaving out angles I wanted to get clarification on item. So I sent a message 4 hours prior to closing.
No response
O rly?...win auction.
Send Seller message literally the minute I win auction to explain I need 24 hours to forward payment (having a personal track record of immediate payment on all my purchases) as I had a question for ebay regarding shipping the product to VGA for grading and what the terms were relating to buyers protection if I'm not the one who receives it. Also include how I still want (in a very polite and appreciative tone) the pictures relating to these sides not photographed. No response/confirmation
Wait till morning...call ebay.
-Ebay confirms I have buyers protection if shipped to different address and I am not the one who opens it.
-Ebay confirms I have right to request pics before payment process.
Send seller another polite message requesting pictures several hours ago.
Mind you its in Hawaii and its still working hours I'm assuming, so I wondering what will happen.
Seller generally has a very positive rating except for 2 negatives. Both negatives state item was not as described (with one indicating liar) and one of the negs was a sealed Chip n Dale 2 NES.
Wonder if I get my game
First point, that goes against everything I've known about buyer protection. You are supposed to have a verified address to qualify for buyer protection.
Second point, you can request pics but I don't think he's obligated to provide them if the auction is over and you put in a winning bid. I'd be surprised if you decline payment at this point and donn't get dinged for it.
So I got some retribution! I decided to mess with the guy a little and had my wife text him from her number and offer to buy everything at his asking price ($300). Of course, he jumped at the chance. We had him drive out to a Target Parking lot, made him wait about 30 minutes, then texted again that we accidentally went to the wrong place. So another 30 minutes later, we texted again saying we got a flat tire, and we'd have to pass on the deal for now. That was going to be the end of it. He wasted an hour of our time, so we wasted an hour of his. But! Today I noticed he still had the ad up, so I had my wife text again, and try to work out a deal just for the stuff I wanted. He decided to just meet up and work out a deal in person. So all in all, we ended up getting everything from his ad for $70, minus an old Xbox 360 and an original GameBoy. That includes an Atari 2600 with about 150 games, NES with 4 games, Atari Lynx with 2 games, Atari 7800 with 3 games and a butt load of controllers and wires and stuff. The 7800 looks damn near brand new and everything else is in really great condition.
Turns out he was some punk hick teenager (which I called from the second we started texting). He was probably just as shitty to anyone else who was asking about the ad, which is the only reason I can think it was still up after a week, even at $300 it would have been an OK deal, and of course he had OBO in the description. Is it bad that I take joy in the fact that I screwed this kid over?
That's awesome. How do you talk a guy down from $300 to $70?
UGHHH SO MANY INTERNATIONAL BUYERS ASKING if standard post or economy shipping has tracking number lately and if ill ship all this expensive shit economony shipping.
INSTA-BLOCKED
Hate when customers ask me that. Might as well say "So can I rip you off on this package?"
Thats because Economy comes with tracking international. Or you can upgrade to international track and sign 2nd class/Economy.
At least through parcel force. Euro's not on that shit tier North American postal service bruh
Purchased a sealed nes game on Sunday evening, although the top right corner on the back looked iffy. The right side of the box (facing the front) picture was not displayed.
Having already dealt with sellers and their ability to manuevre games to look mint by leaving out angles I wanted to get clarification on item. So I sent a message 4 hours prior to closing.
No response
O rly?...win auction.
Send Seller message literally the minute I win auction to explain I need 24 hours to forward payment (having a personal track record of immediate payment on all my purchases) as I had a question for ebay regarding shipping the product to VGA for grading and what the terms were relating to buyers protection if I'm not the one who receives it. Also include how I still want (in a very polite and appreciative tone) the pictures relating to these sides not photographed. No response/confirmation
Wait till morning...call ebay.
-Ebay confirms I have buyers protection if shipped to different address and I am not the one who opens it.
-Ebay confirms I have right to request pics before payment process.
Send seller another polite message requesting pictures several hours ago.
Mind you its in Hawaii and its still working hours I'm assuming, so I wondering what will happen.
Seller generally has a very positive rating except for 2 negatives. Both negatives state item was not as described (with one indicating liar) and one of the negs was a sealed Chip n Dale 2 NES.
Wonder if I get my game
First point, that goes against everything I've known about buyer protection. You are supposed to have a verified address to qualify for buyer protection.
Second point, you can request pics but I don't think he's obligated to provide them if the auction is over and you put in a winning bid. I'd be surprised if you decline payment at this point and donn't get dinged for it.
Its via a conversation I had through ebay. Which I have the conversation transaction ID.
I also express my questions to companies and people in two different ways to make sure they both understand me, and that its Yes-Yes...not Yes - Well...No
UGHHH SO MANY INTERNATIONAL BUYERS ASKING if standard post or economy shipping has tracking number lately and if ill ship all this expensive shit economony shipping.
INSTA-BLOCKED
Hate when customers ask me that. Might as well say "So can I rip you off on this package?"
Thats because Economy comes with tracking international. Or you can upgrade to international track and sign 2nd class/Economy.
At least through parcel force. Euro's not on that shit tier North American postal service bruh
I dont think you understand usps postal service. We cant do any of that. Alot of other countries postal systems wont scan packages for usps. Economy first class tracking is not available to most countries. You have alot easier time with it in your countries. Alot of easier options to guarantee delivery is traced. America does not.
Purchased a sealed nes game on Sunday evening, although the top right corner on the back looked iffy. The right side of the box (facing the front) picture was not displayed.
Having already dealt with sellers and their ability to manuevre games to look mint by leaving out angles I wanted to get clarification on item. So I sent a message 4 hours prior to closing.
No response
O rly?...win auction.
Send Seller message literally the minute I win auction to explain I need 24 hours to forward payment (having a personal track record of immediate payment on all my purchases) as I had a question for ebay regarding shipping the product to VGA for grading and what the terms were relating to buyers protection if I'm not the one who receives it. Also include how I still want (in a very polite and appreciative tone) the pictures relating to these sides not photographed. No response/confirmation
Wait till morning...call ebay.
-Ebay confirms I have buyers protection if shipped to different address and I am not the one who opens it.
-Ebay confirms I have right to request pics before payment process.
Send seller another polite message requesting pictures several hours ago.
Mind you its in Hawaii and its still working hours I'm assuming, so I wondering what will happen.
Seller generally has a very positive rating except for 2 negatives. Both negatives state item was not as described (with one indicating liar) and one of the negs was a sealed Chip n Dale 2 NES.
Wonder if I get my game
First point, that goes against everything I've known about buyer protection. You are supposed to have a verified address to qualify for buyer protection.
Second point, you can request pics but I don't think he's obligated to provide them if the auction is over and you put in a winning bid. I'd be surprised if you decline payment at this point and donn't get dinged for it.
Its via a conversation I had through ebay. Which I have the conversation transaction ID.
I also express my questions to companies and people in two different ways to make sure they both understand me, and that its Yes-Yes...not Yes - Well...No
I would never do that. In that case there is no seller protection. Of course you have protection. Ebay doesnt give teo shits about the seller. If the seller ships to an another address they void sll protection. If i were the seller id be pissed with that demand after winning the auction.
He isnt obligated to provide you more pictures. You shouldnt have bid
UGHHH SO MANY INTERNATIONAL BUYERS ASKING if standard post or economy shipping has tracking number lately and if ill ship all this expensive shit economony shipping.
INSTA-BLOCKED
Hate when customers ask me that. Might as well say "So can I rip you off on this package?"
Thats because Economy comes with tracking international. Or you can upgrade to international track and sign 2nd class/Economy.
At least through parcel force. Euro's not on that shit tier North American postal service bruh
Who is that in your avatar? My goodness...
She is the Russian goddess Natalia Poklonskaya. Crimea's attorney general.
Tender, feminie, and beautiful. Who has the sexual prowess to condemn to you a fire range and you're last whisper be 'for you my love...'
Purchased a sealed nes game on Sunday evening, although the top right corner on the back looked iffy. The right side of the box (facing the front) picture was not displayed.
Having already dealt with sellers and their ability to manuevre games to look mint by leaving out angles I wanted to get clarification on item. So I sent a message 4 hours prior to closing.
No response
O rly?...win auction.
Send Seller message literally the minute I win auction to explain I need 24 hours to forward payment (having a personal track record of immediate payment on all my purchases) as I had a question for ebay regarding shipping the product to VGA for grading and what the terms were relating to buyers protection if I'm not the one who receives it. Also include how I still want (in a very polite and appreciative tone) the pictures relating to these sides not photographed. No response/confirmation
Wait till morning...call ebay.
-Ebay confirms I have buyers protection if shipped to different address and I am not the one who opens it.
-Ebay confirms I have right to request pics before payment process.
Send seller another polite message requesting pictures several hours ago.
Mind you its in Hawaii and its still working hours I'm assuming, so I wondering what will happen.
Seller generally has a very positive rating except for 2 negatives. Both negatives state item was not as described (with one indicating liar) and one of the negs was a sealed Chip n Dale 2 NES.
Wonder if I get my game
First point, that goes against everything I've known about buyer protection. You are supposed to have a verified address to qualify for buyer protection.
Second point, you can request pics but I don't think he's obligated to provide them if the auction is over and you put in a winning bid. I'd be surprised if you decline payment at this point and donn't get dinged for it.
Its via a conversation I had through ebay. Which I have the conversation transaction ID.
I also express my questions to companies and people in two different ways to make sure they both understand me, and that its Yes-Yes...not Yes - Well...No
I would never do that. In that case there is no seller protection. Of course you have protection. Ebay doesnt give teo shits about the seller. If the seller ships to an another address they void sll protection. If i were the seller id be pissed with that demand after winning the auction. He isnt obligated to provide you more pictures. You shouldnt have bid
Yea..but I wanted dat Sealed Battletoads and Double Dragon doe.
I won auction, but I'm giving a good chunk of change. He prescribed the box to be in very good condition with no dents, dings, tears, or any blemishes...so whats the deal at taking two pictures (estimated 45 seconds on a cameraphone) and uploading it to ebay? (approx. 70-130 second task)
So I got some retribution! I decided to mess with the guy a little and had my wife text him from her number and offer to buy everything at his asking price ($300). Of course, he jumped at the chance. We had him drive out to a Target Parking lot, made him wait about 30 minutes, then texted again that we accidentally went to the wrong place. So another 30 minutes later, we texted again saying we got a flat tire, and we'd have to pass on the deal for now. That was going to be the end of it. He wasted an hour of our time, so we wasted an hour of his. But! Today I noticed he still had the ad up, so I had my wife text again, and try to work out a deal just for the stuff I wanted. He decided to just meet up and work out a deal in person. So all in all, we ended up getting everything from his ad for $70, minus an old Xbox 360 and an original GameBoy. That includes an Atari 2600 with about 150 games, NES with 4 games, Atari Lynx with 2 games, Atari 7800 with 3 games and a butt load of controllers and wires and stuff. The 7800 looks damn near brand new and everything else is in really great condition.
Turns out he was some punk hick teenager (which I called from the second we started texting). He was probably just as shitty to anyone else who was asking about the ad, which is the only reason I can think it was still up after a week, even at $300 it would have been an OK deal, and of course he had OBO in the description. Is it bad that I take joy in the fact that I screwed this kid over?
That's awesome. How do you talk a guy down from $300 to $70?
Ha, I think he was putting a lot of value in that XBox 360 and Gameboy. The rest was all my wife. SHe's one hell of a negotiator apparently.
I just got asked whether I would take a picture of light to microscopic manual spinewear on an item listed as Very Good-- now I know what you guys mean when you talk about your preemptive instablocks. It's like these particular types are too cheap to buy an item sealed so they gotta come down and troll me on the high end of the used column for their "needs."
Yea..but I wanted dat Sealed Battletoads and Double Dragon doe.
I won auction, but I'm giving a good chunk of change. He prescribed the box to be in very good condition with no dents, dings, tears, or any blemishes...so whats the deal at taking two pictures (estimated 45 seconds on a cameraphone) and uploading it to ebay? (approx. 70-130 second task)
You're making an assumption on the time it takes to get good pictures; it takes me about 45 minutes on just a small set, culling out the bad shots and resizing in photoshop. Heck, just getting the raw pics across a USB cable takes me (3 minutes), longer than your quoted time. I can see where you're coming from though if it's a $400 item.
Maybe he/she thinks you are the type of picky collector that will leave a neg at the drop of a hat and doesn't want to deal with you.
Wouldn't not saying anything, going by description, looking at ding at arrival and its so big it literally is asking 'sup bro' and me dropping a neg them be worse?
Yea..but I wanted dat Sealed Battletoads and Double Dragon doe.
I won auction, but I'm giving a good chunk of change. He prescribed the box to be in very good condition with no dents, dings, tears, or any blemishes...so whats the deal at taking two pictures (estimated 45 seconds on a cameraphone) and uploading it to ebay? (approx. 70-130 second task)
You're making an assumption on the time it takes to get good pictures; it takes me about 45 minutes on just a small set, culling out the bad shots and resizing in photoshop. Heck, just getting the raw pics across a USB cable takes me (3 minutes), longer than your quoted time. I can see where you're coming from though if it's a $400 item.
Dam, well I doubt this guy is that meticulous. I would imagine if he had 10% of your work ethic I've already been waiting for the game to be delivered from VGA already
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I saw an auction that had a reserve and then had 4 bids all by the same person. First thing I think of is a seller shill bidding up so anyone who bids and gets the high bid will break the reserve. Since it takes 2 people to reach a reserve price. When I asked them what the reserve was, the seller told me 85 and that the bidding was only 5 dollars less than the reserve last time and didnt sell. How would they know this since the high bid was 55 with 1 bidder bidding 4 times? I wouldnt think a seller can see a high bid on a reserve not met auction with 1 bidder. So hmmm.
I'd block him to be safe, but he doesn't seem to bright.
Username:
lunchboxattack
Non-paying buyer. No communication. Had to open an unpaid item case.
Here's a direct link to your blocked bidder list if anyone else wants to block him: http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?BidderBlockLogin
INSTA-BLOCKED
Hate when customers ask me that. Might as well say "So can I rip you off on this package?"
Originally posted by: Rival
Originally posted by: theirontoupee
Originally posted by: dj5kjlara
Ok, so this guy posts up his video game collection on Craigslist, and I'm just interested in his Atari 7800, Lynx, and a few games. We agree on a price of $45 on Thursday but I tell him I can't meet until Saturday due to his location. He's fine with that. Saturday morning I text to make sure he stil has it. He says yes and asks what price I had in mind (should have been my first clue this deal was gonna go south). Anyway I tell him we already agreed on $45 so he says OK. And I tell him I'm on my way to his area (he still doesn't give me a specific location to meet at). Once I'm at the mall in the general area, he says OK (I just kept getting a bunch of one-word answers). Finally, when I stop at a thrift store to kill some time and wait for a specific location to meet, he replies and says he just got an offer of $70 just for the Lynx. So I say we had a deal and I just drove an hour to come get it. No reply. I ask if he'll take a little more, and no reply. He just completely stops responding to me. I'm thiking of texting him from a different number and giving him the runaround. He wasted more than an hour of my time and gas, so why not waste some of his?
This happens to me alllllllll the time. Sellers just don't respond to me. Then hours later they tell me it already was sold to someone who didn't ask questions (like a list of games or pictures). This is specifically on CL. On eBay I've had a couple of cases I've had to open because sellers won't respond to complex questions like, "Any update on shipping? It's been a week since I paid and you haven't marked it as shipped yet." I'm dealing with that situation on eBay right now in fact. It seems like I always get sellers who have little integrity and NEVER check their freaking messages!!!!
Completely agree with you on this one too... I believe it's the problem with turning to places like Craig's and Ebay now though. Since the people never really have to be face to face with you they will treat you however they want. Personally I prefer going through swap meets and garage sales looking for items mainly for this reason alone.
So I got some retribution! I decided to mess with the guy a little and had my wife text him from her number and offer to buy everything at his asking price ($300). Of course, he jumped at the chance. We had him drive out to a Target Parking lot, made him wait about 30 minutes, then texted again that we accidentally went to the wrong place. So another 30 minutes later, we texted again saying we got a flat tire, and we'd have to pass on the deal for now. That was going to be the end of it. He wasted an hour of our time, so we wasted an hour of his. But! Today I noticed he still had the ad up, so I had my wife text again, and try to work out a deal just for the stuff I wanted. He decided to just meet up and work out a deal in person. So all in all, we ended up getting everything from his ad for $70, minus an old Xbox 360 and an original GameBoy. That includes an Atari 2600 with about 150 games, NES with 4 games, Atari Lynx with 2 games, Atari 7800 with 3 games and a butt load of controllers and wires and stuff. The 7800 looks damn near brand new and everything else is in really great condition.
Turns out he was some punk hick teenager (which I called from the second we started texting). He was probably just as shitty to anyone else who was asking about the ad, which is the only reason I can think it was still up after a week, even at $300 it would have been an OK deal, and of course he had OBO in the description. Is it bad that I take joy in the fact that I screwed this kid over?
Originally posted by: dj5kjlara
Originally posted by: Rival
Originally posted by: theirontoupee
Originally posted by: dj5kjlara
Ok, so this guy posts up his video game collection on Craigslist, and I'm just interested in his Atari 7800, Lynx, and a few games. We agree on a price of $45 on Thursday but I tell him I can't meet until Saturday due to his location. He's fine with that. Saturday morning I text to make sure he stil has it. He says yes and asks what price I had in mind (should have been my first clue this deal was gonna go south). Anyway I tell him we already agreed on $45 so he says OK. And I tell him I'm on my way to his area (he still doesn't give me a specific location to meet at). Once I'm at the mall in the general area, he says OK (I just kept getting a bunch of one-word answers). Finally, when I stop at a thrift store to kill some time and wait for a specific location to meet, he replies and says he just got an offer of $70 just for the Lynx. So I say we had a deal and I just drove an hour to come get it. No reply. I ask if he'll take a little more, and no reply. He just completely stops responding to me. I'm thiking of texting him from a different number and giving him the runaround. He wasted more than an hour of my time and gas, so why not waste some of his?
This happens to me alllllllll the time. Sellers just don't respond to me. Then hours later they tell me it already was sold to someone who didn't ask questions (like a list of games or pictures). This is specifically on CL. On eBay I've had a couple of cases I've had to open because sellers won't respond to complex questions like, "Any update on shipping? It's been a week since I paid and you haven't marked it as shipped yet." I'm dealing with that situation on eBay right now in fact. It seems like I always get sellers who have little integrity and NEVER check their freaking messages!!!!
Completely agree with you on this one too... I believe it's the problem with turning to places like Craig's and Ebay now though. Since the people never really have to be face to face with you they will treat you however they want. Personally I prefer going through swap meets and garage sales looking for items mainly for this reason alone.
So I got some retribution! I decided to mess with the guy a little and had my wife text him from her number and offer to buy everything at his asking price ($300). Of course, he jumped at the chance. We had him drive out to a Target Parking lot, made him wait about 30 minutes, then texted again that we accidentally went to the wrong place. So another 30 minutes later, we texted again saying we got a flat tire, and we'd have to pass on the deal for now. That was going to be the end of it. He wasted an hour of our time, so we wasted an hour of his. But! Today I noticed he still had the ad up, so I had my wife text again, and try to work out a deal just for the stuff I wanted. He decided to just meet up and work out a deal in person. So all in all, we ended up getting everything from his ad for $70, minus an old Xbox 360 and an original GameBoy. That includes an Atari 2600 with about 150 games, NES with 4 games, Atari Lynx with 2 games, Atari 7800 with 3 games and a butt load of controllers and wires and stuff. The 7800 looks damn near brand new and everything else is in really great condition.
Turns out he was some punk hick teenager (which I called from the second we started texting). He was probably just as shitty to anyone else who was asking about the ad, which is the only reason I can think it was still up after a week, even at $300 it would have been an OK deal, and of course he had OBO in the description. Is it bad that I take joy in the fact that I screwed this kid over?
Congrats on the pick up finally! On the one hand, I think that teaching this kid a lesson on how it feels to be stood up is valuable, but I don't think it will click for him and make him an upstanding citizen the rest of his life. On the other hand, doing this to a teenager sits awkwardly with me, because I have dealt with my fair share of children posting stuff on CL and NA and want to be treated like adults, but then back out at the last minute for their own (literally) childish reasons. In those instances I feel pissed that I feel the need to be the adult with a child about old video games. The fact that this seller was a teenager and treated you this way, makes me more sad for his generation because that seems to be the climate of things and there seems to be this seller Vs. buyer game that has been created in relation to what Rival said previously that sucks the fun out of two people being happy with a deal and instead has two people trying to get the other for all they're worth because of some pride or machismo-like complex...
Originally posted by: theirontoupee
Originally posted by: dj5kjlara
Originally posted by: Rival
Originally posted by: theirontoupee
Originally posted by: dj5kjlara
Ok, so this guy posts up his video game collection on Craigslist, and I'm just interested in his Atari 7800, Lynx, and a few games. We agree on a price of $45 on Thursday but I tell him I can't meet until Saturday due to his location. He's fine with that. Saturday morning I text to make sure he stil has it. He says yes and asks what price I had in mind (should have been my first clue this deal was gonna go south). Anyway I tell him we already agreed on $45 so he says OK. And I tell him I'm on my way to his area (he still doesn't give me a specific location to meet at). Once I'm at the mall in the general area, he says OK (I just kept getting a bunch of one-word answers). Finally, when I stop at a thrift store to kill some time and wait for a specific location to meet, he replies and says he just got an offer of $70 just for the Lynx. So I say we had a deal and I just drove an hour to come get it. No reply. I ask if he'll take a little more, and no reply. He just completely stops responding to me. I'm thiking of texting him from a different number and giving him the runaround. He wasted more than an hour of my time and gas, so why not waste some of his?
This happens to me alllllllll the time. Sellers just don't respond to me. Then hours later they tell me it already was sold to someone who didn't ask questions (like a list of games or pictures). This is specifically on CL. On eBay I've had a couple of cases I've had to open because sellers won't respond to complex questions like, "Any update on shipping? It's been a week since I paid and you haven't marked it as shipped yet." I'm dealing with that situation on eBay right now in fact. It seems like I always get sellers who have little integrity and NEVER check their freaking messages!!!!
Completely agree with you on this one too... I believe it's the problem with turning to places like Craig's and Ebay now though. Since the people never really have to be face to face with you they will treat you however they want. Personally I prefer going through swap meets and garage sales looking for items mainly for this reason alone.
So I got some retribution! I decided to mess with the guy a little and had my wife text him from her number and offer to buy everything at his asking price ($300). Of course, he jumped at the chance. We had him drive out to a Target Parking lot, made him wait about 30 minutes, then texted again that we accidentally went to the wrong place. So another 30 minutes later, we texted again saying we got a flat tire, and we'd have to pass on the deal for now. That was going to be the end of it. He wasted an hour of our time, so we wasted an hour of his. But! Today I noticed he still had the ad up, so I had my wife text again, and try to work out a deal just for the stuff I wanted. He decided to just meet up and work out a deal in person. So all in all, we ended up getting everything from his ad for $70, minus an old Xbox 360 and an original GameBoy. That includes an Atari 2600 with about 150 games, NES with 4 games, Atari Lynx with 2 games, Atari 7800 with 3 games and a butt load of controllers and wires and stuff. The 7800 looks damn near brand new and everything else is in really great condition.
Turns out he was some punk hick teenager (which I called from the second we started texting). He was probably just as shitty to anyone else who was asking about the ad, which is the only reason I can think it was still up after a week, even at $300 it would have been an OK deal, and of course he had OBO in the description. Is it bad that I take joy in the fact that I screwed this kid over?
Congrats on the pick up finally! On the one hand, I think that teaching this kid a lesson on how it feels to be stood up is valuable, but I don't think it will click for him and make him an upstanding citizen the rest of his life. On the other hand, doing this to a teenager sits awkwardly with me, because I have dealt with my fair share of children posting stuff on CL and NA and want to be treated like adults, but then back out at the last minute for their own (literally) childish reasons. In those instances I feel pissed that I feel the need to be the adult with a child about old video games. The fact that this seller was a teenager and treated you this way, makes me more sad for his generation because that seems to be the climate of things and there seems to be this seller Vs. buyer game that has been created in relation to what Rival said previously that sucks the fun out of two people being happy with a deal and instead has two people trying to get the other for all they're worth because of some pride or machismo-like complex...
To be fair, I didn't know he was a teeanager when I originally started contacting him. I just figured by his communications that he was not a courteous, responsible adult. So I was not at all surprised to find out it was in fact a teen. Normally, I am very friendly with sellers, and am more than willing to work with them. I don't like the Us vs. them mentality either, because I am also a seller at times, and I like to live life by the golden rule. However, this kid just pushed me over the edge. As I said before, he was just not pleasant to deal with in the first place, so when he finally nixed the deal, that was the last straw, and I guess I just snapped so to speak. I know he didn't learn anything from our little interaction, but I still like to know I wasted a little of his time and I got a great deal on his games. I'm not super proud of my behavior in this transaction, but I'm not ashamed of it either.
Originally posted by: dj5kjlara
Originally posted by: theirontoupee
Originally posted by: dj5kjlara
Originally posted by: Rival
Originally posted by: theirontoupee
Originally posted by: dj5kjlara
Ok, so this guy posts up his video game collection on Craigslist, and I'm just interested in his Atari 7800, Lynx, and a few games. We agree on a price of $45 on Thursday but I tell him I can't meet until Saturday due to his location. He's fine with that. Saturday morning I text to make sure he stil has it. He says yes and asks what price I had in mind (should have been my first clue this deal was gonna go south). Anyway I tell him we already agreed on $45 so he says OK. And I tell him I'm on my way to his area (he still doesn't give me a specific location to meet at). Once I'm at the mall in the general area, he says OK (I just kept getting a bunch of one-word answers). Finally, when I stop at a thrift store to kill some time and wait for a specific location to meet, he replies and says he just got an offer of $70 just for the Lynx. So I say we had a deal and I just drove an hour to come get it. No reply. I ask if he'll take a little more, and no reply. He just completely stops responding to me. I'm thiking of texting him from a different number and giving him the runaround. He wasted more than an hour of my time and gas, so why not waste some of his?
This happens to me alllllllll the time. Sellers just don't respond to me. Then hours later they tell me it already was sold to someone who didn't ask questions (like a list of games or pictures). This is specifically on CL. On eBay I've had a couple of cases I've had to open because sellers won't respond to complex questions like, "Any update on shipping? It's been a week since I paid and you haven't marked it as shipped yet." I'm dealing with that situation on eBay right now in fact. It seems like I always get sellers who have little integrity and NEVER check their freaking messages!!!!
Completely agree with you on this one too... I believe it's the problem with turning to places like Craig's and Ebay now though. Since the people never really have to be face to face with you they will treat you however they want. Personally I prefer going through swap meets and garage sales looking for items mainly for this reason alone.
So I got some retribution! I decided to mess with the guy a little and had my wife text him from her number and offer to buy everything at his asking price ($300). Of course, he jumped at the chance. We had him drive out to a Target Parking lot, made him wait about 30 minutes, then texted again that we accidentally went to the wrong place. So another 30 minutes later, we texted again saying we got a flat tire, and we'd have to pass on the deal for now. That was going to be the end of it. He wasted an hour of our time, so we wasted an hour of his. But! Today I noticed he still had the ad up, so I had my wife text again, and try to work out a deal just for the stuff I wanted. He decided to just meet up and work out a deal in person. So all in all, we ended up getting everything from his ad for $70, minus an old Xbox 360 and an original GameBoy. That includes an Atari 2600 with about 150 games, NES with 4 games, Atari Lynx with 2 games, Atari 7800 with 3 games and a butt load of controllers and wires and stuff. The 7800 looks damn near brand new and everything else is in really great condition.
Turns out he was some punk hick teenager (which I called from the second we started texting). He was probably just as shitty to anyone else who was asking about the ad, which is the only reason I can think it was still up after a week, even at $300 it would have been an OK deal, and of course he had OBO in the description. Is it bad that I take joy in the fact that I screwed this kid over?
Congrats on the pick up finally! On the one hand, I think that teaching this kid a lesson on how it feels to be stood up is valuable, but I don't think it will click for him and make him an upstanding citizen the rest of his life. On the other hand, doing this to a teenager sits awkwardly with me, because I have dealt with my fair share of children posting stuff on CL and NA and want to be treated like adults, but then back out at the last minute for their own (literally) childish reasons. In those instances I feel pissed that I feel the need to be the adult with a child about old video games. The fact that this seller was a teenager and treated you this way, makes me more sad for his generation because that seems to be the climate of things and there seems to be this seller Vs. buyer game that has been created in relation to what Rival said previously that sucks the fun out of two people being happy with a deal and instead has two people trying to get the other for all they're worth because of some pride or machismo-like complex...
To be fair, I didn't know he was a teeanager when I originally started contacting him. I just figured by his communications that he was not a courteous, responsible adult. So I was not at all surprised to find out it was in fact a teen. Normally, I am very friendly with sellers, and am more than willing to work with them. I don't like the Us vs. them mentality either, because I am also a seller at times, and I like to live life by the golden rule. However, this kid just pushed me over the edge. As I said before, he was just not pleasant to deal with in the first place, so when he finally nixed the deal, that was the last straw, and I guess I just snapped so to speak. I know he didn't learn anything from our little interaction, but I still like to know I wasted a little of his time and I got a great deal on his games. I'm not super proud of my behavior in this transaction, but I'm not ashamed of it either.
Understandable.
You can of course laugh at him for being foolish and a punk kid because of how tough he was to deal with, though.
Having already dealt with sellers and their ability to manuevre games to look mint by leaving out angles I wanted to get clarification on item. So I sent a message 4 hours prior to closing.
No response
O rly?...win auction.
Send Seller message literally the minute I win auction to explain I need 24 hours to forward payment (having a personal track record of immediate payment on all my purchases) as I had a question for ebay regarding shipping the product to VGA for grading and what the terms were relating to buyers protection if I'm not the one who receives it. Also include how I still want (in a very polite and appreciative tone) the pictures relating to these sides not photographed. No response/confirmation
Wait till morning...call ebay.
-Ebay confirms I have buyers protection if shipped to different address and I am not the one who opens it.
-Ebay confirms I have right to request pics before payment process.
Send seller another polite message requesting pictures several hours ago.
Mind you its in Hawaii and its still working hours I'm assuming, so I wondering what will happen.
Seller generally has a very positive rating except for 2 negatives. Both negatives state item was not as described (with one indicating liar) and one of the negs was a sealed Chip n Dale 2 NES.
Wonder if I get my game
Originally posted by: quest4nes
UGHHH SO MANY INTERNATIONAL BUYERS ASKING if standard post or economy shipping has tracking number lately and if ill ship all this expensive shit economony shipping.
INSTA-BLOCKED
Hate when customers ask me that. Might as well say "So can I rip you off on this package?"
Thats because Economy comes with tracking international. Or you can upgrade to international track and sign 2nd class/Economy.
At least through parcel force. Euro's not on that shit tier North American postal service bruh
Originally posted by: rjsn83
Purchased a sealed nes game on Sunday evening, although the top right corner on the back looked iffy. The right side of the box (facing the front) picture was not displayed.
Having already dealt with sellers and their ability to manuevre games to look mint by leaving out angles I wanted to get clarification on item. So I sent a message 4 hours prior to closing.
No response
O rly?...win auction.
Send Seller message literally the minute I win auction to explain I need 24 hours to forward payment (having a personal track record of immediate payment on all my purchases) as I had a question for ebay regarding shipping the product to VGA for grading and what the terms were relating to buyers protection if I'm not the one who receives it. Also include how I still want (in a very polite and appreciative tone) the pictures relating to these sides not photographed. No response/confirmation
Wait till morning...call ebay.
-Ebay confirms I have buyers protection if shipped to different address and I am not the one who opens it.
-Ebay confirms I have right to request pics before payment process.
Send seller another polite message requesting pictures several hours ago.
Mind you its in Hawaii and its still working hours I'm assuming, so I wondering what will happen.
Seller generally has a very positive rating except for 2 negatives. Both negatives state item was not as described (with one indicating liar) and one of the negs was a sealed Chip n Dale 2 NES.
Wonder if I get my game
First point, that goes against everything I've known about buyer protection. You are supposed to have a verified address to qualify for buyer protection.
Second point, you can request pics but I don't think he's obligated to provide them if the auction is over and you put in a winning bid. I'd be surprised if you decline payment at this point and donn't get dinged for it.
Originally posted by: dj5kjlara
So I got some retribution! I decided to mess with the guy a little and had my wife text him from her number and offer to buy everything at his asking price ($300). Of course, he jumped at the chance. We had him drive out to a Target Parking lot, made him wait about 30 minutes, then texted again that we accidentally went to the wrong place. So another 30 minutes later, we texted again saying we got a flat tire, and we'd have to pass on the deal for now. That was going to be the end of it. He wasted an hour of our time, so we wasted an hour of his. But! Today I noticed he still had the ad up, so I had my wife text again, and try to work out a deal just for the stuff I wanted. He decided to just meet up and work out a deal in person. So all in all, we ended up getting everything from his ad for $70, minus an old Xbox 360 and an original GameBoy. That includes an Atari 2600 with about 150 games, NES with 4 games, Atari Lynx with 2 games, Atari 7800 with 3 games and a butt load of controllers and wires and stuff. The 7800 looks damn near brand new and everything else is in really great condition.
Turns out he was some punk hick teenager (which I called from the second we started texting). He was probably just as shitty to anyone else who was asking about the ad, which is the only reason I can think it was still up after a week, even at $300 it would have been an OK deal, and of course he had OBO in the description. Is it bad that I take joy in the fact that I screwed this kid over?
That's awesome. How do you talk a guy down from $300 to $70?
Originally posted by: rjsn83
Originally posted by: quest4nes
UGHHH SO MANY INTERNATIONAL BUYERS ASKING if standard post or economy shipping has tracking number lately and if ill ship all this expensive shit economony shipping.
INSTA-BLOCKED
Hate when customers ask me that. Might as well say "So can I rip you off on this package?"
Thats because Economy comes with tracking international. Or you can upgrade to international track and sign 2nd class/Economy.
At least through parcel force. Euro's not on that shit tier North American postal service bruh
Who is that in your avatar? My goodness...
Originally posted by: Lincoln
Originally posted by: rjsn83
Purchased a sealed nes game on Sunday evening, although the top right corner on the back looked iffy. The right side of the box (facing the front) picture was not displayed.
Having already dealt with sellers and their ability to manuevre games to look mint by leaving out angles I wanted to get clarification on item. So I sent a message 4 hours prior to closing.
No response
O rly?...win auction.
Send Seller message literally the minute I win auction to explain I need 24 hours to forward payment (having a personal track record of immediate payment on all my purchases) as I had a question for ebay regarding shipping the product to VGA for grading and what the terms were relating to buyers protection if I'm not the one who receives it. Also include how I still want (in a very polite and appreciative tone) the pictures relating to these sides not photographed. No response/confirmation
Wait till morning...call ebay.
-Ebay confirms I have buyers protection if shipped to different address and I am not the one who opens it.
-Ebay confirms I have right to request pics before payment process.
Send seller another polite message requesting pictures several hours ago.
Mind you its in Hawaii and its still working hours I'm assuming, so I wondering what will happen.
Seller generally has a very positive rating except for 2 negatives. Both negatives state item was not as described (with one indicating liar) and one of the negs was a sealed Chip n Dale 2 NES.
Wonder if I get my game
First point, that goes against everything I've known about buyer protection. You are supposed to have a verified address to qualify for buyer protection.
Second point, you can request pics but I don't think he's obligated to provide them if the auction is over and you put in a winning bid. I'd be surprised if you decline payment at this point and donn't get dinged for it.
Its via a conversation I had through ebay. Which I have the conversation transaction ID.
I also express my questions to companies and people in two different ways to make sure they both understand me, and that its Yes-Yes...not Yes - Well...No
Originally posted by: quest4nes
UGHHH SO MANY INTERNATIONAL BUYERS ASKING if standard post or economy shipping has tracking number lately and if ill ship all this expensive shit economony shipping.
INSTA-BLOCKED
Hate when customers ask me that. Might as well say "So can I rip you off on this package?"
Thats because Economy comes with tracking international. Or you can upgrade to international track and sign 2nd class/Economy.
At least through parcel force. Euro's not on that shit tier North American postal service bruh
I dont think you understand usps postal service. We cant do any of that. Alot of other countries postal systems wont scan packages for usps. Economy first class tracking is not available to most countries. You have alot easier time with it in your countries. Alot of easier options to guarantee delivery is traced. America does not.
Originally posted by: Lincoln
Originally posted by: rjsn83
Purchased a sealed nes game on Sunday evening, although the top right corner on the back looked iffy. The right side of the box (facing the front) picture was not displayed.
Having already dealt with sellers and their ability to manuevre games to look mint by leaving out angles I wanted to get clarification on item. So I sent a message 4 hours prior to closing.
No response
O rly?...win auction.
Send Seller message literally the minute I win auction to explain I need 24 hours to forward payment (having a personal track record of immediate payment on all my purchases) as I had a question for ebay regarding shipping the product to VGA for grading and what the terms were relating to buyers protection if I'm not the one who receives it. Also include how I still want (in a very polite and appreciative tone) the pictures relating to these sides not photographed. No response/confirmation
Wait till morning...call ebay.
-Ebay confirms I have buyers protection if shipped to different address and I am not the one who opens it.
-Ebay confirms I have right to request pics before payment process.
Send seller another polite message requesting pictures several hours ago.
Mind you its in Hawaii and its still working hours I'm assuming, so I wondering what will happen.
Seller generally has a very positive rating except for 2 negatives. Both negatives state item was not as described (with one indicating liar) and one of the negs was a sealed Chip n Dale 2 NES.
Wonder if I get my game
First point, that goes against everything I've known about buyer protection. You are supposed to have a verified address to qualify for buyer protection.
Second point, you can request pics but I don't think he's obligated to provide them if the auction is over and you put in a winning bid. I'd be surprised if you decline payment at this point and donn't get dinged for it.
Its via a conversation I had through ebay. Which I have the conversation transaction ID.
I also express my questions to companies and people in two different ways to make sure they both understand me, and that its Yes-Yes...not Yes - Well...No
I would never do that. In that case there is no seller protection. Of course you have protection. Ebay doesnt give teo shits about the seller. If the seller ships to an another address they void sll protection. If i were the seller id be pissed with that demand after winning the auction.
He isnt obligated to provide you more pictures. You shouldnt have bid
Originally posted by: Retroscribe
Originally posted by: rjsn83
Originally posted by: quest4nes
UGHHH SO MANY INTERNATIONAL BUYERS ASKING if standard post or economy shipping has tracking number lately and if ill ship all this expensive shit economony shipping.
INSTA-BLOCKED
Hate when customers ask me that. Might as well say "So can I rip you off on this package?"
Thats because Economy comes with tracking international. Or you can upgrade to international track and sign 2nd class/Economy.
At least through parcel force. Euro's not on that shit tier North American postal service bruh
Who is that in your avatar? My goodness...
She is the Russian goddess Natalia Poklonskaya. Crimea's attorney general.
Tender, feminie, and beautiful. Who has the sexual prowess to condemn to you a fire range and you're last whisper be 'for you my love...'
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Originally posted by: quest4nes
Originally posted by: rjsn83
Originally posted by: Lincoln
Originally posted by: rjsn83
Purchased a sealed nes game on Sunday evening, although the top right corner on the back looked iffy. The right side of the box (facing the front) picture was not displayed.
Having already dealt with sellers and their ability to manuevre games to look mint by leaving out angles I wanted to get clarification on item. So I sent a message 4 hours prior to closing.
No response
O rly?...win auction.
Send Seller message literally the minute I win auction to explain I need 24 hours to forward payment (having a personal track record of immediate payment on all my purchases) as I had a question for ebay regarding shipping the product to VGA for grading and what the terms were relating to buyers protection if I'm not the one who receives it. Also include how I still want (in a very polite and appreciative tone) the pictures relating to these sides not photographed. No response/confirmation
Wait till morning...call ebay.
-Ebay confirms I have buyers protection if shipped to different address and I am not the one who opens it.
-Ebay confirms I have right to request pics before payment process.
Send seller another polite message requesting pictures several hours ago.
Mind you its in Hawaii and its still working hours I'm assuming, so I wondering what will happen.
Seller generally has a very positive rating except for 2 negatives. Both negatives state item was not as described (with one indicating liar) and one of the negs was a sealed Chip n Dale 2 NES.
Wonder if I get my game
First point, that goes against everything I've known about buyer protection. You are supposed to have a verified address to qualify for buyer protection.
Second point, you can request pics but I don't think he's obligated to provide them if the auction is over and you put in a winning bid. I'd be surprised if you decline payment at this point and donn't get dinged for it.
Its via a conversation I had through ebay. Which I have the conversation transaction ID.
I also express my questions to companies and people in two different ways to make sure they both understand me, and that its Yes-Yes...not Yes - Well...No
I would never do that. In that case there is no seller protection. Of course you have protection. Ebay doesnt give teo shits about the seller. If the seller ships to an another address they void sll protection. If i were the seller id be pissed with that demand after winning the auction. He isnt obligated to provide you more pictures. You shouldnt have bid
Yea..but I wanted dat Sealed Battletoads and Double Dragon doe.
I won auction, but I'm giving a good chunk of change. He prescribed the box to be in very good condition with no dents, dings, tears, or any blemishes...so whats the deal at taking two pictures (estimated 45 seconds on a cameraphone) and uploading it to ebay? (approx. 70-130 second task)
Originally posted by: Lincoln
Originally posted by: dj5kjlara
So I got some retribution! I decided to mess with the guy a little and had my wife text him from her number and offer to buy everything at his asking price ($300). Of course, he jumped at the chance. We had him drive out to a Target Parking lot, made him wait about 30 minutes, then texted again that we accidentally went to the wrong place. So another 30 minutes later, we texted again saying we got a flat tire, and we'd have to pass on the deal for now. That was going to be the end of it. He wasted an hour of our time, so we wasted an hour of his. But! Today I noticed he still had the ad up, so I had my wife text again, and try to work out a deal just for the stuff I wanted. He decided to just meet up and work out a deal in person. So all in all, we ended up getting everything from his ad for $70, minus an old Xbox 360 and an original GameBoy. That includes an Atari 2600 with about 150 games, NES with 4 games, Atari Lynx with 2 games, Atari 7800 with 3 games and a butt load of controllers and wires and stuff. The 7800 looks damn near brand new and everything else is in really great condition.
Turns out he was some punk hick teenager (which I called from the second we started texting). He was probably just as shitty to anyone else who was asking about the ad, which is the only reason I can think it was still up after a week, even at $300 it would have been an OK deal, and of course he had OBO in the description. Is it bad that I take joy in the fact that I screwed this kid over?
That's awesome. How do you talk a guy down from $300 to $70?
Ha, I think he was putting a lot of value in that XBox 360 and Gameboy. The rest was all my wife. SHe's one hell of a negotiator apparently.
Sellers has something to hide? Difficult to understand $400 doesn't motivate one to get off their ass to make 2 pics
Originally posted by: rjsn83
Yea..but I wanted dat Sealed Battletoads and Double Dragon doe.
I won auction, but I'm giving a good chunk of change. He prescribed the box to be in very good condition with no dents, dings, tears, or any blemishes...so whats the deal at taking two pictures (estimated 45 seconds on a cameraphone) and uploading it to ebay? (approx. 70-130 second task)
You're making an assumption on the time it takes to get good pictures; it takes me about 45 minutes on just a small set, culling out the bad shots and resizing in photoshop. Heck, just getting the raw pics across a USB cable takes me (3 minutes), longer than your quoted time. I can see where you're coming from though if it's a $400 item.
Originally posted by: JNovo79
Maybe he/she thinks you are the type of picky collector that will leave a neg at the drop of a hat and doesn't want to deal with you.
Wouldn't not saying anything, going by description, looking at ding at arrival and its so big it literally is asking 'sup bro' and me dropping a neg them be worse?
Dat ebay logic.
Alot of shet sellers mang
Originally posted by: Indigo_Streetlight
Originally posted by: rjsn83
Yea..but I wanted dat Sealed Battletoads and Double Dragon doe.
I won auction, but I'm giving a good chunk of change. He prescribed the box to be in very good condition with no dents, dings, tears, or any blemishes...so whats the deal at taking two pictures (estimated 45 seconds on a cameraphone) and uploading it to ebay? (approx. 70-130 second task)
You're making an assumption on the time it takes to get good pictures; it takes me about 45 minutes on just a small set, culling out the bad shots and resizing in photoshop. Heck, just getting the raw pics across a USB cable takes me (3 minutes), longer than your quoted time. I can see where you're coming from though if it's a $400 item.
Dam, well I doubt this guy is that meticulous. I would imagine if he had 10% of your work ethic I've already been waiting for the game to be delivered from VGA already