General Forum

So I was just playing with this month's baseball card budget, not targeting anything in particular and I stumbled upon a nice lot of 8 1955 cards, closing soon, with an opening bid of $12.00. I thought, "I could use some more cards from the 50s in my collection. I'll bid." So I did. No one else did, and I won. And that's a very good price for the cards, which normally go for upwards of $3 each.

But I totally saw the next move coming. Two days later, I get an email saying, "Unfortunately, I have misplaced these cards and cannot find them. I have issued you a refund."

Sigh.

I don't feel like calling him out or complaining to eBay, but I'm 99.7% certain he just didn't like the price he got. And it does piss me off. For my very first eBay sale, I put three cards up from the 60s, with a starting bid of three cents. Guess what I got for them? Three cents. Guess what I did? I packaged them up safely the next day and put them in the mail, and I took my little loss and learned from it. And I got positive feedback, by the way.

Just be professional if you're selling (or buying) on eBay. That's all I ask.

(For the record, during these same couple days, I had a lovely exchange wtih a dude, who responded to my offer -- even though best offer wasn't an option -- by posting another listing with the cards I wanted immediately, and then giving me a small discount when I bought even more. And he said that he likes "dealing with nice people." So you take the good with the bad.)

Ok, nothing more to see here. Move on.

v3

I had a similar case a couple years ago. Only bidders and got a lot of 1981 Topps football and a nice price. Then got the refund and message the cards got damaged in a basement flooding. Oh what poor timing for the seller that they were fine during the auction and then the flood as soon as the auction was over.

All these stories just remind me why I don't do ebay and assure me that my decision is the right one.

Recently had the seller slice up the card while packaging it up. I think it was also price too low. Haven't yet seen it relisted. I'm waiting though.

Also had the incident where I had bought a lot of 70 rack packs for $1.25 plus $5 for shipping (https://www.tradingcarddb.com/Forum.cfm/Page/G/ID/0/?MODE=VIEW&ThreadID=10801#62418). They knew it was going to cost more to ship them than I was paying, so they cancelled on me.

Shouldn't be allowed. If you allow your AUCTION to go the full duration without editing it or stopping it, you should be held to selling. So annoying. And yes, as a seller, I too have had a couple listings that lost money. Karma, baby.

I lost once on an old camera prolly from the 1950s.  It sold fer around $5 but I really messed up what I charged for shipping.  Lost around $7 total but shipped it as promised.

For a positive spin, I had a great transaction with a dealer last week. He put up all 3 series of 06 Upper Deck (baseball) separately. I had missed out on winning one the last few times a full set was on there. He had a BO up and so I sent something in. He almost immediately accepted, but wouldn't bundle shipping. I was bummed but didn't stress because I got the set for less (w/ shipping) than the last 3 sales I saw on here. But that it's the best part. He sent me a list of other sets he was going to sell, but hadn't posted yet. Two stood out to help complete my runs, 97 Fleer (how many times do you see a full set of that on there) and 07 Upper Deck. I asked the price and he gave me one that was less than 1/2 of what the previous sales were and didn't inclue any extra shipping fees. I hadn't planned on it, but how could I refuse. The cards were just delivered, so let's if they went cheap for a reason..... 

Seller should be reported.  Sellers like them need to be stopped.  And yes it's happened once to me; only bidder and they "lost" card.

Um, this thread has generated a new question from me. I now have six messages from Admin saying that there are replies to the thread I started. This is a new feature. Not sure I want it. If I hit "unsubscribe" on the message from Admin, does anyone know if the ONLY effect will be to eliminate these messages about replies? Because that's all I want to (maybe) avoid.  

Cheers.

v3

I do still buy some stuff from ebat and for the most part don't have issues. Part of the reason I still buy there is that I am in a very rural area and don't have a lot of options. I probably buy more cards from Dave & Adams than anything else.

The subscribing is an old feature.  I believe the default has changed for the originator's of threads.  If you start a thread you are automatically "Subscribed".  You'll have to manually "Unsubscribe" yourself.  And yes it will only stop the "Forum Reply" messages from Admin.