General Forum

I bought some cards from a dealer named BJRedSox off of Beckett Marketplace.  He sent a card that was the pacific copper instead of the gold he advertised.  Sent numerous other cards he called NM that weren't.  I emailed him told him I can live with the others because even though they are not as advertised they are not worth the hassle to return, but I need a refund of the one he sent me that was a copper instead of the gold and also for the one he claimed was NM/MT but had part of the picture missing (maybe would grade as poor but probably just authentic).  Those 2 cards since made in 98 and 2000 cost only $ 1.12.

He wants me to pay the postage in order to send back.  He said once receiving the cards he will refund the amount I paid or $ 1.12.

Based upon the converstions we have had over email and the way the cards looked I am sure that he is trying to take advantage of all the new people to the hobby and if I do not send with tracking he will claim to have never received them.

I have had numerous other times where I received the wrong product or something that was not as described and the other party was always willing to pay the return postage or accept the scans I send them as proof.  At this point I'm debating if I should pursue this just on the principle or just accept this and leave a negative review.

My question is is this normal when dealing with Beckett Marketplace?  Almost all of prior experience has been with private websites, SportLots, EBay, or COMC

I never had an issue off of Beckett market place. Of course I always ask for a scan and if they do not provide one I will pass it up

If you paid with a credit card you may have buyer protection. I had to do this with an eBay seller who sent me an incorrect item and ghosted. Visa was very easy to deal with. If you used PayPal, they seem to side with the buyer on almost anything. Just a couple of ideas.

If you buy/sell/trade on any site enough times you will have an issue.  So Yes it is normal to have issues.  It was bad luck if it was your 1st time on Beckett.

Most people would just bite the bullit for that amount and not deal with him again.  Also would let him know they will not be dealing with him again.

Back in the day when I used Beckett market place I came across a few shipments with the incorrect card. Every time I contacted the dealer they always told me to keep the card and they shipped out the correct one. So from my experiences I would have to say what you experienced is not a common practice with Beckett. 

Now, it has been at least 3 years since I have purchased anything from marketplace, and a lot can change in the time. If it was me, however, that got that response from any dealer I would leave feedback accordingly and find those cards elsewhere.

Whenever I deal with Beckett Marketplace I always read through a sellers profile first especially one like BJRedSox and a 4.6 / 5.0 rating . I know not every "transaction" is going to go perfectly but to slip that much screams "avoid" unless he is only seller with the item(s) 'm looking for .

I've seen that name selling some of the cards I've searched for on there but I haven't ordered from him yet. Once in a while I got a wrong card from Burbank or others and they've always sent out the replacement for free and let me keep the wrong one, so no, I've never dealt with a Beckett seller that asked me to pay to send a card back.

Be careful doing this most retailers will refuse to do business with you afterwards.  Our company ordered a bunch of scanners from Newegg and our boss was being a jerk about returning the order and he just had the credit card remove the payment.  Several times after that we tried to order stuff from Newegg because it was cheaper and could get to us faster but they refused to do business with us.    Its an extreme action because the credit card company removes money AFTER services have been rendered and there is nothing the retailer can do to prevent it.   With an E-bay user it may be worth it because you may never buy from them again.  Beckett Marketplace you made want to do business with again in the future.  

I've bought from this seller on Beckett several times and everything was fine. I just got an order this week and it had two errors in the shipment of 40 cards. No big deal for me since I needed one of the wrong cards anyway and the other was a 50center. So I don't know if everything's going okay for this guy right now or not. This seems an odd and sudden decline.

Happy to report that the seller did agree to refund my $1.12 with out sending back the cards. Though he sent an email to me claiming I was lying because he looked at the other ones he had.  Then he got really upset when I told him if he wanted me to I will scan a gold next to the one he sent so he can see the obvious difference.

That last one is probably  a little my fault because I should have been happy and not so condensending once I got the credit and knew I would never order from him again.