SMH Messages on eBay

[thenightman]

Originally Posted by premium1981

Here is a good one from user aaattr-0

"I am sorry but I will not be able to pay for this if I win the auction. I have overspent my bank account and have no more money. I have a brain tumor which lately has caused me to spend money erratically on cards, and now I embarrassingly have done it to the max. I am so very sorry and am embarrassed, but I would suggest you cancel my bid so whomever is in second place can actually pay you.
I am very sorry for the inconvenience"

"Maybe the doctor will remove your tumor if you trade him the card. It's worth a shot."

[Swipe79]

As the father of someone who has a brain tumor, depending on the circumstances this could actually be true. We've dealt with memory issues and issues with judgement regularly - completely related to the presence of said tumor.

The cynic in me after years of selling on eBay makes it hard for me to believe the excuses buyers give at times, so I'm also not likely to believe when buyers send stories like this.

Originally Posted by premium1981

Here is a good one from user aaattr-0

"I am sorry but I will not be able to pay for this if I win the auction. I have overspent my bank account and have no more money. I have a brain tumor which lately has caused me to spend money erratically on cards, and now I embarrassingly have done it to the max. I am so very sorry and am embarrassed, but I would suggest you cancel my bid so whomever is in second place can actually pay you.
I am very sorry for the inconvenience"

[JeffG1954]

Originally Posted by premium1981

Here is a good one from user aaattr-0

"I am sorry but I will not be able to pay for this if I win the auction. I have overspent my bank account and have no more money. I have a brain tumor which lately has caused me to spend money erratically on cards, and now I embarrassingly have done it to the max. I am so very sorry and am embarrassed, but I would suggest you cancel my bid so whomever is in second place can actually pay you.
I am very sorry for the inconvenience"

I would write him back and politely suggest that if he truly does have this problem he should remove himself from the temptation and cancel his eBay account.

[jamcas997]

Im gonna steal part of a line from Lonesome Dove (Gus McCray) once in a while you find a person thats a real pleasure to block. Looked at his comment then feedback and was yup BBL to you!



New message from: thecatsaway (2,145RED_STAR Star)
Hi, looked at this card. What is your screen name; in reference to. Are you saying you will not ship this card to me in a safe and reasonable standard envelope with a .73 stamp at my request, and as so, absorbing all the risk?


So the card in question is listed at $20 and has S/H at $5.50 USPS Global Advantage. This clown I guess cannot read or comprehend plain English for my listing and the shipping policy.

[Bosoxfan5990]

Originally Posted by jamcas997

Im gonna steal part of a line from Lonesome Dove (Gus McCray) once in a while you find a person thats a real pleasure to block. Looked at his comment then feedback and was yup BBL to you!



New message from: thecatsaway (2,145RED_STAR Star)
Hi, looked at this card. What is your screen name; in reference to. Are you saying you will not ship this card to me in a safe and reasonable standard envelope with a .73 stamp at my request, and as so, absorbing all the risk?


So the card in question is listed at $20 and has S/H at $5.50 USPS Global Advantage. This clown I guess cannot read or comprehend plain English for my listing and the shipping policy.

Holy cow looking at their feedback left for others, easy block.

It doesn't read like the sellers are even bait and switching (charging for USPS GA and sending ESE), but the stated shipping method is USPS GA, paid USPS GA, and received USPS GA, but the buyer is upset they were offered a cheaper shipping option, including cards over $20.

[jason122883]

For a card that doesn't say it's graded.

"How much are you looking to get? Its ungraded."

[thenightman]

Originally Posted by jason122883

For a card that doesn't say it's graded.

"How much are you looking to get? Its ungraded."

"Quit with the foreplay. How much are you wanting to pay for it?"

[jamcas997]

New message from: ogsmi_0 (1)
Does this come protected in sleeve and top holder

THis is in my item description :

Now shipping under EBAY STANDARD ENVELOPE IN A PWE. So as a buyer please understand how EBAY Standard Envelope Works as cards will be shipped in a card saver so if you demand a TOP LOADER THEN YOU NEED TO ACCEPT THE USPS RATE FOR GROUND ADVANTAGE which will include Bubble Mailer with tracking also. Remember Standard Envelope delivery may take longer than EBAY estimate and up to 15 days .


Then this one came while I was asleep this morning.


New message from: newchrome4cheap (382TURQUOISE_STAR Star)
Hey, I’d like to buy this card off here but it’s not worth even but close to that much if you look at his sold cards just last week his 1st Bowman chrome Auto gold refractor and blue refractor both PSA tens sold for five bucks and three bucks. OK both of those by themselves are better cards than this. OK they’re his 1st Bowman chrome Auto has only 1st Bowman one number to 5150 and then they’re both graded PSA tens And they sell for five bucks and three bucks so I was wondering I’d like to buy this card, but if you could shoot me an offer, you know I mean, honest man it’s really not worth a dollar. It’s just that I’d like to have a tad Michael collection. I have a massive collection of his cardseven though I’m weighing my money on fire you know I know he’s a bomb, but he saw my collection to understand so I hope you help me out. I’m paralyze the only thing I have to do with my life thanks.

[NYBBFAN]

Originally Posted by jamcas997

Then this one came while I was asleep this morning.


New message from: newchrome4cheap (382TURQUOISE_STAR Star)
Hey, I’d like to buy this card off here but it’s not worth even but close to that much if you look at his sold cards just last week his 1st Bowman chrome Auto gold refractor and blue refractor both PSA tens sold for five bucks and three bucks. OK both of those by themselves are better cards than this. OK they’re his 1st Bowman chrome Auto has only 1st Bowman one number to 5150 and then they’re both graded PSA tens And they sell for five bucks and three bucks so I was wondering I’d like to buy this card, but if you could shoot me an offer, you know I mean, honest man it’s really not worth a dollar. It’s just that I’d like to have a tad Michael collection. I have a massive collection of his cardseven though I’m weighing my money on fire you know I know he’s a bomb, but he saw my collection to understand so I hope you help me out. I’m paralyze the only thing I have to do with my life thanks.

I loathe these people. Truly disabled people don’t lead with their disability, don’t let it define them, and sure as #@#@#@#@ don’t use it as a bargaining chip for a few bucks off of a baseball card. Riding a rascal scooter around the local Wal-Shart does not make someone disabled.

He’s collected 5 negs and 5 neutrals too.
https://www.ebay.com/fdbk/mweb_profi...tType=NEGATIVE

[jamcas997]

New message from: goldstandardcollectibles (4,297RED_STAR Star)
Hi, could you please ship this by Tomorrow? It’s for a birthday gift! Thank you very much.

ME

Uh tomorrow is Memorial Day! USPS is closed



New message from: goldstandardcollectibles (4,297RED_STAR Star)
Tuesday ?




So this guy is also a seller and the card he bought is one he also just sold a 2021 Bowman Draft Bubba Chandler

[CardClub2Elect]

That Gold Standard Collectibles name jumped out at me. I came across their seller page a few months back. Seems like a real shady seller. They were listing Donruss Elite Football base cards for over 10X comp prices listing them as "Rare rainbow refractors". I mean, the buyer has some responsibility to know what they are buying but I think it was around Christmas time when I saw their page and thought they could be taking advantage of gift buyers that know nothing about the Hobby. I don't know much about baseball but scrolled their page just now and went back to the first football listing and it was the same BS. Bo Nix Optic base Light it Up listed for $35.99. "Bo Nix RARE ROOKIE COLOR WHEEL INVESTMENT SSP PANINI OPTIC BRONCOS ROY MVP MINT" is the title description.

[jamcas997]

Originally Posted by CardClub2Elect

That Gold Standard Collectibles name jumped out at me. I came across their seller page a few months back. Seems like a real shady seller. They were listing Donruss Elite Football base cards for over 10X comp prices listing them as "Rare rainbow refractors". I mean, the buyer has some responsibility to know what they are buying but I think it was around Christmas time when I saw their page and thought they could be taking advantage of gift buyers that know nothing about the Hobby. I don't know much about baseball but scrolled their page just now and went back to the first football listing and it was the same BS. Bo Nix Optic base Light it Up listed for $35.99. "Bo Nix RARE ROOKIE COLOR WHEEL INVESTMENT SSP PANINI OPTIC BRONCOS ROY MVP MINT" is the title description.

Ya clowns that sell like this deserve the NEGs they get , but EBAY does nothing fo deter their bad behavior. It is all up to the buyer to know what they are buying.

[Swipe79]

Buyer: Hello and good afternoon, we have a slight issue. The Power Blast of Captain America has three indentations right above his head. Your picture is not as depicted and the Card is worthless now. I would appreciate a refund for sending me a damaged Card. I will attach a picture you took and a picture I just took a few seconds ago.

My reply: I'm sorry to see your card is damaged, we try our best to catch any cards with issues before we send them out but we must have missed that one. If you would, please open a damaged item claim through eBay and we will get you taken care of. Have a great evening.

Buyer: First, thank you for understanding. I will initiate the process, thank you again and have a great week.

A minute later - buyer: Well, I cannot initiate the refund process. I knew it was weird you asking me to send myself a refund. I guess since, you don’t want to refund my money. I will just leave a Negative Review. Thank you for the runaround.

Uh...what? I replied explaining how the return process works and he hasn't replied or made contact since.

[DynaEtch]

This is more a smh at eBay itself, not a message per say…

So I had an auction going….bid was up to like $110. Buyer messaged- can you cancel my bid? I entered in wrong number.

Well apparently that buyer was making multiple bids going up to like $110. When you retract a buyers bids, you retract all bids from that buyer. So after I canceled the buyers bids, with around 2-ish days left…the bid goes from $110 down to like $5. That is not fair to a seller, and whether that buyer actually made a mistake or it was intentional…that has a similar effect as bid shielding. (Curious what other sellers would do in this situation?) Because I view that as the integrity of the auction was jeopardized, I immediately canceled the auction…aware that I’ll be due to pay the FVF of the leading bid which was only $5 at the time…fine…dumb, but it’s almost nothing.

Happened to randomly be checking my payments on eBay recently and saw eBay charged me $13.50 for ending that early. Even though leading bid at the time ended it was only $5. Apparently eBay still charged the FVF based on the canceled bid. Totally not something that should be happening here….now to call eBay…sigh.

[Joshi City]

If someone asks the question "what is the lowest you will take for it?" on a BIN w/ BO already set up, is it rude to reply with "what is the most you are willing to pay for it?" Because I feel like responding with that every time but I hate to lose a customer due to snarkiness. Although I feel 95% of the people that message that question only want to pay some really lowball amount and aren't serious buyers anyway. In the end I just ignore it, they are welcome to use the "best offer" option if they feel so inclined to make an offer.

[DynaEtch]

Originally Posted by Joshi City

If someone asks the question "what is the lowest you will take for it?" on a BIN w/ BO already set up, is it rude to reply with "what is the most you are willing to pay for it?" Because I feel like responding with that every time but I hate to lose a customer due to snarkiness. Although I feel 95% of the people that message that question only want to pay some really lowball amount and aren't serious buyers anyway. In the end I just ignore it, they are welcome to use the "best offer" option if they feel so inclined to make an offer.

It would be a fitting response, but I think it’s better to either not respond or just say “I don’t have a certain number in mind, thanks”. The chances of a buyer actually responding to the most they’ll pay…”oh, $500” is basically zilch.

I often get messages such as “Offer $250” with offers less than my autodecline. I often don’t respond to them. I think buyers realize non-response is just the same as a no.

[JeffG1954]

Originally Posted by Joshi City

If someone asks the question "what is the lowest you will take for it?" on a BIN w/ BO already set up, is it rude to reply with "what is the most you are willing to pay for it?" Because I feel like responding with that every time but I hate to lose a customer due to snarkiness. Although I feel 95% of the people that message that question only want to pay some really lowball amount and aren't serious buyers anyway. In the end I just ignore it, they are welcome to use the "best offer" option if they feel so inclined to make an offer.

My only reply is: "I don't make offers on my own cards, I will consider any offers you might want to make". For some reason I rarely hear back.

[Swipe79]

I always say something like: Feel free to make an offer, we have the option available on this listing.

[duwal]

Originally Posted by Joshi City

If someone asks the question "what is the lowest you will take for it?" on a BIN w/ BO already set up, is it rude to reply with "what is the most you are willing to pay for it?" Because I feel like responding with that every time but I hate to lose a customer due to snarkiness. Although I feel 95% of the people that message that question only want to pay some really lowball amount and aren't serious buyers anyway. In the end I just ignore it, they are welcome to use the "best offer" option if they feel so inclined to make an offer.

I always just ignore it simply because it is bad business if I engage. All of my auctions are Buy It Now or best offer w/auto-decline set. I'm not going to scan and list, find a good starting price and acceptable selling number and then at first communication say exactly how low I would go on it (there are exceptions like repeat buyers or someone looking to buy numerous auctions).

[DynaEtch]

Originally Posted by duwal

I always just ignore it simply because it is bad business if I engage. All of my auctions are Buy It Now or best offer w/auto-decline set. I'm not going to scan and list, find a good starting price and acceptable selling number and then at first communication say exactly how low I would go on it (there are exceptions like repeat buyers or someone looking to buy numerous auctions).

Aligns with my mindset. Nothing really to gain by introducing snarkiness from a business perspective. And why play your hand with a BIN w/ best offer listing, that wouldn’t make sense. I may make an exception if an item has been sitting a very long time and I just want to liquidate it. I may throw out a price to the buyer in that case.

[DynaEtch]

Once again, not a smh message from a buyer, but since this is sort of the dedicated eBay thread…another smh message from eBay today.

“Shipping label adjustment”.

I get a message from eBay that a UPS label I printed on 5/15 needs to be adjusted and I owe $12.95. I thought wow…that’s very, very odd since I am super careful with weighing/measuring boxes, and never have that happen. If anything I’m conservative with that.

Said the billing weight was 19 lbs (ha…not a chance…these were a few uncut sheets) and the weight on the label was like 6.5 lbs..so I’m due to owe $12.95.

When I originally shipped it out at the UPS store…I always check with them that the measure/weight of the package is correct against the label, and it was. Lo and behold, I just found the drop off receipt from the UPS store and the in-store weight they measured was 5 lbs 13 oz (so I actually overpaid slightly with my label…oh well). And now out of nowhere they are saying the billable weight was 19 pounds. Basically UPS is saying an error happened at the warehouse where they determine billable weight- it’s not done at the UPS store….probably some other package on top of it there or something. Since this clearly wasn’t 19 lbs.

So the question is how much time would you spend on $13? UPS is telling me it’s an eBay issue since I paid through them, eBay is telling me it’s a UPS issue since it’s their label and their mistake. Already spent a long time on the phone with eBay. Normally I wouldn’t care this much over this amount, but the principle alone…they just randomly charge me $13 for what is clearly a UPS mistake…

[Crosby 87]

Originally Posted by DynaEtch

Once again, not a smh message from a buyer, but since this is sort of the dedicated eBay thread…another smh message from eBay today.

“Shipping label adjustment”.

I get a message from eBay that a UPS label I printed on 5/15 needs to be adjusted and I owe $12.95. I thought wow…that’s very, very odd since I am super careful with weighing/measuring boxes, and never have that happen. If anything I’m conservative with that.

Said the billing weight was 19 lbs (ha…not a chance…these were a few uncut sheets) and the weight on the label was like 6.5 lbs..so I’m due to owe $12.95.

I also checked with the UPS store I dropped it off at if the label was correct and they weighed it and said it was. Lo and behold, I just found the drop off receipt from the UPS store and the in-store weight they measured was 5 lbs 13 oz (so I actually overpaid slightly with my label…oh well). So basically UPS is saying an error happened at the warehouse where they determine billable weight- probably some other package on top of it there or something. Since this clearly wasn’t 19 lbs.

So the question is how much time would you spend on $13? UPS is telling me it’s an eBay issue since I paid through them, eBay is telling me it’s a UPS issue since it’s their label and their mistake. Normally I wouldn’t care this much over this amount, but the principle they just randomly charge me $13 for what is clearly their mistake….

How much do you feel your time is worth?

[DynaEtch]

Originally Posted by Crosby 87

How much do you feel your time is worth?

More than what I’m devoting to this…would you just let a company charge you $13 for a mistake they made though?

[Crosby 87]

Originally Posted by DynaEtch

More than what I’m devoting to this…would you just let a company charge you $13 for a mistake they made though?

If my time is worth more than $13 I'm devoting to this. I let it go and not use the company again.

[DynaEtch]

Originally Posted by Crosby 87

If my time is worth more than $13 I'm devoting to this. I let it go and not use the company again.

Cool thats good for you...not gonna ditch ebay/UPS over a $13 issue. That doesn't mean I should just pay it and not question it