Please Post All Your eBay Issues Here (Please Read)

**mortuus** · 03-10-2013, 10:08 AM

you do wonder why some people bid and then dont pay, even if there is a problem you could let the seller knows and not let people guessing it looks more like they won and dont want the card really.

**HABSRUS** · 03-10-2013, 10:37 AM

thats what gets me just let me know. But I wunder if I do file a non payment on them & they pay I send out the card to them then will they come back on me & leave neg. feedback or worse say they did not recieve the card & end up getting their money back anyways

**13stepper** · 03-10-2013, 11:56 AM

I wouldn't worry to much about getting hit with a negative, but do this instead. Throw the ball in their court, after all they are the ones not fulfilling their end of the agreement. Send them a polite email telling them you will be opening the case in 1 days time, explain why you will open the case (I need my final value fees refunded from Ebay) and that you are real "sorry" to have to open the case.

Regarding your other point, well that's the "elephant in the room" that comes with selling on Ebay, any buyer can claim they never received the card, unpaid item case or not.

Originally Posted by HABSRUS View Post

thats what gets me just let me know. But I wunder if I do file a non payment on them & they pay I send out the card to them then will they come back on me & leave neg. feedback or worse say they did not recieve the card & end up getting their money back anyways

**~~centrehice~~** · 03-12-2013, 12:20 PM

Originally Posted by Bearcat88 View Post

I sent him a low bid, which I am entitled to do and in the comments explained why. He posted a Zach Parise auto patch gold rainbow #/9 from The Cup. He advertised it as a RC which when I researched it on Becketts website has it listed as an auto/serial/memorabilia (not RC). As with most parallels it is not a true RC.

I will give him a pass in regards to labeling the card as the Beckett employee who graded the card wrote RC in the title (mistake). The true title is 2005-06 The Cup Autographed Rookie Patch Gold Rainbow (Rookie only parallel set). As with most really short prints Beckett will not give it a price. As a collector you can arrive at a reasonable price on items like this by making comparisons. The Crosby #/87 version of this card is listed at $4000. This is $2000 less than the "real" Crosby RC with a larger print run #/99 ($6000). The price for the "real" Parise auto patch RC #/199 from The Cup is listed at $400. There are a couple cards that are list at most $100 more in the rainbow version, but to inflate the price from $400 to $2500 for a card that isn't even a true RC ???

Anyways as a collector I found the price to be insulting. Apparently the other 99 people who viewed the month old auction shared a similar point of view as my offer seemed to be the only offer. Anyways I hope that anyone who may have hastily blocked me will choose to reverse it. Perhaps I was a little harsh by telling him "2,500 is insulting to collectors everywhere", but I think that as consumer I have the right to voice my opinion whether someone is going to like it or not. Inflating prices on ebay is nothing new, but it has an affect on our ability to collect the cards we desire. Oh and as for him judging me on my character, here is what he wrote back to me. You be the judge of who's character is in question :

Dear moderncowboy0,

(1) you're a piece of garbage
(2 you've been blocked
(3) as of this past half-hour, (29) other ebay sellers (and counting) have blocked you from bidding on their auctions.
(4) your name and ebay id have been posted on other sites, to warn/protect other sellers from having to deal with you

It's not our fault that you're lonely and a loser, so please go back to whatever hole you crawled out of and leave ebay.

All the best.

Maybe after reading this you'll decide to block this guy (bdiam) instead. Let's face it are you really going to spend hundreds of $ more buying cards from this person?

So are you telling us that you are moderncowboy0. C'mon spit it out ........

**~~centrehice~~** · 03-12-2013, 12:24 PM

Originally Posted by jclouie View Post

I recently lost an auction on ebay and not 30 seconds had passed and i received a second chance offer.

this was really off to me because i sent a few bids and the guy who won put in a really high bid.

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/230938881684?...#ht_500wt_1064

when i took a closer look at the bidding history the guy who won was a new member and only has bid on 2 things and they were both with this seller.

am i being paranoid or is this case of schill bidding?

Of course it's a shill. 2nd chance offers don't happen until a REAL seller has not heard from a buyer after about 5 days to 1 week. He then must issue a NPB form and wait another 4 days for it to clear before he offers you the 2nd chance.

A 2nd chance within one day is a shill, but within the hour? Lol Don't bite.

**rydlar99** · 03-12-2013, 12:36 PM

Originally Posted by centrehice View Post

Of course it's a shill. 2nd chance offers don't happen until a REAL seller has not heard from a buyer after about 5 days to 1 week. He then must issue a NPB form and wait another 4 days for it to clear before he offers you the 2nd chance.

A 2nd chance within one day is a shill, but within the hour? Lol Don't bite.

Not entirely true.. I've sent out 2nd chance offers within an hour for some of my breaks (only a couple though).. this was after a buyer wrote me in a panic thinking they were getting a box of cards, not just the team hits. So it does happen... also I send them out within 24 hrs normally for the breaks if people are unpaid. Individual cards though, I agree with you.

**Bearcat88** · 03-13-2013, 08:57 PM

Originally Posted by centrehice View Post

So are you telling us that you are moderncowboy0. C'mon spit it out ........

No. I know a guy, who knows a guy, that told another guy about it at the local pub. Obviously yes. Unless you have a hard time interpreting the first sentence of my original post. Here's a clue "I" refers to me.