Today
while running errands I hit Walmart and checked out the card section, nothing
really caught my attention. As I was leaving the store I stopped and watched a
pack searcher do evil and vile things to a stack of rack packs. The kind of
things that would have gotten him suspended 6 games in the NFL or half a game suspension
in college. I don’t mind people poking around packs and all but this guy was
bending the packs to the point where you know cards were being damaged.
I
have been pretty fortunate that in my 14 years on eBay I have only had one non-paying
bidder that was until last week when I had two non-paying bidders in two days.
One finally paid after 5 days, multiple emails and a threat I would report him as a non-paying bidder. The other took 7 days, multiple emails and I did report him as a non-paying bidder.
Another
thing that can be frustrating about the Bay is that prices fluctuate daily,
sometimes drastically. I posted up an auction of a lot of four 2008 Topps
Moments & Milestones Mickey Mantle cards (#/150), similar cards had been
selling from $2-5 each the previous two weeks, I figured if I got $4 for them I would
be happy. The lot sold for $2.47, bummer. Not a major lose but it gets you wondering if your higher value cards are going to sell at a reasonable price.
Some
sellers can have 100% feedback but that doesn’t mean they are not shitty sellers. I
bought two cards using the BIN today before I realized they were the same
seller so I emailed him and asked if he could combine shipping after the sale
and refund me the difference, a reasonable request. He responded with basically
“tough shit”. He said that since I bought them separately he was charged the
fee by Paypal already and that he was forced to ship the cards separately. This
is a guy who has been on eBay longer than me and has over 17k feedback. I know
it can be done because I did it two days ago when a buyer won two of my
auctions a couple of hours apart and paid for them separately. I just went in
to Paypal and issued a refund of the additional shipping, which Paypal refunded
me the fee on the shipping cost, and then printed out one shipping label in eBay
by checking both auctions and selected to “Print Shipping Label” and it
combined them in to one shipment. If keeping $2 extra in their pocket is so important to this seller they have lost me as a future customer.
Some recent pickups
An addition to my Seahawks collection, ignoring the fact that he isn't in a Seahawks uniform. Eventually I would like to add his 2014 Bowman card with him in a Texas Rangers uniform but there is no way I am paying what they are going for now ($50+)
A wonderful addition to my Griffey collection, this 1996 Select card depicts probably the most famous play in Mariners history. What is now know as "The Double" which propelled the Mariners in to the 1995 ALCS.
I
am listening to Queen/David Bowie’s Under Pressure right now, easily my favorite Queen song.
Two really cool cards!
ReplyDeleteI had a non-paying bidder a while back on a high-dollar card. I was able to get the card up on eBay right after the release date, when it was selling regularly in the $700+ range. After spending a bunch of time trying to get payment from the bidder I had to re-list the card. By that time there were quite a few of them up on the site and I 'only' got a bit over $500 for the card. That non-paying bidder wasted my time and cost me over $200 in potential sales. Yuck.
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