Did anyone see that '65 Morgan RC PSA 10?
iamthegreatcornholio
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The seller canceled the auction 51 seconds before it should have ended. What a jerk!
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jmpkcp
<< <i>did u tell him 2 minutes b4 the auction was to end? at what point during the auction was this fellow advised that he had the pop wrong? >>
Great question Steve...JM, you may want to hold your indignation for a moment.
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Mike
It appears the seller is the one who did not have his facts right.
Dave C.
I just feel it is a major shame when people are judged before people know the whole story. This seller was called a jerk and a chicken and someone said he should be kicked off of Ebay. Taking into account that the seller did the RIGHT thing, which is so rare nowadays, we should all be applauding his actions, not berating him.
jmpkcp
<< <i>Shame on all of you for judging before knowing the facts. >>
We are talking about 51 seconds here. The seller literally waited until the last minute possible to pull his auction. That is hardly a coincidence considering he quoted other PSA 10's from the set going for $14,500 and $8,763. Meanwhile, his card was going for only $3050.05 even as a "perceived" 1/1. If his conscience was eating him up, he could have simply amended the auction or at least listed that as why he ended the auction.
Brian
I suspect that his actions had more to do with $ than protecting the buyer.
I do not believe that the standard of this board is to have the seller edit or pull every auction where the pop report changes after the listing. The hope here is to get it right when it is listed.
I do not want to berate or applaud the guy. He did what he did, for reasons of his own choosing and will live with the consequences. EBay gave him the right to do what he did. THe future bidders in his auctions now have the right to do what they choose as well.
the ebay community thanks you
I'll bet snipes were set in place for over $6000.
jmpkcp
sorry i disagree with u on that
ebay needs to do the right thing and step up to the plate to stop this kind of abuse.
however, this is yet another reason (along with the rampant fraud ebay does nothing about) that ebay will never be as big as it could be.
the only thing I can't figure out is this... when someone sells a fake '52 mantle card for $1500, ebay gets their chunk of that. but when someone pulls an auction thats already about $3000 with about 45 seconds to go, ebay loses out on an even bigger chunk of $$$.
so why do they let those people not only scam the bidders, but scam themselves (ebay) as well???
However, as a practical matter there is no way to force someone to sell their item if they consider the price is too low. All they have to do is fail to ship it and say it was lost in the mail. When the buyer files a claim, the seller issues a refund, is off the hook and then is free to "recover" the item and try to get a better price. I have had this happen to me. Also the variation where the seller claims he stepped on the card and broke the holder, returned my PayPal payment, then put the same card with the same PSA # up on eBay a few weeks later. I had the last laugh on that one; it sold for less than I paid.
So given all the ways a seller can get out of a deal, cancelling the auction is no worse than the other ways, except eBay loses its cut of the sale price and there is no buyer to be screwed over. As long as eBay gives sellers the option of cancelling at any time, and of simply picking one of three reasons for doing so, some sellers will take advantage of that. Removing the cancellation option when the auction is down to 6 or 12 or 24 hours sounds like a reasonable idea.
as for ebay the ba$tards that run that place need to clean it up!
If we dont see it again, then no.
another comment i would disagree with.
hope this helps
dave
<< <i>Where are all the 65 collectors? Did anyone else have a snipe set up? >>
The card is way too nice for my set. The high bidder before the bids got canceled is #1 on the registry.
Brian