Advice on E-bay screw up (mine)

Heywood

I was (am) looking for upgrades from my pcgs FBL registry set.

A seller had a nice 65 FBL date that I wanted.

What I did not notice was that he had both an NGC and PCGS of the same date MM.

I bid and Won the NGC. (The PCGS is still open)

It is really not worth it to cross at the price I will pay.
I remember a recent thread where the winner wanted to back out and offered to pay all fees +, and the seller still wanted to Neg him as a non paying bidder. (I have perfect 100% FB)


What would be a fair amount to offer the seller (Paypal) to let me out of the commitment to Buy.

Should I explain situation to the seller and offer to buy something else at an inflated BIN price to cover his fees?

Or should I just buy it, cross it and chalk it up to experience? (I'm not set up as a seller on e-bay)

Thanks in advance for the advice.

JrGMan2004

Buy It, Resell It, and Eat any loss you made for your mistake... though as I recall, aren't NGC FBLs more desirable than PCGS?

XpipedreamR

Maybe the NGC coin is nicer

XpipedreamR

Or, if you really want the other coin, why don't you just contact the seller, explain you wanted the other coin, and offer to buy it and cover his fees on the NGC coin. Or maybe he'll even eat the fees.

This exact situation has happened to me. The seller let me out of the one deal, and I bought the other coin.

LanLord

How much was it? Perhaps you can buy it and sell it here on the BS&T board.

If it's not too much, I might even like to buy it.

Neptune

Just tell seller you bid on wrong one and maybe he will exchange for ya.

techeff

Dude, you now own it! Pay the guy...

Heywood

Thanks so far-


I did e-mail the seller, I may still bid on the PCGS ( it still has 4 days), and try to sell the NGC enven though the price is pretty strong ($95) for the date/grade.

(And I did state in my e-mail That I would Paypal him right away if he wanted)

LindeDad

Talk to the seller and explain it as well as you did in this post. But be ready to stand up for the sale you did bid on it. One of the board menbers helped me out of the same situtation about six month's ago. But I was buying six coins all at the same time from the same seller so he exchanged the dates for me.

Coinhusker1

Just buy it and sell it later if you do not want it. Anything else is not worth the hassle.

Heywood

Update;

After thinking it over, I decided to suck it, just buy it and try to sell on BST or elsewhere, (along lines of coinhusker1's advice)

I was about to send an e-mail to the seller to ignore my request , but
Before I hit send, the seller replied not to worry, he has screwed up before himself, and he would contact an underbidder.
I offered to make up the difference between any the underbidder that buys it and my bid.
I also told him I will bid strong on the other auction. (and I will consider some of his BINs)

I am glad it worked out, but looking back, I regret bothering the seller.

Thanks to those who replied.

Smittys

see there are understanding people in this world.
Kinda gives you hopes for the board members

Glad everything worked out.


Smitty