I won the "Stupid award of the day" last night

I know none of you would ever do this. Last night I moved a Morgan from my ebay store to the auctions. I started it at a penny with no reserve. Somehow, and I still do not know how I did it, I put a "buy it now" price at a penny also. Within 2 minutes of the auction the coin sold for a penny and I was paid one cent through PayPal. Thank goodness the buyer was understanding, and let me out of the deal. I relisted it correctly.
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I won the "Stupid award of the day" last night
So that's were my award is! I have been looking for that thing all morning!
I once bought a Morgan off of ebay for .99 on his BIN and then emailed the seller and asked if he wanted to buy it back at that price. Which he promptly did. Some time later I did buy a coin from him and he remembered our deal and paid all the shipping costs. Saved me a few bucks and I was happy with that.
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etexmike
Happy it worked out for you.
<< <i>Are you going to keep his penny?----------------------BigE >>
No, I refunded the PayPal payment plus the shipping he paid. Of course PayPal hit me for their minimum fee.
<< <i>I'd gladly pay you $1....
Happy it worked out for you. >>
That is about what it is worth. I may take you up on that. Link
<< <i>How does PayPal collect commission on a 1¢ transaction?
Actually I was curious about this myself. I have both personal and business accounts at PayPal so I sent myself six cents to see what would happen.
Since the fees are 30 cents plus 3%, which exceeded the 6 cents, it showed I had received the payment and PayPal reduced their fees to 6 cents for a net transaction of zero. That makes sense really, otherwise you could cost people money by sending them a penny.
-Fuzz
I purchased a PROOF V-nickel one day for a 9.99 and quickly noticed he had alot of other business strike normal dates for the same price. So I let him back out of the deal.
But he never even said Thank you! The only thing I ever saw from his was a withdraw form. I have him on my fav. sellers list now and am just waiting for him to list something wrong again.
">"http://www.cashcrate.com/5663377"
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First (and only - so far) Official "You Suck" Award from Russ 2/9/07
<< <i>Make sure you thank the buyer. >>
I did, along with glowing feedback
<< <i>im sure there is a minimum paypal fee, probably 50 cents. >>
Actually, with the $4.05 shipping, I was charged $0.43. But the buyer repaid again after I refunded (he had not read my email, begging for forgiveness yet). So far I am out $0.86
<< <i>SonoranMonsoon - I am impressed with your description of the coin. I would have pegged it for a PL MS65 from the scans. I love EBayers who will actually let you know the problems in advance!! >>
It is not very often that I am stuck with NTC crap. But I must admit I do get a little pleasure throwing them back on ebay, with proper discription of course, exposing them for the misleading crap they slab for the benifit of the scammers that profit from their total desrespect for accurate grading standards.
Sounds like a happy ending. Glad it worked out for everyone!
WH
<< <i>Why are you out PayPal fees? If you refund it clicking the link in the payment details, you get your fees back too. If you PayPaled him a refund then you both paid PayPal.
WH >>
<< <i>Why are you out PayPal fees? If you refund it clicking the link in the payment details, you get your fees back too. If you PayPaled him a refund then you both paid PayPal.
WH >>
You are correct. I have not gone through the Ebay refund side yet. I just wanted to make sure he got his money back first.
<< <i>I heard in another thread you were an honest guy. Should have honored the deal.
i would have honestly absorbed the negative feedback without retaliation. We all have our limits.
Which one? Several times (2-3 that I remember, probably more) Superior has listed about 100 coins with a buy it now of .99 cents. I think they said it was a software glitch. After the first two times new software should have been found IMO. Most of these coins were hundreds or thousands of dollars.
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<< <i>I'd gladly pay you $1....
Happy it worked out for you. >>
That is about what it is worth. I may take you up on that. Link >>
Your high bidder, bisquitlips, is one of the coin doctors mentioned in the 'Tone your own'. Heh.
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