funny/strange ebay bidders
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1. Whenever I sell card lots (usually 50 cards or 100 cards) on ebay I put 5 or 10 worthless baseball cards on each end of the stack in order to help protect the cards during shipping, and because some people like getting free cards. So, I sold and shipped a lot of 100 1970s Star Wars cards, and the bidder sent me a message saying "Hey, I got the package today, but you sent me the wrong cards. You sent me baseball cards instead of Star Wars cards." I send him a message saying "Are you sure? Did you look at all of the cards?" He says "Ohhh! I saw the baseball cards on the end and assumed that all of the cards were all baseball cards." The cards weren't wrapped in plastic or anything, so I thought it was pretty odd that he initially didn't even bother to look at the cards, except for the top few, apparently.
2. I sold a bobblehead doll and shipped it in a box with bubblewrap and newspaper. He sent me a message saying that he liked the bobblehead, but the majority of his message was about the newspaper. He said he flattened it out and told me how much he and his wife enjoyed reading it.
3. I sold a $600 item to a bidder from Japan. He tells me "payment sent", but he doesn't mention how he was paying. I figured it would be a money order. About a week later I get his letter (a plain white envelope) and six $100 bills practically fall out of it. I don't know how unusual that is, but I was pretty surprised that he'd send that much cash in a rather risky manner. On the opposite end of the spectrum, another bidder owed me just $3 and was afraid to send cash because he said it was "wasn't safe to send cash through the mail." True......but $3?
4. A bidder wins an item for $5 for $2 s/h. He sends me $9.09 and says "I enclosed $9.09 because my maximum bid was $7.09."
5. A bidder owed me $23 for an item, and he sent $40 cash, and told me to "keep the change." Don't mind if I do!
2. I sold a bobblehead doll and shipped it in a box with bubblewrap and newspaper. He sent me a message saying that he liked the bobblehead, but the majority of his message was about the newspaper. He said he flattened it out and told me how much he and his wife enjoyed reading it.
3. I sold a $600 item to a bidder from Japan. He tells me "payment sent", but he doesn't mention how he was paying. I figured it would be a money order. About a week later I get his letter (a plain white envelope) and six $100 bills practically fall out of it. I don't know how unusual that is, but I was pretty surprised that he'd send that much cash in a rather risky manner. On the opposite end of the spectrum, another bidder owed me just $3 and was afraid to send cash because he said it was "wasn't safe to send cash through the mail." True......but $3?
4. A bidder wins an item for $5 for $2 s/h. He sends me $9.09 and says "I enclosed $9.09 because my maximum bid was $7.09."
5. A bidder owed me $23 for an item, and he sent $40 cash, and told me to "keep the change." Don't mind if I do!
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<< <i>2. I sold a bobblehead doll and shipped it in a box with bubblewrap and newspaper. He sent me a message saying that he liked the bobblehead, but the majority of his message was about the newspaper. He said he flattened it out and told me how much he and his wife enjoyed reading it. >>
Guilty on that one myself.
It's always fun to read up on another part of the country and anytime I have received a package using newspaper I have flattened and given it a good read.
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keep doing what you're doing ...
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Thats funny!
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Damn...there've been some awfully well-written posts here lately.
Do you get my drift, Joe?
An expansion of this post, plus Keith's on his Alaska card show experiences, would be cool reads in the SMR!
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Several years ago, I sold a raw 94 SP Marshall Faulk RC to a guy, maybe $20. I advertised the card as NMMT. He receives the card and sends me an email:
"The card is not gem."
I write him back and say I know it's not - I didn't advertise it as a gem card. About a week passes, no reply, then one day another email:
"The card is still not gem."
I answer that he should just send the card back and I will send a money order for the refund.
A few days later I get the card in a PWE, cut into several pieces stuffed inside a toploader.
<< <i>A few days later I get the card in a PWE, cut into several pieces stuffed inside a toploader. >>
WTF??????????????????????????????
Doug
Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
<< <i>...........A few days later I get the card in a PWE, cut into several pieces stuffed inside a toploader. >>
Which obviously killed any chance of him getting that $20 back.
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<< <i>A few days later I get the card in a PWE, cut into several pieces stuffed inside a toploader. >>
WTF?????????????????????????????? >>
I didn't ask
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About three days later I get this angry phone message from the guy accusing me of bilking him out of money by sending him the wrong item. Now mind you I had done this gratis so he could see and feel the difference. He called eBay and got my contact information from them called me at work and left a blistering message. "I only buy vintage cards, never modern, I don't know what card you were supposed to send me, but you better make it right and send me what I purchased and throw something extra in for my aggravation"....Now at first I don't recognize the guys contact id or eBay account name and I'm going through my pay pal and eBay listings to see where I made the error and what he bought for me. I find my message to him advising I had sent him a free sample and inserted a card into the sleeve so he would know how to submit... I think thank god...
I call the guy back and very nicely ask him wasn't he the person asking me about product and didn't I send him a free sample so he would know... there was dead silence on the other end then uh yeah... now I'm waiting for an apology or a thank you... silence. So I say, well your welcome and now you know... Waited for 2 days to see if he would actually purchase something then he was my first bbl...
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I once had a player's daughter accuse me of counterfeiting a $3 1969 football common. She already had one, and her card had an orange background. The background on the one I sold her was a lighter orange, just a variation in printing. I sent a polite response, and I resisted telling her that if I were going to print conterfeit cards, they certainly wouldn't be of her dad. I offered her a refund, but I didn't hear back.
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Like I said, it's not a strange bidder, but a little different than what I was used to.
Rodney
<< <i>Good one, mlb!
Damn...there've been some awfully well-written posts here lately.
Do you get my drift, Joe?
An expansion of this post, plus Keith's on his Alaska card show experiences, would be cool reads in the SMR! >>
So true.
As an ex-journalism student and someone who makes my living as a creative writer, the writers/articles in SMR are very poorly written and often quite dull.