kind of weird

WalterSobchak · July 25, 2010 12:57AM

I posted a few EBay auctions last night, and one of them was a lot of three cards for $150 BIN/BO. The BIN was set at approximately the total amount the three cards sell for individually.

I wake up this morning to find that someone hit the BIN without messing around with an offer (always nice when that happens!). Then I look at the address of the guy who purchased the cards.... and he lives about a three-minute WALK from my apartment. He lives considerably closer to me than the nearest post office. So now I will be packaging the cards up, taking them to the PO tomorrow, they will transport the cards back to my immediate neighborhood, and he will have them on Wednesday.

If this were a 20 dollar item, I'd send an E-Bay message offering to do a pop-in today, hand him his cards, and give the money he spent on postage back to him. For a 150 dollar item, uh-uh.

Strange world we live in as sellers sometimes.

PowderedH2O · July 25, 2010 1:05AM

I've had that happen too. I bought some cards from a guy a few years ago in the pre-paypal days and the address he wanted me to mail the check was a couple doors down from my job. I emailed him and he ended up bringing a bunch of cards to my restaurant and we sat down for an hour or so and I ended up buying a lot more stuff from him. Super nice guy. I also had an instance a few years ago that I was selling a Tulane University game program that I had owned since I was a kid. I grew up in the New Orleans area, but I live in North Carolina now. When I sold the program, I shipped it to a guy that lived on the same street and block that I grew up on in the 1970's. Small world we live in.

itzagoner · July 25, 2010 1:15AM

it happens.

purchased a '69 Nettles RC PSA 7 on eBay last year and paid immediately.....a few days later, on a Saturday i happen to be home and some dude on a ten-speed rolls up to my door and shoves a manila envelope into the mail slot, so i open the door and he introduces himself as the seller and even refunded my postage.....we chatted briefly there in my driveway where i learned that he had already sold off most of his key cards elsewhere.

the card sucked. overgraded.

hhmag70 · July 25, 2010 1:18AM

<< some dude on a ten-speed rolls up to my door >>

Somehow I picture the 40 Year Old Virgin in that story.

alnavman · July 25, 2010 1:25AM

got to know BigDaddyBowman thru the threads and my son's high school basketball (he'll be a junior this year at Valley Forge in Parma). Anyways we started talking and discovered he is the AD at my old high school (Parma), which plays my son's team twice a year.....and VF happens to be my old schools arch rival...... more weird is I found out that Ryan lives within walking distance of my house.....small world we live in....

al.

milbroco · July 25, 2010 1:53AM

Unusual indeed.

I placed a bid once on a 1975 Topps Hockey rack pack and won the auction. I did not realize the seller lived in the same town as me. Then I came to realize that it was the wife of a friend on mine.........the wife was the person that introduced me to my wife when he had a card store. His wife was selling off some remaining stock after he closed. Its a small world. I naturally picked up the pack in person and said it was for a friend at work that did not have an ebay account...........
Bob

RonBurgundy · July 25, 2010 1:56AM

I've had that happen, guy buys cards from me and lives in my neighborhood.

itzagoner · July 25, 2010 1:59AM

<< I've had that happen, guy buys cards from me and lives in my neighborhood. >>

yeah, i've seen some of your stuff.

i'll be moving to your neighborhood soon as well.

scooperqpr · July 25, 2010 2:04AM

I live in Canada and sold some cards to a guy in Reading Berskhire England, he was my sisters next door neighbour. It freaked him out when she asked him if he had the cards from Canada yet? He didn't even know she knew he collected cards. The guy posted positive feedback that day. The cards arrived a week later.

WalterSobchak · July 25, 2010 2:24AM

They are Puckett cards, and I live in MN- so there is at least some small amount of order to the chaos.

Some of the other stories on this thread are definitely a lot more "small world"y than mine. To the best of my knowledge, I've never met this guy, he just lives real real real close.

slaphappy · July 25, 2010 2:37AM

One of my first Ebay sales was from a guy also in Haughton, Louisiana like 3 blocks away from me.

72skywalker · July 25, 2010 9:44PM

I sold a Star Wars item a few year ago and the guy who won was my neighbor's boss. He asked if he could pick it up instead of me shipping it. I was fine with that. Too bad that it was the day my neighbor decided to take off as a vacation day. They guy said that he is going to walk next door to play a joke on him and ask him why he never showed up for worked. I thought it was funny. My neighbor-not so much.

fiveniner · July 25, 2010 10:39PM

I sold a 69 set years ago to a fellow who lived close by and he picked it up the same day he won it.

AUPT · July 25, 2010 11:13PM

1) Back in '04 or '05 when I was still with Krause Pub., I put a Gorman Thomas game-used bat on eBay. Sold for $40 or so. The buyer was the fellow staffer whose cubicle was just over the wall and down one space from me. Neither of us had known the other's eBay ID. Saved about $10 in postage.

2) A couple of years back I was selling some Paul Molitor cards on eBay. One winner lives a house that was three doors down from my childhood home. He was the nephew (same last name) of a guy I had known from a different "young men's protective association" back in the day.

Mdube16 · July 25, 2010 11:22PM

I won one of my own auctions once. I paid for it in cash to save the paypal fees.

alnavman · July 26, 2010 12:24AM

<< I won one of my own auctions once. I paid for it in cash to save the paypal fees. >>

did you give yourself + feedback???

Mdube16 · July 26, 2010 7:08AM

<< 

<< I won one of my own auctions once. I paid for it in cash to save the paypal fees. >>

did you give yourself + feedback??? >>

Yes, but I only gave myself 3 stars for communication since I refuse to answer my own questions.

alnavman · July 26, 2010 7:15AM

<< 

<< 

<< I won one of my own auctions once. I paid for it in cash to save the paypal fees. >>

did you give yourself + feedback??? >>

Yes, but I only gave myself 3 stars for communication since I refuse to answer my own questions. >>

JohnnyD · July 26, 2010 9:23AM

<< got to know BigDaddyBowman thru the threads and my son's high school basketball (he'll be a junior this year at Valley Forge in Parma). Anyways we started talking and discovered he is the AD at my old high school (Parma), which plays my son's team twice a year.....and VF happens to be my old schools arch rival...... more weird is I found out that Ryan lives within walking distance of my house.....small world we live in....

al. >>

Speaking of "small world"....I graduated from Valley Forge in Parma (Class of 1980). I live in Avon Lake now....

John

NickM · July 26, 2010 4:37PM

Several years ago, I bought some cards from a guy 2000 miles away who then emailed me to ask if I knew 2 people. It turns out his best friend from high school and that friend's wife lived on the same block I did, and he recognized the street name from Christmas cards.

Nick

melvin289 · July 26, 2010 4:46PM

<< I won one of my own auctions once. I paid for it in cash to save the paypal fees. >>

Is giving yourself feedback like talking to yourself?

Ron

csmtampa · July 26, 2010 5:02PM

I remember back in 02 or 03 I sold a game used Wade Boggs bat to a guy who didn't live too far from me. Met up and chatted a bit, then I took his cash and left.

alnavman · July 26, 2010 10:49PM

<< 

<< got to know BigDaddyBowman thru the threads and my son's high school basketball (he'll be a junior this year at Valley Forge in Parma). Anyways we started talking and discovered he is the AD at my old high school (Parma), which plays my son's team twice a year.....and VF happens to be my old schools arch rival...... more weird is I found out that Ryan lives within walking distance of my house.....small world we live in....

al. >>

Speaking of "small world"....I graduated from Valley Forge in Parma (Class of 1980). I live in Avon Lake now....

John >>

My son will be joining you as an alum in 2012....he played on a travel basketball team this spring with a kid who is going to be a junior at Avon Lake in the fall. we are hoping the team is better than in the past few years....next year they should be pretty good since the core of this years team is basically all juniors and they will all be getting a lot of playing time..... where did you live in Parma?? I'm on Gross Drive which is between York and 130th....not far from BigDaddy....

al.

JohnnyD · July 27, 2010 10:44AM

I grew up on Greenleaf Ave, between CCC and Southland Shopping Center. Forge was a massive school when I went there - only 3 grades and 2200 kids! My son only plays rec league basketball, his high school sport is football - starting Center for the Freshman team last year and a good chance to start on JV this year. He has a football body, won't be 15 until September and already 5'10, 200 pounds and because of the religious Avon Lake workout schedule all muscle....next National here in Cleveland we will have to plan a get together.

nam812 · July 27, 2010 11:17AM

Here's a weird story I haven't thought about for a while.

I believe it was in the early 2000s when I was negotiating offline with an eBay seller for a 1972 raw baseball set. I was a PSA member and submitter back then, but I didnt join these message boards until 2007, and really didn't even know they existed. Well we get to talking via instant message on AOL, and agree to a price. Then he says that he also has 17 common PSA 7s from 1972 and would I want them. I said no I just want the raw set. After I give him my name and address he asks me if I am Nick M. from CU. I said whats CU, to which he replies never mind. The set shows up a few days later, and the 17 PSA 7s are included anyway. The eBay seller's name was Zorbaca, and I think from seeing old threads he was a member here, and perhaps he thought I was the same Nick M. that posted above since my AOL messages are wallpapered with my favorite football team, the Raiders.

Who knows, its just a weird story that many years later when I joined here kinda tied together for me.

alnavman · July 27, 2010 12:04PM

<< I grew up on Greenleaf Ave, between CCC and Southland Shopping Center. Forge was a massive school when I went there - only 3 grades and 2200 kids! My son only plays rec league basketball, his high school sport is football - starting Center for the Freshman team last year and a good chance to start on JV this year. He has a football body, won't be 15 until September and already 5'10, 200 pounds and because of the religious Avon Lake workout schedule all muscle....next National here in Cleveland we will have to plan a get together. >>

Wow, it is small world, know exactly where Greenleaf is....I went to Parma myself, 1970 grad and lived my high school years over on Dellwood by Audrey's Deli....Parma was the same back then, 3 grades and about the same number of kids....there were over 800 in my graduating class and that was after they moved some of my class over to Normandy....VF is now 9th thru 12th and there are probably about 1400 kids total.......my kid is opposite as far as football, he started his freshman year at wideout and caught a grand total of 3 passes. They mostly ran the ball....he also started freshman basketball and last year JV but gave up football based on size, he's opposite of your son, he's only 5-8 and about 135 pounds...I'm sort of glad he decided to just concentrate on basketball.

kind of weird

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