Ebay question - I insulted a buyer, well, he insulted me.
bobbyw8469
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I have a Mars Attacks card for sell on Ebay - $40 opening bid, $60 BIN. Someone emailed me asking me if I would end the auction early for $40. I informed him that $40 is the opening bid, and if he was the only bidder, then he would get if for his $40. Well, he seemed insulted that I worded it like that, saying he knows how Ebay works. I emailed him back saying that usually when people make offers, there is usually some incentive to end the auction early - with a $40 offer (same as the opening bid), then there is no incentive to end the auction early, and that if he didn't buy the card, I am sure someone else would.......am I in the wrong??
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Spot on.
Maybe next time instead of wording it like that though, you can just tell him you'll close the auction for $50. That would be fair - but you did nothing wrong. You just said what anyone else would have said.
If he offered $45 and you accepted, he would be close to the same going through ebay/paypal
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Ralph
<< <i>I've said many times ebay buyers are idiots, sellers are crooks. Perhaps this buyer is a crook hopeing you're an idiot. >>
LMAO!
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<< <i>I would agree to his $40 offer, but only if he promises to rate you 5 stars in shipping and handling charges >>
$40 was the opening bid. He didn't have to offer anything...he could have just bid. I guess some people just don't understand the concept of auctions, the bidding process, yadda yadda yadda..........and Ebay doesn't pay me enough to educate them!
<< <i>$40 was the opening bid. He didn't have to offer anything...he could have just bid. >>
Ah, yes, but then you would have no guarantee of the 5 star shipping and handling DSR which is absolutely huge. Worst case you don't make the deal, he wins, and then dings you for your shipping charge.
<< <i>I would agree to his $40 offer, but only if he promises to rate you 5 stars in shipping and handling charges. >>
I see what you did there.
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Mike
<< <i>Yes...wit abounds on the PSA message board...... >>
Where?
<< <i>Yes...wit abounds on the PSA message board...... >>
Yes, the Wit triplets...Nim, Half, and Dim
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Ralph
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<< <i>Yes...wit abounds on the PSA message board...... >>
Where? >>
Lee
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<< <i>Yes...wit abounds on the PSA message board...... >>
Where? >>
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<< <i>Block the guy from bidding on your items. If you allow it, and he wins, he may just ding you for the he$$ of it >>
I did - thanks for the advice.
The last 4 sales were all for under $40. Perhaps the buyer realized that you were unlikely to receive any additional bids over the initial price and was willing to pay slightly over market value in order to get the card quickly.
Cheers,
Robb
<< <i>The last 4 sales were all for under $40. Perhaps the buyer realized that you were unlikely to receive any additional bids over the initial price and was willing to pay slightly over market value in order to get the card quickly. >>
All it takes is two. There is no denying that Mars Attacks is HOT right now - and all it takes it two.
Bottom line - the opening bid was $40 via auction. He offered me $40 to end the auction now. Where is the incentive?!?! $40 is the MINIMUM I am willing to take. If he wanted the card, all he had to do was bid. There is no incentive whatsoever for me to end the auction now at the opening bid, as you cut yourself off from other people who might actually bid the card up.
Hell no!! Spot on response IMO. Idiots and clowns abound on eBay.
I know a guy who recently put up a complete set, some 600 cards, all PSA. So, he began several auctions at 99 cents (not all, but some). So he gets an email from a bozo that says he is interested in 15 of the cards and because he will get them for about $15, will he get free shipping. Say what??? Yo, clown boy...the 99 cents was the opening bid, not a BIN at 99 cents. This idiot wanted the seller to end the auctions early so he could scoop the cards, but the free shipping was his thing. IDIOT !!!
You really have to take a breath and just laugh at these fools.
FWIW, I would never end any auction early. It just isn't the right thing to do under any circumstances.
look at the sale of this disc or dics...
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This dolt now made my blocked bidder list. He sent a snotty email about how I lost a bidder. I am not desparate for money. Next week, I will start the card at $35, provided noone bids this go round. As far as I'm concerned, he lost a seller, as it is getting harder and harder to find resonably priced sellers on Ebay!
While it is certainly true that all it takes is two people wanting your card for them to bid it past previous sales the fact that the card sold in October at auction, November at auction and December at auction for less than your starting price makes it less likely you will get the bidding war you are hoping for. Of course anything is possible as thousands of completed eBay auctions undoubtedly shows.
The incentive, of course, is that he is willing to pay you over the market price for the card now. There is no guarantee that he will be willing to bid on the card in the auction scenario. With your response and block you have eliminated the buyer from competing for your card entirely thus shrinking your pool of potential buyers.
Best of luck with your auction.
Cheers,
Robb
5 years ago each week you were lucky if 20 cards were up for auction.
Today on any given week I see 100 on Ebay.
I listed a 1964 Topps Venezuelan Harmon Killebrew PSA 4 a few weeks ago for opening bid of $199.00. Figured I would start high (actually quite low compared to some other Venezuelan's on eBay) and see what happens.
Got a couple of emails from the same guy, he wanted the card for $40.00. I said not even close, no thanks. He emailed me again saying he had bought a bunch of Venezuelans in the last couple of weeks in the $40.00 range, so I checked and there were no HOF players in his purchases. No thank you.
Dropped the opening bid on the re-list to $170.00 and still no bids, but sold the card locally for $150.00 and didn't have to ship it!
You know what it's worth, don't give it away!!
Joe
There is basically very few reasons to not leave ++ feedback on a transaction as far as i'm concern. Its unfortunate one bad apple spoils it for the whole bunch!!
I'm not going to say the buyers name but many of you out there would be very surprised or MAYBE i should??
<< <i>Smart play, blocking a bidder because he hasn't left you feedback. A lot of sellers wouldn't recognize this as a savvy move- good thing you're not one of them! >>
I did not mean that I see 100 auctions now, I meant, combined cards for sale
and auctions. 79 is not that far from 'around 100'
And why would you lower the price from 40.00 to 35.00? Did it ever occur
to you that a 40.00 buyer did not use ebay the week it was listed at 40.00?
<< <i>You just can't find these cards on Ebay as cheap as I have mine! >>
I suggest you look through completed auctions.
I saw many net graded 6's going for that.
Now please lets not debate what 'many' means.
The specific card that we are talking about is OC.
Put up a nicely centered card and see if it's not scapped up at 40.00.
<< <i>Put up a nicely centered card and see if it's not scapped up at 40.00. >>
Nicely centered?? If it was centered any better, it would be a '7', and then I would be asking $80 for it!! Pick your poison!
<< <i>Smart play, blocking a bidder because he hasn't left you feedback. A lot of sellers wouldn't recognize this as a savvy move- good thing you're not one of them! >>
Thank goodness I don't have to worry about you BooPitts.....Any card over $5 is out of your price range!!!!
<< <i>...........Basically stole the card from me.... >>
Right there, and sadly many other places, is where you sound like a complete fool. My sincere apologies to fools everywhere.
<< <i>Funny thing....I have looked and looked and do not see the OC qualifier anywhere on my card. Maybe I am missing something, >>
Umm you are.