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Advice needed - weird request after the sale.

bobbyw8469bobbyw8469 Posts: 7,139 ✭✭✭
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This person was the winning bidder in one of my auctions. Promptly paid, but then sent me this message. I have no clue how to ever respond to this....how would you handle it?

I just now found that I have this card in my inventory in better grade, and did not know I had the card when bidding. I would like to
ask if any of your Jim Brown listings could be purchased in trade,r
if you have other like cards in your inventory that I could substitute
for this purchase. I feel silly and disorganized admitting the oversight, but hoe we can find an agreeable substitute. Thanks for
your consideration.

Any advicce?

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  • llafoellafoe Posts: 7,220 ✭✭
    I'd try to work a deal with him and hope he becomes a return bidder (or maybe use him to shill you listings image ). image
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  • brendanb438brendanb438 Posts: 1,595 ✭✭✭
    You gonna get scammed if you send something different.

    What is the dollar amount we are talking about here and is the buyer an established eBayer?

    My guess is they get you to send something else, then claim SNAD through PayPal which would be legit at that point then they send you back an empty box or something assine.
  • Dpeck100Dpeck100 Posts: 10,912 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Offer to complete the transaction or refund the money.

    Sounds like a dangerous buyer to deal with.

  • mrmint23mrmint23 Posts: 2,249 ✭✭✭
    Looks like Joey found a new angle.
  • calaban7calaban7 Posts: 3,013 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I'd try to work a deal with him and hope he becomes a return bidder (or maybe use him to shill you listings image ). image >>



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  • bobbyw8469bobbyw8469 Posts: 7,139 ✭✭✭


    << <i>What is the dollar amount we are talking about here and is the buyer an established eBayer? >>



    $35 card and the buyer has over 2,000 feedbacks.
  • otwcardsotwcards Posts: 5,291 ✭✭✭
    The safest bet is to agree to mutually cancel the transaction, get your FV fees returned and either offer the bidder an option to buy something else or block him. There are three things that can happen, otherwise . . . and two of them are bad...
  • thehallmarkthehallmark Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>What is the dollar amount we are talking about here and is the buyer an established eBayer? >>



    $35 card and the buyer has over 2,000 feedbacks. >>



    Respond with overwhelming kindness and positive tone and let him know there's no need to bother with a substitute if he doesn't want the card. Go through Ebay's cancel sale option and refund his money in full and try to get back the fees. When the dust settles, put him on your BBL if he shows even the slightest hint of being a scammer.
  • mlbfan2mlbfan2 Posts: 3,115 ✭✭✭


    << <i>You gonna get scammed if you send something different.

    What is the dollar amount we are talking about here and is the buyer an established eBayer?

    My guess is they get you to send something else, then claim SNAD through PayPal which would be legit at that point then they send you back an empty box or something assine. >>



    If he wants to pull a scam, he could just claim that he received a 1988 Topps checklist, no matter what card he actually received.
  • JoeBanzaiJoeBanzai Posts: 12,000 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Politely tell him you want to keep it simple. Cancel the sale and see what happens.

    Sounds like he could have just made an honest mistake, or he could be a scammer of some kind.

    Joe
    2013,14 and 15 Certificate Award Winner Harmon Killebrew Master Set and Master Topps Set
  • ToroToro Posts: 1,515
    Thank him, mutually cancel the sale and let him know what else you may have.
  • conor912conor912 Posts: 30
    i find it hard to believe he would scam you for $35. i wouldn't bother scamming anyone for for less than $300 image
  • sportscardstopsportscardstop Posts: 530 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>What is the dollar amount we are talking about here and is the buyer an established eBayer? >>



    $35 card and the buyer has over 2,000 feedbacks. >>



    At $35 and with 2k feedback, I'd send him a substitute card and wouldn't even worry about it. If you are worried, just tell him you will just cancel the transaction.
  • Foo3112Foo3112 Posts: 1,961
    If you have another card that your willing to sell for the same price and he would like that one instead, then I don't see any issue here. Especially for $35.

    Ask him what hes interested in and if he wants something of higher value, then just add $35 on to his credit and let him pay up the rest before releasing any card to him.
  • PSASAPPSASAP Posts: 2,284 ✭✭✭
    I was hoping for a weirder request than that, like maybe he wanted you to sing after he sale, like they do at Coldstone Creamery.
  • RyanAdmirerRyanAdmirer Posts: 632 ✭✭
    It sounds like that's a buyer that made an honest mistake. I'd try to work with him too.
    I'm a big Nolan Ryan fan OK???!!!
  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,615 ✭✭✭✭
    I would have been willing to accommodate his request until he called you a ho. No need for that.



    << <i>I feel silly and disorganized admitting the oversight, but hoe we can find an agreeable substitute. Thanks for your consideration. >>



    image

    Seriously though, I would have him pull the trigger on something else before you cancel the first sale.
    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • skinnyjhskinnyjh Posts: 121 ✭✭


    << <i>I was hoping for a weirder request than that >>



    Now act like a dragon.
  • 1all1all Posts: 511 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I was hoping for a weirder request than that >>



    Now act like a dragon. >>




    Wouldn't he need to show his belly button first?
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