Won an item on eBay way too low - now it's "stolen"
I won a foreign proof set on eBay earlier today for a fraction of its value. Minutes after I paid, the "seller" sent me a message stating that the set of coins had been stolen and she just now noticed the theft. I sent a reply stating that I fully expected her to ship me the coins. We'll see what happens.
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<< <i>What your mad because you couldn't steal them?
If you list items on eBay with no reserve and a nominal opening bid, you better be prepared for that to happen occasionally.
My advice: Don't open an item for anything less than 80% of CDN Bid or 60% of Market Value.
mbogoman
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<< <i>That's happened to me twice over the years. In one case, the guy re-listed the same coin about a year and a half later. I ended up buying it a second time (for about $1.5k more than the prior sale), then returning it and had to fight for the refund via Ebay Buyer Protection (a lot of legwork involved!). The coin had an old cleaning that wasn't visible until in hand, which turned out to be "market acceptable". In hindsight, I should have kept it - it ended up in a VF35 holder, and sold a couple months back in a Heritage auction for about $1.5k more than what I paid... >>
Ebay continues to decline ,,last year , on a seven day auction, for some 70 silver eagles ,I won a lot at about 75 % value.. after the auction was over the seller emailed me he was cancelling the sale ,because the price was too low
<< <i>a copy of the police report would be nice >>
Nice suggestion. I just asked for it.
I for one would rather have a neg. than a hack to my account.
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<< <i>a copy of the police report would be nice >>
Nice suggestion. I just asked for it. >>
In a sense, it is your coin ... until you get the refund ...
What a ripoff.
My 20th Century Gold Major Design Type Set ---started : 11/17/1997 ---- completed : 1/21/2004
All of sudden the coin was stolen. I had asked for a police report but never got one. I got my money back and promptly left a neg.
I may be blasted for that here but it clearly was not stolen it was just a case of seller regret.
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<< <i>Mike the Internet in hospitals is a public system I never used it for secure transactions while I was in there. I for one would rather have a neg. than a hack to my account. >>
I understand what you are saying but two things come to mind. Why didn't he just say that? and He was signing into his eBay account in order to send emails to me. He wasn't worried about exposing his eBay ID and password.
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<< <i>a copy of the police report would be nice >>
Nice suggestion. I just asked for it. >>
good. Liars need to get pushed
<< <i>I am curious. A few posters have said that they left the appropriate feedback. I assume that they were negative, but how did you word the feedback? >>
Here is the exact feedback I left, "Seller claimed item was lost, but I had to file a claim to get my money back."
If he would have shilled you up, you would still have started this thread, only with a different subject line!
Ask for a police report?? That requires another
<< <i>You have recourse. It is called Negative feedback. Issue and move on. >>
This.
Capital investment depends on confidence. - Martin Armstrong
You or the seller envisioned it as ending. Get over it.
The name is LEE!
Pathetic? Yes.
Human Nature? Unfortunately, for the most part.
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Matt’s Mattes
I ordered a Harpoon 1 book from a seller in Canada. I paid a little less than what I thought Market to be and it arrived as scheduled. About two weeks later, I get a package from the same seller, in it was Resolution 502 (the Falklands supplement). I did not even know it existed and found out it was worth way more than what I had purchased. He had said he thought it should have sold with the original book. I wrote him back, added some $$$ and thanked him for making my collection. These folks are out there. This was the best thing to ever happen to me on eBay.
That being said, I purchased a Harpoon 3 book from a seller and it arrived without the game pieces. She replied she sent what was in the photo. The next week the game pieces were for sell.....I emailed her and told her what I thought. She actually suggested I bid on them....
“I want you to remember that no * ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb * die for his country”
Can we know the seller so as to avoid giving them business they do not deserve?
It's human nature when someone (friend/relative) recognizes a seller selling an item too low and they tell them so...then the seller decides the easiest way to get out of this bind is to tell the buyer it has been lost (conveniently misplaced) or stolen.
Just neg them if you feel they (he, she, it) backed out of the deal...next.
"Keep your malarkey filter in good operating order" -Walter Breen
<< <i>Do you have a link to the auction? >>
Not good form for him to post it, but I will...
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