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When is a return policy not a return policy?

ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,669 ✭✭✭
This is when:

Feedback must be left first before refund is given.

Oh, sure. It gives a buyer a warm fuzzy to know that you're extorting feedback from them before you'll give them a refund. And if YOU don't perform on the refund request, they gave you a positive already and have little recourse.

I think we've found the seller's equivalent to "feedback hostage taking" here.

Crappy random coin, and a crappy return policy

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  • Seller bidforthis once reniged on an auction which said "retrun policy applies to this item"--the policy was no returns!
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    A seller like that will never get a bid from me, no matter how badly I wanted something they listed. That policy makes it very clear they're selling garbage and they know it.

    Russ, NCNE
  • I can't figure out sellers that won't take back a slabbed coin, and that includes the major auction houses.
  • poorguypoorguy Posts: 4,317
    Raw Coins:3 Day (3 day rule is in stone) with 100% refund. Feedback must be left first before refund is given. I have over 4400 positive feedbacks on my Tuesdaynightcoins site. I call them as I see them. IF YOU CAN'T ABIDE BY TERMS DON'T BID!!

    3 days? Sheesh. Set in stone? Whatever.

    Feedback must be left before refund is given? What nonsense.

    So you sell as Tuesdaynightcoins? Why not sell these coins under that store also?


    Brandon Kelley - ANA - 972.746.9193 - http://www.bestofyesterdaycollectibles.com
  • ccexccex Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭
    It's too bad eBay doesn't put an asterisk next to such a seller's feedback rating. 100% positives means something different than 100% positives from sellers who didn't return coins they thought were misrepresented.

    I have seen a couple of sellers use the same terms of sale, and have not bid on their coins. The last mistake I made on eBay was winning a common date dime I needed in AU from a seller who called it a key and uses overexposed scans. As soon as I saw the obviously cleaned XF dime and expressed my desire to return it, he asked that we not exchange feedback until I had received my refund. The refund came two weeks later, for less than the winning bid amount, even though I helped the seller have his eBay final value fees refunded. I left him a neutral and got a negative two hours later.

    Bidders of coins on eBay need a website similar to resellerratings.com for sellers of computer parts, with ratings more telling than eBay feedback. Positive feedbacks on eBay are devalued. Any fool who pays upon completion of an auction and doesn't complain to the seller seems to get one. Newsweek magazine once asked in their cover story on eBay "where else can someone get praise for an act as mundane as dropping a check into a mailbox?"
    "Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity" - Hanlon's Razor
  • FatManFatMan Posts: 8,977
    What a scumbag. Only scammers would dream up such a policy.image
  • mozinmozin Posts: 8,755 ✭✭✭
    Ebay sellers like this one are good for us. We need a good laugh.image
    I collect Capped Bust series by variety in PCGS AU/MS grades.

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