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Warning . . . pay attention when you buy on ebay . . . (Updated - got it!)
DMWJR
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Just a little friendly advice.
Occaisionally, I look for confederate notes for my collection. I found one last week, and spent a considerable amount of time studying the pictures of the note. Seller had 100% positive feedback. Then I put my bid in the sniper program, and moved on.
Well, I won the auction. I noticed the shipping was a little high, but I had just factored it into my bid, and I was happy with the total purchase price of $62. So, I go to pay for the auction, and see that the seller didn't take PayPal. I looked a little further, and the seller wanted payment to be sent to GERMANY! I'm thinking to myself, "man I was not paying attention." Then I look closer, and the seller will only take payment in CASH!!!!!!! No certified check, money order, etc. Just cash.
What would you do?
I decided that I would go ahead and kiss my $62 goodbye, instead of just accepting a neg by not following through with the auction. Besides, it was right there in black and white, and I just didn't even look. Surprisingly, the guy posts positive feedback just 4 days after I sent the cash! I was stunned! I'm now hopeful I will get the note in the next few days!!!
Occaisionally, I look for confederate notes for my collection. I found one last week, and spent a considerable amount of time studying the pictures of the note. Seller had 100% positive feedback. Then I put my bid in the sniper program, and moved on.
Well, I won the auction. I noticed the shipping was a little high, but I had just factored it into my bid, and I was happy with the total purchase price of $62. So, I go to pay for the auction, and see that the seller didn't take PayPal. I looked a little further, and the seller wanted payment to be sent to GERMANY! I'm thinking to myself, "man I was not paying attention." Then I look closer, and the seller will only take payment in CASH!!!!!!! No certified check, money order, etc. Just cash.
What would you do?
I decided that I would go ahead and kiss my $62 goodbye, instead of just accepting a neg by not following through with the auction. Besides, it was right there in black and white, and I just didn't even look. Surprisingly, the guy posts positive feedback just 4 days after I sent the cash! I was stunned! I'm now hopeful I will get the note in the next few days!!!
Doug
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TorinoCobra71
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
No doubt! I've been on e-bay six years, and over 500 transactions, and this was my first monster mistake, so I'm pretty lucky!
You're right to be wary, though.
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
I've bought coins from a number of different countries on eBay and never had a problem. I never sent cash though, but if he got it then you're OK
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Let us know how you like the note when you do receive it.
Tom
(and alot of cities in the US
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He's been on Ebay a couple of years and has good feedback. I wouldn't have knowingly entered into this transaction, but felt duty bound to complete it.
My brother/sister-in-law are missionaries in Africa. They only get about 2/3 of the packages we send them.
Given the circumstances, I did what I could live with. I thought about offering to send him $10 and ask him to cancel the transaction. That's probably the next best alternative.
All in all, I think I will get the note at this point. I'll report back when I get it.
I still wouldn't enter into an overseas cash transaction again!
<< <i>My brother/sister-in-law are missionaries in Africa. They only get about 2/3 of the packages we send them. >>
Africa and Germany are apples and watermelons, by postal comparison.
You'll be OK on this one, I think.
However, I can understand your not wanting to go down that road again. Sometimes it's good to get a harmless wakeup call. I did a similar thing once when I won two auctions totalling about $300 from a zero feedback new seller who had listed nothing but high-end material. Found myself wondering what I'd been thinking. I got his contact info and called him and asked some dumb questions, in a vain attempt to prove he was who his contact info said he was. He was a strange cat, but I got my coins and all turned out well in the end. But in the future, I told myself I wouldn't be so hasty to bid before I checked somebody's feedback and read all the fine print.
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
<< <i>All in all, I think I will get the note at this point. >>
I agree. If he was going to rip you, he wouldn't have posted positive feedback when he got the cash. Postal service from Germany is also pretty decent. At least it was when I was stationed there a thousand years ago.
Russ, NCNE
I did get into a small hassel on a transaction from Canada. I sent a paypal payment in US dollars not knowing they had a conversion on their site that saved him some cash in converting monies.
I haven't sold a lot on Ebay, but about 10% of the buyers I've had sent cash.
There's an awful lot of fake Confederate notes though. They were made in the 1950's, and were given out at grocery stores as I remember as a novelty, to get people in the store.
Ray
I got the note and it is a very nice note!!!
I still don't think I'll intentionally send cash to Europe --
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire