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Sold a coin on ebay, the buyer paid by sending me coins? - edit : Spoke to ebay, after they laughed

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  • jgrinzjgrinz Posts: 985 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Why waste anymore time with this nut, just tell him one more time that payment is due and his coins will be return to him along with the coin that he brought from you if he pays and ignore him after that. In the end one negative does not mean anything. >>



    Do not send the bozo ANYTHING ... Especially the coin he did not pay for .

    Everyone should CONTACT Ebay customer support and give support to the seller on this one .... Make it like a "class action" EMAILING to them because this is simply idiotic
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  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,556 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>May as well as under postal laws it is a gift. >>



    It's not a gift. You should have sent it back already. >>



    Bingo, too many people think that receiving something they didn't order is a gift. It isn't.
    It's when you are sent something by a business and they are trying to charge you for it.

    I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment

  • garsmithgarsmith Posts: 5,894 ✭✭


    << <i>Wow. Out the buyer so ebay sellers can block him. >>



    image That is smoeone I don't ever want to deal with


    Since you never approved of this method of payment, you should consider the dansco packing material and then accept the $.08 sent as partial payment. Send images of the payment recieved and a request for the balance of payment $224.92 to the buyer and eBay.


  • << <i>This is so sad it is quite nearly funny. I look forward to seeing how this one is resolved!! Long live Ebay. >>



    Longacre, I am at a loss that you could think this only rates "quite nearly funny". It is absolutely hilarious - especially because it did not happen to me.image

    merse

  • darktonedarktone Posts: 8,437 ✭✭✭
    Just don't respond to him anymore and block his emails. He can't do a chargeback on you since you did not use paypal. Let the rest playout with ebay and face the fact you will get a neg but I am sure you will be able to get it removed.
  • notwilightnotwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭
    My guess is they overtruned the unpaid item because it is too soon. they won't accept his "payment" methond. --Jerry
  • what a POS this guy is. That's why ebay has a lot of people against them these days and wont use them anymore


  • << <i>I have no idea what ebay is thinking in reversing the unpaid strike but I can tell you for sure, there is no one there to talk to.
    Powerseller chat has not been helpful at all and there is no chance I send him this dime.
    It is amazing to me how totally overboard ebay is going to "protect" buyers these day. If you can go out and buy a coin, send the seller some crap and then not pay, get a strike overturned and then threaten to leave negative feedback for not sending a coin you did not pay for and ebay supports you there is something really wrong. >>



    My decision to quit selling on eBay a year and a half ago is looking better and better, every day.

    Since he did not pay you, start ignoring him. Put the coins in a drawer, and move on. More replies to his messages is a waste of your time, and returning the coins will only open up another can of worms, IMHO.
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  • BarryBarry Posts: 10,100 ✭✭✭
    Next time you talk to Ebay, tell them you will start paying your bill to them in old coin albums.
  • seateddimeseateddime Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Why waste anymore time with this nut, just tell him one more time that payment is due and his coins will be return to him along with the coin that he brought from you if he pays and ignore him after that. In the end one negative does not mean anything. >>



    funny, that is exactly what I told him is my "final response"
    I seldom check PM's but do check emails often jason@seated.org

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  • bsshog40bsshog40 Posts: 3,933 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would have sent his coins back to him and requested full payment for your coin. Were there any small print in his best offer to you? There is a spot that enables best offers to put some type of alternate guidelines. Hope this works out for you!
  • jdillanejdillane Posts: 2,365 ✭✭✭


    << <i>It's not a gift. You should have sent it back already. >>



    Nonsense. While not a gift, it is unsolicited. Seller has no duty to incur expense whatsoever to return those pennies. While it is possible that the buyer is incompetent, that is highly unlikely IMO. Buyer seems to know how to navigate through the bay and paypal and the post office. Unless it is confirmed that the buyer is incompetent, I would simply advise buyer that the pennies will be returned upon receipt of full payment for the coin won pursuant to the terms of the auction plus a surcharge to cover the shipping costs. I would also impose a deadline, after which I would treat the pennies as akin to liquidated damages and keep them as a conversation piece to share this incredible story.

  • lcoopielcoopie Posts: 8,873 ✭✭✭✭✭
    have we seen a picture of the "payment" yet?
    LCoopie = Les
  • If ebay doesn't allow barter, then they should recognize that he only sent you 8 cents face value or however many cents were in the album. It's a partial payment.

    Return his coins, tell him to sell his crappy large cents himself.
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  • 08HALA2008HALA20 Posts: 3,066 ✭✭✭
    Even if this guy pays for the coins I wouldn't send him the coin. He is a nutcase.

    If he pays by money order maybe I would send the coin otherwise no way especially a Paypal payment.

    A neg in this case would be tolerable.

    Joe

  • 08HALA2008HALA20 Posts: 3,066 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Unreal. Who do we block???? >>




    Who do we block???


    Joe
  • OK so did this really happen or were you just pulling our legs image
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,470 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm thinking a couple days in the Dr Phil house image

    ...or, since this set has a provenance now, send it to Heritage.
  • PCcoinsPCcoins Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭
    I find it hard to believe that ebay is saying that it's OK that a buyer can pay with sending coins as the payment?

    Where does it say in ebay's rules and legal guidelines that a buyer can pay with trading items????

    Its just insane crazy!
    "It is what it is."
  • GrumpyEdGrumpyEd Posts: 4,749 ✭✭✭


    << <i>OK so did this really happen or were you just pulling our legs >>




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    I'm starting to wonder myself image
    Ed
  • LokiLoki Posts: 897 ✭✭
    This thread is useless without a HANGING! Out this tool!
  • CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,637 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ugh.......

    Take the negative feedback and forget about that part of it....it certainly won't cost you any buyers in this forum........

    In the meantime you are in the driver's seat because you have this guy's (unsolicited) large cents. Make him come after you to get them back.
  • seateddimeseateddime Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭
    it is a bit of a moral issue. Had he said nothing I would have already just returned the coins which I will end up doing anyways

    this guy has been one royal pain in the butt
    I seldom check PM's but do check emails often jason@seated.org

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  • lope208lope208 Posts: 1,960 ✭✭
    what a joke!

    Throughout our history, companies that were once in charge of the marketplace
    have grown too big for their own good. Eventually, even the biggest fall. eBay
    will be no exception, especially handling their sellers like this.

    Good luck with this guy.
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  • << <i>Had he said nothing I would have already just returned the coins which I will end up doing anyways >>

    Keep in mind that if he does not open the package, he can mark "REFUSED" in it, hand it back to the clerk, and it will be sent back to you.

    Come to think of it, that's what you could have done in the first place.
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  • seateddimeseateddime Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Had he said nothing I would have already just returned the coins which I will end up doing anyways >>

    Keep in mind that if he does not open the package, he can mark "REFUSED" in it, hand it back to the clerk, and it will be sent back to you.

    Come to think of it, that's what you could have done in the first place. >>



    did not know what it was and sent with delivery confirmation so it was just sitting in my po box
    I seldom check PM's but do check emails often jason@seated.org

    Buying top quality Seated Dimes in Gem BU and Proof.

    Buying great coins - monster eye appeal only.
  • kazkaz Posts: 9,236 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Just about the strangest ebay story I ever heard of. thanks for keeping us utd (and variously in stitches, or shaking our heads and thinking "thank g*d it wasn't me).
  • gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This would be more belivable if you would out the person.And keep other sellers from going thru this grief.

    Al
  • pennyanniepennyannie Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭
    This is funny but i may be in real trouble.

    I checked paypal only on my auctions and i had 3 different people ask if i will take another form of payment. I replied sure, cash, check, money order, cashiers checks, goats, pigs, cows and chickens.

    I am waiting on 2 payments now, wonder what i am about to recieve in the mail.image
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  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,163 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>This is funny but i may be in real trouble.

    I checked paypal only on my auctions and i had 3 different people ask if i will take another form of payment. I replied sure, cash, check, money order, cashiers checks, goats, pigs, cows and chickens.

    I am waiting on 2 payments now, wonder what i am about to recieve in the mail.image >>


    Serves you right for not specifying "mating pair" as a qualifier for livestock.
  • segojasegoja Posts: 6,141 ✭✭✭✭
    Tell the buyer if he wants his coins back, then you need some shipping costs.

    Take the neg, it's no big deal, and yo get to commment on the complaint anyway.

    Good luck
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  • coolestcoolest Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭
    Tell the guy you will send the coin as soon as he leaves you a glowing feedback.
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  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,556 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Tell the guy you will send the coin as soon as he leaves you a glowing feedback.
    image >>




    Feedback extortion. Why stoop down levels?

    I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment



  • << <i>This would be more belivable if you would out the person.And keep other sellers from going thru this grief. >>



    That is a bit strange isn't it......image
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,606 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>This would be more belivable if you would out the person.And keep other sellers from going thru this grief. >>



    That is a bit strange isn't it......image >>



    Yes. It is strange. I can see no good reason why the buyer isn't outed and I'm beginning to question the veracity of this story.

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  • << <i>I'm beginning to question the veracity of this story. >>

    True or not, this thread has wasted enough of my time. image
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  • << <i>Take the neg, it's no big deal, and yo get to commment on the complaint anyway. >>



    FYI: If you add a comment to your feedback after he leaves you a neg it gives him the opportunity to then add another comment after yours (again nasty and ugly). You can not add a comment after that one.

    Feedback is extremely one-sided now. As a seller you are completely at their mercy.
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,470 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What did the album smell like ?
  • leothelyonleothelyon Posts: 8,475 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sellers may need to add to their terms in future listings; NO Trades will be allowed or accepted in lieu of cash!


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  • RyGuyRyGuy Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭
    I don't understand why some are saying the OP should offer to sell the high bidder's large cents and then deduct what they bring from the total cost of his coin. Why should he have to do more legwork just to get the coin he already sold paid for? Just send the man his coins back, at his cost mind you, agree to the auction being mutually withdrawn and move on.

    Ryan
  • I am amazed that something can still surprise me. This story sounds too crazy to be true yet I believe youimageimage
  • Email him one more time for payment, and if he refuses to pay, file an NPB and go from there. If Ebay doesn't intervene on your behalf (and they probably won't), keep the large cents as compensation for the neg you will receive. Don't waste any more time with this clown.
  • BECOKABECOKA Posts: 16,961 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Ask ebay if you can pay listing fees using those coins, since they think they're worth $200 tell them you'll accept it from that guy if they'll accept it from you.

    It's ridiculus!!!!! >>



    I agree, this is ridiculous. Send the to e-bay as payment since they are telling you that you have to accept them as payment. Otherwise just keep at it until you can get someone on the phone that will listen. You should have a dedicated powerseller rep that can help you. Maybe Russ can point you to the right number?
  • PrethenPrethen Posts: 3,454 ✭✭✭
    I can't believe that some idiot buyer out there has the audacity to pull something like that.
  • seateddimeseateddime Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭
    Ebay does not want to respond. I have sent them several emails ( as a powerseller I should get 24-48 response) and they have not responded at all.

    They reversed the unpaid strike and I can not refile it.

    I have called a few times but can not get to a live person, just recordings of what to do ( none of which apply)

    The buyer now wants me to just return the coins he sent me but refuses to pay for the coin, he is sending me 5+ emails a day. I told him to stop making threats and just leave the neg already.

    I am hoping to hear something from Ebay.

    Those who think this post is a waste of time, I do agree it is but nothing compared to the waste of time and energy I have and continue to spend on this issue.

    On a another note there is a board member who purchased a great coin and should have it tomorrow.
    I seldom check PM's but do check emails often jason@seated.org

    Buying top quality Seated Dimes in Gem BU and Proof.

    Buying great coins - monster eye appeal only.
  • Weather11amWeather11am Posts: 2,055 ✭✭✭
    Pay your ebay fees with them since Ebay obviously thinks that is its monetary value! image
  • BarryBarry Posts: 10,100 ✭✭✭
    You asked for opinions, got lots of them, yet ignore many requests to out the buyer. Why?
  • PrethenPrethen Posts: 3,454 ✭✭✭
    You should keep the coins and let him give you the neg.
  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I cannot imagine why people put themselves through all this fleaBay nonsense and come here and complain about it, then run back to fleaBay for more.

    Seen this with the OP, and then Frankcoins. Come on guys, get a life and get over fleaBay. I stopped selling there in June. I am done with it. Their feedback policy coupled with paypoo only rules and then the ignominy of trying to talk to a live person in fleaBay spells doom for the once vaunted online fleamarket.
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  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,332 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Just send him a refund at your cost. 8 Lincolns isn't too expensive to mail.
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