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Issue with Ebay card won

jfkheatjfkheat Posts: 2,748 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I won a card on Ebay a few days ago for the opening bid of $5. I have seen 2 others like it listed with Buy It Now prices of $50 and $79, the $79 one is still listed. I paid through Paypal immediately after the auction ended but I had a feeling that I would never get the card. I never got an email from the seller until yesterday but did get positive feedback. The following is the email I fot yesterday, 5 days after the auction ended. What would you do? I haven't responded yet.
Thanks, James

I am so sorry to tell you that I can not find this card. I have looked everywhere. I can not imagine what happened to it. I am going to give you a full refund and if it appears I will mail it to you for free. I am terribly sorry. I am sorry for any inconvienence.

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  • JHS5120JHS5120 Posts: 1,968 ✭✭✭
    He probably just didn't want to sell it for the hammer price and couldn't think of a better excuse. Take the refund, give him a neg and move on.
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  • bobbyw8469bobbyw8469 Posts: 7,145 ✭✭✭
    Cards have been going for peanuts when auctioned off lately. I auctioned off a card for the princely sum of $3, only to see it sell afterwards as a BIN for $35. Sellers are tired of seeing their items sell for peanuts......give him in neg, turn him in a non-perofrming seller, and move on.....

    PS - give us a link to the auction if you don't mind.....
  • nightcrawlernightcrawler Posts: 5,110 ✭✭

    I would argue against the neg simply because there's no way of knowing if he's lying or not at this time. Keep an eye on his auctions and weigh your options in the future if he relists the same card. Don't leave any feedback, maybe he'll relist it before time to leave feedback runs out.
  • jfkheatjfkheat Posts: 2,748 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Auction link is below. Should I reply to his email?
    James

    Auction Link
  • brendanb438brendanb438 Posts: 1,595 ✭✭✭
    Can't find the card my ass, all of his pictures were taken on the same table and probably at roughly the same time. Tell him to look a little closer at the stack of POS Rhett Bomar autos he is selling it is probably mixed in with those.

    Neg him and don't look back.
  • nightcrawlernightcrawler Posts: 5,110 ✭✭


    << <i>Neg him and don't look back. >>



    If you're a seller you can look forward to a possible retalitory neg.

    I personally don't leave negs unless I know I've been ripped off.

  • jfkheatjfkheat Posts: 2,748 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I haven't sold anything in several months. I thought about responding to him email to tell him that I was expecting something like that to happen. The only reason I haven't sent him an email telling him I think he is full of crap is because it is Christmas.
    James
  • burke23burke23 Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭
    I just sent him a note to let me know if his sale falls through - will post what response (if any) I get.
    pete
    Looking for rare Randy Moss rookies and autos, as well as '97 PMG Red Football cards for my set.
  • cardbendercardbender Posts: 1,831 ✭✭
    I think Jake Plummer cards have a lot of upside.
  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,627 ✭✭✭✭
    He should be happy to get anything for a Jake "The Fake" Plummer card. Neg him for being stupid.
    "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."
  • SportsCardCollectorSportsCardCollector Posts: 320 ✭✭
    After reading the thread, I was all ready to jump on this guy and say that he was trying to cheat you. But after looking at the link to him and his stuff, I am more inclined to think that he honestly can't find the card.

    Let's face it, a guy whose card selling consists of a few Rhett Bomar (who?) cards, isn't very used to dealing with cards. He may have honestly laid it down somewhere and can't remember where. And since he listed it once and it didn't sell for the $5 opening bid, he obviously knew there was a good chance that it would sell for that if he re-listed it.

    In this case, and in the spirit of Christmas, I'd give him the benefit of a doubt.
    "It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it."
    - John Wooden
  • jfkheatjfkheat Posts: 2,748 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thanks for all the responses. I'm going to just let it go. But, I'll be watching to see if the card is relisted. I didn't bid on it because it was Jake Plummer. I'm working on that set. Anyone have any cards from the set they want to get rid of?
    James
  • diamondmandiamondman Posts: 2,020


    << <i>Thanks for all the responses. I'm going to just let it go. But, I'll be watching to see if the card is relisted. I didn't bid on it because it was Jake Plummer. I'm working on that set. Anyone have any cards from the set they want to get rid of?
    James >>



    I would bet , he actually misplaced card, I have done this a few times with cards,coins or whatever, luckily after tearing the house apart, I have always found them within 48 hours of the auctions ending.

    He is a top rated seller with what looks like an average of 50 to 60 items selling a month, I would also bet if he finds the card you will get it for free.

    He will remember that you did him a favor by not giving him a Neg & dinging his stars, mistakes happen & things do get lost especially this time of the year. jmho
  • metsfanmetsfan Posts: 834
    I'm curious why would this card be worth $50 or $79? What makes it "rare"? It's possible he could have misplaced it, I just sold a card on another site, and it took me forever to find it. It was a $6 card, so it happens.
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  • MeteoriteGuyMeteoriteGuy Posts: 7,140 ✭✭


    << <i>I'm curious why would this card be worth $50 or $79? What makes it "rare"? It's possible he could have misplaced it, I just sold a card on another site, and it took me forever to find it. It was a $6 card, so it happens. >>




    I Imagine he replaced it also.

    I think the card is numbered to 15. I really like those Donruss sets, I think they did that two years in a row. I have a couple of the 2000, a nobody rc /22 and a Tony Gonzalez /can't remember.
    Collecting PSA graded Steve Young, Marcus Allen, Bret Saberhagen and 1980s Topps Cards.
    Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
  • jfkheatjfkheat Posts: 2,748 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I'm curious why would this card be worth $50 or $79? What makes it "rare"? It's possible he could have misplaced it, I just sold a card on another site, and it took me forever to find it. It was a $6 card, so it happens. >>



    The card is serial numbered to 15. All the cards in that set are serial numbered to a players stat. Terrell Davis is the is the shortest print card with only 5 cards produced and Barry Sanders is the highest print with 86 cards produced. There are 25 cards in the set. I still need 5 or 6 to complete the set. Burbank Sportscards has/had a couple listed that I need but they were WAY overpriced.
    James
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