Tuesday, June 2, 2015

EXCITING Ebay Purchase! Then Seller Refunds and Sells to Someone Else. Block this dude.

Yesterday as I was going through ebay, I found a card I really wanted.  A 2013 Panini dual patch card of Jose Canseco.  #2 of 10.  I saw it and just had to have it!



Nice dual patch, #'ed to 10.  What isn't to like?  I know many of you aren't into this kind of card, but for me ... this is what I'm about!

After talking to him, he said he would take $25 for it, to which I said ....

After promptly paying, and going about my business for the day, I couldn't help but notice myself daydreaming about my new treasure.

How would the new card look with all my others?  Where would I display it on my desk?  How would the patch pieces feel as I gently brush my mustache up against them?



I PROMISE I'm joking (mostly) people!  I'm not some sort of cardophile here, geesh!

Anyway, later on that evening, as I was searching ebay again, I found MY card



Lol - surely it was a mistake.

Nope.

I got this email from Ebay:

We're sorry to let you know that jsolden canceled your order and mentioned the reason as I'm out of stock or can't fulfill the order for another reason.

The seller refunded $27.04 back to your original payment method, and you don't need to do anything else.
I promptly wrote him telling me that is completely unfair, and he needs to take the listing down because it is my card.  
Well ....

I wrote him again.

"I apologize.  The buyer told me how much it was worth, offered me $50 and I took it."

I asked him if his name / integrity was worth the $20 or so extra he got, and told him he should do the right thing to refund the other buyer, and ultimately just called him out for his scum-baggery.

In the end, he did nothing.  He chose to take the money, and I lost on the card I had wanted.

As it turns out, a fellow Canseco collector friend of mine picked it up.  He told me that apparently the buyer had told him that he had 3 other offers, and he assured me he wasn't the one who contacted him to re-list.

I sure would love to know who contacted him to list it, because that was just so incredibly unethical. Plus, I won't be able to get the card that should be rightfully mine.

Anyway, that's that.  Thanks for sharing in my misery.  In the end, it isn't a big deal - but for me, when life gives you lemons ... write about it!


6 comments:

  1. Truly a bummer when an eBayer pulls crap like that. Suffice to say, though, that you can easily make something much more well-designed. How you aren't working for for one of the major card companies is beyond me.

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  2. If you were corresponding back and forth through Ebay they should be able to access your communications. I would make a complaint. That seems like a violation of some kind. At the very leas that seller should get some kind of warning.

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    1. Yeah, he has been reported but I am not sure if he is going to have anything done about it.

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  3. I am with Hackenbush, I have never had a situation like this happen but there has to be some way to complain about the situation. Not that I would think eBay will do anything besides mark his account similar to a non-paying bidder mark but at least it could be used against him in the future if he does it again.

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    1. Ideally, I think he should be suspended but we'll see what happens I suppose!

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