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Quote:Originally Posted by drchaos There are additional sales (9.4) after yours that are about the same price. And only one sale the next day of significantly More. Some 9.2s since then have also hovered around $130. I don’t see any other ongoing sales of 9.4 or lower grade that have bids that high. That is not statistics supporting your argument that it was worth more at the time of sale (or $175 more now) and Someone was getting a great deal or “Stealing” it from you. And it’s knee jerk reaction hype so the true value is tbd as the movie is t going to be released for over a year. That $275 sale could be an outlier and may not even go through. Regardless whether the data supports your argument (it doesn’t), it’s still bad behavior. To put it back on you, Would you block a buyer if they pulled this on you? I wonder how many here are considering it or have already done it. Nothing personal. Just business. |
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| BTW, instead of “eBay fun” I think “What if...?” Would have been adore appropriate title...as in “what if...I pulled a DM on this buyer...? Lol.  |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Drogio This should always be the first question in response to the situation. |
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| Win some you lose some. 6 years ago I sold 3k of comics to my lcs for 10 cents a book. I was moving to the States and kept 300 to put in three suitcases. At 10c I sold a lot of 90s paper. But also raw FF 52, 53 TTA 52 2 IM 55s all 6.0 range. Flash 139 as 3.0 raw. Think I lost more than $175. It happens in life. Hands up here who as walked into a store and picked up a undervalued book ? Yep I can see the hands. So my lcs got a win out of me with a FF 52 worth over a grand for 10c And I shudder to think of the other gems But o also picked up a Avengers 1 for half price and I still have my cool raw 3.0 crime suspense stories 22 that I got off him for $50 All swings and roundabout. What you'll loose here drchaos you'll pick up down the road. That's the nature of buying and selling. Note to self. (Never sell again. Don't want another FF 52 thing to happen again) |
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| Would you leave negative feedback for a buyer if they backed out after the auction ended? | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by Paulbg2000 Here's as good a place as any to post this. Someone else yesterday mentioned (on a different forum) that Thor #8 is a key issue to buy, given this announcement. So I had a look over at MyComicShop, and they had two in NM for $2 each. So I bought them both. Then, I guess because they didn't want to list them all, two more appeared. I bought those, too. And two more appeared, so I left them alone. Now there are two more, again, this time at $4 each. (I just checked.) So someone else must be buying them, too, but they only put out two at a time. I've already got four. (I don't know if it's worth speculating on, but I like the cover and they are cheap, so why not?) So anyone else who wants to pick these up might was to do so soon. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by drchaos Just because there are multiple sides doesn’t mean they are each valid and worthy of defense. Perhaps rewording your original question may shed some light on why the response has been unanimous: “Should I go back on a deal I made (like it or not your ebay listing is your proxy) because I was not fast enough to respond to changes in the marketplace and it would benefit me to make a new one?” And please don’t suggest you’re only playing devil’s advocate to foster honest debate as you have been trying to portray the buyer as an unethical thief while the only transgression you put forth is that he agreed to your terms of sale |
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 I had no way of knowing that 9.8 graded copies signed by Adam Hughes weren't what you were looking for.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Pocketrevoltech While I believe the buyer would deserve negative feedback I would not do so if I could. Buyers are able to renege on purchases with impunity. It is just how eBay works |
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| You had the book listed for a certain price. That price was paid. A deal's a deal. The end. I had the same thing happen to me a while back. I had a full run of Avenging Spider-Man up for sale on ebay for next to nothing (something like $40 or $50 for the whole set). It didn't move. Life got busy, I didn't pay attention to comics news. Rumors hit about Carol Danvers as Captain Marvel getting her own movie and the set sold, including an issue 9 that (like the rest) would almost surely be graded 9.8. It sucks, but it is what it is. |
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| Back in the days when I used to sell on EBay, I would sometimes have buyers contact me after the auction ended offering me more than the winning bid to cancel the sale and sell the book to them instead. I never once agreed to do this because I did not think it was an honorable thing to to do. I feel the same way about the situation you described. | ||
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I had no way of knowing that 9.8 graded copies signed by Adam Hughes weren't what you were looking for.
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| Thanks to everyone for the feedback. | ||
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 "Forum Overlord" bah ha ha ha...
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| IMO. When I put up something to sell and the item is paid for by a buyer, then it is a binding contract that I give him his item. What if(  ) the price goes down by $175, would you give the buyer a refund of $175 30 days later because you’re “stealing”from him? |
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Quote:Originally Posted by JustThatGuy What if.... ...you purchased a slab in a shop, they rang you out (took your cash/credit) but before they handed it back to you an alert from KCC came up and said the book was worth double and the shop owner tried to give you a refund on the spot (and not the book)?  |
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I had no way of knowing that 9.8 graded copies signed by Adam Hughes weren't what you were looking for.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Drogio I think this would be a very good analogy for this situation. |
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 It was a one trick pony show but always hilarious.
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| I think @drchaos is asking a fair question. I think the sale should be honored but its fair to seek out opinion. What if one simply makes an error on the price of the book and someone buys it at the error price? Is it OK to cancel the purchase then? I know this scenario is a little different because the listing was live for a time period but my question stands. What if a $1000 book was entered as $100.00 or $10.00 can the transaction be cancelled and the seller still maintain his ethics? Can caveats be placed in future listings addressing these exact things? A similar incident happened to a commercial online comic store that had autographed Stan Lee items at a certain price and then he died and they cancelled all transactions that occurred after immediately his death (there was a buying surge). There was a social media backlash and they reversed that decision. |
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I had no way of knowing that 9.8 graded copies signed by Adam Hughes weren't what you were looking for.
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| @GAC In the event of an error, let's say a book is listed at $55 instead of $555 the seller should be able to refuse the sale. There is no reason that one person should basically be forced to give someone else $500 over a typo. In such an extreme case you would expect that the buyer should ask if the price is legit before pulling the trigger. Wouldn't it be a dick move to just buy it? |
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It was a one trick pony show but always hilarious.
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Quote:Originally Posted by drchaos Agreed on all your points!!!!! |
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It was a one trick pony show but always hilarious.
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| The transaction should be fair....no one should have get scr3wed over. | ||
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| If the buyer had bought the book 3 days before San Diego con would there be a problem ? drchaos did say the book was bought by a eBay seller. Books goin to be flipped for 200 plus percent you can bet the farm on that. Now in drchaos shoes that would give me pause. Now if the buyer never sold and the only eBay transactions was purchases. Then I'd assume the buyer is a genuine comic book collector and books they buy get squirreled up in their collections for years to come. That scenario I'd do the transaction for possible future purchases. The flipper ain't buying nothing again unless he sees a bargain to gain easy money. My 2c  |
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Quote:Originally Posted by drchaos Take it to court. Let them decide. My guess is that you’ll lose as you’ll have no forceful backup to support claims it was a typo....especially since this thread will be included as evidence. Once it’s been proven beyond a reasonable doubt it’s not an error In the listing what the seller intends to do with it is irrelevant to the point of what ebay rules are. It’s now a binding contract. Any other excuse to cancel the deal is a breach of your eBay agreement and subject to whatever penalties eBay sees fit to impose (if you get caught). We all know if it’s your first offense you’ll likely get off with a warning. If it helps you sleep at night to tell yourself he’s just going to make money off you for you to keep the book then fine. You cannot prove that theory unless you gave up the book, though! What’s interesting is that this scenario is very much like the Captain Marvel #8 this past week where flippers raided shelves on new comic book day and expected shops to have it on the shelf at cover regardless of what the eBay tertiary market was doing....Only to find the books behind the counter marked up... At least the shops didn’t take the money...then refuse to give up the book unless the buyer paid another 200%... |
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Quote:Originally Posted by drchaos No, no it wouldn't be a dick move to buy it. So you're telling me you've never stumbled across a good deal somewhere; where something was priced way under value? Instead, you walked up to the seller and were like "yo, I see you have this at $20...it's really worth $100 here's $100 for it"? It's unlikely (but not impossible). But I'm guessing for someone with no job, relying on comic sales for food and rent if you saw a ASM #300 in a dollar bin in good condition you'd snatch that and be out the door in a second. What you're describing is a double-standard by which everyone loves a good deal, but doesn't want to be taken advantage of. Where it's OK for you to get away with a steal of a deal, but no one is allowed to do that to you. This whole idea is pretty despicable in my opinion. It's the exact reason that creators now charge for signatures and many now have outrageously high (compared to even 5 years ago) commission costs. Or, just refuse to do commissions anymore. Their limited time that they spend doing commissions for "fans" ended up just being turned around and sold for 300% (or more) of what they were charging. But they didn't go back and force the person who paid for the commission to give it back. And in that case; it's their actual work, their actual intellectual property involved; not just some spec book. |
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| @poka You buy PGX books? Quote: Originally Posted by poka |
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| @etapi65 The example I gave happened to me years ago with a different book. I had a copy of Chew 1 in CGC listed at $560. When the book did not sell right away I decided to drop $5 off of the price. When I entered $555 somehow it posted as $55. Anyone familiar with this book would understand that any price south of $300 on eBay at the time would clearly be an error and not an intentional price. Within minutes someone bought the book before I had time to locate the error. While the buyer understood when I explained the reason for cancelling the sale he really should have known what was going on before trying to buy it. Funny how everyone wants to hold sellers to high standards but not buyers. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by drchaosHow is that the buyers fault? They saw a great deal, they jumped on it. If we were all held to not jumping on good deals when we saw them; no one would ever sell a comic for profit as it wouldn't be possible. YOU WOULD DO THE EXACT SAME THING as that buyer. It's not a "different standard". It's up to the seller to se the price; all they see is the price was $55.00. How are they supposed to know? You could have had a family member die and need money as fast as possible. You're acting like the buyer shoudl somehow be clairvoyant because they found a deal. If they were nice enough to let you cancel the sale then bully for them. But that case was an accident in pricing. Your question posed was not, and you continue to generate examples that make what you're trying to do here legitimate. I amazed your integrity has such a low $ value attached to it. |
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It was a one trick pony show but always hilarious.
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| dude, take it down a notch...this isn't a murder case. | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by GACGuy asks for advice, everyone gives him the same opinion. So he starts trying to play the victim and talk about double-standards and how he's being treated unfairly. People tried to be nice for going on 50 posts. |
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| I think the general consensus is fairly unanimous. The thread has served its purpose. | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by etapi65 He's a longtime forum member....pretty sure it's just conversation/sharing of both points of view. |
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It was a one trick pony show but always hilarious.
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Quote:Originally Posted by 00slim Agreed! |
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