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Originally Posted by baseball tourist
Purchased on Ebay from a seller of postcards. Thought I might have stumbled on a steal, but with it now in hand, believe I have a modern repro, stained to look old. Certainly not an original photo pasted/monted to a card. It looks to be a printed copy. Time to seek a refund? Thanks in advance for your feedback.
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To seek a refund or not depends on how it was described. If it was described as an original 1897 CDV, it's not, and you would be justified in seeking a refund. If it was described as an old-looking baseball photo and the seller wasn't sure when it was made, then no, you shouldn't seek a refund.
Sellers shoud not be expected to give refunds based solely on a buyer's incorrect assumptions about an item. If you're trying to get one over on the seller, without asking questions to verify what an item is lest you should tip them off, you just have to accept that sometimes you're going to guess wrong. It used to be called "taking your lumps" or "taking your medicine" or some other idiom conveying an unpleasant part of the learning process, but the climate of eBay has shifted so much to the buyer's side these days (unwarranted returns enforced by eBay/Paypal, negative feedback only allowed by buyers, etc) that the "unpleasant" part of the buyer's learning process is more often foisted back on the seller. And then they wonder where all the kind, helpful sellers have gone.