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Originally Posted by Jim65
You should realize once you ask for a partial refund, some sellers immediately think you had buyers remorse and are trying to get some money back. A lot of buyers try to pull this scam so some sellers are very sensitive to it.
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Spot on. This is a big thing--not sure I'd call it a scam, more of a tactic. There are a number of buyers who habitually buy a card then try to renegotiate on the basis of some half-assed complaint because they know eBay will hit you up as a seller for a refund including the return postage, so it is to your advantage to give a smaller partial refund, which is why some sellers go nuts if you bring it up: when it comes to lower priced cards it is basically extortion owing to the high cost of shipping. When eBay goes to dollar shipping after the end of the year on cheap cards it may make it easier to resist this sort of stuff. Me, I will not play the partial refund game. If you don't like it, return it. The key is not to allow automatic returns. That way, if a buyer wants to return a card he will either have to open a case which I can fight or pay the freight (literally) to return the card.
Owing to the dynamics of the situation, when I sell a raw card I always will err to the side of caution and state that there is a crease when I see one that might not show up on the scan to my eyes. Sometimes even when it does and I think it might nevertheless be misleading. I want to be sure that the buyer isn't thinking he got a steal. That said, I do not 'grade' a raw card. I make high res scans and let the buyer decide.