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Originally Posted by bcbgcbrcb
I’ve never had anything bad to say about the BST section on the board before but this past week, two different transactions have begun to trouble me. In both cases, I responded to For Sale posts within a very short period of time after the cards were listed for sale (both cards were group listings where multiple cards were listed for sale at the same time). In each case, I was told by the seller that someone else beat me to the card I wanted. However, it was also clearly expressed to me that the buyer had picked up multiple cards from them.
While I realize that it is in the best interests of the seller to sell more than one card as opposed to a single card sale, I believe that the order in which the buying request is received should dictate who gets the card, not the greater sale amount. Am I in the wrong here or do others agree with me?
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Getting back to the OP's question. ( yes I am aware that the OP's assumption has been proven false) that where a person offering to buy a single card vs a person who offers to buy Multiple cards in a thread. Is it bad etiquette to focus your efforts to the person offering multiple sales vs the single in the case where the single card was "claimed" first? Like most here I log on at best a few times a day. If I had 2 emails offering to meet my terms on a card where one was an offer for multiple cards and one was a single. I would choose to sell to the multiple buyer. First and foremost as almost all BST transactions are sold including postage, the Multiple sale nets me more money for the card. As long as I hadn't already accepted any other offer, I would treat a multiple offer as one for slightly more, because it is. I net a little more and spend less time processing on a per card basis. It is simple economics. The only thing that would trump that is if I knew a collector was focused on a set or player. I have a soft spot for other collectors and might spend a little more on postage to help one. Example if I have a Ryan item I might choose to sell to well known Ryan collector vs buyer who is unknown to
me.
Jmho