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But do you want to have to publicly answer questions if you do choose to sell to the second person? Should you have to? It seems to put you in a position to exercise LESS etiquette that way, given you might have to say something negative about a person you don't want to deal with, rather than just have it accepted that you have the prerogative to sell to whomever you want. We should all just respect that right, and not demand answers. |
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Let’s say you’re traveling for work. You stop by a local card shop and see a piece that you’re interested in buying. You tell the owner that you’ll take it for full price. The owner responds to let you know that he was supposed to take it out of the case earlier because he has a long-time customer who has single handedly kept the store alive that called earlier in the day and is coming in this evening to check that exact card out and most likely buy it for full price. So he prefers to wait until after that customer makes a final decision. Does that sequence of events leave you steamed and ready to tell off the LCS owner for jerking your chain around? Would your answer change if you suspect he might just be playing you to get a higher offer? Let’s take it a step further. You decide that you’re not going down without a fight, so you offer an extra 30% to buy it right now. The LCS owner, being no dummy, sells it to you on the spot. Now let’s turn the tables. If you were the long-time customer who was planning to buy it that evening, would you be steamed to show up that evening just to find that it was sold earlier in the day by some Johnny-Come-Lately from NEW YORK CITY!!!?? I’ll go out on a limb and suggest that in general, I’m not too inclined to get very steamed about cardboard. If it was something I’ve been questing to find for decades, I’d be more likely to be distraught if I missed out, for sure. But probably not enough to tell anyone off. How would you react, if you were on one side of this interaction, or on the other?
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Oddly interesting topic and unfortunate initial post.
I kept reading to see if Phil responded with an apology, or some level of contrition for openly calling someone out and potentially damaging their reputation without having a shred of fact to back it up. Says more to me than anything on this topic. I have had dozens of successful transactions on the BST both buying and selling and would not like someone questioning my ethics without proper cause. Did they all go perfectly, no, but we worked through anything behind the scenes like adults instead of whining to everyone on the board. Bill
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As I have said, my experiences on the B/S/T have all been a pleasure. But I am fairly certain that if shenanigans like having a deal in place, then someone offers to pay the seller more, and the seller then renegs, if that became known to Leon, pretty sure one or two things would happen. Seller would probably be warned to not ever do that again, or perhaps the seller would be given the boot to go peddle their trash elsewhere.
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I will reply to my wife or daughter to certain grievances they might have with the phrase "wouldn't it be easier to just let it go", to varying degrees of success. Sometimes they will listen...and sometimes it will just end up getting ME in hot water with accusations of "minimizing" or "invalidating" their feelings. Much like an internet chat board and most beaches or pools absent a lifeguard. Feel free to use at your own risk. ![]()
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Well now it's on page 3 of the thread. Go back to your law library, have a paralegal bring you your slippers and a martini, and calm down.
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Just to beat a dead horse, back in the 1980s, when I was breaking vending cases by the hundreds, the typical way to sell was to mail out a pricelist to my regular customers in March (to take pre-orders which were estimated to ship mid-may, after the cards had been sorted,) and print ads in SCD and BHN. My partner & friend Carson Ritchey and I would go through the players we expected to be included in the sets, and come up with prices for them. The rookies were the tough ones to price, of course, but we did our best.
In May or early June of 1985, I got a call from a customer from North Dakota. His name was Brent Lee. He asked about Bret Saberhagen, who had been a little known rookie pitcher that I had priced at 7 cents. Brent said he'd take all that I had. Given the dramatic shortcomings of having my pricelist printed in March, and the lead times for the SCD and BHN print ads, it was common for dealers to inform customers that prices, especially for rookies, was subject to change without notice. In other words, a dealer might publicly say he was offering Saberhagen rookies at 7 cents, but might very well not honor that price 3 weeks later when the customer called. Anyway, I agreed to sell Brent all the Saberhagens I had, and a week later, when I'd gone through all my Royals boxes, I shipped him 1,400 odd cards, at 7 cents each, knowing by then they were selling hot at a dollar at shows. Points being: 1. Circumstances can change between an offer and an acceptance, and changes can be made to offers reflecting this. Try responding to a print ad in a coin magazine in a hot bull market to see what I mean. 2. Once a deal is made, it's legally, morally, and ethically binding. Word travels fast in this hobby, then as now, and backtracking on a deal does irreparable reputational damage. I think it's obvious, and everyone agrees, that is not the case here in this thread. |
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Yes, that's what many customers would say about stockbrokers back in the day!
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I have stayed out of the conversation on purpose. The written rules on this forum are very unobtrusive on purpose.
If someone backs out of "a" deal, and no (hard) money was lost, then they probably aren't going to get the boot. It happens. If it happens again, or very often, then that might change. But everyone gets a "grace" every now and then. The less rules the better!!! Which, I think, is different than most forums or groups. No one is going to force anyone to do anything. IF someone wants to sue someone over something, go for it. Net54baseball, like eBay, relies on Section 230 of the Federal Communications and Decency Act. I used to get all kinds of C and D orders and I almost always told the lawyer calling to F OFF and go read Section 230, then get back to me. None every did. Quote:
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1. You had a unique item of a former player, let's say a vintage game used jersey 2. You list it for $1000, then go to a movie 3. When you return home, you have 2 people wanting to buy it. The first, timestamped at 7:30, is an auction house that will buy to flip. The second, timestamped a couple minutes later, is from the player's son. Turns out the player passed away the previous week and the family is in mourning. Would you hold to your rigid, dogmatic principle of how pure and efficient markets should work (first offer to buy gets the cheese,) or take a more human approach? |
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This has nothing to do with a man's word being his bond. We all agree a man's word should be his bond (in fact, I've said a man's word can be a binding contract). This thread was about a situation where there had not been an agreement in place. No man's word had been given.
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It's a topic that has gained traction. It's too bad if you don't like that. I really have nothing against you, so please don't take it that way. It's just that you come across as knowing everything about everything. That and you take a counter or contrarian view on anything and everything for whatever reason. Thus I take great pleasure in getting you all worked up. Just posting responses to get the last word in always proves I succeeded. I will now cease and decist lest I am held in contempt.
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Just because my view is often contrary to yours doens't mean I am taking a contrarian view. The irony is that most people in this thread have agreed with me. ![]() What always makes me laugh is when people like you tell others they are know-it-alls, when the reason you think that is because you think you know everything about everything. So when someone posts their position, you call them a know-it-all, not recognizing your own know-it-all tendencies. I don't post to get the last word in. I just enjoy discussion. Just another misinterpretation on your part. Last edited by OhioLawyerF5; 02-24-2025 at 11:48 AM. |
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Mark I have never claimed any of my 2.46 posts a day are anything special.
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Ben, I appreciate every one of your posts. Just tweaking you for saying the other guy was posting too often.
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In my opinion (aka whatever that's worth), if both offers are forum members, the timestamp rules. Uncomplicated rule for someone who tries to be fair, but uncomplicated. ...'go to a what?'
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To me, having discussions with people who disagree, and having to articulate one's own views in response to other people's points, are how one learns. The world would be boring as hell if everyone agreed on everything. And yeah, the intolerance for discussion on a discussion board is just baffling.
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Net 54-- the discussion board where people resent discussions. ![]() My avatar is a sketch by my son who is an art school graduate. Some of his sketches and paintings are at https://www.jamesspaethartwork.com/ Last edited by Peter_Spaeth; 02-24-2025 at 01:07 PM. |
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That's how I was raised and continue to feel, even if it "wouldn't be financially prudent."
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Just become more argumentative and you can post endlessly...
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I realize it wouldn’t go well, but I wish it wasn’t considered bad etiquette to rip people’s pricing when they ask too much for a card. Off topic I know.
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