ebay sellers: answering questions = increased profit

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by hangman62

Yea,but Run... what about the other side of the coin... you could have asked the question a few days earlier ??

That's not the other side of a coin. That's saying that if someone finds your auction on the last day, and asks a question 9 hours before it ends, you can blow them off. At what point to you give them the right to quit answering questions? The day before? 2 days before? an hour after listing?

[Jlighter]

The onus is on the seller to answer questions. The seller is in the game to sell a card and, possibly, make a profit. The buyer has no obligation to buy/bid on any item. The buyer, Mr. Forest, gave an appropriate amount of time in order for the seller to answer his questions.

[I Only Smoke 4 the Cards]

Sounds like you are upset that you misses out on a deal. It happens. Keep your head up.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by I Only Smoke 4 the Cards

Sounds like you are upset that you misses out on a deal. It happens. Keep your head up.

I'm upset because my decision on whether or not to bid hinged on the answer to the question I asked and I fully expected to have that answer within nine hours - it sucked watching the auctions end, and not having the necessary information to make an informed decision.

The items in question were quite rare and come along once in a blue moon, so this was more frustrating than usual.

Yes, I should have asked the question earlier, but I had made an assumption, and then realized this morning that my assumption was really quite naive.

[hangman62]

Yea Run, keep a stiff upper lip....sometimes its just a matter of time and patience and the cards come around again

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by hangman62

Yea Run, keep a stiff upper lip....sometimes its just a matter of time and patience and the cards come around again

It wasn't cards.

Oh well. At some point the seller will contact me and probably apologize. He was probably very busy, missed the message, or something very reasonable. I was just frustrated and needed to blow off steam

[Ronnie73]

Scott, I feel your pain. Before I had a Paypal account, I would ask if it was ok to send a postal money order. A seller had six Sovereign 460's graded SGC 50. It was right before the Sovereign 460's jumped in price in the mid/high grades. He had Buy It Nows and Best Offers on all of them. All were listed at $60 each. I stated that I was interested in all of them at the $60 price. He finally got back to me and said ok thats fine. A couple minues after that I went to buy each one and he accepted best offers at $50 each for all of them. I was so confused that I emailed him again and asked if somehow he ended them for me but he said no, he accepted another offer. Not too long after that, I opened a Paypal account.

When I was an Ebay seller, I followed all my auctions and responded to all questions as quickly as I could because it usually meant possibly more money for me.

[deebro041]

I would agree with Scott that as a seller they should be responsible to make a potential buyer happy.
If he is a consignor and has to check with his client for the answer, then at least have the decency to reply and explain the situation.

[thehoodedcoder]

Life is not cut and dry. People have kids and wives and stuff goes wrong all day..every day.

I'm in the iT field. I get up every day to a never ending army of people whose sole purpose In life is to steal from me and ruin my day by hacking my computers to never ending line of people that need me to explain stuff to them at random middle of the night hours.

In fact when was the last time you had something go 100 percent your way on eve a semi frequent basis.

If it's not work it's the car or the lawn or the pets.

I never expect some else's life to be in better shape or better managed then my own.