My experience with investinbaseball, a Net54 Advertiser

[pokerplyr80]

Originally Posted by yankeeno7

Really? You see a moral problem with the buyer in this case? SMH.
And no, there is no problem correcting a price BEFORE it sells. Like I said, the seller could have asked permission to cancel and if the buyer did not agree then the seller had the obligation to go good on the sale.
This is not a car for sale of a mis-advertised price. It is a collectible on an auction/selling website that has an explicit contract.

This type of thinking is why I have distanced myself from this hobby 90%.

If it was an obvious error for well below the market value of the card, then yes, I see a moral problem with not only trying to take advantage of that mistake, but then taking the next step of posting in a public forum in attempt to hurt the seller's reputation. Bad form in my opinion.

[yankeeno7]

Originally Posted by pokerplyr80

If it was an obvious error for well below the market value of the card, then yes, I see a moral problem with not only trying to take advantage of that mistake, but then taking the next step of posting in a public forum in attempt to hurt the sellers' reputation. Bad form in my opinion.

If it happened only once, ok, I would let that slide and the buyer did. In fact, he let it slide and gave the seller another opportunity only to have the same thing happen again. Bad form to out the seller? I disagree. Tough to call if a pattern but the seller himself came here and said that he has multiple mistakes every day. How often is this happening? Is it ok for him to continue to do it to many buyers every day? Now the pattern is there.

The seller has hurt his own reputation by his own doing. Quite a liberalistic approach to not let the seller have any responsibility.

There are deals on ebay all the time. Mistakes, people looking for quick turnover, what ever the reason. Is the buyer suppose to know this was a mistake? Should he be messaging the seller to tell him that he thinks his prices are too low? It's unreasonable to put that on the buyer.

[HRBAKER]

Ted is obviously performing a valuable quality control function here.

[clydepepper]

Originally Posted by pokerplyr80

If it was an obvious error for well below the market value of the card, then yes, I see a moral problem with not only trying to take advantage of that mistake, but then taking the next step of posting in a public forum in attempt to hurt the seller's reputation. Bad form in my opinion.

I totally agree.
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[Exhibitman]

Legally, if the mistakes are blatant errors, like listing a $1000 card for $10.00, a seller is usually able to cancel a transaction based on the obvious mistake. An objectively clear mistake is grounds to rescind a contract. If the numbers are a lot closer than that, though, like $650 instead of $1000, and the mistake is one of degree, it is a lot harder to prevail.

That said, from a customer relations perspective, canceling orders and telling a customer "too bad" is a poor idea. When I make a mistake with a client I do some sort of make-good.

[skelly]

I actually saw the 52 Mathews. Spoke to my wife in the next room. Explained that we might be a few hundred dollars poorer, and then went to buy the card literally 2 minutes later and it was gone. Never thought it would come up here in a thread.