Worst type of eBay "guy"

[jiw98]

When a seller has a price or best offer and you make a reasonable offer only to have the seller counter with the full price. If you wont except less than the asking price don't put "make a offer" in the sale.

[T205 GB]

Originally Posted by jiw98

When a seller has a price or best offer and you make a reasonable offer only to have the seller counter with the full price. If you wont except less than the asking price don't put "make a offer" in the sale.

Reasonable for the buyer is not always reasonable for the seller.

[ASF123]

I hate magic tape on card holders.

Oh, man. So very much this!

Sellers: Why do you keep ruining perfectly good top loaders?? I collect raw cards. I store them in top loaders. They're not cheap - I know you know that. You shipped the card in a top loader, so presumably you buy them too.

So why oh why do you cover it in packing tape that's so hard to pull off, I feel like I'm risking creasing the card, and it leaves so much residue that the top loader is useless for storage??

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by ASF123

Oh, man. So very much this!

Sellers: Why do you keep ruining perfectly good top loaders?? I collect raw cards. I store them in top loaders. They're not cheap - I know you know that. You shipped the card in a top loader, so presumably you buy them too.

So why oh why do you cover it in packing tape that's so hard to pull off, I feel like I'm risking creasing the card, and it leaves so much residue that the top loader is useless for storage??

As a sometimes seller. I am selling a card(s) not a toploader. The toploader and tape are to protect the card(s) I sold. A lot of times i use old crappy scratched up toploaderss to ship.

[Jim65]

Sellers job is to protect against damage, not to provide you with a brand new top loader for free.

[ASF123]

Originally Posted by Jim65

Sellers job is to protect against damage, not to provide you with a brand new top loader for free.

That's not what I'm talking about. I don't begrudge a seller the right to ship in a crappy top loader (although it's always a point in the seller's favor for return business if they can see fit to include a nice one). I'm talking about sellers, and there are shockingly many, who ship in a nice new top loader that they render useless by mummifying it in tape. Or even with a strip of Scotch tape all the way across the top - that stuff doesn't come off. There's plenty of tape that will actually peel off without ruining the top loader.

Bottom line: If you're going to spring for a new top loader in the first place, let the buyer enjoy the benefit of it too!

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Originally Posted by ASF123

That's not what I'm talking about. I don't begrudge a seller the right to ship in a crappy top loader (although it's always a point in the seller's favor for return business if they can see fit to include a nice one). I'm talking about sellers, and there are shockingly many, who ship in a nice new top loader that they render useless by mummifying it in tape. Or even with a strip of Scotch tape all the way across the top - that stuff doesn't come off. There's plenty of tape that will actually peel off without ruining the top loader.

Bottom line: If you're going to spring for a new top loader in the first place, let the buyer enjoy the benefit of it too!

Or maybe the buyer can spend twenty five cents of their own if it's so important to them?

[Jim65]

Originally Posted by ASF123

I'm talking about sellers, and there are shockingly many, who ship in a nice new top loader that they render useless by mummifying it in tape.

To make sure the card arrives safely. I've received packages that looked like they were run over and the card inside was undamaged. Better to have too much packing than not enough.

[Fballguy]

Originally Posted by ASF123

Oh, man. So very much this!

Sellers: Why do you keep ruining perfectly good top loaders?? I collect raw cards. I store them in top loaders. They're not cheap - I know you know that. You shipped the card in a top loader, so presumably you buy them too.

So why oh why do you cover it in packing tape that's so hard to pull off, I feel like I'm risking creasing the card, and it leaves so much residue that the top loader is useless for storage??

You're buying the card. I've yet to see a listing that says "and you get an immaculate top loader too!!!"

[ASF123]

Originally Posted by Fballguy

You're buying the card. I've yet to see a listing that says "and you get an immaculate top loader too!!!"

Again - not what I was talking about. See my subsequent post.

[sportsnut25]

Originally Posted by jiw98

When a seller has a price or best offer and you make a reasonable offer only to have the seller counter with the full price. If you wont except less than the asking price don't put "make a offer" in the sale.

Never had a seller come back with full price but have had a couple sellers knock a quarter or two off which is an eye roller.

I will admit I accepted both times this happened as they were items I would have paid full price for if OBO wasn't an option, so ultimately we both won.

The sellers who cancel your bid and close the auction when it’s not going to sell for what they want. Just list it with a reserve. I’ve had six auction bids cancelled in the last two weeks.

Originally Posted by jiw98

When a seller has a price or best offer and you make a reasonable offer only to have the seller counter with the full price. If you wont except less than the asking price don't put "make a offer" in the sale.

So this.

[Eric72]

Originally Posted by jiw98

When a seller has a price or best offer and you make a reasonable offer only to have the seller counter with the full price. If you wont except less than the asking price don't put "make a offer" in the sale.

There is an eBay feature in place for some sellers. The platform will convert BIN listings, after a few weeks, to BIN or Best Offer. Then, eBay will email the seller to let them know Best Offers have been enabled...after the fact.

According to eBay, they do this because "allowing offers (of 50% off the BIN price) will increase sales."

So, in some cases, the seller didn't "put 'make a offer' in the sale." Sometimes, they just started getting offers when they never set up the listing that way.

It would be nice if eBay at least asked first.

[icollectDCsports]

When more of my collecting focus was on pinback buttons and cloth patches, eBay sellers would frequently have multiples of a particular item and post a photo of one of them as an example. On several occasions, the item I was sent was in materially worse shape than the depicted example. I would have to send the items back, and sometimes the sellers would express surprise and frustration because "it's pretty much the same thing." Oh well.

[thecatspajamas]

Brings to mind a pet peeve of mine is sellers who will post an image with multiple items in it, and in their description state something like "auction is only for the item in the title." As a longtime seller who continues to be amazed how many buyers browse and purchase solely based on the main image, without regard to details clearly stated in the description or even the title, I cannot possibly see how the amount of time it saves to not create individual photos for each listing outweighs the headache that must come from dealing with buyers who assume they are bidding on everything in the photo.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by thecatspajamas

Brings to mind a pet peeve of mine is sellers who will post an image with multiple items in it, and in their description state something like "auction is only for the item in the title." As a longtime seller who continues to be amazed how many buyers browse and purchase solely based on the main image, without regard to details clearly stated in the description or even the title, I cannot possibly see how the amount of time it saves to not create individual photos for each listing outweighs the headache that must come from dealing with buyers who assume they are bidding on everything in the photo.

I usually scan the fronts separately but scan the backs 4 at a time. Not worthwhile to make separate scans on cheap cards.

As for tape, some sellers need to learn that 'blue tape' is not the same as tape that happens to be blue.

Speaking of top loaders, if you ship in them SEAL THE F****NG TOP! I bought a $70 card last week that came in a ton of packing but the seller did not secure the top of the top loader. The card was out half an inch and there was a big ding on one corner. Back it went...

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Speaking of top loaders, if you ship in them SEAL THE F****NG TOP! I bought a $70 card last week that came in a ton of packing but the seller did not secure the top of the top loader. The card was out half an inch and there was a big ding on one corner. Back it went...

I've dealt with this countless times, both from sellers and "promoters" returning my items back from paid signings. You'd think the latter would at least know how to properly return items, but so often the answer is a confounding "no".

If shipping a card in a top loader with First Class/Tracked shipping or any pricier method, first put it a penny sleeve with the bottom of the sleeve facing the opening of the top loader prior to taping it. Then place a piece of sturdy cardboard on either side and tape the borders of the cardboard on all sides. This is not the Manhattan Project.

[Tao_Moko]

In addition to "L@@K", "Read", and "Rare", I saw a new one today - "PSA 3 Authentic". It was ofcourse not even graded.

[chadeast]

Originally Posted by Eric72

There is an eBay feature in place for some sellers. The platform will convert BIN listings, after a few weeks, to BIN or Best Offer. Then, eBay will email the seller to let them know Best Offers have been enabled...after the fact.

According to eBay, they do this because "allowing offers (of 50% off the BIN price) will increase sales."

So, in some cases, the seller didn't "put 'make a offer' in the sale." Sometimes, they just started getting offers when they never set up the listing that way.

It would be nice if eBay at least asked first.

Wow, that's really shady. It seems there's always a new level of suckage to discover with ebay.