Worst type of eBay "guy"

T205 GB · #1 03-12-2021, 08:05 PM

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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 · #2 03-12-2021, 08:11 PM

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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 · #3 03-12-2021, 08:34 PM

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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 · #4 03-12-2021, 08:53 PM

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

ASF123 · #5 03-12-2021, 09:51 PM

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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 · #6 03-12-2021, 10:00 PM

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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?

ASF123 · #7 03-12-2021, 10:25 PM

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Originally Posted by BillyCox3

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

It’s completely unnecessary for both parties to have to buy new top loaders. How is that even controversial?

Gorditadogg · #8 03-23-2021, 11:52 AM

We all know that ebay guy who lists cards for 10 times what they are worth. I hate that guy but I hate it even more when that guy comes over to BST to do the same thing.

A little foreshadowing: I didn't know it at the time, but this guy has a fairly obscure SGC 5 card up on ebay for $165 OBO. A PSA 7 of that card just sold for $60 earlier this month, so you might figure his card is worth $20-25.

This guy also has a listing on BST right now for some low grade cards that are more or less fairly priced. So I bought one and he asked me what else I was interested in, because he was "selling off his collection". He sent me a scan of some cards, including his SGC 5 card and I asked what he wanted for it. (It was a front office exec for a team that my aunt's family once had ownership in. I thought I could show it to her and see if she remembered him.)

How about $190? he said. (Yes, more than what he is asking on ebay!)

I am so annoyed by that ebay/BST guy. Most of the members here are a pleasure to deal with, when a scammer comes around here it is a pain.

Jim65 · #9 03-13-2021, 04:46 AM

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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.

Mike D. · #10 03-13-2021, 07:28 AM

On the top loader thing...I much prefer tape to a card that shifted in transit and now has 1 or 2 banged up corners.

So, in my mind:

No Tape < Tape < masking tape < team set bag

People who ship a cheap card in a brand new top loader in a team set bag are going WAY above and beyond and should be considered for knight/saint-hood.

Fballguy · #11 03-12-2021, 10:24 PM

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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 · #12 03-12-2021, 10:26 PM

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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.

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