Greg Morris - Trimmed Card? Proper Response?

[rootsearcher60]

I don't know if the volume GM is dealing with is affecting service, but I'm more careful in purchasing from them on ebay. I won multiple lots in one night and waited for an invoice with combined shipping. After a couple of days, I sent a message requesting an updated invoice. No reply from GM. Ebay then begins sending me messages to pay by a certain date, or loose the items. I again send a request to GM. Still no reply. I finally paid on the day ebay said I'd loose items. I overpaid shipping and never received a refund.

Michael Spellmon

[Stampsfan]

Originally Posted by rootsearcher60

I don't know if the volume GM is dealing with is affecting service, but I'm more careful in purchasing from them on ebay. I won multiple lots in one night and waited for an invoice with combined shipping. After a couple of days, I sent a message requesting an updated invoice. No reply from GM. Ebay then begins sending me messages to pay by a certain date, or loose the items. I again send a request to GM. Still no reply. I finally paid on the day ebay said I'd loose items. I overpaid shipping and never received a refund.

Michael Spellmon

I had a similar experience.

[Snowman]

Originally Posted by rootsearcher60

I don't know if the volume GM is dealing with is affecting service, but I'm more careful in purchasing from them on ebay. I won multiple lots in one night and waited for an invoice with combined shipping. After a couple of days, I sent a message requesting an updated invoice. No reply from GM. Ebay then begins sending me messages to pay by a certain date, or loose the items. I again send a request to GM. Still no reply. I finally paid on the day ebay said I'd loose items. I overpaid shipping and never received a refund.

Michael Spellmon

That's wild. I've bought probably at leat a thousand cards from GM over the years, as I'm a set collector and they do a lot of set breaks. I'm my experience they're the best at combining shipping fees of any seller on ebay. Always consistent, always prompt. They are, in my opinion, hands down, the best seller on ebay for cards.

That said, as someone mentioned above, their grading has gotten noticeably worse over the past 3 months or so. They have a hiring req currently posted for new graders on their website. It seems like their best grader/s must have recently gotten poached by one of the TPGs. But they do offer a no questions asked return policy. It doesn't get much better than that as a buyer on ebay.

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

While it's understood that grading cards is subjective, being a consistently decent grader of raw cards shouldn't be that difficult, aside from detecting any well-done alterations. Simply assign each card one rung down on the scale from where you feel it truly stands (or half a rung). Be conservative and your customers will love you.

I picked up some cards sight unseen a couple of weeks ago. A few of them were listed as VG, others EX. Imagine my utter shock when I received what I felt were NM (the VG) and MT (the EX)! I wrote to thank the seller for being so incredibly conservative in their grading. Being as careful as that particular seller was is not expected, nor does it make any sense, but it certainly made up for all the overgrading that gets done on sportlots. They were pretty valueless cards, but were needed for a purpose, so a gorgeous card is a gorgeous card regardless!

Not a big fan of "[grade] or Better" in anyone's listings. It's too ambiguous. "Well, it might grade this, or it might grade that!" Just leave the "or Better" out of the title. Informed buyers can interpret things for themselves. "or Better" may only lead to providing false hopes to less educated customers who submit to TPAs and it turns out to be "or Worse". I'm certainly not calling any seller out for overgrading by saying any of the above, nor is any of this directed specifically at Greg Morris Cards.

[nwobhm]

I had the same combined shipping experience a couple weeks ago. Made multiple requests for combined. Ended up paying one to avoid cancellation and noted it in the comments. Never received a reply.

Have another situation happening today…. An invoice that should be good until Saturday that needs payment by today or I lose it. Have sent multiple requests to extend and the response isn’t one that makes me comfortable. Will end up paying it today to avoid the cancellation.

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm fairly certain that your bids won't be cancelled with Greg Morris if they go past the claimed eBay deadline. I realize that Greg Morris wants customers to pay up within X number of days, but I believe I once had it confirmed by someone on Morris' end that the sales won't be automatically cancelled by eBay if not paid up when eBay wants you to. There's an "automatic sale cancellation" setting for sellers that can be turned off or on at a seller's discretion, and they do not utilize this feature. Any missives you receive from eBay are just empty threats because eBay wants your money. Unless Greg Morris has changed the way they do things, just ignore eBay's messages until the time that someone on Morris' end can combine your shipping as they constantly advertise.

[spartygw]

Originally Posted by nwobhm

I had the same combined shipping experience a couple weeks ago. Made multiple requests for combined. Ended up paying one to avoid cancellation and noted it in the comments. Never received a reply.



Have another situation happening today…. An invoice that should be good until Saturday that needs payment by today or I lose it. Have sent multiple requests to extend and the response isn’t one that makes me comfortable. Will end up paying it today to avoid the cancellation.

I hope you leave GM at least neutral feedback, possibly negative feedback for the non-response.

The feedback rating is the only avenue we have for effecting change.

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[nwobhm]

Originally Posted by spartygw

I hope you leave GM at least neutral feedback, possibly negative feedback for the non-response.

The feedback rating is the only avenue we have for effecting change.

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Absolutely not going to do that.

A couple combined shipping miscues are not even close to neutral territory let alone negative.

[darwinbulldog]

There's not a real competitor on eBay for the volume of popular cards they offer ungraded, so they attract a disproportionately large number of eyeballs and bids. They systematically get about 25% more for the same raw card in the same condition than I or any other relatively small-time seller gets, so they're great for finding the exact card you're looking for, but you'll consistently pay a bit over typical auction value for any cards you do win from them.

It's pretty clear the Spahn is trimmed, and this just seems like willful ignorance on their part to not see it. Great card otherwise, but I'm guessing they're going to get more than what the card will eventually sell for in an "Auth" slab.