Input requested for Photos, Premiums? Satchel, Feller, Ruth

[Leon]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Update:

Wow! I don't know whether to laugh or to cry. In order to make my shame public and hopefully close the cycle out on these photos/prints/reprints/older reprints...........whatever the hell they are, I offer the following anecdote.

I've already said that I did list them up for auction, as probably later generation older prints. A fellow Net54 member actually won them for a modest sum.

As I'm preparing the lot for shipment this morning I discover to my horror that one of our cats took the opportunity of seeing unprotected photos out in the open, to hurl a dirty hairball onto them.

I launched into recovery mode quickly, taking a hand towel to them, thinking for a split second they could be salvaged before it's too late. I know almost immediately it's a lost cause, but like a surgeon trying to revive a lost patient, I keep at it a bit longer hoping for a different outcome.

Granted, it didn't totally ruin the photos. Just made them look like somebody spilled a couple drops of coffee on one of the bottom corners..........but I know where those stains came from.

I then sent the buyer a full refund, an apology, a mea culpa and an offer to send him the photos for free if he still wants them given the circumstances.

I just hope the buyer understands and isn't too disappointed. I'm pretty hard on myself when errors/mistakes like this occur, kind of a feline version of "The dog ate my homework", I guess.

First of all that was a nice gesture you did. I can relate. One time I had some fairly inexpensive strip cards listed on my site. I had 3-4 copies (real) of one card. Someone bought one from the one I had pictured on my site. When I went to ship it I could tell that it wasn't the one pictured on my site, it was another one. I put the $25 he paid in the shipping package and sent the strip card with it....The buyer thanked me....and I thought it was the right thing to do too, since it was my error. I am also harder on myself than anyone else could be. regards

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by Leon

First of all that was a nice gesture you did. I can relate. One time I had some fairly inexpensive strip cards listed on my site. I had 3-4 copies (real) of one card. Someone bought one from the one I had pictured on my site. When I went to ship it I could tell that it wasn't the one pictured on my site, it was another one. I put the $25 he paid in the shipping package and sent the strip card with it....The buyer thanked me....and I thought it was the right thing to do too, since it was my error. I am also harder on myself than anyone else could be. regards

The buyer was actually pretty great about it. Still wanted the photos and offered to refund the refund.

I didn't feel right about that and asked him to just take better care of the photos then I did. LOL!!

Granted, it's an easier decision to make when it's lower end stuff you're dealing with.

I'm sure I'd be less prone to give something away if my cat had hairballed on a 1919 World Series ticket or something similar. Then again, hopefully I'd be smart enough not to keep something like that out in the open.

[mr2686]

please feel free to send the freebee 1919 ws stub my way...even if it's been used in the cat box.