Would you neg the seller?

[bbcard1]

I would try to work it out with the seller, but I am suspicious of a little photoshop work on the original scan. You can sort of see the crease along the a....

[Leon]

I would simply ask him to help you understand what happened?

Then, you can go from there. I would leave it open initially. You never know. One time I had a good board member accidentally send me the wrong, very scarce PCL card. I asked him about it and he had ANOTHER just like it but with no crease, which is what was pictured and what I based my buying decision on. He sent that one, I sent his other one back and all ended well. Ya' never know till ya ask.

[prewarsports]

I owned that postcard once (but I am NOT the seller on ebay). Here is my archived scan of it from last year. I think it was probably just the sellers scanner since the price sticker is on it, that means he scanned it inside the plastic sleeve and that layer of plastic probably messed with the resulting scan. Just my opinion, as I know the seller a little and he has never altered anything before (usually gets most stuff graded etc) and this is a pretty inexpensive item.

Rhys

[Jewish-collector]

Send him a link to this thread/forum. Tell him to join our discussion about it.

[Bridwell]

I'd give him a chance to do the right thing. A couple of times I received a partial refund and was able to keep the card. If you don't want the card, you should be able to return it due to the problem with his scanner.

Ron

[JeremyW]

I generally ask people on Ebay if there are creases, wrinkles, etc. on cards before I purchase an ungraded card. Many times scans are not enough. If you asked that question, a neg is justified.

[steve B]

I'd try to work something out as well.

I used to be fairly active selling assorted stuff back when that was actually profitable. I had a couple items with complaints. The stuff mentioned was easily visible to me in my scans. But...I've got 20" crt monitor that I've had since that was considered to be really big. I had relative look at the item on a small screen, and the problems weren't visible at all. I refunded the sale price, and asked them to keep the item in one case, and totally refunded without a return in the other. (both items under $10 )

But the buyer who left a neutral over an issue that was clearly stated in the brief description- Something like "cross stitch partial kit, pattern only, no cloth or floss included"- and she complained that it wasn't complete! wouldn't have gotten any sympathy.

I didn't know about the "descreen" feature. Interesting, I may have it on as a default, as most of my scans end up making the item look worse. A real coin toss as a seller, stuff may sell for less, but when it looks better than the scan the buyers are usually happy and that's not a bad thing.

Steve B