Dave & Adam's Card World ...

[M's_Fan]

I sympathize with the card dealer on this one. I'm guessing they would much rather have sold the card to you and avoided paying the seller's fees from the eBay sale, but eBay's policies made it very difficult for them to back out of the eBay sale.

Card dealers are mom and pop shoe-string operations, many of them barely make a profit and its mainly a labor of love for the dealer. I understand their need to dual list their cards on their site and on eBay, and I don't expect them to be lightning fast with pulling a card off the other listing when it sold. What if the dealer was at his kid's baseball game or whatever, two hours isn't much time at all to be away from you computer!

Sure that would be nice if dealers employed someone to always be at a computer to prevent this, or had sophisticated software that would do it automatically, but c'mon, give em' a break, there are already an endangered species...

[npa589]

This is a much more reasonable argument to make. Those are all things I've thought about.

They have 55 people working for this company, and there are people at the computers constantly.

I've spoken with the owner now, and had a good conversation. By tomorrow I'll see if they prove they're one of the best in an endangered business.

Originally Posted by M's_Fan

I sympathize with the card dealer on this one. I'm guessing they would much rather have sold the card to you and avoided paying the seller's fees from the eBay sale, but eBay's policies made it very difficult for them to back out of the eBay sale.

Card dealers are mom and pop shoe-string operations, many of them barely make a profit and its mainly a labor of love for the dealer. I understand their need to dual list their cards on their site and on eBay, and I don't expect them to be lightning fast with pulling a card off the other listing when it sold. What if the dealer was at his kid's baseball game or whatever, two hours isn't much time at all to be away from you computer!

Sure that would be nice if dealers employed someone to always be at a computer to prevent this, or had sophisticated software that would do it automatically, but c'mon, give em' a break, there are already an endangered species...

[LanceRoten]

I've never dealt with Dave and Adams. Few months back while I was still on Ebay I bought a couple of cards from the 4SharpCorners website and noticed on EBAY that the cards I purchased were immediately removed from their Ebay store. I thought that was pretty good business. As for leaving negative feedback if I got a full refund there's no way morally that I could leave negative feedback. Not in my nature, but, everybody's diff...

[alanu]

At a minimum, I think they should state on their website that ebay bids may take priority over website purchases as their items are listed in both places.

If they don't have such a disclaimer, they should honor purchases in the order they are processed and unfortunately, it might result in negative feedback on ebay.

[npa589]

Great point.

Originally Posted by alanu

At a minimum, I think they should state on their website that ebay bids may take priority over website purchases as their items are listed in both places.

If they don't have such a disclaimer, they should honor purchases in the order they are processed and unfortunately, it might result in negative feedback on ebay.

[dherm360]

I have only had positive dealings with Dave and Adams, purchased 15-20 times never an issue.

[deadballera]

never had a problem with them in some previous purchases. As mentioned before, it sounds like multiple buyers wanted the same cards minutes from each other from different websites ( ebay and store website).


on a side note.... someone got a good deal in the Broadleaf graded card at $300.

[t206hound]

Shame on them for listing a card at a reasonable BIN price... see what trouble that gets you into

[npa589]

Seriously! Heh heh. I was checking back and forth on eBay to see if they had been removed. I had a feeling it would happen.

Originally Posted by t206hound

Shame on them for listing a card at a reasonable BIN price... see what trouble that gets you into