I will respect your privacy so I won't push to ask you what you have but I am curious now. Did you just fall into a windfall by finding a deal at a local shop or something?
Do gold NWC carts even go for $40k (legitimately)? The only other game I can think of (off the top of my head) is Stadium Events.
The only time I can think of not being able to ship to a PO box is if you are using FedEx or UPS service instead of USPS.
Nope, I wouldn't sell something that super rare and expensive on Ebay...but I would take a look into a reputable live auction somewhere. Some high end auction houses (like Sotheby's, if your item is really that rare) will even pursue legal actions against defaulting/fraudulent buyers!
As far as I know, Stadium Events is the only game that will go that high since its the most valuable game of all time but it can't be that since there were more than 10 carts in circulation.
No, nothing like that. I was actually thinking about selling a card collection I have on ebay that was worth a lot of money, and I was hoping I could get around 40k for it, but I'm thinking maybe ebay isn't the right place.
It depends. If it's something that I consider myself really lucky to have sold I give them four days. If they don't pay by then, I send a message and they have two days to pay after that. If it's something that I feel like I could get more from, I message them within two days and they have two days to pay after that.
Check out comc.com. Since they hold the cards for you and then ship them out to the buyers as they buy them, it's a lot harder for a buyer to try to claim an item is not as described or try to swindle you. Plus if it gets lost/damaged in shipping, they would have to deal with that.
No.
My Seller Ratings are in the toilet due to some mistakes I made last year, so I can't get a store even if I wanted to. Once they clear out, I'm definitely getting a store, but I can't at the moment.
Okay, now I sort of think I see what the problem with this is. Usually, after the item sold, on the All Selling page, directly under the item it says:
Bump, I really need some advice on this. As expected the Nigerian call center that eBay sends me to is about as useful as a heart attack.
When things sell through global shipping you no longer see the little note below saying it sold through the global shipping program.
It's exactly as you say. So I don't know how to deal with it. Anybody with experience know what I should do about it now?
You need to stop engaging buyer's like this. You don't need to defend yourself or go on the offensive. In a situation like this where the buyer is claiming something ridiculous versus something possible (i.e. game arrived damage, wouldn't play in his console, etc.) I would always counter by stating:
I will try the mail fraud complaint. I was overly nasty with the buyer - just stated it was factory sealed when I sent it and that I found their allegations rude while I have an excellent eBay history. I know you can't stop the scammers, but they are annoying. Another guy filed a credit card chageback from like 4 months ago saying his card was stolen yet the item was shipped directly to company which is the same as his username on eBay. I think I won that because I showed I shipped to his verified paypal address that is also his company address, etc. - but I've been waiting for the final outcome for like a month now as paypal forwards the info to the CC company..
Very odd. So it definitely sounds like someone inexperienced who thought they could take advantage of you by just saying they got the wrong item. As reputable sellers we know that stuff like this doesn't just happen. If the game does actually come back as it was, give him the cash back and just be glad it wasn't worse. If it's opened, meh, some negative feedback is probably warranted but no big deal. If nothing shows up or something else comes, I'd think there are steps in the return process that you can take as a seller to protect yourself just as a buyer can when purchasing. Keep an eye on how long the case has. I've only had one problem with not receiving the correct item and it was cheap enough that it worked out in my favor. Seller wanted me to pay to return a $2 keychain, and I said "No way, that'd be more than twice what I paid for it, send me the right one!". He got some bad feedback for his negligence and had to make a new eBay account to restore his pristine feedback lol. Policies have changed a lot since then though.
Its supposed to be a brand new Halo MCC he is sending back a damaged Call of Duty disc that he shoved in there. I'm supposed to respond to him by tomorrow, I've already responded saying that I was going to set up a postal investigation to make sure nobody tampered with the package (since he is the one who is trying to scam) and now he left neutral feedback. I think he is hoping I'll feel bad and give him the money back.
They did a return request because they say the item was significantly not as described. Saying in the new game case was a broken call of duty. Then before eBay approved any returns or investigate they took it upon themselves to apparently drop it in the mail just going by the return address on the envelope.
Ah so it has to be approved for a return? Well looks like they didn't do their homework lol. I wouldn't be too worried about it then, if they can't figure out how the return process works I doubt they'll know how to fix it if they screwed it up. Again I can't see the case so I'm not sure what stage it's in or what the time limit is but you should have it figured out by the time you get the item in the mail.
I'm not sure that I even knew you can retract offers before they're accepted. Makes sense, it's fair. I think it's just that when you submit an offer you have to click through the ok, I agree to pay this price, and it feels like you're locked in until the seller either accepts or rejects. I really do like the feature though, I've gotten some great deals through it.
The option to make an offer is definitely awesome to have and I've been able to work deals as both a buyer and as a seller.
I've seen this a couple of times now too, totally anal OCD collectors that refuse anything but pristine, fresh out of the printer quality. With the way these things are manufactured, shipped, handled, displayed, and sold, there's just no way! A minuscule dent are you kidding me?! If you have a condition I'm sorry, but otherwise come on, you have to draw a realistic line somewhere.
Wait so you did get his package and the game was missing? Well that was tragically predictable. Screw it no way you're giving him any cash, take photos of what you've got (I probably would have done an opening video lol) to protect yourself. You can report in the case that you refuse what was sent?
I'll admit I can be like that, depending on the item. But if your listing is $20 higher, and you claim everything is pristine and perfect, you should expect me to be unhappy if it wasn't the case and I could have gone with someone else for $20+ less for the exact same quality.
Personally, I would just take the game and trade it in and tell the buyer you never got the package if he didn't have any tracking included. I know it comes across really sketchy but this is an exception to the rule here where I think it's warrantied. There is no way anybody would go out of their way to steal a game from the MS store and swap it with another game. First of all, all games at the MS store are not enclosed in anti-theft cases. Anybody that wanted to steal a game could easily do so without going through the return hassle. Secondly, if a disc would be swapped out, they could put anything else older or even a blank disc. Third, the most likely scenario is the guy is just trying to scam you through the old eBay way and the buyer is just figuring this out along the way.
I didn't get it yet - but what I'm supposedly getting is a cracked Call of Duty disc that he somehow found in the sealed Halo MCC I got from the MS Store website. I am more than willing to make up for stuff when I mistake the quality of something or something is damged, but the outright scamming is just annoying.
Ah, so he stole the actual disc and replaced it with one of his broken games, wow. The douchometer level is off the charts. Sorry for your bad luck, hope you teach him a lesson.
