@smpratte , @kkthxbai and the rest of the commenters;
Dear Scott and efour community,
the fact that a forum post was made about me on a forum I don’t use only reached my ears today, hence me sharing my side of the story is a small 4 months late. Despite that fact, I would like to shed light on this exchange between Scott and myself from my perspective.
On the 3rd of July I purchased a “LP Toyota Pikachu promo” from Scott’s listing on Ebay paired with this description.
When it arrived, I noticed an indent of a penstreak covering a substantial part of the front, which is showcased in the following pictures; (#1 & #2).
Unfortunately this damage was inconsistent with and invisible in the pictures & the title provided with the listing; (Ebay front & Ebay back). Therefor, I proceeded to message Scott to see if there was any possibility for a refund. I would’ve preferred partial - since I’m a binder collector - but Scott proceeded to tell me he would only do a full refund, provided that I would return the card to him; (Screenshot of the conversation, 10th of June).
I decided to go ahead and leave an Ebay review touching the unstated damage. However, almost immediately upon posting the review and refreshing, the review was gone. No reason why, just gone. In my eyes, the seller managed to get rid of one of the few negative reviews, left by a buyer with 40 Ebay refs versus his 4500+ refs.
A week later, 19th of June, I message him agreeing with the full refund and asking for the return address. No response.
After two days on the 21st of June I opened a Paypal case so that he could issue the refund through an official channel, since he might’ve forgotten.
Since I still had no response from Scott, I also opened up an Ebay case on the same day to see if he would respond through there (note; I was unaware of the risk of a double refund when using both channels simultaneously. Obviously didn’t handle with this intent.). This case got shut down immediately the same day because a second case - the Paypal case - was already running.
On the 25th of June, I message him again asking why he’s not responding with the return address and why we should go through the trouble of using a Paypal/Ebay case to issue the refund. Again, no response.
At this point the Paypal case results came back with a negative result, without any explanation why I lost the case - even though the item clearly different than stated.
At this point my rationality was absent, and I engaged in the only way I thought was left to leave a negative review; which was indeed through your Youtube channel. I do recall a notion of deleting said comment after a while, when my clear thought had returned.
Concluding, a card Scott sold had unlisted damage. I messaged him for ways to proceed and agreed to the offer of a full refund. Scott missed the two messages I send him agreeing with the refund because he blocked me, and then this entire thing got escalated into a biased problem that it’s not supposed to be.
That about concludes it.
@smpratte , if you would kindly delete my name from this forum, I am all up for continuing where we left off - with that full refund, from ~4 months ago.
Thank you for your understanding,
Cisko