You see this guy trying to rip off other people and you’re like ‘maybe I should give him a lot of money’
If you see someone rip off someone else, assume they’ll do it to you too
Honestly, I’ve seen so many of these repack ads that I don’t see them as scams IF they are honest to a degree. People buy them. They get cards. Mandarake and others do the same. In most cases the feedback shows people that are happy, but not getting the high dollar cards advertised.
The guy showed his dishonesty as I spoke with him. Which was when I got irritated.
Unless that’s something against eBay rules. I’m not sure what else I could do.
I took a shot at it, but it didn’t really sink in until I got his messages back.
The guy had decent feedback and a long history if I remember. As a buyer, I’d say I have a small chance of getting screwed had I purchased.
Side note. It’s no different than asking a seller to split up a lot of cards to buy one.
It’s on them, to update their listing. If I had bought and he left it, then I could report to eBay or something.
The guy looked legit to be honest.I have my doubts on if it would ever be given out. But maybe if he sold like 100 lots he would do it or something.
These fucking things have been around on eBay forever, and they’re all blatant scams. IMO eBay should prohibit them. There’s absolutely no provable randomness, and thus no accountability.
I also have no sympathy for the idiots who actually buy them. It’s not like fake cards, resealed product, etc. where a well-meaning naive aunt buying her nephew a gift can get swindled. It doesn’t take any specialized knowledge about Pokémon to know that someone selling a “random lot” on the secondary market isn’t going to be honest.
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Yeah I get that^
I guess I mean that people are actually buying them. They know what it is lol. It’s def scummy and I don’t agree with it. But not much you can do, I don’t think it breaks the rules.
As far as buying a card from the guy, I’ll buy no rarities wherever. On eBay it’s a little easier to weed through the bullshit as a buyer.
Not sure if Mods should put this guy on the blacklist, but it finally happened where some guy purposely bought some fake trophy cards and tries to sell them as real cards.
I know this is very obvious to the community especially to old trophy card hunters, but I still wanted to let the community know that this guy is trying to scam people out of $100,000+ (he has other trophy cards listed) by selling fake trophy cards as real.
Now aside from the obvious red flags from his listing description to how horribly cut the card is (among other red flags), the best proof I have got is that I checked his buyer’s feedback and I saw that he bought from a seller that sells custom card (netu_33):
www.ebay.com/fdbk/feedback_profile/dwr_1986?filter=feedback_page:RECEIVED_AS_SELLER&_trksid=p2047675.l2560
and the custom card awfully looks similar to identical to the same one this person sold roughly a month ago:
I know the majority of the community frowns upon custom cards, but for those who don’t, these are the lasting consequences of people creating custom cards. While I understand some people want to fill in the gaps of their collection with expensive cards, on the other side of the coin, people will continually try to prey on uninformed buyers. This one is almost obvious that there was 0 misunderstandings; current seller straight up bought fake cards, then tries to sell it as real by making his listing as legit as possible.
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“donating all funds to cancer research”
Maybe because he IS a cancer on the community and he is going to be researching whether to buy a new dodge hellcat or a new Shelby mustang?
So technically, yeah, “Cancer research”
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Thank you for the heads up. I don’t look into it often, but are the people who buy the fakes paying a lot of money? That’s a huge bummer!
@karmaawhoree: LOL
@jawsh98, If you mean by the seller description of the scammer, not proportionally to the card price being sold at. However, it’s usually around 20-100$ for a fake card, depending on the quality, and it’s really poor money spent.
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Won a binder of Charizards the other day included a few big boys. Some of them worth of grading. Seller immediately cancelled and said his brother listed it without his permission. Think I’ve heard every possible family member list without permission over the years.
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(Psa 10)
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Cant tell if them just being stupid or the psa 10 stuff in titles is so prevalent that people that dont know a thing about pokemon add it in their titles because everyone else does. Given that its a cgc card though it seems like this person graded it themselves in which case they know better.
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I realize I’m in the minority here, but I don’t really mind if someone is selling, say, a BGS or CGC graded card and puts “PSA” in the title. Like if you’ve got a GCG 10 and you add in “PSA” to generate some more traffic, that doesn’t strike me as particularly outrageous or dishonest… there’s probably a fairly decent buyer pool searching for a PSA 10 copy who would be fine with a CGC 10 but doesn’t think to search it.
That said, the “10” here is what kills me. It’s a CGC FOUR POINT FIVE. If you want the added traffic from people searching for PSA cards, put fucking “PSA 4?” or something lol. This doesn’t even generate usable traffic to his auction, because nobody searching for a PSA 10 Rocket’s Hitmonchan is going to be like “oh, CGC 4.5? good enough” the way they might if the grades were actually equivalent.
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I don’t think it’s ‘outrageous’ or ‘dishonest,’ but I do think it’s unfortunate that people put all of these as keywords in their titles. It’s incredibly annoying to search for PSA cards and have only 10% of the results be actual PSA-graded cards. I wish people just didn’t include extraneous, irrelevant info in the title at all.
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Lol yep, I don’t completely hate the “psa 10?” stuff either but it was completely laughable when the cross grade was a 4.5 lol
I find it annoying on a case-by-case basis. If it’s something that might actually be relevant to a potential buyer (i.e. including “PSA 10?” in a listing for an already-graded CGC or BGS 10), I don’t mind it. But I do take umbrage at the influx of people lobbing “PSA?” into the titles of listings for ungraded cards, because it’s almost certain that a buyer searching “PSA” would not be interested in a raw copy the same way some might in a BGS or CGC copy.
You search for: PSA 9 Base Charizard
You get: GMA 5.5 Base Nidoran PSA BGS CGC 7 8 9 10? MINT! INVEST NOW! LIKE CHARIZARD
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I understand that, but I’d still prefer people don’t include ‘PSA’ in the title for BGS or CGC cards. If I want to search for BGS or CGC cards, I’ll search for them. And it’s annoying because I literally can’t avoid it, because I can’t even search, for instance, “psa pokemon -bgs -cgc” because sellers of actual PSA cards also include BGS/CGC in their titles. So then I’d be excluding most actual PSA listings. The bottom line is (IMO) that people shouldn’t include words in the title that aren’t ACTUAL attributes of the item.
hahahaha, this would fall firmly into the annoying category.
As a buyer that uses PSA in the search title, it’s definitely dishonest. I have no interest in buying a CGC card and it just looks trashy to specifically search a company’s product and see results for another company.
Agree to disagree, I guess. I don’t sell slabs on eBay so I don’t have a horse in this race. Perhaps I don’t search for PSA cards frequently enough to get a feel for how apparently prevalent/inconvenient it is.