Who said anything about ebay
Ebay is also pretty bad and rife with scammers, so if you wanna talk about, lets talk about ebay
Mercari is even worse BTW
Why? The buyer is the smart one here imo, he knew the market is volatile and changing daily so he got you to delist the card until he could buy it cheaper, and if it went up then you already agreed to a discount so he would pay market. And then you did it again. Itâs just a lesson that you learn very quickly when selling anything for cash. Never take the ad down until you have cash in hand
@karmaawhoree I hate to break it to you but meeting up is extremely unnecessary. I mean yes, you can do so, but its just not something needed to make a sale.
Sales are happening daily as well as pricing fluctuating and changing. That natural in any given marketplace. If you just list your card for a given price, eventually your buyer will come along. Wasting your time on a single individual whose flaky on recent sales data just isnt worth it in the least. This is where patience comes into play and just allowing for things to work out on their own.
As prices go higher, the more random nonsense youll see come into play here. Just stick the course and youll get your card sold eventually.
Additionally, the market is volatile especially for something like unlimited. It would be different if they paid you and then asked for a discount, but just parts of selling to keep in mind.
Donât worry, we all face challenges along the way, but the best thing is to keep on learning. Ex. I bought a Charmander 1st edition pst 9 for 490 sold it for 650. made some profit but now its worth 1300ish. now I donât make as quick decisions when deciding to move some cards in my collection. Its just a part of the game and now you wonât make this mistake again on something that may be even higher priced than this! 
positives and negatives of everything homie. Keep your head up.
Yeah, my bad, I thought you were implying that you had the listings on Ebay and then cancelled them. But then I re-read your original post and saw that wasnât the case. Thatâs why I deleted mine.
Until market recovers huh? Glad I only look at prices month to month. Even that seems too small a span.
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I killed the facebook ad because I was getting like a dozen messages informing me that Charizard is worth 100$, and then linking me to ebay sold listings of raw evolutions rev foil zards, ANGRY ones too, multiple guys, VERY rude, and I was like âI have a buyer why am I reading thisâ
I left my reddit ad up in case the guy didnât show up, but reddit is tough to sell on. Facebook has a lot more eyes.
The second time I left my facebook ad up and just ignored everyone overnight.
âNow Iâm stuck with this cardâ
SMH Flipper couldnât flip? 
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I collect this stuff, Iâve bought you know, lots of 2 and 3 cards that were a good deal because I wanted only one card for my personal collection, sold the cards I didnât like.
You know, guy on facebook selling 3 cards for 100$ and you think âI would pay 75$ for that one card alone to collectâ and the other two cards are worth 50 bucks
But I kinda get burned a little on this zard. The guy who sold it to me was way too smart and too clever (relative to myself) and that can be a big problem.
Your thread titles are amazing dude. Every other day there is a new thread of you that reads like one of those shady âDoctors HATE him!â ads.
A few examples:
-Ebay protected me a seller against fraud - Surprising!
-Paypal Friends and Family- NOT as safe as you think.
-Youâd be FOOLISH to Hold Cards for Facebook 'Buyersâ
-If youâre selling cards for cash, make people meet up ASAP
If youâre not in that field already, you should consider a carreer in marketing or social media.
For real though, maybe you tend to dramatize simple stuff a bit too much. As others have said, there are thousands of Pokemon sales happening each day, the least of which are in person. If both parties are legitimate there are no issues 99,9 % of the time.
Also the market doesnât âneed to recoverâ, lol. Overall itâs stronger than at any point in the past.
Literally the only thing that struggles right now is Base unlimited, which we all knew was highly overinflated.
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Unlimited Base set is risky, Rudy said it, so it must be true
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Everyone knows Rudy has never been wrong
I am thinking that the same thing is happening with team rocket and fossil, other sets. There have been a few cheap auctions here and there, the sealed packs are being sold for a little less on facebook the past couple days,
Team rocket and fossil are certainly down from from their October 22 prices. The market for everything WOTC went totally nuts, now itâs calming down.
Look how bad the prices got on the 23rd, the day base zards started going down. Everything was going for that kind of money for a few days there.
On the buying side meeting up is one of my favorite methods to get good deals. Leaving tomorrow across the country to buy a collection.
For lower to mid-range items, ebay/remote sales are fine in the long-term unless you are very unlucky. For me across 100s of transactions, usually only 1% will have an issue like the buyer claims that the cards didnât turn up (and sometimes itâs obvious because they open a case after 4 days because they know I sent untracked due to the marginal value). Items worth ÂŁ200-500 make me more nervous and I would probably only sell items over ÂŁ1k in person. Itâs so easy for someone to run and scam and send you back an empty parcel or claim you sent them a brick instead of a booster box