Morals in buying

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Wow, I wasn’t aware people made deals like that through eBay. At first I was concerned for you but sounds like the seller is taking all the risk. You must have some great negotiating skills :grinning_face:

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I try to just make the seller feel as comfortable as possible. Don’t want to spook them especially one this card lol. I try to come up with a deal fair for both of us. I won’t complain with what he ask for tho. He wants a CGC 8 base 2 card plus $500 for a inverted stamp Pikachu. I’ll do that all day.

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The joys of being a youth (kidding kidding)

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You signed the waiver that you will be like an adult. Although I don’t know what that looks like anymore (enter Costco clips)

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Here are two purchase related items that happened in the past ~year ish that fall into this category and probably highlight the distinction:

  • I purchased a high value (for me) card on ebay from someone in japan. seller sent it, with tracking. 3 days after the end of the EDD window, I reached out and said I would give it a few more days. It was marked as “delivered” the next day, and four days later I still had not seen it. The seller refunded me. The next day, it finally showed up in my mailbox. I reached out to the seller and had them adjust the price of their lowest price item (list like $2) to the price I’d originally paid, because it was the right thing to do
  • More recently, I shared a listing with the eevee heads here for the indonesian change mask stamped eevee. Listed for $10, free shipping. I saw it as super not my job as a buyer to reach out to the seller and say “hey free shipping, are you sure?”, especially given their other listings were price + $10 shipping. At least three other people here bought the same card from them. I have to imagine they realized after the fact.
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to add to @dartheevee list of achievements: He helped me get one of my Rayquaza chase cards (Rayquaza legend top and bottom) for a really good price and in great condition. Still one of the highlights of my collection

Thanks @DarthEevee!

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To be fair, that card was like $2 in Indonesia. The mark up for the westerners is crazy on the non Japanese Asian languages.

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I don’t at all disagree, just the point being made that all of their other listings were price + $10 shipping and when they pointed me offsite (lol no thanks) they also told me they charge $10 to ship anything

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Thanks for sharing! That’s certainly a healthy way to look at it!

This reminded me of one of the reasons I made this thread in the first place.

I looked over a friend of a friends collection as a favor because they were wanting to sell it and had no idea what it was worth. I took the time to explain to them what was valuable, what wasn’t, how condition affects price, why their 1st ed Machamp wasn’t worth much etc.

They had a clean Crystal Lugia which is something I want for my PC. I offered them $1,000 but they were hesitant and I didn’t want to be pushy so I gave them a couple days to think about it & do there own research.

I reached back out after a few days and they informed me that they sold it for $1,030 :laughing:. Although they had no obligation to sell it to me it left a sour taste in my mouth. No more standing offers from me. Lesson learned.

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