The Question of the Day is a way to facilitate community discussion to help members ponder the unanswered questions of the world that are somehow relating to the hobby. Questions are many times open ended and up to interpretation. Feel free to post your thoughts in as much or as little detail as you’d like.
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Countless money guys offering 50% or less on good cards because it’s “bulk liquidity and I’m a smart person so I understand”.
A mom sending a hand written letter that her son lost an illustrator on the playground, believing it was mine on eBay, offered 50k through a notarized letter.
Another mom wanted a free base set charizard for her son because he has autism.
Oh and selling non factory cut cards and not disclosing them. I was offered these early on in pokemon and recently in mtg. Transparency has improved over the years, but not disclosing that cards weren’t cut by the company who made them is the definition of bad faith.
I’ve received “genuine” offers at 30% of my listing price during this boom. Don’t have much to say to them when they ask why I declined.
And recently, offers as low as $1-$100 on expensive cards. Instant blocks for those wasting my time.
I also had a buyer from UAE attempt to use another account to accept an agreed upon price, but then duck out last minute. The original account then messaged and said, “If your other buyer falls through, let me know.” I called eBay and they confirmed that both accounts belonged to the same goober. When I confronted the original account, they said it was their cousin. Double blocked.
Most of the issues I’ve ever run into have been through in person dealers. Whether it be Pokémon or sports cards. For some reason in person everyone tries to either over sell at 110 percent or under buy at 60 percent
That was my experience at a recent card show. I luckily have a local shop relatively close to where I live that with pay 80% cash for fast moving cards/products. I didn’t realize how good of a deal that was until I compared it to the card show offers.
Double blocked.