I have a sour grape now because this is what I just happened to experience on eBay. What makes it a sour grape for me is that this seller is a trusted Japanese seller and I’ve bought from this seller several times and he has a great service. I just don’t understand what happened just now:
So I was checking my eBay front page and I follow this certain seller and saw that he had listed new cards today. I decided to check everything he has for sale if I find something nice.
And oh boy did I find something! Mint Japanese Absol EX & M Absol EX pair only $3, Japanese Crystal Lugia near mint $8, Lugia & Ho-Oh ex japanese Play Promos near mint $5 (together!), various shiny lottery promos such as Palkia, Deoxys etc on mint condition, 3-8$ per card… I started putting cards on my cart and I updated it from time to time. Then something suspicious happened, all those cheap listings disappeared one by one. Some listings had ended because the seller took them down as “the item is not available” so looks like they weren’t sold…
Was this a “click bait” to get people visit his eBay store and check his listings? I feel like it was. And when I started checking out his items he had over 800 active listings. And now? Just a little bit over 400 listings.
While I was checking his listings I noticed some cards for sale for really cheap, meanwhile there were a few cards that I found to be very overpriced. I’m really confused and don’t understand this kind of behavior really. Don’t list anything for a price that is too low for you! If those items stayed there and got sold then ok, no problem, but I feel like that was not the case this time.
Any thoughts? Have you guys seen or experienced something like this? Shame that a seller I really liked ruined his image a bit…
Edit: Or, I just imagine things and have a sour grape just because I missed on some great deals
If you’ve had good experience with the seller in the past, you might want to give him/her the benefit of the doubt. Sounds to me like they might use bulk-listing software, and perhaps things that they didn’t mean to list (at least at rock-bottom prices) accidentally got uploaded.
This. Most likely if they are trusted and know values, then it was a decimal/pricing error. Sometimes the big sellers will honor the deal and ship the item, letting someone snag a great deal. More times than not (imo), they will either be honest (which I understand) or lie and say they lost the item. Can’t force a seller to sell, can’t force a buyer to pay.
The seller you are on about usually is quite accurate on pricing so as previously stated it is highly likely that the listings were an error. If you look at his auctions he never does low starts so to sell a crystal lugia that low not on auction is not how he usually does things.
He doesn’t require immediate payment and they weren’t auction style so why didn’t you just bid? Especially if the prices were good and adding them to your cart risked someone else buying them?
And, doesn’t sound like he did anything against eBay TOS so why is it a problem?
Well the problem was I was checking everything out to see if there was something else and the items I put into my cart disappeared before I was ready so I wasn’t fast enough. But looks like it’s all ok looking at the responses here
I’ve accidentally done the same thing. Meant to start the auctions st $.99 (was using the automated listing thing) and when I was working out multiple items were sold for $3.99 which is $1 plus $2.99 shipping. As much as I would like to afford to honor that it was a mistake. It’s like throwing the money spent on those cards to graded down the drain. I don’t know mamy people here that would throw money away and cards you are selling are no different.
