The Giant eBay Garbage Thread

[jaws]

Guys, I AM WOTC

[Vertemes]

Does he know about trainer decks

[trevcatchem]

Show his ebay join date. It’s amazing how confident people are when they’ve been around for <6months

[tidaldreams]

some funny comments on IG similar to this like when jungle pika is selling for 800 bux ppl asking if its a holo

[cwebfan23]

Damn.

[egg]

if only they could use the funds from the sale to print out the label from ebay

[xileets]

The ancient Chinese knew this well:
“He who speaks does not know, and he who knows does not speak.”

[jaws]

I like this quote.

[shinycards]

Don’t you just hate it when someone comes back 3 weeks later and instead of accepting that they bought a raw card and didn’t check the photos for microscopic back whitening, they want to return the card because they aren’t going to be able to grade it a 9 or 10 and make a huge profit

Like if you truly cared about the condition so much you would have had to spend 20x the price you paid me and got the card already graded in PSA 9 with slightly less whitening

Ambiguity of ebay’s conditions terms aside, how can you buy a raw card for much less than a PSA 7 but expect the condition to be better than a near mint PSA 7

[Nurwing]

While I completely understand being annoyed at a demanding customer, as a seller I would not sell that card as near mint. I can see a big scratch on the back, along with multiple other surface scratches as well. Combined with that amount of whitening I would put it at less than near mint, probably “excellent”?

[shinycards]

That’s the problem with the ambiguity and subjectiveness of selecting a word to describe the condition of a raw card on ebay

I think everyones condition standards are much higher than 10 years ago. A collector’s mint could be PSA 10 with zero whitening and near mint may be PSA 7-9. Ebay says that near mint means minor flaws and normies often have even lower standards where their version of near mint could be as low as PSA 4

It may be better to underegg the condition to avoid this but that could also put people off when there is little wrong with the card

My point is that it sucks that people are petty enough to buy a raw card for multiple times less than the graded equivalent and then point out a couple of microscopic white dots on the back edge of the card which were visible in the original photos. At this level of difference over condition terms the buyer could well have caused some of the flaws when handling the card. Buyers can effectively take advantange of this to buy cards and then only grade ones that will make them a profit at the expense of the seller shipping the card back and forth

My personal etiquette as a buyer is that unless something is obviously different from the photos or the seller has clearly hid something that I’m taking a risk on the condition to some extent

[Nurwing]

Agreed! If the photos are clear then the buyer has nothing to complain about.

[xileets]

I agree, based on the photos, the buyer should not have bought this card and expected what he considers “near mint”. BUT That card is certainly not NM in my book. I’d say “LP”.
I partly agree for the ambiguity thing, but for my listings, I include a detailed clear scale of what my condition ratings mean, and it has remained accurate over 10 years. It’s not particularly strict on NM (NM = PSA 7), and mirrors what seems to be PSA’s standards.
Yep, Ebay’s standards are super vague.
_{In fact others have copied mine exactly into their listings…} But my point is, I try to be as objectively specific as possible, in both photos, (yours are really good) and condition description, and conservative so they can’t complain.

[fourthstartcg]

Wanted to share this insane buyer: pokemontcg444

Buyer wanted a deal for two cards, we agreed on a price for both, they pay, I buy the shipping label. They then request to cancel one of the cards because they “got in a fight with their son and don’t need it anymore.” Insane regardless of whether it’s made up or real.

At first I told them I wasn’t going to cancel a shipped order, but they threatened me and called me a scammer so best to just not deal with them.

[A.P.Speeze]

This is why I just don’t respond to people who ask “what’s your best”.

[fourthstartcg]

Trust me, learned my lesson

[tidaldreams]

[egg]

that sucks….but who won the fight?

[sircharleszard]

All I needed to see was this emoji. Hopefully you cancelled his entire order.

[t_dollaz]

Damn, there is so much good stuff in this thread lmao