The Giant eBay Garbage Thread

Im pretty sure I just saw a reddit post of the person who bought that card :sob:

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just a question not bashing the seller he seems excellent and got 100% positive feedback but why is this trophy blue color ? is it sun faded or something ?

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Looking for peoples opinions on this:

I have a multi-quantity listing for Charizard UPC promos. It has a few pictures, to show what you’ll get, but I don’t have an image of each individual sealed packet as the listing is for 30+ of them and imaging all of them is just unfeasible. The image used is of a pretty standard pack, and the centering is clearly off.

Buyer left negative feedback today stating that I sent them a copy that doesn’t match the images. It’s off center in a different direction. I did all the usual stuff, sent him a refund and whatever but im just wondering what you guys think about doing multi-quantity with just 1 image for raw/sealed cards?

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Probably a typo, they forgot to remove two 0s :rofl:

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If you have an actual eBay business/store there is a number to call that you can ask for garbage feedback like that to be removed.

Either way, you should just reply to it and say that it’s literally a multi-quantity lot and also put so in the description for future listings to say so.

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I think as long as you make it clear in the listing it’s fine. In my opinion the buyer is kind of dense if they see a picture of one item and a large quantity available and assume they’re getting the exact one pictured.

As a buyer, I personally avoid listings like this for anything that’s not super cheap/Japanese modern. I’d rather see what I’m getting if I have that option at the same price as a listing where I don’t see what I’m getting.

As a seller, I personally do actually make separate listings for each individual item like this. I either save them all as drafts so that once one sells I can make the next one live, or I wait for one to sell and click ā€œsell one like thisā€ and replace the photo with a new photo. I feel like it attracts a larger buyer pool and avoids the (admittedly dense) buyers complaining about not getting an exact copy of what they see. It’s definitely more work of course though.

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I was able to get the feedback removed thankfully, I think I will avoid doing multi-quantity in the future for raw cards / anything not graded

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I hate those listings. I want to know what I’m buying not what I could be getting. I typically ask if I’ll receive what’s shown in the picture. If they say yes, I put comments in during the checkout process that I want what is pictured. If they don’t send that, I would likely contact them and then open a claim if needed. IMO the picture is for showing what is being auctioned, especially in cards where the condition matters alot

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I can’t speak to the authenticity of the card, but the colors do look like sunfading.

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I agree with @jonbo . But at the same time, I would probably have included a picture of a large quantity of them, and then, like you did I think, specify that the image is a stock image, yata. As long as you did that, it’s not a problem. And yes, ebay should be able to remove that BS feedback for you.

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Holy shit this looks awful, but at least they didn’t color in the eye this time.

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It’s actually better than the purple one that appeared a bit ago. But IDGet it. It is still atrocious.

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Would Arita have done this, or is it done after the signing by the person who had it signed?

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The coloring looks pretty amateur, so I would guess that it was done by the person who had it signed. But we’ll never really know.

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Ebay’s buyer friendliness really is a double-edged sword sometimes. How do they accept this with zero photo evidence.

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What do we think the final number will be?

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As much as I hate the idea I did see 2 get done in August last year that Arita coloured in, a Gyarados and zard. The Gyarados looked pretty cool tbh

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That’s disappointing. I’ve sent some reports that resulted in removed items recently so someone somewhere is taking them seriously at least.

Funny that they still tell you that they will not notify you of the results of your report. That’s a better policy than telling you but people just need to feel like they did something these days I guess.

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Recent story, Seller had a marvel card I want, raw, and way above market listed at $99 when it’s worth $50, maybe, on a good day. Message him with offer of $65 since I’m really impatient and he doesn’t respond but ups the price to $129. I always thought sellers wanted to actually sell inventory but I guess not. There’s some things in eBay watchlist that have been there for literal years. Its mind blowing to me

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Some people ā€˜high list’ items that they like having in their collection but would be willing to let go for a certain price. It could just be an item that they are using as eye candy to get traffic to their store.

If a seller is the only, or one of the only, sellers to have an item listed for sale, it’s not uncommon for them to list it above last sold prices.

It’s also entirely possible that they are just a knucklehead, who knows :melting_face:

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