- Message the seller and offer them a higher price, hoping they’ll cancel the previous order and sell to you
- Message the seller and tell them they just got robbed, and the item is worth so much more
- Die a little on the inside, but move on
- Other, please explain
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- Add in a few hours deliberating 1,2, and 4 but settle on 3 since 3 always wins and after 53 years I’ve learned the other options just don’t work for me. I’ve tried believe me. You be you though and do that. Nothing wrong with the other options, but my karma police always arrest me when I do other than #3 in these and other similar circumstances. They are bastards and committed to keeping my otherwise disruptive ass in check.
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You can’t win them all.
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the younger me tried 1 a couple of times. always failed.
now, it’s 3. integrity is still good, but obviously we know in businesses, people don’t always follow ethics.
luckily, pokemon is just cardboard, not essential.
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- Take it as a learning experience and move on.
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#1 Is scummy.
#2 It is the sellers job to know what they are selling.
#3 Preferred reaction.
#4 Bump up your saved searches game so it’s easier on you to snipe the deals.
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I’ve had 1. done to me a few times and it enrages me.
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Its an “it is what it is” situation in every sense of the word. Win some, lose some, but in the end, there will always be another opportunity to be found in a more professional and positive light.
Just have to keep on moving forward 
#1 has happened to me probably 80% of the last 5 local offers I’ve made at full asking price, probably one of the most frustrating things that can happen from the buyers point of view; hours and hours of scouring for a deal, finally find a new post that’s a great deal, lock it down, and then oops! Sorry, not going to honor that deal.
#3 is always my preferred course of action.
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Couldn’t have said it better.
For me it’s usually 3 depending on the card, otherwise 4: better luck next time.
Greetz,
Quuador
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One thing I’ve never understood about #1 is from the sellers point of view: why not just inform the original buyer and tell the truth,
“I’ve got another offer that’s just too good for me to turn down, I’m really sorry. You’ll have to match or I have to sell to them”.
- It’s at least more honest
- They have a chance of increasing the price even more.
Slightly off topic but I do a version of #1 all the time. If I see a cheap listing that I know a lot of people are jumping on I just offer more from the get go, like “If we close now I pay X+25%”. I’ve gotten a ton of great deals this way. One that stands out is an apartment. Asking price was like 50% of market value in a top spot in town, and the apartment was top notch too. I saw the listing 2 hours after it went up and realised he must have been contacted by tons of people already. Put “Offer $2k in hand + rent” in heading (which was still quite some under market value). He called me and said he had gotten over 300 responses in 2 hours and that he had read half of them or so and I was the first who offered more than he asked, so he just gave the contract to me. Initial contract was 1 year but ended up living there for 4 with the same rent.In the end I lived in one of the best spots in town for 4 years and payed less than I would’ve for a bad apartment way out of town.
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i treat ebay for what it is. an auction house. once the hammers fell u cant haggle. im in number 3 camp. just move on. there will always be another card or something else to tickle the collecting fancy.
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That’s good for the hobby.
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is just scummy and it’s happened to me once where some asshole messaged the seller who then refunded me and didn’t ship the card
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Pokemon is extremely new-person friendly for finding prices/values online so it is completely on the seller. I would feel bad if a seller was selling shadowless cards for the unlimited prices though as that is usually confusing for someone who just discovered their old collection
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Yes
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I’m sure others here do it and I’ve had massive success doing this. If you see a sold listing with good looking cards/good deals, ask the seller if they have any other cards that they haven’t already listed. Work with them and you might be able to strike up a deal ; you end up getting cards that you’ve always wanted and didn’t even know the seller had, and they end up only having to sell/ship once so it works out for both parties.
With 4) I’ve pretty much gotten a majority of the cards in my collection. Instead of sulking because I missed out, I just message the seller on the off chance that there’s more to be found 
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- “Oh I slept through an auction again, well, at least I saved some money by not winning”
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I realize there is opportunity everywhere in Pokémon 2020. There will always be another.
Secondly, I message the seller to see if they have anything else that they plan to sell not listed on eBay. I found my two shadowless boxes this way. Asking questions has been a game changer.
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Tuna fish always win
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not that i care anymore, but youve “number 1’d” a 1st ed base charizard + others sale from me before only to end up returning it to the seller lmao. Times change, people change
#3 for me, as I have missed some killer deals over the years due to being busy and such, so it kills me when I realize what I could have gotten. Either way, you can’t win em all so I just move on and try to be happy with what I do have and not what I could of had.