This particular Walmart only the had the hanger packs - you know, the package that has 3 packs and three purple parallels. They had just been hung by the woman responsible for stocking the section, so I grabbed the front two packs and tried to get out of her way. I had taken two steps when I heard her yell over to me, "Hey, c'mere for a second."
I walked back to here and she grabbed the two packs from my hand and squeezed them on the sides. I cringed, thinking of the damage she was probably doing to my cards. She grabbed another pack and squeezed it, then handed it to me along with one of my original packs.
"That one has something in it," she said, pointing to the pack she handed me.
Naturally, I then tried squeezing the two packs but could tell no difference. So I tore a corner from the pack she prophesied about and paid for my items. I quickly walked to my truck and proceeded to rip open the pack that supposedly had something in it.
Well, I'll be damned....
This was int he very first pack. How in the hell did she do that?
Anyway, it's going on eBay. The moral of the story is this: next time you see someone stocking the cards at Walmart, ask them to pick the packs for you.
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I mentioned yesterday that I am trying to grab a purple Luke Jackson auto. Yesterday, I noticed that the seller of the card had it listed twice: first as a BIN and second as an auction. He had the card listed for more than a week as a BIN, so I assumed he got tired of not receiving any bids and had decided to relist it as an auction, forgetting to end the original auction. I thought I would try to help out and save him a little grief by letting him know that it was double listed.
Needless to say, I got a message back that just said "Thanks." Thirty minutes later, I received another message from the seller:
Okay, so he's got a friend that is a dummy bidder trying to drive up the price. What an a-hole. So then I politely replied that I already have an orange auto and that all I need is the purple, red and superfractor. A few minutes later, he responds:
Now I'm curious. the /10 autos are purple, not orange. The prospects do have orange wave autos, but those are numbered to 5. So I ask the guy to send me a picture of it.
I never received a response.
Sellers like this ruin it for the rest of us. I hate these guys.
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In my last Luke Jackson color post, I mentioned that I was waiting on the USPS to get me my card. Well, it appears that the card is lost after being "missent." Here's the card I was waiting for:
It's the White Ice 1/1. Naturally, if it is lost, it can't be replaced. But here's the bigger issue.
I went to eBay to contact the seller and let him know what was going on. I clicked the "Contact Seller" button. I was then prompted to furnish a reason for contacting the seller, so I selected "I have not received my item." It then gives me a long-winded and useless generic answer, followed with "Does this answer your question?" It didn't, so I selected "No." Finally, it allows me to send the seller a message.
So I wrote my message in the box explaining that the postal service appears to have lost the item and that if I haven't received it by the weekend or gotten word back from the postal service about its whereabouts, I would need to work with him to get my money back. I didn't want to blindside him and open a case out of nowhere because I didn't want to piss him off. It really isn't his fault, but as the seller, you assume all responsibility for the item until it is delivered. That's eBay's Buyer's Guarantee.
Well, lo and behold, when I hit send, eBay automatically opened a case against the seller. Not what I wanted to do. Then I get an angry note from the seller wondering why I had opened a case against him.
Effin' eBay...as if I'm not stressed enough.
eBay does seem to open cases automatically when you send those kinds of messages. It must be a new 'feature.'
ReplyDeleteI had someone open a brand new account, bid my Charlie Sheen autograph up to the stratosphere, and then disappear without paying. Given what that card was selling for at the time and what it seems to be going for right now, they cost me a couple hundred dollars and a couple weeks of my time.
I really go out of my way to fulfill my end of things on eBay and elsewhere. It frustrated me to no end that so many others seem to lack that basic common courtesy. Most of my experiences are good, and most buyers and sellers are decent folks, but those few bad eggs really get the blood pressure up.
I noticed this new eBay 'feature" a couple of weeks ago. I simply wanted to know when the item was coming as it seemed to be overdue. The guy was kind of cranked about me 'opening a case' but he calmed down. The old system was fine.
ReplyDeleteSame thing happened to me recently
ReplyDeleteEbay is always tinkering with adding new "features". I wish they would just leave it alone since what they have now seems to work just fine. Just some paper pushers trying to justify their jobs by meddling with stuff that already works.
ReplyDeleteI recently had a bad transaction on ebay with a jerk. It ruins it for the rest of us.
ReplyDeleteI am in the same situation now with a card that I have been waiting for 2 weeks now. I went to send a message and it opened a case and I was worried. The seller responded immediately and asked if I would wait until Saturday to see if it comes and if not he will refund my money.
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