I don't have a problem with up front high shipping.

Tonya and Titan have high up front costs....but they also have no issues with quality of shipping.  They are a bit deliberate about their shipping process, but they attach a tracking number to every item....and Bob's your uncle!

I have issues with hidden charges and misleading listings.

One thing bclarkie didn't tell us was whether or not these came with combined shipping charges....for instance...did he pay $6 each or was it all shipped for a charge of $6.  Even for $6, the seller should have tossed in a piece of cardboard.

IF the shipping charge was only $6, then it compounds the seller's behavior.  For $6 he got three negs.

Also, the seller's answer tends to indicate that he knew the items were in bad condition before he mailed them...probably that one of the covers was already detached and torn in half.

Bclarkie paid over $26 for all three (which would be a quite large purchase for me and a lot of other buyers) not counting shipping.  All three were listed as "excellent" condition.  $26 + $6 = $32.  

Minus the $2.67 for shipping and $0.25 for the envelope, this seller got $29 for the transaction.  Now minus out $6 for Ebay and PayPal fees and the seller netted about $23 for his time...and that includes sharply rounding down the figures bclarkie paid for all three items.

   $23...am I about right?

   I figure about three hours of work to list, communicate, pack and mail these items...which could be slightly high or low.

   Thus, his spare-time hobby/job (37 total feedbacks and 55 total items sold) paid him $7.66 per hour.  These are dishwasher wages, but this does not include other items he processed at the same time and should take into account the sideline nature of his business.

   The seller made foolish choices in how he deceptively listed the items, how he did the shipping and how he responded to bclarkie's complaint.  He should have paid attention both to how he was doing busines and who he was dealing with (hints about bclarkie's relative collector status were only a button click away).

    The seller alienated a prime customer.  He got three negs.  He got his name on this list.  Not bad for three hours of work.

Mark  

Grading is nice but when you are trying to turn over 40-50 items in a weekend you can screw up easily. I usually write" nice copy" if a module is in noteworthy condition…

I had sold a copy of one of the desert series. I had even gone through it to look for pen and pencil marks. It was clean. I flipped the pages just before packing it up and I had missed the part where someone had taken a razor to some the back pages. Had I known it had damaged pages I wouldn't have sold it at all, or I would have sold it in a junk lot. So I sucked it up and sent the guy a mint copy. Not that everyone has extra mint copies lying around though.

If you want to grade items well it takes time. It's serious business, and for me this is just a fun hobby. I luck out occasionally, but usually I get what I pay for.

MShipley88 wrote:An update on the highly gripping Buzz810 story.  

There has been a break in the case:

Hello mshipley88,
Sorry to be behind in things. The package was returned to us and we have reshipped the book out. Thank you for being patient on this. Please let us know when the package arrives or if any other problems arrise.
Good bargain hunting, Buzz810.

Wow, they got it back.  What a relief!  

He could have just said, "I didn't mail it yet...OK, now I did," and that would have been fine.

Stay tuned!

Mark  

hey mark

its funny that you should have that happen to you. i bought a load of con pre-reg books n stuff and the parcel got returned to the seller ! they then contacted me and sent it again and i received it this time. shipping was $50+ so that musta been an expensive op for the seller there. but total thumbs up from me to see a seller follow through at that level to the expense of themselves!

Al

I am still waiting on mine from Buzz810....

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... %3AIT&rd=1

Too little to waste PayPal and not large enought to risk the return neg. If I dont get it I will have to fo the last minute neg deal. That being said I feel like even that is wasting more time and effort than the money spent. Better just to never do business with again and write it off as a learning experience.

ExTSR wrote:
Careful there. I waited 90 days exactly (down to the last half-hour), posted a neg, and then on day 92 (!) the bum seller neg'd me back.

Either eB changed that 90-day thing or it's not counting from the date of sale. (Praps from the date of payment?)

Ebay changed the terms of their feedback about a year ago now.  The new rule is 90 days from the date the first feedback is given unless no feedback is given and then it shuts off at 90 days total.  

bclarkie wrote:BIG BUYER BEWARE

eBay listings

This seller has what some people would consider interesting items up for sale  i.e. 3rd print MM, Iuz the Evil, CIty of Skulls, Several Massconfusion items, etc. This is the exact same seller that sold me and Badmike the fake Complete Tavern & Month Haul Dungeons last year.  Here is the threads that this was discussed in previously:

Game Lords Fakes :/

The former Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds Thread

Now I am not saying that what this guy has for sale is fake, but stuff that he has sold previously has been fake and it is something that I would be very careful about.  This seller is EXTREMELY dodgy and any bids that are place should be done so with an enormous amount of caution.  I would also warn particualrly about the Massconfusion items that he has up for sale, as  evidenced by the Gamelords Stuff, its a lot easier to conterfit.


As an additional note again about this guy, is that he also sells under the name pestolo(although not in this circumstance):

eBay Feedback Profile for pestolo

I don't think the guy has the balls or the know how to counterfeit legitimate TSR products.  However, I would be VERY leery of the Massconfusion stuff, the Dr. Demento modules.  I would lay money down they are copies. Now, if you just wanted a copy to read and only paid a few bucks for, then go ahead, if it's a fake then you won't be disappointed. However, if you definitely wanted a true copy and not a reproduction, then tread very carefully.

Mike B.

bclarkie wrote:
Now I am not saying that what this guy has for sale is fake, but stuff that he has sold previously has been fake and it is something that I would be very careful about.  This seller is EXTREMELY dodgy and any bids that are place should be done so with an enormous amount of caution.  I would also warn particualrly about the Massconfusion items that he has up for sale, as  evidenced by the Gamelords Stuff, its a lot easier to conterfit.


As an additional note again about this guy, is that he also sells under the name pestolo(although not in this circumstance):

eBay Feedback Profile for pestolo

thanks for the heads up on this one BC. i spotted them massconfusion items and was gonna swoop in, but think i will steer well clear now.

thanks for that

Al

Miraculously both Oscar Goldman & Marlith show up at the same time now.  Now thats interesting.  Marlith used to hidden now all of a sudden he is not showing up as hidden anymore.  I wonder if I should PM Scott and have him check out the IP addresses of both of those posters.  I am guessing coincindentaly that they are both located very close to each other in Ohio.

Cleaned up at the community's request.