seeyouinescrow wrote:This guy is shady on many different levels...Chainmail TSR 3rd Edition 7th Printing AD D RARE | eBayOK...I mean, you can start the price at whatever you'd like...but $25 opening bid w/ water damage?Sure...we know postal rates are going up, but $9 to ship a 4-5oz item??Oh...and while your at it, why not just copy and paste text from this website.
bombadil wrote:What did I miss? Nothing come up when you click the link.
seeyouinescrow wrote:This guy is shady on many different levels... ** expired/removed eBay auction **OK...I mean, you can start the price at whatever you'd like...but $25 opening bid w/ water damage?Sure...we know postal rates are going up, but $9 to ship a 4-5oz item??Oh...and while your at it, why not just copy and paste text from this website.
Badmike wrote: Hard to believe a guy with 100% positive feedback makes it to the shady seller's thread...I guess one level he's NOT shady on is bad feedback. I don't find a lot of trouble with the opening bid...if I had a Chainmail in ANY condition I would probably open with $20 at least, after all it's a copy of Chainmail. How about the $30 openers on the OCEs? Based on the photos, those look like a pretty good deal. I thought the shipping rates were high also, but he states he ships Fed Ex boxed with tracking and insurance...that's about right last time I looked. I don't use them because of the expense shipping to residences, but if you are willing to have some people not bid on your auctions because of the high shipping rates, at least you are going to be sure the item arrives or doesn't arrive to the destination because of the signature required, etc. He should have mentioned the Fed Ex upfront though...I immediately assume someone is shipping priority mail unless otherwise stated, which would have put the shipping on the high side. Of course I'm of the school if you charge $10 a module shipping, as long as you are upfront about it it's all good. The buyer knows what he's getting into and can bid or not bid accordingly, and the market will weed you out eventually anyway. His one sin is copying a description not giving credit to the site....a simple PM or email to him could have cleared that up. My first post in the classifieds was about a page full of items that was for sale on my ebay site...then I repeated it for a few days in a row I think! Luckily the site was more laid back then and instead of hammered I got "helpful" advice from forum members Mike B.
bclarkie wrote:I don't think the guy qualifies as "shady" per se, more along the lines of "asshole". However, since we don't have an "Asshole dealers" thread, I guess this is the one that comes closest. I should add though, that having to chase someone down to try and have them give the site credit when they know damn well that they are in fact ripping the site off shouldn't have to happen. Why should someone here have to waste thier own time trying to get him to do something that he already should have done in the first place? Even if the guys other things were okay, I would buy from him regardless based on principle alone. Aside, I'd be surprised if he actually ships the way he is claiming, I get a strong feeling that's an excuse.
Badmike wrote:... I specifically remember copying ebay descriptions from other sellers verbatim my first year or so on Ebay, until someone called me on it. Until then I hadn't even given it a thought. ... Mike B.
red_bus wrote:I have been guilty of that too - and to my shame, have also copied descriptions unacknowledged from websites Of course I am a reformed character now
Badmike wrote:Well Ijust like to give the benefit of the doubt in cases of new guys to the forum. Honestly, I have done some idiotic things in my first years selling online, and selling on Ebay. Hopefully they will never be brought up, or remembered! I specifically remember copying ebay descriptions from other sellers verbatim my first year or so on Ebay, until someone called me on it. Until then I hadn 't even given it a thought. I switched to just putting the back cover description on most of my auctions and leaving it at that. Not to mention the fact I used to jam my descriptions with keywords (until Ebay nailed me on that). Hey, I like to think I turned out ok. I'm just saying we have far shadier sleezebags to choose from for this list.Mike B.
Center_Stage_Hobbies wrote:So I guess the long and short of it is that I find it ironic that this guy is peeved and writes a rude auction "clarification" when he obviously just joined the Acaeum to pimp his eBay auctions.Kind of rude for somebody to do that in the first place, isn't it?
bclarkie wrote:I guess I am just not seeing the "I did it myself once a long time ago, so somehow that justifies it" defense. But it seems to me that this guy is intent on proving me right. Look at the addition: ** expired/removed eBay auction **That's exactly how I act when I am someone says that I am wrong.
Our latest forums spammer wrote:Oh, since I used the descriptions of these items from a web site, guess I need to include that website's name here... I think the people at that website wet their pants when I forgot to mention their name (and I am sorry, but I'll close my account since I thought everyone had to be over 13 to even join the site... I must be wrong)The AcaeumVisit that website and check prices on items and don't spend more than you should on an item.Oh, and be sure to read the nasty things they post about new users that try and use the "Classified" Forums they setup for people to use.
