SlamAdebayo
07-14-2020, 04:06 PM
Hey all -
I'd love to get some input on a situation I experienced this morning. After purchasing a card last night (the seller at hand accepted my offer for an obsidian card I very much covet) -- I was met with the normal Ebay protocol, 'Congratulations, you won, the seller accepted' et cetera.
Today I woke up to a notification that the order had been cancelled by the seller. This hasn't happened to me before but I obviously understand the mechanism within Ebay. The notification message seemed to be a boiler-plate, "The card has been lost/damaged".
So I sent a message to the seller asking what happened -- my thought process being: even if the card is slightly damaged, I'd still happily take it at the price I paid. I'm not a reseller, just a collector.
I wasn't going to leave a negative feedback score on the seller's profile because 1. I have never had anything but the best experiences buying so far and I very much trust the good-faith effort put forth by those selling on ebay. and 2. I don't buy from any sellers who have negative feedback to their name (unless it appears the feedback is a one-off disagreement about the condition of card or something of that variety).
But then the seller responded to my message in a kind of strange manner. I included a screen shot.
Maybe I'm overthinking this? I want to give them the benefit of the doubt. They don't have any negative feedback on their profile. But why would they reference someone offering a lot more? How did anyone else even offer if the auction was closed? And lastly, the phrasing "Was looking because someone offered me.." -- that seems odd? Wouldn't you just be looking because you had sold it and were going to have to ship it to me?
I really don't know. If this was intentional, I certainly don't want it to happen to other people. But, if this wasn't intentional, I don't want to hurt someone's business over sour grapes that I didn't get my card.
Just thought I'd ask the opinion of the community. It's a total judgement call thing, but I don't have quite as much experience as most people on here (just over 100 purchases total on ebay, collecting for a few years or so). I have a great deal of respect for the integrity of these boards, so please feel free to tell me I'm being petty (and know full-well I will leave it alone if that's the generally accepted answer here).
Thanks for your time all.
I'd love to get some input on a situation I experienced this morning. After purchasing a card last night (the seller at hand accepted my offer for an obsidian card I very much covet) -- I was met with the normal Ebay protocol, 'Congratulations, you won, the seller accepted' et cetera.
Today I woke up to a notification that the order had been cancelled by the seller. This hasn't happened to me before but I obviously understand the mechanism within Ebay. The notification message seemed to be a boiler-plate, "The card has been lost/damaged".
So I sent a message to the seller asking what happened -- my thought process being: even if the card is slightly damaged, I'd still happily take it at the price I paid. I'm not a reseller, just a collector.
I wasn't going to leave a negative feedback score on the seller's profile because 1. I have never had anything but the best experiences buying so far and I very much trust the good-faith effort put forth by those selling on ebay. and 2. I don't buy from any sellers who have negative feedback to their name (unless it appears the feedback is a one-off disagreement about the condition of card or something of that variety).
But then the seller responded to my message in a kind of strange manner. I included a screen shot.
Maybe I'm overthinking this? I want to give them the benefit of the doubt. They don't have any negative feedback on their profile. But why would they reference someone offering a lot more? How did anyone else even offer if the auction was closed? And lastly, the phrasing "Was looking because someone offered me.." -- that seems odd? Wouldn't you just be looking because you had sold it and were going to have to ship it to me?
I really don't know. If this was intentional, I certainly don't want it to happen to other people. But, if this wasn't intentional, I don't want to hurt someone's business over sour grapes that I didn't get my card.
Just thought I'd ask the opinion of the community. It's a total judgement call thing, but I don't have quite as much experience as most people on here (just over 100 purchases total on ebay, collecting for a few years or so). I have a great deal of respect for the integrity of these boards, so please feel free to tell me I'm being petty (and know full-well I will leave it alone if that's the generally accepted answer here).
Thanks for your time all.