Who Said Honesty on EBay is Dead?

[awe4one]

With all the posting about bad eBay sellers and such, I thought I'd add a good experience...

 

Won a large lot of comics yesterday. The seller said the lot consisted of over 200 comics. He also broke out the number of issues in the description which totals less than 150 comics. When asking for a shipping quote, I asked how many comics were actually in the lot. Woke up this morning with an e-mail expressing the buyers' extreme apology that after counting, he could only come up with 187 comics and that if I wanted to drop the auction to go ahead and he'd give me positive feedback. He also said that he'd take an offer over $40 less than what I won the auction at and would include free shipping (shipping 180+ comics can be expensive)! And if I wasn't happy with that to give him an offer! He seems genuinely sorry for the difference.

 

Now that's honesty for you! Hell, he only technically miscounted by under 20 comics. That's service for you!

 

 

Jim

[blowout]

Sounds good so far, let us know if you receive the books.

[murph0]

It could just be that he REALLY wants to get rid of them

 

Brian

[awe4one]

Here's the e-mail if anyone interested...

 

I made a huge error. When I counted the comics originally I counted by how many G.I. Combats I had, Sgt.Rocks etc. and I came up with 201 comics. That's why I made the listing as over 200 comics. I just went through the comics and counted them one by one (three times) and only came up with 187 comics each time. Please forgive me as I never meant to mislead anyone. I must have made an addition error in my haste to list them. All the issues than I posted in the ad are present so it was just a very dumb mistake. If you want to cancel the transaction I will understand and still give you positive feedback and take all the blame. If you still want the comics then make me a lower offer in which you won them for. I will do almost anything as I feel horrible for this mistake. If this is not fair to you then please make me another offer.

 

 

Jim

[COI]

I had a similar experience. A while back, I bought a large lot of HG unslabbed silver. After I paid, the seller was packing, and he noticed one of the HG books had tape pull, and someone had colored this in with a felt pen. So he notified me right away, and threw in a few extra Silver books that more than made up for that one issue. Not only that, but the grading was tight.

[murph0]

Who was this seller you speak of ?

 

Btw, Awe..I think you should neg his immediately!! heh just kidding sounds like a nice guy, if it was me, I'd give him a break and pay him the bid price.

 

Brian

[Bugaboo-migration]

It could just be that he REALLY wants to get rid of them

So did Edgar Church's heirs, smarty pants.

[blowout]

Yeah Andrew, spill the beans on that seller, sounds like a winner.

I can understand though if you 'can't quite remember'.

[awe4one]

I'll let you all know the seller after I actually receive the comics.

 

And Murph, I've also decided to give the seller a break and pay what I won the comics at.

 

 

Jim

[COI]

"I can understand though if you 'can't quite remember'."

 

Remember what?