Seller cancels bid on E-Bay

As has been pointed out on a lot of threads on various forums there are people who when they see someone got a good deal message sellers to tell them the variety they missed and ruin someones cherry pick. It happens a lot more then most people realize.

My personal opinion for the quarter is that the seller certainly should have known what he had, but I will never realistically expect anyone to take a 4 or 5 figure loss or leave that much on the table and ship something anyway. More reasonable amounts yes they should ship and honor it but again the structure of the buying process is really to blame for why some don't always follow through if the price wasn't high enough. Even major auction houses have language that would void the sale of an error of the 5 figure magnitude and everyone seems to accept their terms.

The idea of a finders fee while intriguing doesn't seem very practical if the buyer isn't the one who alerted the seller and is a first time buyer. No knock on STL at all and it sucks that someone ruined his cherry pick but to put it in perspective there are people who make less in a year then the sale price and what the sale price probably should have been. I can't blame someone for not shipping that

 

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What does "stickered" means


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why the hell does he thinks he is in the right, and especially with that douche-bag attitude?

 

That they placed their sticker on it meaning it met their standards

 

Oh when graded I gotcha


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Yea just kind of the slang for it. Sometimes you will see people refer to it as a green bean or beaned as well.

 

Not cool. I've lost money on sales a couple of times. That's the risk in any free market.

 

Care to put this in context?

 

The seller

 

I didn't call E-Bay, but I did message them about the unfair practice. Of course they haven't responded as their rule states. Supposedly they are to investigate and take some kind of action based on their findings and the complainer is never to know the results.

Dave

 

Thank you, but which one; the OP's and/or STL's?

 

OP

 

Out of curiosity, what was your bid on the item at the time it was canceled?

 

Ouch! I only ship to the U.S. and Canada. All kinds of weird stuff can happen if you ship stuff worldwide. And yes, the shipping costs can get quite crazy.

 

Here's a conundrum. If neither the buyer nor seller noticed the rarity, and the deal concluded at 3% of the value, what is the right thing to do when the buyer figures it out two years later?

 

No conundrum at all. Cherrypicking is Cherrypicking period. Whether blind or knowingly if you bought the coin and have possesion do a 10 day happy dance and on to the next. I see no moral or ethical obligation when it comes to cherrypicking no matter the size of the score

 

Interesting question, though I must confess that since I'm bordering obsessive compulsive when it comes to details, I don't think I'd ever find myself in that situation.