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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;imrich, post: 988920, member: 22331&quot;]<b>A Common EBay Experience.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Arial Black">Sorry to hear about your less than positive experience, but unless you sold &quot;as is&quot;, having signature confirmation for delivery, if you are selling on eBay you will find this to occasionally be &quot;par for the course&quot;. I don&#039;t even discuss the matter any more, just offer and issue a full refund of funds paid, and place their name on my &quot;blocked list&quot;. EBay buyers are generally the &quot;Sams Club&quot; type who use anothers&#039; card, some of the cheapest, most unscrupled buyers to be found, and when I hear about the buyer &quot;always being right&quot;, and deserving of free shipping, etc.. I just hope that those individuals meet some of my buyers in their travels through life. Some individuals who&#039;ve posted in this venue either think eBay sellers are complete imbeciles, awfully naive, stupid, or a combination thereof. EBay sellers need to be extreme optimists, as eBay auctions are the perfect mechanism for dishonest/frugal individuals. </font></p><p><font face="Arial Black"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Arial Black">Two weeks ago, I sold several small ~$1.35 value Silver dimes for $.99 each, with 99 cent shipping (which eBay mandates @ ~$1.58 First Class Parcel + $2.35 retail signature confirmation), where buyers purchase multiples, and request their S/H discount. One buyer didn&#039;t pay for his &quot;99 cent special&quot;. After viewing a lengthy thread on this site about eBay sellers willing to pay a premium for &quot;free shipping&quot; items, I thought I would again prove that which I&#039;ve previously established as the general truth for eBay buyers, and previously cited in this post. I offered (in &quot;prime time&quot;) a seven day listing of two different less common date PCGS MS69 1 Oz. Gold Eagles, with a starting bid lower than current raw coin cost, with free shipping. I received one bid, selling the coins at less than buyers were paying for raw newer coins with a significant S/H fee. The touted B.S. about&nbsp; realizing a premium when offering a &quot;Top Tier&quot; TPG valuable certified coin with free shipping is again established as a fallacy.</font></p><p><font face="Arial Black"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Arial Black">This past week I tried a similar offering of coins, except that I offered 2 different dates &quot;Top Tier&quot; TPG certified MS70 </font><font face="Arial Black">1 Oz. Gold Eagles, with a starting bid lower than current raw coin cost, with free shipping. I received one bid initially from a bidder having 1 feedback, which was &quot;snipe&quot; outbid at closing by a&nbsp; one interval higher bid. The winning bidder later sent me a request to cancel the bid, as he had made a mistake. I will request eBay to cancel the bid, and place this bidder, along with another who seemingly will not pay</font><font face="Arial Black"> for his &quot;99 cent special&quot;</font><font face="Arial Black">, on my long list of &quot;blocked buyers&quot;.</font></p><p><font face="Arial Black"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Arial Black">I suggest that if you are to continue selling on eBay, you should probably temper your optimism by remembering the reality credo &quot;CAVEAT VENDITOR&quot;.</font></p><p>:thumb:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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