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<p>[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 2518660, member: 76863"]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. </p><p><br /></p><p>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. </p><p><br /></p><p>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[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 2518660, member: 76863"]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[/QUOTE]
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