Selling Toys - Horror Stories & "Happy" Customers

.... wouldn't be the first time.

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"Hi, what's the lowest you'll go" (on this item there are only 3 others of online).

<gives lowest price willing to accept>

"Great thanks, how's the box look"

"Same as in the pictures, standard issue box, no noticeable marks or damage"

"Great can you go take some more pictures of it for me?"

"No thanks"

"Can you meet me at $10 under what you told me your lowest price was? I'll be sure to buy from you again!"

"Can I waste your time and ask to screw you on the price? I'll be sure to come back and try to screw you again!"
 
RichardSimmonsRobot said:
"Hi, what's the lowest you'll go" (on this item there are only 3 others of online).

<gives lowest price willing to accept>

"Great thanks, how's the box look"

"Same as in the pictures, standard issue box, no noticeable marks or damage"

"Great can you go take some more pictures of it for me?"

"No thanks"

"Can you meet me at $10 under what you told me your lowest price was? I'll be sure to buy from you again!"

"Can I waste your time and ask to screw you on the price? I'll be sure to come back and try to screw you again!"
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You'd have never seen their face again. Which, depending on the person, might actually be worth it. Some people I'd lose out on 10 bucks if it meant I never had to waste my time with them again.


Was a bit of a rough week, and someone messaged me about an item at like just the right time to exploit my weakness/humanity. Gave me a short story about how much they wanted the item, and asked if I'd sell it for a price $5 under what I was asking for it. Figured why not- it's only $5. Sent them the offer. Crickets. Waited the two days for the offer to expire and was gonna message them back calling them out on it, but in that time, someone else bought the item for full price. Part of me still expects the person to message back and say "Hey, I'm ready to buy the item now but can't find it". Wouldn't surprise me in the least bit. How dare they unknowingly and successfully exploit my barely-there humanity for nothing! 😅


Also, not that Facebook Marketplace has ever been a beacon of good, upstanding citizens, but what's with the rise in horrific crimes involving Marketplace recently? I feel like in the past month, I've seen more stories of, like, horrendous crimes- stabbings, disembowlings, setting people on fire, etc., all from botched Marketplace meetups. I mostly stay off Marketplace (made all the easier by the dumbass people on it), but the few times I've dealt with meeting up with people, I always make sure to meet up in the most public of places.
 
I've sold a couple things recently, and while nothing has been an outright horror story, I was a little puzzled by the first one. After he received the item, he sent me an image of a small stress mark in the clamshell packaging of the figure and said how disappointed he was to see it after it wasn't in the pics (because it wasn't there) and he'd appreciate a small refund. I told him it definitely wasn't like that before, as per the pics, but asked him to let me know what he thought would be fair, or I would accept a return. And then I never heard from him again.
 
I recently bought some older Marvel Legends figures (Age of Apocalypse stuff. Also regretted selling those and wanted them back).

Guy listed the shit as never opened. But I get the set and notice that Rogue has a massive right man's sized open hand. Very obviously, this dude thought he could pull one over on me, and that I wouldn’t notice that he not only clearly opened these, but that he clearly lost that hand, and then replaced it with a hand of the same-ish yellow color.

I message him and said "These were opened, weren't they?"

"No. Never opened."

"Well, here's the thing, I've owned this figure before. I know this is the wrong hand, and I can tell it's been opened, because the spare fists are not even positioned the right way, nor taped to the carton. You did show the pictures like that, so to be fair, my fault for not paying attention to that. But also, your bad for misrepresenting what you were selling".

"Dude, it's the same hand, just positioned differently!"

:::Sends side by side shot to show the obvious differences:::

"Well, I bought them second hand."

"Ahhh, okay. So you definitely don't know for certain if these were 'never opened', as you claimed. Also, now that I'm playing with the figure more, I realized that you just threw in two random fists, as well. They don't fit, they fall right out, so...screwed there, too".

"Then put in for a return, I don't know what you want me to say".

"I would like for you to make this right. You misrepresented what you were selling, and I, the buyer, have been slightly inconvenienced. A little, partial refund or something would be nice, as these are very obviously not as described".

"Nah, you can just return them. You said item not as described, right? Return em".

"...I would like you to use the smart part of your brain for a moment. I just told you that I opened these. So, you'd get these back as is, and then have to try and sell them loose. Secondly, isn't a partial refund better than a full refund and paying for return shipping?"

"Fine. How much do you want?"

"That's not for me to decide. You determine what's fair, and I'll say if we are on the same page".

"Fine. 5 dollars?"

"5 dollars for a hand? That's more than fair. Thank you".

It's going both ways. Lol, guy had zero sales or people skills. Where as the other day I was on day 3 of being late shipping an item, just couldn't get to the post office, and the guy was totally cool and understanding about it. So I refunded his shipping without him having to ask.
 
Guy wanted a Best Price on several listing if he gets them all. I gave him one. He said that worked. Schedules pick up. I put it on Pending.

Every day a new excuse. Mind you, I'm not even chasing the guy. Day three, I put it back as Available.

Guy comes back and apologizes. I told him he blew his pickup windows, but if you just wanted to pay me up front I'll keep it for whenever. Otherwise it's back up.

He said he would. And then.

Enter the water works: My kid is sick. My wife lost her job last week. I started a new job but I have the flu so I haven't gotten the new job and I might not retain this new job. Money is tight.

What is this Glengarry Glenross shit? It's $100, not a land deal.
 
I can't stand people who Buy It Now and then within five minutes request to cancel the order.

And most of the time the reason is "found a better price". Idiot - all of the available items and their prices are listed when you search for an item, why do you think it's okay to inconvenience me because you don't know how to search?"

The last one I just straight up rejected and mailed the package. Curious if that's going to blow back on me.
 
altcunningham said:
High risk/value item.
Vague wording (the item, this order)
Fake urgency.
Duplicates/resetting the situation.

This is a scammer bot thing that intended to dispute or defraud you. I get them on Messenger.
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So, this guy has returned. He didn't message me at all, just bought the item with yet another account. His name is "William Strange", which sounds utterly legit, but all the accounts he's shown me are 'wil-' then a series of numbers. I messaged him last night saying I can't ship this until Friday, if that's a problem I can cancel/refund. It's a $40 item, not the end of the world but I'd prefer not to be out $40. If I cancel on my own, I believe I am out the ebay transaction fee? Which I'm really weighing now.
 
Ru1977 said:
So, this guy has returned. He didn't message me at all, just bought the item with yet another account. His name is "William Strange", which sounds utterly legit, but all the accounts he's shown me are 'wil-' then a series of numbers. I messaged him last night saying I can't ship this until Friday, if that's a problem I can cancel/refund. It's a $40 item, not the end of the world but I'd prefer not to be out $40. If I cancel on my own, I believe I am out the ebay transaction fee? Which I'm really weighing now.
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None of that sounds legit. Be out the eBay fee or be out the item, the eBay fee, and the money when he does a chargeback.
 
Ru1977 said:
The other thing is he can leave negative feedback, but I'll have to just take that on the chin.
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I'm -pretty sure- you could get that removed. It's just annoying to deal with eBay. But if you explain the situation, it may work. A guy basically stalking you to buy things with multiple accounts, after basically harassing you with his previous account? I wouldn't sell to him either. And it's not like you can block him if he's just going to make different accounts. I'd tell them straight out that this guy is obviously a scammer and you have no interest in dealing with him.

I'd tell HIM that too, to be honest.
 
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