Selling Toys - Horror Stories & "Happy" Customers

[joshsquash729]

Heh, I've gotten over the "look at me like I'm an idiot" because I'm having too much fun remembering a quote. I laugh at myself more than anyone else does.

But I also have dumb stuff like... I know I moved to Poway in May of 2002 because I remember dropping off the last of the boxes before I went to see Attack of the Clones.

Oh, the fact they're looking at me like that doesn't bother me. The only small disappointment is thinking they'd know the reference and didn't. Once again, I prove my nerd superiority.

You kidding? The only reason I remember half the stuff I do is because it aligns with the release of some sort of important nerdy thing. It probably makes me seem a lot more kind and caring than I really am in regards to other people's important dates.

 

[Alt]

I use them as the exact same benchmark. Even this hobby. It's all about how I remember that specific moment with all five senses and emotion.

Which is probably why I fall off some generic things like Mythic Legions without a personal investment to customize something.

 

[joshsquash729]

The secret is they are the idiot and uncultured one because they don't know it. Dumbasses.

Me when dealing with those dumb idiots who don't know nerdy shit.

 

[Ru1977]

That's the look of a man who knows exactly the sound you'll make when he stabs you.

 

[RicksNerdLife]

That's the look of a man who cut a rancid fart and is waiting for it to hit your nostrils.

 

[TheRealSmallville]

I haaaaaate people like that. Dealt with a few over the years, and it's just maddening. Half the time it's their own incompetence from not fully reading the listing. I get we all want a complete figure, and we all have it in our heads how we want to pose the thing, but be open-minded, for God's sake. You can easily buy a fodder batarang anywhere these days. Chances are, at least one will probably fall out of the figure's hands without him realizing and he'll lose it anyway- happens to me almost any time I pose with a smaller batarang.

Sorry you had to go through that, but kudos to you for going about it your way. I swear, the whole "the customer is always right" mindset has ruined us as a culture. It's not even the correct quote! But I digress....

You'll have to let us know if you hear back from him after he gets it.

Oh, 100%! He already let me know that he's withholding feedback until he gets the batarang lol

The best part is, if he had pushed the return angle then ebay probably would have sided with him, since it's hard to get them to side with you as the seller. But I took multiple pictures of this thing and sent them to him and asked him if sending it would make him whole, and he agreed. So if it arrives and it turns out to be the wrong batarang (which, hell, I suppose it could be lol), I'll have something to fight the return with. He was provided pictures and signed off on it, so good luck bitching and moaning now. Cost me $16 to mail a 5x5 padded envelope to him with 21+ signature confirmation lol Unreal.

 

[Alt]

That man is an entire clown college sophomore class. As my dad would say, a sophomore is a sophisticated moron.

 

[RichardSimmonsRobot]

Oh, 100%! He already let me know that he's withholding feedback until he gets the batarang lol

I've learned never to leave any feedback unless the buyer already has left you good feedback. If you leave them good feedback beforehand the buyer is open to make all kinds of claims now that you've told Ebay that person is great all around!

 

[RicksNerdLife]

I've learned never to leave any feedback unless the buyer already has left you good feedback. If you leave them good feedback beforehand the buyer is open to make all kinds of claims now that you've told Ebay that person is great all around!

Yes! I never leave feedback first for this very reason.

 

[Schizm]

I never leave feedback at all. No time for that, and I don't care. If you are an asshole, I will definitely leave you positive feedback that explains exactly why you are one since Ebay doesn't allow negative feedback. Such a messed up policy.

I would have been upset at the missing Batarang but not like that. I have twice now forgotten *one* hand in listings that were sold as complete and managed to locate both (one was an Elektra hand that somehow escaped the package and was tangled in the threads inside my backpack) and I HATE that I lose money on extra postage. Such a waste and a headache.

Someone told me recently that one reason hoarders hoard is because they have memories attached to every object and they worry that when they let go of an object they will also lose the memory. I have not looked into the truth of this claim but that's definitely how my brain works with toys. I can remember where I bought almost all of my figures when I look at them. But once I decide to sell, it's really dead to me and I rarely think of it again. Makes me feel slightly bad for those toys that I guess I didn't really love, but keeping your memories external from your mind is a scary/interesting concept.

 

[Alt]

So I ADHD screwed up and had pre-ordered Jessica Cruz through the EB website and in store. Returning extras to the store actually costs them numbers and I don't want to do my store staff like that, so I sold the extra on marketplace.

The guy was so happy. It was like a home renovation show emotional reveal. Even a little bit of the personal interview through a misty smile. I saw that even local retailers were trying to charge 50 plus for her. I just wanted my 30 back.

I'm glad he was happy.

 

[TheRealSmallville]

I would have been upset at the missing Batarang but not like that. I have twice now forgotten *one* hand in listings that were sold as complete and managed to locate both (one was an Elektra hand that somehow escaped the package and was tangled in the threads inside my backpack) and I HATE that I lose money on extra postage. Such a waste and a headache.

Everyone is different, so what upsets one person may not upset another, and all of that is totally cool. But this particular figure, based on the Dark Knight Returns, comes with the following:

Bruce Wayne Head Sculpt
Cowl-laying-down piece
Bunch of hands
Pistol
Pistol Holster
8 batarangs
2 capes

I can understand and support cancelation if it's missing a head, or one of the capes, or even hands. The important stuff. And I guess this guy really finds these little batarangs to be in the "important" category, so again - what I find important is different than what this guy finds important - but at the end of the day it's a teeny tiny batarang and it's just extremely shocking to me that such a small piece of plastic was the difference in a $200+ transaction (he wanted to keep the Superman).

 

[Alt]

I can find it, as an AudHD person who has their own perfectionism/ black and white thinking.

If it was listed as complete and it did not come complete, that might fritz me out, because that's couched in the promise of being complete and it was not fulfilled as such. But you also aren't being malicious or dishonest about it, and he had other ways he could have responded.

This one is funny because even if you had just taken the picture and stated what you see is what you get, it was still just an accident that one of them fell out so you could never have guaranteed it regardless of how you protected your wording. S*** happens.

That's just me stepping back and being objective about it.