[78-L] eBay rules

[Malcolm Rockwell]

I know this one. I won a bid on German eBay for a very rare Tau Moe 
record for a very nice price, sent the money and waited. Two months 
later, still no record. So I wrote the seller and was told their postal 
service could not track it - it was lost. They assured me that they'd 
let me know when it came back to them and refunded my money but I've 
never felt right about it. That was about a year ago and it should have 
returned to the seller by now. And they will not answer my emails.
Verrrrry suspicious.
I think they got hip to just how rare the record is and either kept it 
or sold it for a better price.
Oh, thanks for all the additions to the thread! Great fun, no?
Gotta have them shinny records!
Mal

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On 9/29/2010 10:18 AM, Cary Ginell wrote:
> I will guarantee you that the record is still "in tact" - he just didn't want to sell it to you for a dime. I've heard of sellers who sell a record for a low price and then, after the bidding is over, get a desperate buyer who has "missed the closing" and offers 10 times the sum for the record. Guess what the seller tells the guy who won the record?
>
> Cary Ginell
>
>    
>> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:54:25 -0400
>> From: jraymond at alumni.princeton.edu
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] eBay rules
>>
>> Recently I entered a $16 bid on a 78 record that was listed on eBay with
>> a ten-cent minimum bid. Since no one else bid on it, I won it for ten
>> cents, plus $5 shipping.
>>
>> So I paid the $5.10 and considered myself lucky, although I confess I
>> was vaguely nervous about having won it at such a low price -- nervous
>> with good reason. The seller notified me the next day that the record
>> had been accidentally dropped and broken and that my payment was being
>> refunded.
>>
>> Why would anyone put such a ridiculously low minimum on anything being
>> auctioned?
>>
>> -- Jack Raymond
>>
>>
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