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I sold a record on ebay... man I've gotten some coo-coos lately...

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What kind of a seller passes along records he has never seen? My grading reputation means much more to me than that.

Crap like that is one of the many reasons I prefer selling here on BT to eBay. Especially for a $21 record. I only take three digit records that nobody here wants there. A Jackson isn't worth that hassle.
 
markshan said:
What kind of a seller passes along records he has never seen? My grading reputation means much more to me than that.
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Indeed that's a very very shady thing to do. The seller probably just closes up shop with one account and opens another when feedback goes south.
 
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Then again, maybe it was a gift..........................
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Nah. A gift doesn't require complete anonymity. Would the receiver really care where a gift came from?

Edit: Also the 8 days to pay thing totally goes against this being a gift. A gift buyer pays immediately and doesn't wait for over a week before going "oh yea I better pay now."
 
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Pretty sure what he was doing is against eBay rules. If you made all your communication through eBay then you have all the documentation you need to get your negative feedback removed and maybe even get him penalized. You did the right thing up until you tried to retaliate. I only ship to a buyers PayPal address and asume any other shenanigans are just that.
 
I know it's too late, and isn't worth the paper it's printed on, but having a note in the listing saying you only ship to the payment address, and to conduct all conversation via eBay, would probably be a good thing to put in future listings. At least if you had to get eBay or PayPal involved, they have the ad and the conversation on hand to look at what happened. And seeing it might put buyers on notice that you're "watching" them closely, and the abusive buyers may just move along to an easier target...
 
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I sold a record on ebay. It was an auction, and the buyer took 8 days to pay. When he paid he asks me to not put a receipt or any evidence of a third party in the package, change the return address on the label, and send it to "X" address... ??? huh
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It sounds to me like he was going to have you "drop ship" it to a buyer.

I THINK that delay in getting your payment was him negotiating the sale with his buyer and collecting payment before sending you your payment So, he was essentially selling stuff he didn't have in his possession yet. Nice work if you can get it..

[edit] Oops... I see luvinviyl beat me to the punch, punch line and all. Great minds think alike. ...or cynical minds.
 
If you sell to someone you ALWAYS list your return address on the package, no matter what the buyer requests ...
Just in case the label gets damaged or something, it can be returned to you.

Heck, if I sold records regularly, I'd get a little sticky label made
"Heather's Music Haven, Street Address, Cityname, VA" and put it on ALL my sales -
That'd make it understood that's how I sell. That wacko would voluntarily never order from me again.

That said - if you list a record for sale and someone buys it for your price, what do you care where it goes (stateside)? You got your price - isn't that what you wanted?
 
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hjames said:
That said - if you list a record for sale and someone buys it for your price, what do you care where it goes (stateside)? You got your price - isn't that what you wanted?
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This harkens back to the TJ quote...
"if it neither breaks my leg nor picks my pocket what difference is it to me?"

Don't we all have some sort of social responsibility to play by the rules, and make sure the others in our circle are doing the same thing? If we sit on our hands and just spectate this behavior, isn't that condoning it and allowing the next baby step of nefariousness to be taken?

If we only focus on "you got your price" and put the blinders on for the rest.... then that puts the dollar above everything. Nope, not right.
 
hjames said:
If you sell to someone you ALWAYS list your return address on the package, no matter what the buyer requests ...
Just in case the label gets damaged or something, it can be returned to you.
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Funny story, one day I had a package of 4 nice new records on my porch. I didn't know anything about these, but the packaging had my return address on it. They where wrapped in two mailers that I sent records to someone here that they re-used. They didn't have a return address so the post office sent it to me. I started a thread here to see if I could find the seller because this would have been the only people I would have sent records too.

Help Me Solve Who's Mystery Box Of Record Are On My Porch.
http://audiokarma.org/forums/index....mystery-box-of-record-are-on-my-porch.648991/
Ok someone that I have sent Records to used my boxes one inside the other, to send records to someone else. They must have not inculded their return address, and not the corect address they were mailing to.

So USPS sent them to me as my name and address is all over the packages and low and be hold is a corect address.

So now I have 4 Audiophile remasters 3 sealed and 3 are Double LPs. We're talking over $100 in records so they realy need to get to the one that bought them.

The only other name that can help us is Brian Katchur? I personaly kind of remember the name BUT...


So even though the PO didn't have the right return address they did the best they could with what they had, I then put two and two together.
 
biscuithead said:
This harkens back to the TJ quote...
"if it neither breaks my leg nor picks my pocket what difference is it to me?"

Don't we all have some sort of social responsibility to play by the rules, and make sure the others in our circle are doing the same thing? If we sit on our hands and just spectate this behavior, isn't that condoning it and allowing the next baby step of nefariousness to be taken?

If we only focus on "you got your price" and put the blinders on for the rest.... then that puts the dollar above everything. Nope, not right.
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Which should also aply to trying to get a seller to back out of a committed sale by offering more than the original buyer...just saying.
 
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