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Ringfinger (8/14/2009)
E-Bay is all horror lately.
So Ringfinger what makes you say that? Any bad things that happened to you lately? Always a one liner with you, ya crack me up with your least amount of words and thoughts.
A few months ago I would say 50% of what I got was way over graded in the auctions I would win. Some, the cost I paid for the item in stated grade was well over $25 and was a total loss. A few items I shipped back and got a refund. Others I just bite the bullet since the cost was cheap and not worth sending back. All sellers were cool with my return.
The past two months everything has come in in great condition and I have been satisfied. Most grades were spot on and a few were under graded much to my satisfaction.
One thing I don't really like now about ebay is the photos or scans of the books has to be loaded in a new page in most auctions. I liked it the way it was before.
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Senior Collector
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My Comics Shop, Cosmic _King, Mile High Comics, and Fantasy comics. Great eBay dealers.
I'm coming for you Fantastic Four #48!!!
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head-rush (8/14/2009)
Ringfinger (8/14/2009)
E-Bay is all horror lately.
So Ringfinger what makes you say that? Any bad things that happened to you lately? Always a one liner with you, ya crack me up with your least amount of words and thoughts.
A few months ago I would say 50% of what I got was way over graded in the auctions I would win. Some, the cost I paid for the item in stated grade was well over $25 and was a total loss. A few items I shipped back and got a refund. Others I just bite the bullet since the cost was cheap and not worth sending back. All sellers were cool with my return.
The past two months everything has come in in great condition and I have been satisfied. Most grades were spot on and a few were under graded much to my satisfaction.
One thing I don't really like now about ebay is the photos or scans of the books has to be loaded in a new page in most auctions. I liked it the way it was before.
If you host your own photos, you can display them anywhere in the description. That's what I do. Only use Ebay's space for the icon picture that shows with the listing.
This past couple months, I have had a few customers unhappy with my conditions stated in the listings, which I stand behind with a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee upon return of the items. You can't give back money for shipping, as that is part of the expense for your transaction, not the item. But also, if the item under $5, I send another copy out at my expense, and tell the buyer to keep both. No return. Ofcourse I can only do that if another copy is available. I have even hunted down one and purchased it so that I can pass it to the unsatisfied buyer.
But as for the condition, in these few cases, the buyer was obviously trying to purchase perfect copies to grade. I find there are some buyers who think that NM/M means 9.8 9.9 or 10, but that is just not realistic. I read the descriptions here on CPG, and compared them to unhappy customer's complaints, and came to the conclusion that it is just a matter of individual opinion, and the grade or condition is made to allow a range of opinions, not an EXACT condition.
If a customer is unhappy, I'll do all I can to make them happy, but if that means giving away the store, well, I don't need customers like that, and they should not be buying via mail anyway. I have a customer that spend $49.95 on 5 comics with free shipping, two of the five were duplicates of each other, and he was unahppy, and filed a complaint with PAYPAL instead of writing to me first. PAYPAL froze my account for that amount until settled. I indicated my return policy and the buyer has sent them back. He listed the problem as ITEMS SEVERELY NOT AS DESCRIBED, and my descriptions are very simple. This item is NM/M and bagged and boarded and ready for grading. So, here we have someone very very picky. I am waiting for the books to come back to see how I could have sent him comics that were as bad as he made them out to be. His description said lots of defects like tears and folds that took the ink off the cover, stuff like that. Stuff I do not even have in my collection to sell, but again, it is one persons opinion verses someone elses. In this case, I wonder if the guy had some poor copies to get rid of, and bought mine to replace his poor ones, and get his money back. But I'll never know.
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Senior Collector
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People that grade with magnifying glasses and count the stress lines are pathetic if the book is just a bronze or modern book.
But I do understand concerning key silvers and golden age books.
I'm coming for you Fantastic Four #48!!!
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yourplace2, I think that NM/M does actually mean 9.8. If you want to indicate a grade of 9.2-9.8 then it's more appropriate to say NM.
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| When I do my bidding on Ebay, I usually keep in mind that most of the people on there selling are pro'lly n00bz Or you can treat everyone like a n00b. Works better that way. So if I get some 60's or 70's era comics, I am definetly not going to get my hopes up on the quality of the comic. Especially when I paid $5 on them. HAPPY BIDDING!!!!
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Ebay is now my last avenue, whereas it was my first. I try various forums, local shops and consignment sites first and then and only then I try E-bay. Never really had a bad experiance, as such, just lots of many little disapointments. I'm never truly bothered about over grading I just hate how most bayers pack like dooty. Plus not using e-bay stops me buying books I don't want or need because they seem like bargains.
Are Arbitary Labels more important than the way we live our lives, what we're supposed to be more important than what we actually are?!
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spruce213 (8/14/2009)
My Comics Shop, Cosmic _King, Mile High Comics, and Fantasy comics. Great eBay dealers.Look out, I'm after #48 as well. 
 My Mission : To become a respected professional paper conservator/restorer 
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2 recent eBay acquisitions - Silver Surfer #1 @ $100 (advertised at "no interest in grading") and Fantastic Four #18 at $27.50 (advertised as G+). The #1 arrived - 6.0 condition upon inspection. Small gain. Nothing special. The #18 looked like a bad neighborhood, but the seller even indicated "good if you're looking for an unrestored filler", so no bad reports about eBay here. eBay is what it is - an online auction site. You're bidding on items you can't inspect because you're looking to grab a deal. You can always negotiate cheap (but slow) shipping methods with sellers if you're really keen on pinching pennies, but at the end of the day the key items always end up going for more than they're worth because of the competition. If something arrives that isn't in the condition you were lead to believe it was in, you simply have to chalk it up to fact that it's an internet-based transaction. I simply don't bid on auctions that don't feature extensive photos of the copies I'd be getting, and if you see stock images, run.
I don't use eBay much any more, because, let's face it, the only real "deals" available are on large boxes of bronze to current crap (hopefully with a few key issues in the mix) that no one else wants taking up real estate.
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