If you would like to make it more likely that your offer is accepted, write something in the notes section. Tell me what you're thinking, where you got your price from, what the market is doing, is the card going up or down, is someone else selling it for $20 cheaper than me.
Note that a sold out price is not a comparison. "Hey, StarCity Games is sold out of Disrupting Shoal for $2, can you sell them to me at $1.50 each?"
I don't understand the problem.... the OP went to a seller and asked about the price of a card. The seller gave him one. If it's not a price you were willing to pay, then don't buy it. I don't think there's any reason to complain about it.
This seller is definitely on my "never again" list after my first buying experience from him. I bought a pair of Sword of Feast and Famine from him when the prices shot up elsewhere, and predictably he failed to ever send them and relisted at a significantly higher price instead.
I should have noticed his many negative feedbacks from pulling similar nonsense with other cards that spiked (Gaea's Cradle, etc), but unfortunately with 10's of thousands of sales he can do this hundreds of times without putting a dent in his rating.
My favorite part was when he re-invoiced me (for the cards he never sent) after I won my eBay dispute and they refunded the payments.
I bought a set of Snapcasters from him back when they were standard legal. I paid for them within 5 minutes of winning the auction and he never shipped them. He never actually refunded me or even get back to any of my Ebay messages. I had to resort to opening a claim versus him and wait for Ebay/Paypal to refund me the money.
To say that this was the worst experience on ebay would be an understatement...
Oh and he re-listed those same Snapcasters for a slightly higher price right after I purchased mine.
So I really wonder how hard would it be to reply to an ebay message and just refund the money if you don't want to ship some cards you agreed to?
I bought a set of Snapcasters from him back when they were standard legal. I paid for them within 5 minutes of winning the auction and he never shipped them. He never actually refunded me or even get back to any of my Ebay messages. I had to resort to opening a claim versus him and wait for Ebay/Paypal to refund me the money.
To say that this was the worst experience on ebay would be an understatement...
Oh and he re-listed those same Snapcasters for a slightly higher price right after I purchased mine.
So I really wonder how hard would it be to reply to an ebay message and just refund the money if you don't want to ship some cards you agreed to?
It's not laziness, it's just pure shadiness. He never ships cards that spike in price, but he can't very well admit in writing that he won't honor the price his auction closed at, so he just goes silent. Even though he's pulled this hundreds of times, he has so many auctions that it is barely a blip and ebay doesn't act on it.
The man is a cheat and a fraud, but will likely never suffer any consequences for it.
I have bought a few things from him. His "Or Best Offer" on every Ebay listing is a joke though. If he is selling a card at $87.77 and you offer $82, he will counter with $86. Why even bother with the OBO option if you aren't willing to offer a decent deal?
Precisely why I no longer deal with him, and why I've recommended to my friends not to deal with him. After a particularly frustrating bout of OBO's with him, I went through my emails and saw he'd only accepted 2 of 13 of my offers. And my offers weren't bad either, I typically make my first offer for 10-15% off the initial price (I'm not going to waste ANY sellers or my time with ridiculous offers of 30 or even 20 percent off the original listing price), and typically the offers were on cards in the $10-$25 range. In looking at his counter offers I saw him coming down 2.4%, 3.1%, and 1.9% of the original asking price, to use just a few real-life examples. That's the equivalent of coming down 40 to 60 cents on a $20 card.
Look, he's the seller and can do what he wants, but don't waste MY time advertising an OBO if you have no intention of moving from your listing price. I also realize he's high volume so I don't expect instantaneous responses, but I would get pretty PO'd when I'd wait a full day to get a counteroffer dropping the price of a card the price of a stinking gum ball. Don't do me any favors. You're tying up my money when I could be looking at other auctions or making other Best Offers for the same cards.
I've got over 500 feedback on eBay, about 300 of which are MTG related. I have spent more than $3500 on cards in each of the last two years, and he is literally the ONLY ebay seller I refuse to utilize. My friends don't use him either because I showed them the offer/counteroffer emails so they could see the numbers for themselves.
FWIW, in the 4-5 successful transactions I've had with him before I grew exasperated with his methods (some instances I didn't use the OBO or it wasn't offered), the cards I got always came well protected, shipped quickly, and in the condition specified.
It's not laziness, it's just pure shadiness. He never ships cards that spike in price, but he can't very well admit in writing that he won't honor the price his auction closed at, so he just goes silent. Even though he's pulled this hundreds of times, he has so many auctions that it is barely a blip and ebay doesn't act on it.
The man is a cheat and a fraud, but will likely never suffer any consequences for it.
What bugged me the most was that he re-listed the same playset for about $6 more. So they did not even jump much in price.
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If you would like to make it more likely that your offer is accepted, write something in the notes section. Tell me what you're thinking, where you got your price from, what the market is doing, is the card going up or down, is someone else selling it for $20 cheaper than me.
Note that a sold out price is not a comparison. "Hey, StarCity Games is sold out of Disrupting Shoal for $2, can you sell them to me at $1.50 each?"
I should have noticed his many negative feedbacks from pulling similar nonsense with other cards that spiked (Gaea's Cradle, etc), but unfortunately with 10's of thousands of sales he can do this hundreds of times without putting a dent in his rating.
My favorite part was when he re-invoiced me (for the cards he never sent) after I won my eBay dispute and they refunded the payments.
Rancored Elf will cancel your order if prices go up. Read about him and other shady vendors here.
My Trade Thread!
To say that this was the worst experience on ebay would be an understatement...
Oh and he re-listed those same Snapcasters for a slightly higher price right after I purchased mine.
So I really wonder how hard would it be to reply to an ebay message and just refund the money if you don't want to ship some cards you agreed to?
It's not laziness, it's just pure shadiness. He never ships cards that spike in price, but he can't very well admit in writing that he won't honor the price his auction closed at, so he just goes silent. Even though he's pulled this hundreds of times, he has so many auctions that it is barely a blip and ebay doesn't act on it.
The man is a cheat and a fraud, but will likely never suffer any consequences for it.
Rancored Elf will cancel your order if prices go up. Read about him and other shady vendors here.
My Trade Thread!
Precisely why I no longer deal with him, and why I've recommended to my friends not to deal with him. After a particularly frustrating bout of OBO's with him, I went through my emails and saw he'd only accepted 2 of 13 of my offers. And my offers weren't bad either, I typically make my first offer for 10-15% off the initial price (I'm not going to waste ANY sellers or my time with ridiculous offers of 30 or even 20 percent off the original listing price), and typically the offers were on cards in the $10-$25 range. In looking at his counter offers I saw him coming down 2.4%, 3.1%, and 1.9% of the original asking price, to use just a few real-life examples. That's the equivalent of coming down 40 to 60 cents on a $20 card.
Look, he's the seller and can do what he wants, but don't waste MY time advertising an OBO if you have no intention of moving from your listing price. I also realize he's high volume so I don't expect instantaneous responses, but I would get pretty PO'd when I'd wait a full day to get a counteroffer dropping the price of a card the price of a stinking gum ball. Don't do me any favors. You're tying up my money when I could be looking at other auctions or making other Best Offers for the same cards.
I've got over 500 feedback on eBay, about 300 of which are MTG related. I have spent more than $3500 on cards in each of the last two years, and he is literally the ONLY ebay seller I refuse to utilize. My friends don't use him either because I showed them the offer/counteroffer emails so they could see the numbers for themselves.
FWIW, in the 4-5 successful transactions I've had with him before I grew exasperated with his methods (some instances I didn't use the OBO or it wasn't offered), the cards I got always came well protected, shipped quickly, and in the condition specified.
What bugged me the most was that he re-listed the same playset for about $6 more. So they did not even jump much in price.