CONNING NOOBS W/ FOMO HURTS US ALL!
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I’ll admit that when I first got back in the game after a 35-year hiatus, I probably spent $2,500 on cards without even knowing their raw value, let alone understanding the entire back and forth of negotiation or how auctions even worked. At least, for me, I got Ohtani and Arch Manning, both of which held most of their value, Ohtani, in fact, quadrupling in value. Dumb luck.
Now that I’m an avid buyer and seller and understand this new world much better, I am always on the lookout for sellers pricing $30 cards raw for $750 all because the card looks cool and has Arch Manning’s name on it. That very well could’ve been me—although I’m fairly certain I’d had utilized Google before spending that kind of money on two $30 cards.
That said, when scammers like that, ones who are hoping some rube with money as no object will happen upon their cards and buy them, once these customers learn of their embarrassing mistakes they’re likely not to return as they’ll lose all trust in eBay. While this seller tried to argue “the most vague points of Adam Smith and capitalism”—heavy on the quotation marks and the irony as his argument was simply based on “the people will pay what something is worth theory,” which, in other words, means that if some poor, clueless noob/rube falls prey to this scammer first before seeing other seller’s prices at -3,000% less, then we lose credibility, future business, and garner a low-budget reputation.
To top it all off, the scammer blames me for selling at a much lower, going rate price—that because I’m being fair and being a responsible capitalist I’m somehow screwing it up for people who are only here to catch scam or two or as many as they can until somehow stops them. I know eBay might not have a dog in its own fight, ironically, because sellers have the right to charge whatever they please, but when we all know that it’s not at all about supply and demand but about catching prey in a web of deceit, that hurts us all.
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kibble-net
·4 months agoLet me see if I'm understanding this correctly.
You willingly purchased something for much more than it was worth but the seller is somehow the scammer here?
A little personal responsibility goes a long way on this platform, and in general.
algos313
OP4 months agoNo, let me first apologize for writing too much as most adults have the attention span of infants: I HAVE WHEN I FIRST GOT BACK INTO CARDS BOUGHT WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST BIT OF RESEARCH, PAYING EGREGIOUS, EXORBITANT AMOUNTS FOR SOME CARDS UNTIL I LEARNED TO USE “GOOGLE” (about as dumb, I was, as was your comment…that is, if you’ve read this far).
THAT SAID, years later as I’ve become a rather successful seller and negotiator, when I see people charging $350 for a $28 card, knowing full well they’re only hoping for a noob to come along and blindly buy it because it has the name Arch Manning or Shohei Ohtani printed on it—that, to me, IS scamming, IS dirty, and IS something we should address as a community, for it hurts us genuine sellers in the long run as most people, once they learn they’ve been scammed and can’t get a refund won’t use the platform any longer. Less business, less income for me, for thousands of us!
I NEVER once complained about paying five times the price for my first Ohtani HFA, because two years later I made five times my money. They call that dumb luck. You, well, you’re just a DA.