Ebay crap. What would you do?

[Red 5]

460 transactions on Ebay to date.

100% positive.

 

Everything I sell is 100% tested before it goes out the door.

 

When I get a new game like God of War 2, I play it, beat it and sell it.

I put God of War 2 in my PS2, played it through to the end.

Put it on Ebay.

Sold it.

Turned it on one last time to make sure it worked. It did. Took it out of the PS2, put it back in it's case and

shipped it.

 

For those of you counting at home, the game touched human hands exactly twice after being opened.

 

Now the guy who bought it says it doesn't work.

 

Am I being paranoid or overly skeptical to believe that this guy is scamming me?

 

That his old copy is the one that 'doesn't work' and he is trying to old switcheroo on me?

I just can't believe that a brand new game would stop working magically in the mail.

 

My solution is for him to send it back and pay shipping.

I will then go to my local GameStop (where they know me too well) and ask to swap it out for a new one that works and then

send it back. To be honest, I don't even want to go throught the trouble of doing that.

 

Part of me want him to just neg me, but if he is telling the truth, I wouldn't want to do that.

 

So, what would you do?

[CPUWIZ]

Sounds like BS to me, you'll get back a scratched disc.

[jetset]

Thats a tough one dude. What's his feedback like (not that it will help much)

If you have 100%, and use ebay to sell it's awfully hard to imagine getting a neg like that. How much did it sell for? Would you be out a ton of $$ by giving him a refund?

I don't mean to sound like I'm taking the buyers side by any means, but with 100% it may not be worth it.

 

For what its worth in the future, I always try to make a sightless, insignificant mark on stuff I sell. Like on CD's I'll put a dot over a letter "I" or over a period. Just enough to have something to let me know if the buyer is pulling crap I'll know when I get it back.

[Trade-N-Games]

wrong game edit

Edited June 22, 2007 by Trade-N-Games

[Red 5]

Thats a tough one dude. What's his feedback like (not that it will help much)

If you have 100%, and use ebay to sell it's awfully hard to imagine getting a neg like that. How much did it sell for? Would you be out a ton of $$ by giving him a refund?

I don't mean to sound like I'm taking the buyers side by any means, but with 100% it may not be worth it.

 

For what its worth in the future, I always try to make a sightless, insignificant mark on stuff I sell. Like on CD's I'll put a dot over a letter "I" or over a period. Just enough to have something to let me know if the buyer is pulling crap I'll know when I get it back.

 

I usually do that to, but didn't this time.

His feedback is good. Only one negative. It was only like $30.00. Not a hug deal.

Just more the principal of the whole thing. At this point, having a 99.9% feedback instead of 100% is not that

big a deal to me. I've been on Ebay since 1999 with 100%. It has to happen sometime.

 

And yes CPU, I do fully expect to get a scratched disc back.

[revsdr]

i would say a scam...more than likely had one scratched and just wanted to replace it.

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i had a women with over 100 feedback and 96+% positive feedback buy an atari

system from me....then 2 months later - after i have left feedback - tell me i owe her

some money for faulty paddles...i know they worked when i sent them.she said they quit working after about 10 minutes of game play..

i had never heard of that so i asked her to send them back and i would replace them.

was even gonna send her a game she was looking for because of her troubles..

lil over a month later i get a box in the mail with paddles and joysticks...

the paddles being gemini and i know for a fact i didnt send them so i check the pics,

and mine were the ones with paddles on them.

i wrote her to let her know i was talking to ebay about her holding my feedback hostage and asking for extra stuff.....never heard anything else from her.

[revsdr]

and with all that said, i have thought of opening up consoles,joysticks and paddles

to make some kinda mark on them.

does anyone else do that?

[phaxda]

Call me paranoid, but I mark anything that has significant value with invisible-type ink. Kinda like this:

 

http://www.proporta.com/F02/PPF02P05.php?t...&t_mode=des

 

I do this with most of my game disks and if you look at my Powerbook under UV light you can see my phone number on it.

 

Wow, I really am paranoid.

 

 

and with all that said, i have thought of opening up consoles,joysticks and paddles

to make some kinda mark on them.

does anyone else do that?

[ewing92]

Or, maybe it's his PS2 that doesn't work right? Sort of unlikely, but I have a friend who bought his PS2 in '01(surprisingly it still works), and when he tries to play certain games they don't work for him, while others do. See, he rents from family video, and he rented God of War I, and it didn't work. He took it back, got a new one, it didn't work, and then repeated it once more, still no luck. So for that case it was just his crappy PS2.

 

So if he has an old PS2, that may be the case, but if it a slimline he is definitely lying, because I haven't encounted a single game that didn't work on a slimline PS2. Well, I guess you could ask him what kind of PS2 he has, a fat one or a slim one, and see if he's lying or not, that just seems kind of weird to ask though.

Edited June 22, 2007 by ewing92

[mrnukem]

Or, maybe it's his PS2 that doesn't work right? Sort of unlikely, but I have a friend who bought his PS2 in '01(surprisingly it still works), and when he tries to play certain games they don't work for him, while others do. See, he rents from family video, and he rented God of War I, and it didn't work. He took it back, got a new one, it didn't work, and then repeated it once more, still no luck. So for that case it was just his crappy PS2.

 

So if he has an old PS2, that may be the case, but if it a slimline he is definitely lying, because I haven't encounted a single game that didn't work on a slimline PS2. Well, I guess you could ask him what kind of PS2 he has, a fat one or a slim one, and see if he's lying or not, that just seems kind of weird to ask though.

 

 

I had this happen with a PS-2 (non slimline). It will work on some game discs but not others. I took the discs that did not work on the PS-2 and tried them on another PS-2 and they worked fine. It was strange because the problem we had was with blue back disc's. All non blue backs worked great but many of the blue backs did not. I ended up taking the PS-2 apart and fixed it tweaking an internal adjustment screw per instructions I found online and that fixed it. It was clear this is a problem in the older ones because when I looked it up lots of people had the same issue. Maybe he is having this kind of problem.

[Buyatari]

This happens at my store ALL the time. #1 problem is that it doesn't work ON HIS MACHINE and there isn't much you can do about that. PS2s go down all the time and when they do down its not all at once. At first they can play a few games and not others.

 

Could be a scam. He could try to switch his non-working copy with yours. Who knows.

[Buyatari]

Call me paranoid, but I mark anything that has significant value with invisible-type ink. Kinda like this:

 

http://www.proporta.com/F02/PPF02P05.php?t...&t_mode=des

 

I do this with most of my game disks and if you look at my Powerbook under UV light you can see my phone number on it.

 

Wow, I really am paranoid.

 

 

and with all that said, i have thought of opening up consoles,joysticks and paddles

to make some kinda mark on them.

does anyone else do that?

 

Thats a great idea for non collectable games but if you sold a rare Atari game and did that I'd be pissed.

[revsdr]

if it had the ink that he is talking about, you wouldnt even know, but if so i would hope it would be marked on the part the goes into the console.if that makes sence

[Buyatari]

if it had the ink that he is talking about, you wouldnt even know, but if so i would hope it would be marked on the part the goes into the console.if that makes sence

 

On rare games I sometimes use a blacklight to see if it has been touched up with a magic marker.

[Red 5]

So to wrap this up...

 

He sends me back the game.

I put it in.

It works fine.

 

I record me putting it into the PS2, playing the game, driving it to the mailbox and dropping it in, just in case.

I will never have to send it to him, because he writes back:

 

Hi, Received the game today, works perfectly-THANKS! Will leave feedback today. THANKS AGAIN!

 

Ummmm... it's the same freakin' game ! ?