Dishonest Seller

[roadrunner]

I won this lot for $100 shipped and the seller cancelled it and told me the games are water damaged and they are worthless
and they don't sell junk.


messages from seller -



I've tried asking my boss and his reply is "we dont sell junk", I mean these things are pretty much junk now.

- nevadastatesurplus


eBay Dec-19-13 at 14:40:27 PST

This case has been opened by the seller with the following reason: Other.Additional information provided by the seller: Hi, thank you for your quick purchase. I went to go package the items and I noticed that all the cartirdges were water damaged. Unfortunately they are no longer able to be used and are worthless. Iwould like to cancel your transaction and I do apologize for the problem.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/131074963357?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2648

Edited December 20, 2013 by roadrunner

[+save2600]

What he meant to say was: "I just realized I have something that's worth more money than it sold for".

 

Hey, at least he didn't send you the carts sans BBSB! Another douchey move I've seen happen before.

[+Allan]

You'll see Bounty Bob up on eBay for $1000 in a day or so. And it will still have dirt on it.

 

 

Allan

[+iesposta]

Is Zenji rare?

I have that one.

[AtariBrian]

So they knew they had junk but put that junk up for sale . Since its going in the garbage tell him you will give 100 dollars for his (junk) I would love to sell junk items for 100 dollars . To him the extra hundred dollars or so more that schoolgirl offered them is worth the negative feedback .

[roadrunner]

That seller didn't relist that item did he?
He got upset i gave him a neg.
Yesterday he told me to give him a neg and he would be fired if he shipped the games.

He sent me this message -

Cant be trusted?!!please find a mirror and take a good look.I will relist this just to make you happy:)
Fyi,thx for the feedback.

- nevadastatesurplus

[roadrunner]

Is Zenji rare?

I have that one.

 

Yes

[roadrunner]

I just got this message from the seller -


You should be more open too,why you want these games so much?'Ok,im done with this.Happy holidays to you.
Thanks for the gift.

- nevadastatesurplus

[eightbit]

He found out that BBSB was worth 4-5 times what you paid (at least, that is what it was worth when I sold mine for $500 a few years ago) for the lot, that is why he backed out on you. I bet someone who did not win this auction got PO'ed and sent him a private message letting him know this. This has happened to me a whole lot of times in the past. Not much you can do unfortunately, and it does suck. That is a hard game to find. I would probably get the Atarimax 5200 SD cart to compensate and at least play the game (and the others) on real hardware

Edited December 20, 2013 by eightbit

[Rex Dart]

Do you have the seller's address?

[roadrunner]

Do you have the seller's address?

 

Since it was a BIN i don't have the seller's address. I do have the email address though.

Edited December 20, 2013 by roadrunner

[+boxpressed]

Make sure that the relisting mentions the water damage.

[+Curious Sofa]

I've a feeling my understanding of this is incorrect, but is there not some way Ebay can kind of force him to send the goods since he's not claiming he doesn't have them, etc?

They get so high and mighty about "your bid is a CONTRACT" and whatnot, I would think it works the other way around too. But I suppose not. I would seriously almost think you _could_ get legal on him with this, small claims or something. I mean, we're talking about several hundred dollars of screwjob here.

I'm super pissed at this bs seller, that's just a crock of shit.

[AtariBrian]

And he even said I will relist it for you ... with the same items he said he is not allowed to sell since they are (junk)

[stupus]

Yah people suck

This reminds me of a cool mid century modern spaghetti lamp I won on ebay a few years back for like 30 bucks...a piece probably work $250-300

Right after the auction ended the seller sent me a message that sadly the lamp had just been damaged and one of the wood fin pieces had the end broken off and they would unfortunately have to cancel the sale.

I cheerily replied back...oh that's too bad, but its no problem, I am a professional woodworker and if you just send it as is I will have no problem repairing it. thanks!

 

Well they let me complete the sale and shipped it....magically when I received it, the lamp was in mint condition...oh my-haha

 

If I were you I would have refused to agree to mutually cancel the sale and make them send you pics of the 'damaged' carts.

Then I would take it up with a phone call to ebay to at least try and get them to go thru with the sale.

 

[ls650]

I would have msged him to say I was more than happy to accept the items in water-damaged condition.

Obviously the seller is a scammer.

[Atari_Bill]

This absoluely sucks. Ebay continues to get more and more scumbags on a yearly basis and ebay does nothing about it as long as they're taking in their ever increasing portion of the rake. Disgusting!

[roadrunner]

1. I did tell the seller I don't care that they are water damaged, I want the games. I even offered to have the seller keep the controllers and send me the games.
He said the games are water damaged and worthless and he don't sell junk.

2. Not sure I want to go to court over this.

3. I did send ebay a message about this.

4. Those games were donated. Whomever had them before didn't know what they had and just gave them away.

5. I did decline the cancel transaction request.

Edited December 21, 2013 by roadrunner

[+wood_jl]

Make sure you go back to your feedback section and "Follow Up" to his reply to your feedback. Trash him again, with the TRUTH as a warning to other buyers. You get 2 lines of feedback (the original and the follow-up) to his one (the reply). I'd suggest noting it was "for parts or not working" so it's greed rather than concern as water damage is irrelevant to parts/not-working.

[roadrunner]

Thanks, I just left follow up feedback.

[AtariLeaf]

I would have msged him to say I was more than happy to accept the items in water-damaged condition.

Obviously the seller is a scammer.

Problem is, a pissed off seller that's forced to ship anyway may in fact make absolutely sure that they're extremely water damaged, for real.

[Atari_Bill]

Problem is, a pissed off seller that's forced to ship anyway may in fact make absolutely sure that they're extremely water damaged, for real.

 

In that case at least the seller gets screwed out of his money as well. Unfortunately a lose - lose situation.

[cvga]

In that case at least the seller gets screwed out of his money as well. Unfortunately a lose - lose situation.

Sort of. Roadrunner would also lose $100 that he wouldn't otherwise spend. Is it worth a hundred bucks to keep the seller from making more? Probably not to me .

 

PS - i love how the seller tells you (roadrunner)that you should be more open too when HE set the initial price. It would be different if you were trying to lowball him by claiming that they were worthless.

[roadrunner]

That seller was willing to take less money with the best offer option it had too.
I told the seller that but he kept saying the games are water damaged, worthless and junk.
And he don't sell junk and he has to talk to his boss.

Edited May 31, 2014 by roadrunner

[+save2600]

"Talk to his boss".