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Looking for something to operate your submarine with this product is the right thing for you it has 4 hours of battery life it will take you to your destination but not back home
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stupid frog powiedział(a):
re: the grading plastic boxes
I've seen blatant bootleg cards selling in those graded boxes. Those faggots don't know shit about fuck lmao.

The real faggot is me, because they were cheap-ish, and I was gonna maybe buy one for a laugh. I didn't and can't find them anymore, so I assume some unassuming soul purchased.
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I was actually going to make a post about this: there’s a lot of counterfeit shit that circulates in the hobby spaces of eBay. There’s hundreds, if not thousands of listings for bootleg stuff from china that’s listed and given a description to try to dupe people who don’t know better. This is a good example, the actual card is going up past the $800 mark because it’s so rare, but this was listed for $12.99 in order to try to dupe someone into buying. Notice the avatar is a labubu doll, another form of chinese crap.
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There’s a lot of scammers also hopping into the graded card market, but that’s to be expected when there’s a lot of retards with money and low self control. It doesn’t help that people are sending in anything they can to get graded and then put up on eBay, whatnot or whatever other platforms they can sell on.

Whatnot has a lot of scammers and idiots as well I know Charlie’s a faggot, but he’s covering one of the many dumbass scammers on whatnot scamming other idiots.
 
Barry Williams powiedział(a):
USPS introduced a service earlier this year called Ground Advantage, which seems to be some kind of consolidation or phasing out of their previous shipping offerings. It is substantially cheaper than things used to be, but they are extremely picky about dimensions and how things are packed that use the service. Up until a couple weeks ago Ground Advantage wasn't any better or worse than their other options, but they fucked with rates (jacked up the price of stamps again etc) and that's when the new option took over.

So, hopefully shipping will come down a bit. I assume not though, since the "people have been paying X amount at a higher price forever so we know they will keep paying it" pitfall. Unless the seller is using the option to automatically calculate shipping at checkout.
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Makes sense. I've DM'd some sellers over shipping costs looking weird.
 
Run Escape powiedział(a):
Like getting asked to drop it off 70 kilometres away.
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Facebook marketplace is awful. I refuse to sell on there
  • No I won't give you 70% off this $20 item (or ever)
  • No I wont deliver it to you (especially not for free)
  • Yes it is a large. If you had taken 15 seconds to read the description you would have realized that
  • No im not trading a $500 riding lawn mower for a ps3
  • No I'm not taking venmo (if you had read the description.....)
  • I'm located in [x]town. If you could have been bothered to look at the listing, where it tells you where im located, you could have figured that out
  • No, I won't do pickup at 8pm on a Wednesday
  • No, I won't ship it to you with a 10% discount and free shipping
And finally
  • Yes, its still available
 
If there's something that has always amuse me is that the publication title alone tells you a fuck ton of the seller. If someone is selling trash and adds tons of gibberish, ascii or emojis then they are trying to scam you, if they describe the product with just two or three words, they have no idea what the fuck they are selling or doing, if they add trendy nonsense words that has nothing to do with the product like "cozy", "tactical", "gamer", they are selling literal garbage at stupidly high prices.
 
Abella powiedział(a):
there’s a lot of counterfeit shit that circulates in the hobby spaces of eBay
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More like everywhere on ebay. I'd bet good money that +95% of "OEM PS3 controllers" there are fakes.

Getting back to the OP and the used socks posting, it's definitely a fetish thing. Years ago there was a foid selling multiple pairs of her boyfriend's used sneakers on ebay, they weren't cheap, and she always took pains to describe how horribly they stank. At first I was WTF, why would anyone buy this crap, and then I looked at her reviews - coomers to a man. Seriously, how fucked in the head do you have to be to jerk it to some random asshole's rancid Nikes?
 
David Floyd George powiedział(a):
I'd bet good money that +95% of "OEM PS3 controllers" there are fakes.
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95% percent of PS3 controllers on the market (in general) today are fake. All you have to do to find out is plug them to a wall socket using your phone's charger, if it charges, the controller is fake; if it doesn't, it's real.

It's fine if they want to sell their fake controllers, but they shouldn't be charging the price of a real SIXASIS. Let alone get mad when someone points out that the shit they're selling is fake.
 
If only AnimeSucksCopeAndSneed was still here, I could've recommended him these cool bumper stickers. :(
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Most Wanted Banana powiedział(a):
95% percent of PS3 controllers on the market (in general) today are fake. All you have to do to find out is plug them to a wall socket using your phone's charger, if it charges, the controller is fake; if it doesn't, it's real.

It's fine if they want to sell their fake controllers, but they shouldn't be charging the price of a real SIXASIS. Let alone get mad when someone points out that the shit they're selling is fake.
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the book equivalent of this is some nigga getting mad when you point out something's a Book Club Edition and not the real first edition when they were trying to justify the extra price. This is relevant on some vintage books that go for quite a bit of money, like the '60s Hardcover Dune edition. You have the book club edition and the retail one. Both go for money, but the retail one goes for way way more to collectors. The Book Club edition one goes for a bit less. Unless there's a serious collector, 99% of people will be fine, but it is funny when I point out to some reseller that they're trying to flip a book club edition and not the real retail edition of the same livery.
 
Oh. I am looking forward to following this thread! Insane resellers are fascinating to observe.

Like this guy, selling a football for $5. Just how little does someone have to value their own time to put up with "Is this item still available?" from weird randos online in exchange for just five bucks?
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Then there are the lunatics who still think that the Princess Diana Beanie Baby holds any value whatsoever when in reality they made a billion of those things, and they're worth no more than any other stuffed toy.
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Another favorite genre of sales for me is the terrible photography in some ads. Everyone walks around with a high quality camera in their pockets, yet sometimes we still get ads with photos like this. Great marketing!
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David Floyd George powiedział(a):
More like everywhere on ebay. I'd bet good money that +95% of "OEM PS3 controllers" there are fakes.
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That’s being generous, I’d say it’s closer to 98%. That’s why a few years ago they started with that ad campaign about how they have things checked by experts now for authenticity. Too many people were complaining about buying something higher end, like purses or watches and getting a bootleg version that wasn’t close to the listing. Do I believe they’re having experts come check every designer product or high end fashion item for authenticity? No, there’s no way to. The authenticity guarantee is just to keep people from leaving their platform.

The best advice I can give anyone new to ebay is to never buy from someone who has a rating below 99%, preferably 99.5%. If they have that rating and over 200+ reviews then chances are there’s not much to worry about.
 
Abella powiedział(a):
The best advice I can give anyone new to ebay is to never buy from someone who has a rating below 99%, preferably 99.5%. If they have that rating and over 200+ reviews then chances are there’s not much to worry about.
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That's good advice. I've bought and sold (cleaning house before major moves) there a lot over the years and generally have been satisfied on both ends, but you have to pay attention to what you're doing. Plenty buyers and sellers looking to rip you off. Still, it's better than craigslist - AKA "hi, I know your ad said cash only but I have this certified check..."
 
Love when you package something, for example a book, and you send it out and suddenly the buyer demands a full refund because it got damaged in transit even though it is no fault of your own. And they send pics and become sometimes hostile about it.

Or when they're extremely picky about minor (and I mean minor) tears on things like a dust jacket for example. Like....fuck all the way off and go somewhere else?

There's a gaming reseller on eBay called GamerGirlzOnline that is notoriously difficult. You have to write on a piece of paper what the game is. If you do not do this, they refuse to accept the package and it gets returned to you. I had to block them because they were so insufferable.
 
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