Maybe see if he has others for sale that also sold recently to a different account than his to show a pattern?
Yeah, similar happened to me. Tracking never showed as delivered, then after getting a $900 refund, the SAME user sold it from his account.
A serial numbered card too.
EBay told me to ‘report it to police as thats definitely theft’ but did nothing themselves.
Yeh right! Im gonna walk into an Australian police dept and complain about a piece of cardboard in NYC... that incident is the closest Ive ever come to quitting the hobby.
That card, 7 years on, now sells for $6k minimum too. Damn!
ebay is pathetic in there handling of situations like this, "take it up with the police" is the ultimate - tell your story walking mate.
its truly sad the amount of scammers that infest all hobby's world wide
Maybe you can send the eBay response to the seller showing they are at least aware he is dodgy. wont change anything but I get the sense you want him to know as I would too. I’ve been thinking about sending him a note myself to ask him how he sleeps at night. Pretty sure this type of person justifies this stuff to themselves by saying they have been hard done by in their lives, everyone is corrupt anyway, yada yada.100%
I think deep down I knew they were going to side with him. I thought I had a chance with all the evidence.
I suppose I'm not that surprised with the outcome, but more so their process, in which they eventually acknowledged that he had received it and is selling stolen goods on their platform. And they still chose to do nothing about it.
he sleeps well at night knowing..Maybe you can send the eBay response to the seller showing they are at least aware he is dodgy. wont change anything but I get the sense you want him to know as I would too. I’ve been thinking about sending him a note myself to ask him how he sleeps at night. Pretty sure this type of person justifies this stuff to themselves by saying they have been hard done by in their lives, everyone is corrupt anyway, yada yada.
Maybe you can send the eBay response to the seller showing they are at least aware he is dodgy. wont change anything but I get the sense you want him to know as I would too. I’ve been thinking about sending him a note myself to ask him how he sleeps at night. Pretty sure this type of person justifies this stuff to themselves by saying they have been hard done by in their lives, everyone is corrupt anyway, yada yada.
he sleeps well at night knowing..
(a) jkidd05 lives on the other side of the world
(b) ebay's response in these situations are limp wristed and "sorry not our problem"
it would be tempting.. yet i'm sure the dude would of placed jkidd05 on his banned list by nowIf I didn’t care about doing the right thing, I would have purchased the stolen card off that SOB and done the same thing to him.
If you want to keep selling internationally and rely on multiple companies delivering your cards to customers, then like most businesses you have to accept a level of “bad debt“ and somehow build that into your sales approach.Question.. what can we do as sellers using platforms like EBay to protect ourselves and avoid this situation from happening us?
If I didn’t care about doing the right thing, I would have purchased the stolen card off that SOB and done the same thing to him.
Anyway, my suggestion to you is to take all of the evidence that you have shared and post it on other card forum sites so that others know not to deal with him.. who knows, he may have scammed others also.
If you want to keep selling internationally and rely on multiple companies delivering your cards to customers, then like most businesses you have to accept a level of “bad debt“ and somehow build that into your sales approach.
Or look to use an intermediary like COMC or ShipMyCards(not sure if they do this) so you only ship to these addresses. Scammers won’t buy off you, but you will lose some customers.
or just sell In Oz. The hobby is strong currently and there are buyers for high end cards so maybe we don’t need the US?
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