Salty Outbidded Tricksters (eBay Related)
drewnice
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Anybody ever have someone you outbid try to get you to sell them something you just outbid them on?There was an LP up from an ex-con with spoken word poems he wrote while in prison, 100 copies pressed, etc. One dude had a bid in the whole 7 days. I outbid him in the closing seconds and get this email the next morning:
So I did some talking to a few people about how I should respond. My first inclination was to CD-R it and send him the record, won for fairly cheap. But I decided to zap him:"if it means anything to you Raymond Moody was my uncle,From Newark New Jersey ,I have been looking for that record for 10 years+ would you like to sell it? as my family would appreciate the one thing Raymond did proper with his life thanks c********
and he sends back:"I'd be more than happy to send you a free CD-R of the record when I receive it"
WTF? Doesn't sound like dude is too bent on getting his Uncle's record that he's been searching for for 10+ years, does it? Turns out this dude even bid on one of my records recently and has been buying records similar to this, according to his history. Hmmm.Anybody else had anything like this happen to them? What kinds of weird communication have you had with other eBayers?cool a burner would be nice i will trade you some rare stuff on cd c********
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Seriously though, if dude wanted it that bad he would've raised his initial bid, and he'd settle for a cd-r after that inital email?! I call bullshit on his story.
Let us know what you get in trade.
Haha - yeah, I started that thread!
Anyway, that's what I was thinking too about his bid, a $20 maximum says very little about wanting something for over 10 years, let alone them being related to you. I was giving him a chance to lay out a story with unsolicited evidence of his relation to the artist and was surprised how easily he let go. I'm not even gonna bother with a CD-R trade, unless he hit gets in touch with me again. I wouldn't be surprised if he's reading this, either. If so, "hi!"
BTW Garcia, it was a "no go" on the Nia Long. I got a "trust me, don't do it" from the cuz.
Plaese to fill in the rest of us Nia Long fans on what this means!
Whoops. I should have put that name in quotes.
Drewn's just got it like that!
Good thing you went the cuz route, fam's always looking out like that! Good meeting you on Saturday.
am i missing something, or is this person being totally normal and nice?
it sounds that he accepted your offer for a cdr of the tunes, and offered you other things in return.
not sure if he is the nephew, but it doens't seem like he is "salty" or a "trickster" as you say. he actually sounds like a normal dude who wants the tunes.
We had a lawyer here at my job about 2 years ago who looked like Nia Long only 3 times sexier! Ahhh.....those were the good old days.
Hey, you may be right. The title of the tread was a little embelished given that I don't know the whole story at this point. And I'm probably still a bit jaded from dealing with a month-long Paypal dispute with a seller in the UK who was intentionally trying to mess people over. But I just found the whole thing to be a little odd.
No harm done, and seriously, if this guy is the real deal I'd much rather him have the record than I.
hook him up it might give you some karma for the next paypal issue.
Somewhat related: I had bunch of free jazz CDs up once that were going for a lot of money. Some dude emailed me and asked to have CDRs made. He sent an excel sheet with what he could trade. I ended up getting some great rare live Can CDRs.
what I just won, becuase they got outbid, but I've never bothered
because it was always something I really wanted.
On a slightly related note, and something I am experiencing today,
is there any more hollow feeling of "satisfaction" than getting a paypal
refund for a record you were all psyched to win on eBay but never showed up?
I mean, it's nice to get my refund (since I have been 100% burned before, no refund
or anything), but I won a copy of Earl Gaines' LP on HBR for only $5 and was totally
amped...until a month later there was no record and, after having multiple e-mails
ignored, a shady message saying "I thought I sent it out...it may have been lost in
my basment flood" and a couple of weeks later I finally filed for a refund with paypal.
I got the refund today with an icy note form the seller ("here's your money man") and
somehow I don't feel very vindicated. I just wanted the damn record!!
Such a good feeling. A dude that I got a record from not too long ago sent me a refund thru Paypal because while he was packaging it he realized it was warped (something he failed to note in the item description.) Sure, I would have rather had the record, but I appreciated him looking out for the customer and not selling something unless he had good confidence it was sold as stated.
i won this record off ebay years ago and dude emails me saying he is the guy in the photo with the girl on his shoulders, he told me the story of how the picture came about but i forget the details, something along the lines of he was just hanging around with some friends and some photographer asked them to pose for this cover, anyway dude just wanted the cover and wanted me to xerox a copy and send it to him, i never did email him back, i figured it would be a pain in the ass, plus it's not really rare so i figured he'd eventually get one.
on the bay, dude emails me saying how 'he wants to give the record to his wife for a birthday pressant, how she a fan and all..'
So I email him back saying, Its not for sale, and if he just wants a copy for his wife I'm sure she would be happy with the very nice re-ish that is for sale.
He emails me back saying, Its important that he gives her the og cause hes a dj?
now thats salty.
I got this email from the same dude today:
Here is my response:
And his:
LOL... I wonder if this guy is a lurker... he's clearly a clueless kid if he thinks that response was somehow witty...
Damn... I don't think I would deal with someone who demanded cash-only
Without a doubt, I shudder now when I think of how I used to send cash to sellers in the post...
The first time I used paypal I was a convert...