How often have eBay sellers given you the excuse...
The_Hook_Up
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"I can't find this record, here is a refund?" Twice now, in about 12 hours time, I have purchased records "buy it now" from 2 different sellers and gotten my money refunded and some lame-shit "I don't know where it is" excuse. Sucks, I was especially looking forward to my $3 BANG record...can't find it my ass.
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I received a Neutral Feedback from a customer with the following comment...
"did not like item. not like buddy emmons"
Apparently the fact that steel guitar player Buddy Emmons did not play up to his usual level on this particular LP is reason to not give me a positive feedback!?
haaaaaaaaaaa..... uh sorry, i mean.. yeah thats fucked, but sorta funny though, just your luck this Buddy dude didnt play all out crappy, you would have received a NEG!!!
I know people do it all the time, but to me having a record on ebay that is also for sale in your store is completely bogus.
I just had a buyer that was extremely mad at me because he didn't like the Folk-Xian records he bought from me for $5. He said he " thought they would be more funky" and was mad at me because he didn't like the music. He refused to give me feedback and said that I ripped him off. And I listed them exact, no shadiness at all. These cheap skate diggers kill me.
Yeah, there's a store around me that has little tags inside the poly on a bunch of the records that indicate the album is also listed on ebay/gemm, so they will remove the listing if it sells in the store. Dude got kinda pissed at me when I asked if he adjusts the grading in his listings every few months to account for all the people handling the cover and record in the store. Especially since this is not a store with neat, loosely packed bins ... more like the kind where you have to pull a handful of records out of the front just to flip through - you know how good that is for those covers ...
Haha. I get this all the time. "Exactly how funky is this record?"
I know that sellers are listing record from their stores all the time, and that's so lame, but I have to say I've definately had to tell one or two people that I couldn't find a record...because I really couldn't. Many more times I've lost records temporarily and had to scramble to dig them out again. If a record never turns up, I have an unofficial policy of offering the buyer a small discount on a future purchase as a way of making amends for their trouble and to keep them checking for me .
I use the goldmine funky standard for funk-grading my records.
but because i havent had any issues yet, dont mean i wont in the future, just having a much better experience then with ebay...
http://www.gemm.com/
Just do like one of the sellers I deal with on ebay. Have them to look for sound clips for records they are interested in buying from you before they buy it. And, clearly state that you are not responsible for musical content only honest item descriptions. This could save you some unwanted aggrivation in the future. BTW what is the name of your ebay store?
Especially on MusicStack and Gemm when sellers list stuff they haven't even got in stock, so they bait you into a sale and then put your shit on backorder for 18 months.
:talib:
Friends have done this to sell me stuff outside of the bay.
For other items I've not had, I've been given "It's broken, I can't find the other one, I scratched it" etc.
Them's the braekz I guess.
This has happened to me a few times on gemm over the years - you can just cancel the order!
i've only ever found one record i needed on gemm, and i just cut gemm out and bought it direct from moerer's site. i don't really check for gemm because of the bulk relisters, all those $20 records selling for $200, they make a sale and then buy it off gemm to send to you. GTFO gemm needs to cut those dudes out polluting the listings.
OG? That's a rare record for sure.
Not his best, but there's only so much Herbie out there.
As far as I can tell--it's a burgundy label Bethlehem.
Hence my fear that someone else would contact the seller and offer them more money to claim it was no longer available.
Yeah, aside from obvious later (70's - 80's) pressings, there's only one.
Good score!
if you buy a $70 45, dont you think that throwing a new sleeve on it is in order? I just opened up a record to find said $70 45 sitting in a 40+ year old scratchy stiff ass brown paper sleeve with only one seam intact...come on dude, is it too much to ask for a nice, new 15 cent 45 sleeve?
I since received positive feedback from the seller calling me a asshole (that Ebay deleted) and this is the actual email I received just lastnight from that dick seller....
"Hello- Sir Retardo...SEALED RECORDS CAN WARP!! The SEALED record was left in a car where it warped. A seasoned record collector can look at the OUTSIDE of a record and see if the vinyl is warped. That's why I refuned yo money, sucka! AN STOP YOUR GAY POSING WITH YOUR REISSUE STARK REALITY RECORD HAHAHAHAHAH!!
- chesterburnett500"
FYI, If the seller emailed me prior to refunding me my money (which he didn't) explaining the situation everything would have been cool. And I still don't know what the Stark Reality reissue reference is even supposed to mean?