Thursday, April 24, 2014

Uh Huh


This seller took this picture of a pony lot (this is the only picture, and it has no magnifying glass function). He/she is asking $38 for this bag of shit, and you know some asshole buyer will take a chance on the unknown and then be pissed off when there's no super rare one sitting at the bottom of the lot, will complain, making up something such as "these smelled funny"  and will probably get the pile for free. But it's the sellers fault too for not showing every piece in the lot individually somehow, to stave off chance-taking idiots.

I have been that chance-taking idiot, but I didn't expect the seller to refund me for my stupidity if I didn't get what I wanted, which was rare. I am old-school ebay, you know, from the time back when eBay was like reading a classified ad, you had to go by the description, because the only pics were scans, and that was if you were lucky.

Then there's the seller that take pics with their iPhone, almost always blurry and the lighting sucks. The item will most likely be returned because it looked "different" than in the picture. IMO the buyer is stupid to even bid on anything that doesn't have a clear pic, or a stellar description that makes up for the shitty pics. If you're sitting in the courthouse waiting to be picked for jury duty and decide to shop on ebay using a postage stamp sized pic as your only reference, then you deserve the bag of shit you just bought IMO.
 
Another guy was using a template for his pony lot, and while he had lots of pictures of many angles, they were halfway down the page after the template took 5 minutes to load, and after seeing about 4 or 5 large pictures of some sewing patterns from what must have been another auction, and after a few pony lot pics, the rest were mixed in with copious pics of a guitar.

I meticulously examine everything I sell, describe it to the best of my ability, and take clear, pre-cropped, magnifiable pics, charge the least amount of shipping possible, ship it within 48 hours using grade A packing materials that I spend a lot of money on, and don't charge a handling fee for, and I get assholes such as the one I got last week that will try and tank my account over a minor flaw that either doesn't exist (I just looked at the auction pics I took on a 17" monitor with the magnifying feature and I still see no flaws on that damned bowl) or was so small that I missed it, while sellers like the aforementioned keep on selling. WTF?

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