Death Dogs

 Every single week for the last 4 weeks I get at least 2 deadbeat bidders per batch of crap I list. Today was a "buyer" for a teddy bear I sold. There was an obnoxious flurry of bidding over the weekend and I got the feeling. "This buyer is not going to pay" and she did not. 

Instead of retracting her fucking bid, which would have given it to the second bidder albeit for less money, which I don't even care about, I just want the very large thing GONE so I can have the space back...the fucking bitch sends me a message after the auction ended whining that she had no money right now and to cancel the transaction. If you had no money, then what were you doing doubling the price on my auction a day before it ended, twat?

I reported her to ebay for "retracting a bid which negatively affected an auction" and added that bidders such as her were a waste of time and money for everybody involved and blocked her. Another one bites the dust. My blocked list is ridiculous. What I could have done and should have was let the damned thing run for 4 days and let her get hit with a non-paying strike but I wanted to offer it in a huge long shot to the second bidder in the hopes they'd still want it.

Lobster Bisque

 Today with a half hour left to go on a very large antique doll, I get a rather insulting ask from a potential buyer.

In the description I photograph and describe damage to the back of an arm. This maroon asks me to discount it and add buy it now because the arm is "extensively" damaged. Bitch, I OWN the doll, I can see for myself that the damage is not extensive - it's a 1/4 hole poked into the composition, not to mention it's covered by the fucking outfit it's wearing. 

A few days ago I had someone asking if the stringing was so loose that it could not be posed - I had said that it was loose in the listing! Loose means loose. I am so fucking sick of people trying to finagle discounts using things I've already described as excuses for it.

You know what, assholes? I saw the issues, I photographed and pointed them out and PRICED THE FUCKING DOLL ACCORDINGLY. Normally this same doll pulls $250-$500 - I priced this bastard at only $150ish and charged flat rate shipping which would would have killed me financially if someone on the west coast had won it. No. I will not be "discounting" it thank you very much.

I ended the fucking auction, took the fuckin' doll's clothes off and repaired it myself in 5 minutes with a small piece of milliput. Now I am going to tighten the stringing, make it a new wig with mohair yarn, style it better than the synthetic one that it has and raise the price by $50. I was willing to let it go for less because I was like "eh" about doing that stuff but now that I have cheapasses coming out of the woodwork, I'll go ahead and spend that 20 minutes and raise the damned price to what it should be.