However it is still annoying when quite clearly all did not check that the listing matched what they were actually selling.
Yes, sellers who are ignorant of the finer details of their mdse. are all over the Web. And what's sadder than that, is unlike these three, most of `em are annoyed that you asked - making them have to go repeat the item's research that was ``already performed''.
It's like my rant in the other thread about people today only caring about things that affect their check, their time off and how to get administration to leave them alone. One of the most annoying things is when buyer asks about a finer detail about an item and gets a cut-and-pasted recitation of the original ad in a return message.
To me, when a seller responds like that, it's like the biggest insult, like ``All I want is my crap out from underfoot, your money and for you to shut up'', (see above paragraph) or like ``Thank you for calling. If you have a problem or a question please call 1-800 C F I CARE (see-if-I-care) Monday through Friday 9-5 Eastern in English or Spanish otherwise leave me alone I'm busy''.
Or how about sellers with absolutely zero idea what their mdse is worth besides that?
All over the record and other vintage item sales world is people like that - like this gal I ran into online at eBay a couple weeks back. She's ``just trying to sell her granddad's records since he passed last year.'' which tells me she's maybe in her 20's somewhere - with one feedback as a buyer.
She had a John Lennon
Imagine Aussie SQ that she even ASKED in the ad what an SQ was - and wanted $200.
And, instead of a red-label Colgems pressing she had an original BLACK-label of the first
Monkees album, in stereo and no it was not an RCA Victor pressing from some other country. OK rare enough to be sure. But not worth the $250 she wanted.
Hell, I have AMERICAN RCA Victor pressings of both the
Mary Poppins soundtrack (normally Buena Vista) as well as the cast album to
Stop the World I Want to Get Off (normally London). But even in mint condition they ain't worth much more than the $5-$10 of a normal pressing. Hell, even the mono DJ copies don't list in the book for more than twenty bucks in mint shape.
So being the Good Samaritan I was I wrote her back and politely told her she was off her rock with those prices.
She wrote back and spent a page and a half whining and crying about how many people - presumably guys - presumably somewhat more than a little rougher around the edges than me - had written her back in a CONSIDERABLY less-than-polite fashion telling her the same thing and her talking about how mean was eBay and bla-bla-bla.
I told her - these guys have been doing their research in individual items for probably longer than you've been alive - and asked her how much item research she'd done, i.e. what the last item sold for etc, presuming the answer would be zero.
A week later I get a thing in my inbox from eBay talking about this chick and telling me I'm ``abusing a potentially high-volume eBay future seller'' threatening me with all kinds of sanctions.
So, since, like any grown man I don't tolerate kids telling me what I can and cannot do, I get on the horn to eBay Trust and Safety administration in Colorado - no tolerating call-center operators and their hierarchy on this one - and tell them to go look at the kinds of emails this girl has sent out to other eBayers when they tried to educate her about her prices - cuz I got a cloned one intended for another member mistakenly sent to me that was even worse than the one I got from her myself.
So they looked at her own behavior, closed the case in my favor, and banned the girl for ``creating or contributing to a business-nonconducive environment'' on eBay. And now she's all over Facebook and Twitter spamming random people bitching about how mean is eBay and to never go there. Whatever, girl.
Or other people like Shuga Records.
http://cgi.ebay.com/TALKING-BOOK-ma...8976782?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item519a2cc70e
Got some old 60's 16 RPM talking-book-for-the-blind flexidiscs, (free back in the day) in this case the monthly discography that comes out to blind people to tell them what new books have been recorded and added to the library. Fifty bucks they want for something almost nobody can play, and about which even fewer people care.
Or, looking at their Items for Sale - a royal-blue copy of
DSOTM for $1200 bucks? Or an LP copy of the Springsteen Live box set for sixty bucks?
And they ain't the only one. Go look up the ``Top Hundred Most Expensive Records'' on eBay on any given day. You won't need coffee or Comedy Central to get you going in the morning.
I swear I wonder where are these people's heads at thinking they can get prices like that.