Selling Toys - Horror Stories & "Happy" Customers

Wait.. why would someone send 26 dollars for a 45 dollar lot? Genuinely confused.
 
TheSameIdiot said:
Your grandpa's a dumb bitch.
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You have no idea. He's MAGA now. I can't necessarily say that it's because he didn't know the difference between Darth Vader and Mace Windu, but considering they're both played by people of color, it doesn't surprise me.

DarthDre758 said:
My Target has started a hard limit on all collectible cards. Two per SKU, with a total of five items. It kinda sucks when you want to grab five packs (that's always been a nice round number to open for me).
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My local stores do too, but it hasn't stopped anyone so far. The dudes will usually bring like 2 or 3 of their friends with them who don't care about Pokemon so they can grab 5 or so packs too. Also doesn't help when you have a couple stores within a few miles of each other, so they just drive around to all of them and do the same thing. Or, at the stores where they don't keep them behind the counter, they take them to self-checkout and just ring them up as separate transactions. As long as they get an employee who either doesn't know any better or just hates their job, they'll be able to get away scot-free.
 
DarthDre758 said:
My Target has started a hard limit on all collectible cards. Two per SKU, with a total of five items. It kinda sucks when you want to grab five packs (that's always been a nice round number to open for me).
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Yes, I had a Target try to impose this on me for DC Multiverse action figures once and I asked what they hell they were talking about. The cashier (an older lady) just believed that anything like this was limited until a manager came and told her that toys were not subject to the trading card rules. She had me very confused for a minute. I don't buy trading cards at all so had never run into this.
 
Damien said:
Wait.. why would someone send 26 dollars for a 45 dollar lot? Genuinely confused.
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Ebay usually takes a certain fee (for me it's a flat 13%) and he probably printed his shipping label from them too (which would have also been deducted from his proceeds) so that's why he only actually received $26 out of $45.
 
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I never understand how ebay works, honestly. Not that I've really ever sat down to do the math, but it feels like they take different amounts every time. I put up with it because they're usually the easiest to deal with, especially in terms of getting the money sooner, but I do wonder. Same when it comes to shipping- I always go through them just for ease, but even though the label says it's more or less the same as it would be elsewhere, if not a buck or two cheaper, it always feels like I somehow come away with less. They're lucky I'm as dumb as a box of rocks when it comes to math....
 
Good call guys. Don't know why I didn't think of all the eBay fees and stuff. My mind was in like Facebook Marketplace mode and I'm over here wondering how some stranger got his banking info and just sent him a random amount of money. Brain isn't working today, clearly, so I should just call it now and go home.
 
Reno said:
Ebay usually takes a certain fee (for me it's a flat 13%) and he probably printed his shipping label from them too (which would have also been deducted from his proceeds) so that's why he only actually received $26 out of $45.
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Yes, that's it. Ebay's shipping label for USPS was $11.62. I could've shipped for a couple dollars less with Fedex, but then I would be driving out of my way. Ebay's fee was 13.6% + .40 = $6.98.

It was for a quick sale to move them, but then when I look at the breakdown, I'm thinking "ugh, should've salvaged them for custom fodder".
 
Yeeah, that's bullshit. This is why my wife and I stopped selling shit on eBay a couple of years ago. It was literally more economical for us to throw toys directly in the garbage than waste a bunch of time and energy on eBay sales just to end up with enough money in the bank for a couple packs of gum.
 
Reno said:
Yes, I had a Target try to impose this on me for DC Multiverse action figures once and I asked what they hell they were talking about. The cashier (an older lady) just believed that anything like this was limited until a manager came and told her that toys were not subject to the trading card rules. She had me very confused for a minute. I don't buy trading cards at all so had never run into this.
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Yeah towards the end Canadian Toys R Us put a limit on collectible action figures and no returns. But what they considered collectible was everything in the boys department. On the other hand, witnessed a dude performing a figure swap as I was walking through and then attempting the return as I was checking out. They called him on it cleanly since apparently he just bought it before I showed up and was doing the whole thing within 10 minutes. A true champion at life.

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So I sat with this for a while but I've decided to move my LEGO. I still like the figures but I'm tired of dusting and I want my space back.

So I pulled the figures I thought were cool, and then listed the sets with that information.

As example, I'm selling my Daily Bugle, but I am keeping Daredevil, Punisher, Cat, and Betty Brant. I also left in a bonus Spider-Man figure because I had one sitting behind the desk just like the meme, and some other random (and the key here is they're not expensive or rare) villains and heroes that I had duplicates of or just don't care about.

So of course the first inquiry I get this morning:

I'm looking at the photos but I don't see Daredevil Punisher or Black Cat.

"What you see is what you get."

So they aren't included?

"Correct."

Could you include them?

"The listing is what I am selling."

So they aren't included or they are?

Can I go off the leash now?
 
Alt said:
Yeah towards the end Canadian Toys R Us put a limit on collectible action figures and no returns. But what they considered collectible was everything in the boys department. On the other hand, witnessed a dude performing a figure swap as I was walking through and then attempting the return as I was checking out. They called him on it cleanly since apparently he just bought it before I showed up and was doing the whole thing within 10 minutes. A true champion at life.

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So I sat with this for a while but I've decided to move my LEGO. I still like the figures but I'm tired of dusting and I want my space back.

So I pulled the figures I thought were cool, and then listed the sets with that information.

As example, I'm selling my Daily Bugle, but I am keeping Daredevil, Punisher, Cat, and Betty Brant. I also left in a bonus Spider-Man figure because I had one sitting behind the desk just like the meme, and some other random (and the key here is they're not expensive or rare) villains and heroes that I had duplicates of or just don't care about.

So of course the first inquiry I get this morning:

I'm looking at the photos but I don't see Daredevil Punisher or Black Cat.

"What you see is what you get."

So they aren't included?

"Correct."

Could you include them?

"The listing is what I am selling."

So they aren't included or they are?

Can I go off the leash now?
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But what if he was blind? So the whole "What you see is what you get" doesn't apply, since he can't see anything. 🤪
 
You know maybe it's nothing.

But I've had a lot of inquiries and then people just passing or flaking ever since that one guy with the deposit.

And I'm wondering if he has his own social circle on Facebook and has asked a lot of people to bombard me and flake. Maybe that's paranoid. There are a lot of other reasons for people to to not be spending as much these days. But usually my intuition pays out.
 
I'm gonna try that at a dealership. Just walk into the lot and be like 'I'll take them all for a hundred bucks. You haven't sold them yet, so I know I'm your only buyer.'
The amount of restraint it takes to block someone like that instead of spending six paragraphs explaining what a piece of shit they are borders on the angelic.
 
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