Selling Toys - Horror Stories & "Happy" Customers

[Damien]

I have no sympathy for them anymore.

While I understand leverage and bargaining power - I lost sympathy for them during the Christmas-season strike. That was a bullshit thing to do and everyone knows it. That actually seems to be when general public feeling turned against them.

 

[puckace]

@Damien Just curious, but you can't sell in either Calgary or Edmonton?

 

[yojoebro82]

Reading horror stories just reenforces for me that preforming the occasional mass-dumping/purge of a big lot of figures to my local comic/collectibles shop just might be the lesser of a half-dozen evils when choosing how to sell. Yes, they will resell so I don't get as much. But I do free up space immediately, I don't wait for months or longer while things slowly trickle out, I don't run to the PO, I don't deal with flakes and scammers. If I have a high-ticket, highly desirable thing to let go of, I'll sell that individually, but that's the kind of stuff I usually hang on to. My big lots that I bring to my LCS are typically made up of common stuff that I'm happy to have gone. With a couple extra bucks in my pocket.

 

[Damien]

@Damien Just curious, but you can't sell in either Calgary or Edmonton?

Not really.
Calgary is a 3-hour drive. So with no CanadaPost and no cheap courier services that's a non-option unless maybe I'm getting rid of something really valuable or a very very big lot that someone might be willing to drive up for.
And the market within Edmonton is just terrible. Stuff sits on local groups for months without anyone even looking at it. Unless it's marked 'free,' you're lucky to even get 3 or 4 people to respond once and then ghost you, let alone actually buy anything. Didn't used to be this way, but you can definitely see how the economic downturn in Alberta has killed the hobby.

 

[Schizm]

I put up my Mondo X-Men figures which I never opened from their shipper boxes. I accidentally posted one photo of Gambit's box in the Rogue listing because all the photos look the same and someone wrote in "is Gambit included?!?" OBVIOUSLY not - he's not mentioned anywhere and the price is for one figure.

I removed the picture and said thanks for the heads-up. They said "I thought it was too good to be true." Ohhhhkay.

I also posted the set of six I'm trying to sell on Marketplace - this is only my second time trying Marketplace. Someone offered me $1000 below asking. Like, how many people are desperate and/or dumb enough to fall for that? And why am I forced to respond to such inanity?