Selling Toys - Horror Stories & "Happy" Customers

altcunningham said:
I have no sympathy for them anymore.
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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.
 
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.
 
puckace said:
@Damien Just curious, but you can't sell in either Calgary or Edmonton?
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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.
 
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?
 
Related question: Ebay. When you relist an item, do you notice how slow it sometimes takes off, if it ever does?

I feel like Ebay penalizes relisted items sometimes by not showing them. I have never paid for any type of promotion, but if I have two of something and one sells and I decide to sell the other, the second listing's view count stays low for so long - like no one is seeing it. I get why they might do this if you end a listing and immediately repost it, and I have observed that also, but it's odd. Especially when I see items higher priced selling when my listing is available. I always "Sell Similar" these days to hopefully avoid this, but it's never predictable.
 
Have some Legends up that just don't do it for me.

"Do you have the boxes?"

No.

"Oh. I assume you bought these used then. I don't want used figures."

Now this response elicits such curiosity and rage in me and the curiosity wins out. And the rage is just because... Well you see:

Well, you're buying them off Marketplace off of loose listing so obviously they are used.

"But why don't you have the boxes."

I throw them out.

" I keep all my boxes and everyone should."

So if I had the box would it not be used?

"Yes lol"

Kind of want to tell him that I do have the boxes so he'll show up so I can just punch him in the throat repeatedly.
 
Right, so... if I buy a figure, open it, then rub it on my junk for months, I can still list it as 'new' if I place it back in the box? Thanks for the tip!

It's like the guy who gets out on parole and immediately murders three teenagers and takes their car, then crashes into a grocery store to shoot five random people, but is killed in a shootout with the police.... is marked down as a successful parole because he never went back to prison.

.... it's not like that at all. I don't know why that example occurred to me.
 
Ru1977 said:
Right, so... if I buy a figure, open it, then rub it on my junk for months, I can still list it as 'new' if I place it back in the box?
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I don't think you need to put it back in the box. I think you just have to HAVE the box.
 
I still have a roll of that circular tape from when I worked at GameStop and they actually sold boxed PC games.

You can get into a lot of shenanigans if you have official circular sealed tape.
 
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