Selling Toys - Horror Stories & "Happy" Customers

Recently my deluxe Deadpool "arrived" from Amazon in an empty bag. After going round for round with the AI chatbot, I was asked to send a photo of the item. I sent a picture of the empty bag. It took a little bit longer, but I got a replacement sent.
 
Schizm said:
People are suspicious of free. When I worked at Starbucks we'd have training days for the new drinks so we'd all know how to make them correctly. Trying to give those drinks away for free to our regulars was met with deep skepticism and suspicion.

I just handed you a drink - why would this one be poison?

So weird.

Mailed a 4oz figure today and the price shot up to $5.97. I'd charged $5.75 and that was with a 20 cent buffer from the previous lowest USPS price of $5.52. That's a huge increase and now I have to go update all my listings.
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When I started selling about 10 years ago, I was doing a lot of Basic Mattel WWE. They're not fragile, I could sell individual figures for $10 in a white bubble mailer with around $1.80 postage to anywhere in the country.
 
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One a FB group for 1/6 scale, I have a few Hot Toys listed. One of them is a Darth Sidious. The art box has a thumb indent on it from whomever originally packaged it when I ordered it, and since I planned on keeping it at the time I didn't care (I'm not a box nut). Anyway, decided to sell it, looking online at the going rates. Averaging around $230 or so. I put $200 on it to account for the dent, because I'm not a box nut but others are, and the figure has never been opened. I get an inquiry, I'll copy and paste the back and forth starting with him:

Him: "Do you have more pictures of Sidious?"

Me: "Sure!" (take more pictures, send them)

Him: "I'll give you $185 all-in."

Me: "...it's listed for $200, with $15 shipping. I'm already losing money on the shipping."

Him: "Well, $200 is the going rate and yours has a dent in it."

Me: "Actually, the figure is mint. The box has a dent."

Him: "Yeah, that's what I said. $185 is the best I can do for that."

Me: "...let me know if you change your mind."

Him: "It's just, I'm not going to pay full price for a damaged item."

Me: "Cool, because the item isn't damaged. Just a dent on the packaging. I'll be here if you change your mind!"

Him: "I'm trying to tell you you're priced WAY too high. I'm not changing my mind on this. And the box is part of the item, so it IS damaged."

Me: "Great. Have a nice day! Thanks for looking."

Him: "You don't seem to understand what I'm saying. $200 is too high."

<blocked>


I understand the economy sucks and the chances we'll probably be dead in a year or two are higher now than at any point previously, but c'mon man lol I know I should have ended that exchange much sooner, but I kinda wanted to see where it would go.

As I typically end these things..."these fuckin people."
 
I've been on a tear buying DC Multiverse characters to fill gaps in my new display and the shipping for all of them is sooooooooo f'ing.... sllllloooooooowwwww. One figure that was always scheduled to be here today just got delayed til tomorrow.

Sellers taking forever to ship is one problem, then USPS/UPS/FedEx just not moving shit for days. Is this on account of gas prices maybe they're trying to consolidate shipments? It's so frustrating to see sellers just sit on items for days after purchase. My account is set up to ship within two business days and usually I beat that.
 
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