Selling Toys - Horror Stories & "Happy" Customers

Selling a piece of 110+ year old furniture on Ebay. Guy offered me basically a 1/3 of the asking price then told me "it's got a giant chunk of wood missing from it" when I declined his offer. It's got a splintered side portion which amounts to a 1/4 inch wide splinter on one edge (easily patched or restained to maintain the authenticity of the piece).

Had to explain to him "Things from World War I are rarely found in mint condition."

Two weeks later it sells to another guy for full price without comment or complaint.

Always be willing to wait out the halfwits.
 
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altcunningham said:
The saddest part of aging is the "cassettes or CDs? Why don't you CDs nuts in yo mouth" joke doesn't work anymore. Only vinyl resurged.
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Agreed. You could always try "Vinyl records? How about you record deez nuts slappin' your face?" or "You wanna spin some records? I got something else you can spin on.", though that doesn't have quite the same punch to it. It's a bit of a thinker, a bit of a mouthful. Kinda like deez nuts.
 
altcunningham said:
Only vinyl resurged.
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In a more mainstream way that's true. BUT, there's a robust CD and Cassette collecting subset of metalheads and rocker kids. Probably more than any other genres I've seen. Even my daughter has a massive CD collection that she's amassed in only a couple of years, but only has a few albums.
Probably helps that vinyl is regularly double or more than double the cost of a CD. Vinyl collecting is prohibitively expensive.
 
That's heartening to hear. I still get CDs from artists when I can at shows because I don't want to lug the vinyl.

I remember when the cassettes started coming back for new releases with some artists I like, but I can't get nostalgic for that. Maybe as a coffee table piece, I don't know.
 
I find that I have nostalgia for music, but for whatever reason I never really attached to the delivery method. Moving away from physical media, the first thing I ever did was get rid of all my CDs (ironically, a few years before my daughter decided to collect CDs, from all the artists I just got rid of). Now, it's also fair to point out that I had enough CDs at one point to fill more space than my entire action figure collection takes up several times over. So, I was finding it increasingly more difficult to justify holding onto all of that stuff in an era when I can store it all, and ten times more, on something the size of my phone.
 
Began my Purge this morning with some quick photos and listings.

Throw up an entire series as a lot. It's loose, but complete.

I get a guy asking if I have the boxes. I don't, indicated as such three times over through the photos, title and copy.

He tells me, "Oh, only like to buy figures new in box."

And I'm already over the edge with these people so:

" Then I'm really curious. Why did you click and even inquire on a listing that states loose in the title, loose in the description, and shows opened loose figures laid out on a cutting mat in every photo?"

" I just thought you might have the boxes."

" Even if I did it wouldn't be new in the box. So back to my first question."

Of course by then I was like what am I doing and I just blocked the guy.

But still.

Oh and I sold it 15 minutes later to a dude, no questions asked, wanted to roll up in 30 min and did.
 
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