Are fruitcakes running rampant on eBay lately? Selling, buying, listing, feedback, etc...

[Anakinisvader]

Got the Gamer4life777 message today.  Trying to get a Modular for $50.  I told her I felt her pain because my 6 year old son was dying from Leukemia and I needed to sell off my LEGO collection to pay the medial bills and avoid bankruptcy and foreclosure.  Dirtbag.

[exciter1]

  On 6/8/2014 at 2:24 AM, Anakinisvader said:

Got the Gamer4life777 message today.  Trying to get a Modular for $50.  I told her I felt her pain because my 6 year old son was dying from Leukemia and I needed to sell off my LEGO collection to pay the medial bills and avoid bankruptcy and foreclosure.  Dirtbag.

 

I haven't slept since.

[jaisonline]

The stories are fabulous. However, I do want to crawl under the dining room table into the fetal position after reading 50% of the posts. I'm so happy I created this thread to spread the moron love that we deal with.

[DoNotInsertIntoMouth]

I would give someone a discount if they were just real with me:

 

Hi. I am married with 2 children. They are terrible. I hate my wife. I live in a trailer.

 

I just want some damn Lego

 

 

Automatic 50% discount.

[justafrog]

  On 6/8/2014 at 3:28 AM, DoNotInsertIntoMouth said:

I would give someone a discount if they were just real with me:

 

Hi. I am married with 2 children. They are terrible. I hate my wife. I live in a trailer.

 

I just want some damn Lego

 

 

Automatic 50% discount.

 

Sending you an eBay message now! Thanks!

[game]

This is an interesting thread......Im gonna go ahead & leave this here: copy&paste

 

"Wow way to rip people off with your prices!! Ebay shouldn't let people like you sell on eBay.. My don is 8 and can't afford this kind of money and I refuse to buy it for him!! Shame on you !"      

 

 

Username: I will leave that out... this item was $35.00
 

[game]

Here's another one, this gentlemen is from another country

"Never I wasnt interested in buy you nothing. I dont like the scalper employee of ACTIVISION.
Tomorrow you will have a big surprise in your work for this auction. Good luck"

 

Got accused of being a scalper & an Activision Employee, along with being threatened all in the same message:   WIN-WIN-WIN ....lol
 

 

Back story: this guy messaged me a few times before I finally responded. He was actually trying to get me to buy his items while posting questions on my items marked as other, I told him I wasn't interested. I asked him if he had a question about the item he posted the questions on & that was his response. wow

 

[Jojoyojimbi]

it's not always the buyers that are dumbasses, check out what this guy wants for this star wars store display:

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/321419339050?ssPageName=STRK:MEBOFFX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1432.l2649

[game]

  On 6/8/2014 at 6:50 AM, Jojoyojimbi said:

it's not always the buyers that are dumbasses, check out what this guy wants for this star wars store display:

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/321419339050?ssPageName=STRK:MEBOFFX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1432.l2649

Whoa, don't those usually sell for a few hundred dollars? I wish we could see what offers he's had on it so far.

[stephen_rockefeller]

I will give the seller this, he did pick the king of all star wars displays to charge and arm and a leg for.....It will fetch far more than A few hundred bucks.

[game]

You think that could go for around $500-$600? That does have a ton of minifigs in it.

[stephen_rockefeller]

Who knows maybe........there is zero playability in any LEGO store display though.

[jaisonline]

  On 6/8/2014 at 3:28 AM, DoNotInsertIntoMouth said:

I would give someone a discount if they were just real with me:

 

Hi. I am married with 2 children. They are terrible. I hate my wife. I live in a trailer.

 

I just want some damn Lego

 

 

Automatic 50% discount.

My low ball offer and sad story was automatically declined for your Batcave.

[game]

What about if we have funny messages from buyers that were actually really happy, ok to post them here....jaisonline?
 

[jaisonline]

  On 6/8/2014 at 12:41 PM, game said:

What about if we have funny messages from buyers that were actually really happy, ok to post them here....jaisonline?

 

 

well, if it makes them look like a fruitcake or their behavior must be caused by something in the water

[game]

Yeah this might not qualify because it was caused by her getting something for free. Her initial reaction was priceless though

[jaisonline]

  On 6/8/2014 at 12:54 PM, game said:

Yeah this might not qualify because it was caused by her getting something for free. Her initial reaction was priceless though

Feel free to post. I only started this thread. It's owned by all of us :)

[game]

Ok, first off I would never call this women a "fruitcake", she's just too damn awesome.....

 

I received this message from a returning customer. She had just purchased 2 other items from me that were not that cheap, so I had to do something for her. The initial release of this item was extremely limited & was selling for around $40-$50 on eBay. 

Omg my kids just crapped. Thank you so much for the sunburn/dragon's peak. I really wasn't expecting that and I really appreciate it! Even without the free sunburn this has been the best eBay experience I've had. Please let me know when you get a wham shell in hand then they have them all and I can forget about it.... Until the next big thing. Lol.

Daniel

 

P.S. She got the wham-shell for free too about a month later.

[holleman67]

I've had this guy messaging me and offering me the 50% of my price on stone minifigs from the new xmen set. I had two sentinels and a x-jet. We went back and forth, him telling me to combine this and that but he had only $50 to spend. He then wanted two sentinels and cyclops and magneto. I told him no, I figured I'd educate him and tell him to go yo lego.com where he could buy the set for $50!!!! He responded back asking, "so does this mean your accepting my offer?" Wtf?

[stephen_rockefeller]

Why do people waste their time with tools on ebay?

[game]

Off topic, anybody see what trenth got for his star wars collection on eBay? Glad he let it ride...

[holleman67]

  On 6/8/2014 at 1:43 PM, stephen_rockefeller said:

Why do people waste their time with tools on ebay?

Sometimes it provides me entertainment, this guy I was trying to make a combined offer and to be nice. When I realized he wasn't buying at my prices, that's when I told him to go to LEGO.

I leave my best offer open. My thinking is that I'm willing to work out in a price and don't want to miss out on something. I put an auto decline in something I was selling recently, and found myself doing the price to where it auto-declined. So I try to give faith in the eBay community that they will use it responsibly. Lately it's been just nonsense.

[game]

I cant stand getting those messages where people TELL you what price they will pay for YOUR item. It's never anywhere near what I have it up for sale for. I got a link one time from a guy telling me that my item's price was too high, it was a limited PSVITA bundle that was out of production for about a year. The link was to a Feed & Supply store out of NY. They sell pet food & just so happened to have one item that was in the electronics category. It was $17.00 cheaper than mine & didn't include the DLC that mine did........Yeah ok bubs!

[holleman67]

  On 6/8/2014 at 2:00 PM, game said:

I cant stand getting those messages where people TELL you what price they will pay for YOUR item. It's never anywhere near what I have it up for sale for. I got a link one time from a guy telling me that my item's price was too high, it was a limited PSVITA bundle that was out of production for about a year. The link was to a Feed & Supply store out of NY. They sell pet food & just so happened to have one item that was in the electronics category. It was $17.00 cheaper than mine & didn't include the DLC that mine did........Yeah ok bubs!

Right....people like that I have no problem telling to go buy it there. Someone messaged me back in January telling me my shelob attacks for $25 was just $12 on LEGO Shop at Home when they cut the price and I was charging to much. Perks of being at the right place at the right time!

[DoNotInsertIntoMouth]

  On 6/8/2014 at 6:45 AM, game said:

Here's another one, this gentlemen is from another country

"Never I wasnt interested in buy you nothing. I dont like the scalper employee of ACTIVISION.

Tomorrow you will have a big surprise in your work for this auction. Good luck"

 

Got accused of being a scalper & an Activision Employee, along with being threatened all in the same message:   WIN-WIN-WIN ....lol

 

 

Back story: this guy messaged me a few times before I finally responded. He was actually trying to get me to buy his items while posting questions on my items marked as other, I told him I wasn't interested. I asked him if he had a question about the item he posted the questions on & that was his response. wow

 

 

 

I guess he found out you have been catching people and cutting off the top of their heads... You tried but you couldn't get away with it man.

 

 

  On 6/8/2014 at 11:12 AM, jaisonline said:

My low ball offer and sad story was automatically declined for your Batcave.

 

Lol Yeah some items have to have a floor because I am tired of getting 1$ offers.