So is being undermined via PM on a "done deal" here a common thing?

[The Amazing Chump]

I agree with everything everyone has said so far (especially about Canadians and furriners, can't get enough of 'em). I DON'T agree, however, that this thread will be on the main page 5 days from now. Someone will get butthurt, there will be crying, a great wailing and gnashing of teeth, naughty pictures will be posted, threats will be made and someone(s) will be suspended. Then (and only then) will this thread go to the great furnace where they put the unwanted puppies and disappear into the internet.

 

Then the ginger madman gets to gibber about how many point he should/would/deserves to have gotten. I'M ON TO YOUR TRICKS, BOARD!!!

[Aces]

Some sellers accept first via PM or post in thread, timestamp determines first buyer. When this happens quite often the thread is not updated immediately to reflect a sale. This may have been the case of what happened with the book you are talking about, as I can attest to, it happens quite a bit..

 

But then the Seller should have identified that it was purchased via a PM with an earlier time stamp, so as not to be a doosh. S/he should not say that it is "no longer available" and allow for reasonable doosh inferences.

Hear, hear!

[Comicopolis]

I quit shipping to Canada and overseas unless the person involved is a personal friend or I have had successful transactions with them in the past. Too much of a pain in the arse.

 

Watson will ship to me no problem!

I would also undermine your purchase via PM.

Pfft like anybody listens to you.

That's the way I like it... Only fools and horses.

 

Trigger.

[TupennyConan]

We are all being undermined via PM.

[lizards2]

We are all being undermined via PM.

[Aces]

We are all being undermined via PM.

PM sent!

[lizards2]

While I don't consider myself a n00b here anymore, perhaps some more senior members of the boards can enlighten me as to whether they've experienced regularly (as a buyer or as a seller) an attempt by a fellow boardie to undermine via PM a transaction they've conducted/concluded here in a public thread.

 

I would think this is poor form and generally frowned upon, but maybe it happens more regularly than I thought...?

 

The context: seller X posts in a thread a book at a great price that I'd love to have, but unfortunately I'm too slow to post the gremlin and someone else snags it. I compliment buyer Y on the great buy via PM and mention in all seriousness that if ever he wants to turn the book around to me at a profit, I'd be willing to make him an offer, no problem. Buyer Y thanks me for my interest but laments that after he claimed the book with his own "Take It", the seller told him via PM that the book was no longer available (all this within about 90 minutes of it being originally posted), leaving both the would-be buyer and myself with the unshakeable impression that someone had PM'd the seller an offer superior to his listing price on the book and he opted to "go private" with the sale to make some extra $$$.

 

I guess at the end of the day the seller is entitled to get the most he can for his book, and an aggressive buyer can go the PM route to usurp a potential "done deal" in a thread, but the whole thing kind of stinks, in my view (and I'm sure it's even more aggravating for the original would-be buyer!). Naturally it would be naive to assume these types of things don't happen, but I'm curious about the frequency of it.

 

Interested on your thoughts on the etiquette and appropriateness of the whole thing.

 

You state that ultimately a seller can get the most for his book and ignore the but it is certainly unethical both on the part of the seller and the

highest bidder.

 

I've seen instances where the seller claimed he couldn't find the book or had

mistakenly listed a book he no longer owned but in general I find it hard to believe.

 

I'll be honest, it does happen about losing a book. A few weeks back I went to relist a single comic on ebay and I have the scan but cannot find the book. I don't recall selling or trading it. I have no record of doing either but the book isn't in my sale pile. It isn't with any of my comics. Strange. Luckily when I original listed it, it didn't sell.

This has happened to me several times here as a seller - I didn't thoroughly scrub my new threads of sold items before putting them up again.

[Ghost Town]

I quit shipping to Canada and overseas unless the person involved is a personal friend or I have had successful transactions with them in the past. Too much of a pain in the arse.

I buy from US based dealers and Ebayers all the time and books are being shipped in record time. Not sure what its such a pain?

For my insurance to cover any books worth $200 or more, they need to be shipped with signature confirmation. So for Canada, that means registered mail or FedEx. I've found registered mail to be $25 or more for just one book. And FedEx is much more than that. For expensive books, that's probably no big deal. But for cheaper stuff, it doesn't make much sense.

[seanfingh]

I agree with everything everyone has said so far (especially about Canadians and furriners, can't get enough of 'em). I DON'T agree, however, that this thread will be on the main page 5 days from now. Someone will get butthurt, there will be crying, a great wailing and gnashing of teeth, naughty pictures will be posted, threats will be made and someone(s) will be suspended. Then (and only then) will this thread go to the great furnace where they put the unwanted puppies and disappear into the internet.

 

Then the ginger madman gets to gibber about how many point he should/would/deserves to have gotten. I'M ON TO YOUR TRICKS, BOARD!!!

 

Don't blaspheme.

[topofthetotem]

I've mentioned this before

 

I did put the "I'll take it" on a tomahawk book via PM a while back and I figured it was no problem the buyer had no restrictions in his opening post.

 

Well the next day he PM'ed me and said that another potential buyer had PM'ed him crying like a little sissy that the book was sold via PM and not in the thread and he wanted to cancel my bid.

 

I told him "he could do whatever he wanted it was his book" and I have avoided his threads ever since as well as the wet diapered little sissy that complained to him.

 

I've always assumed the the complainer offered more for the book and the seller was probably raised without the intestinal fortitude to honor a sale so as far as I was concerned it was best not to deal with that types if it can be helped.

 

In the end I did not get the book but that's alright there are plenty of honest people here to take my money.

 

My advise to the OP is create your own Cal type list you know, except without the crazy and move on.

[Loki]

My advise to the OP is create your own Cal type list you know, except without the crazy and move on.

 

 

But the crazy is what makes Cal's list so entertaining...

[seanfingh]

 

 

Well the next day he PM'ed me and said that another potential buyer had PM'ed him crying like a little sissy that the book was sold via PM and not in the thread and he wanted to cancel my bid.

 

I told him "he could do whatever he wanted it was his book" and I have avoided his threads ever since as well as the wet diapered little sissy that complained to him.

 

I've always assumed the the complainer offered more for the book and the seller was probably raised without the intestinal fortitude to honor a sale so as far as I was concerned it was best not to deal with that types if it can be helped.

 

 

This is awesome.

[smithdatura]

I've mentioned this before

 

I did put the "I'll take it" on a tomahawk book via PM a while back and I figured it was no problem the buyer had no restrictions in his opening post.

 

Well the next day he PM'ed me and said that another potential buyer had PM'ed him crying like a little sissy that the book was sold via PM and not in the thread and he wanted to cancel my bid.

 

I told him "he could do whatever he wanted it was his book" and I have avoided his threads ever since as well as the wet diapered little sissy that complained to him.

 

I've always assumed the the complainer offered more for the book and the seller was probably raised without the intestinal fortitude to honor a sale so as far as I was concerned it was best not to deal with that types if it can be helped.

 

In the end I did not get the book but that's alright there are plenty of honest people here to take my money.

 

My advise to the OP is create your own Cal type list you know, except without the crazy and move on.

 

 

Believe me, I've been taking mental notes...

[Dr. Balls]

 

 

Well the next day he PM'ed me and said that another potential buyer had PM'ed him crying like a little sissy that the book was sold via PM and not in the thread and he wanted to cancel my bid.

 

I told him "he could do whatever he wanted it was his book" and I have avoided his threads ever since as well as the wet diapered little sissy that complained to him.

 

I've always assumed the the complainer offered more for the book and the seller was probably raised without the intestinal fortitude to honor a sale so as far as I was concerned it was best not to deal with that types if it can be helped.

 

 

This is awesome.

 

I agree. I truly love the "sissy" references. It could have gone just a bit farther with the use of the words "Nancy boy" or "Sissy Mary".

[TupennyConan]

Wet diapered little sissy?

 

Me?

 

[seanfingh]

 

If it is you then "drop-shipping, wet-diapered little sissy" is probably more accurate.

[comix4fun]

 

 

Well the next day he PM'ed me and said that another potential buyer had PM'ed him crying like a little sissy that the book was sold via PM and not in the thread and he wanted to cancel my bid.

 

I told him "he could do whatever he wanted it was his book" and I have avoided his threads ever since as well as the wet diapered little sissy that complained to him.

 

I've always assumed the the complainer offered more for the book and the seller was probably raised without the intestinal fortitude to honor a sale so as far as I was concerned it was best not to deal with that types if it can be helped.

 

 

This is awesome.

 

 

+1

 

Except I would have replaced "intestinal" with "testicular" but that's a personal choice.

[comix4fun]

 

 

Well the next day he PM'ed me and said that another potential buyer had PM'ed him crying like a little sissy that the book was sold via PM and not in the thread and he wanted to cancel my bid.

 

I told him "he could do whatever he wanted it was his book" and I have avoided his threads ever since as well as the wet diapered little sissy that complained to him.

 

I've always assumed the the complainer offered more for the book and the seller was probably raised without the intestinal fortitude to honor a sale so as far as I was concerned it was best not to deal with that types if it can be helped.

 

 

This is awesome.

 

I agree. I truly love the "sissy" references. It could have gone just a bit farther with the use of the words "Nancy boy" or "Sissy Mary".

 

 

"Nancy Pants" rolls off the tongue nicely as well.

[TupennyConan]

If it is you then "drop-shipping, wet-diapered little sissy" is probably more accurate.

 

While reading the OP, all I could think about was drop shipping opportunities & clever PM buying tactics.

[TupennyConan]

Threads like this are instructive.