Heritage/e-bay auction

[HemiGTX]

To All -

 

Has anybody ever experianced this. An online Heritage auction this past Sat. had a few books that were SOLD. Those very same books are still available for purchase on e-bay.

 

Is this some sort of sleazy practice that I am not aware of that happens all of the time? It seems to me like a person or dealer will list comics in a Heritage auction, have somebody bid up the comic or do it themselves, and if they get what they want for the book fine, if not, it stays right on e-bay with a "buy it now"

 

In the Heritage archives it shows the book as sold, yet it is not. There are so many things wrong with that.

 

1.) It can really screw up the GPA

 

2.) It's a flat out sleazy way to do business

 

3.) The Heritage archives don't mean anything for referance, etc.

 

 

Has anybody else seen this? Thoughts?

[Dale Roberts]

I would imagine that the books were simply not pulled from the person's ebay store. Heritage has all books in hand and on premises before auctioning the items. You might try to contact the ebay seller.

[HemiGTX]

Thanks Dale,

 

That's what I thought. The comic was purchased on e-bay after the auction had ended on Heritage. On the other hand no invoice has been received yet from e-bay (strange).

 

[Buzzetta]

I have experienced an incident where a book of mine was being offered by someone after I won the book from heritage. The seller was using a scan from the heritage site making believe the book was theirs. Be aware of things like that.