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Yeah, she just got back to me, said she meant to have a reserve of $400 and will refund my money…I didn’t think a seller could just do that. Then couldn’t any seller just decide they didn’t like the final selling price and cancel it? That is what reserves are for, and doesn’t Ebay charge for a seller to have a reserve price?
See now I don’t think that was fair at all! She should have at least offered you one of the pieces…I would be contacting ebay…
I haven’t messaged her back, I’m going to sit on it for a day or so because I doubt ebay will let her just cancel my purchase…so yeah, we’ll see. I thought it was crappy of her to relist them before she took care of this. No refund as of 10:09 pm and she messaged me around 8 in the evening.
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Male Hearth....one day🤞Dream on.Yeah, she just got back to me, said she meant to have a reserve of $400 and will refund my money…I didn’t think a seller could just do that.
Actually, she can’t.
In the same way that you have to pay if you win, no matter that you got carried away and regret it now, a seller can’t refuse to ship if she doesn’t get the price she wants, that what reserves are for. And “I’m sorry I forgot to set a reserve” doesn’t cut it.
On the other hand, there’s really nothing that ebay can do to force her to live up to her obligations. They can close her account as sanction, but that doesn’t get you anything either.
Yeah, she just got back to me, said she meant to have a reserve of $400 and will refund my money…I didn’t think a seller could just do that.
Actually, she can’t.
In the same way that you have to pay if you win, no matter that you got carried away and regret it now, a seller can’t refuse to ship if she doesn’t get the price she wants, that what reserves are for. And “I’m sorry I forgot to set a reserve” doesn’t cut it.
On the other hand, there’s really nothing that ebay can do to force her to live up to her obligations. They can close her account as sanction, but that doesn’t get you anything either.
THIS.
My very first Windstone ebay purchase was a Male Ki-rin. I paid something like $160 for him, which was a very very fair price. The seller immediately messaged me after the end of the auction saying, “Oh, I expected to get $300 for him, I’m not going to sell him to you.” (Not only was this insulting, it was inflated, as an entire Mint Ki-Rin family sold that very same week on ebay for $280.)
I kindly-as-possible informed her that this was a breach of ebay’s guidelines, let her know what a “Reserve” was and how she should have set it beforehand, and that we would need to take it up with ebay if she wanted to back out of the contractual obligation she’d put herself in by listing the Ki-rin.
She ended up sending him to me, badly packaged, and he arrived so damaged I worked out a refund. All-in-all a frustrating experience.
But no, what this seller is doing to you is not ‘legal’ on ebay and she has every obligation to sell the dragons to you for the price you bid. She doesn’t have much of a leg to stand on if she wants to cheat you out of it. You already went above and beyond your obligation as a buyer, by offering to pay more than the final price.
If you want these dragons, ebay will be on your side, but OGs are common enough that if it were me, personally, I would continue my search elsewhere. This seller obviously isn’t familiar with ebay or Windstones and it might be more trouble than it’s worth, just to end up with them arriving broken from bad packaging, or having to hold her hand through the whole process…
But no, what this seller is doing to you is not ‘legal’ on ebay and she has every obligation to sell the dragons to you for the price you bid. She doesn’t have much of a leg to stand on if she wants to cheat you out of it. You already went above and beyond your obligation as a buyer, by offering to pay more than the final price.
If you want these dragons, ebay will be on your side, but OGs are common enough that if it were me, personally, I would continue my search elsewhere. This seller obviously isn’t familiar with ebay or Windstones and it might be more trouble than it’s worth, just to end up with them arriving broken from bad packaging, or having to hold her hand through the whole process…
I’m not going to raise a fuss about it, it really doesn’t bug me too much since as you said, it’s just old greens, they’re everywhere. I’m just miffed she relisted everything without even communicating with me. I am still curious to see how she is going to refund me, since she apparently doesn’t even want to try and negotiate a fair price for one or two of her pieces, so she owes me back my $22.25 =P
Well best of luck with your refund. It shouldn’t be too hard. Don’t let it lapse more than 90 days though, I learned that the hard way, LOL! A different seller kept putting off refunding me, till it went past 90 days, then ebay has no obligation to help me out and they basically got away free and clear. Grr.
It really seems like this seller isn’t familiar with ebay and thinks it’s more like Cragislist, where it’s a lot more Wild Wild West and sellers can relist or change conditions if they want. Sorry it didn’t work out for you though.
At least give her negative feedback. What she’s doing is totally unfair whether you want to raise a fuss or not. I hate seeing people get away with stuff like this. Grrr.
My 2 cents.
Cashier checks can apparently be forged. I recall a “scare” about it awhile ago.
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And yes, please get ebay involved in this. First the way the original auction had gone down, and the relisting and now the cashier’s check.
And Chris pointed out something. This does sound like the seller acted like ebay was Cragislist. Well, it’s ebay. Different rules about things.WOW and I thought I got a great deal on 3 old greens – male, female and youth – for $99 with free shipping. The seller said they were damage. They arriveed today and there are mostly just flea bites on the male and youth the only one with any real damage is the female with a chunk out of her back and a few flea bites. I may have to send her to a Windstne member that does repairs. That finished my collection of old greens. I already had an emperor, fledging and hatching and I think that’s it.
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