My immediate thought is that the seller is psychic, and that she knew you would "go public" with this BEFORE even giving her a chance to respond, so SHE wrote that "message" to you before sending it off!
Seriously, you are of course right that there should have been a better description and photo. When this happens to me, I PRIVATELY contact the seller asking for a refund of my purchase price plus full shipping both ways, so I lose nothing but a little time and heartache. If they reply that I am out of luck, I file a PayPal dispute, get my money back, and then never bid with that person again. But if they are nice about it and do refund all my money and shipping, then I give them the benefit of the doubt and bid with them again (but of course if it happens a second time, I stop buying from them altogether, even if they refund the second time). Bruce On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Lobbies Forme <[email protected]>wrote: > hello all: > A couple weeks back, I purchased a lobby card on eBay. The description of > the card said, "CONDITION: The card is not numbered. There is pencil on > Walter’s face and faint writing behind his head. There is one worm hole in > the center of the upper border and light soiling on the surface. Condition > is Good-Very Good." > > I usually do not bid on cards that have writing. However, her description > said, "faint writing behind his head" and I looked at the enlarged photo > and, quite frankly, didn't see any writing and thought it must be as > described ('faint'). The link below shows the enlarged photograph which was > in her description on eBay. > http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/dd368/fredlahr/listendarling.jpg > When I returned last Sunday from another wonderful weekend at Cinevent, > the card had arrived in the mail. I was totally shocked when opened the > package and saw the card. The writing behind Walter Pidgeon's face, was not > faint by any means and the writing said "f*ck you", written in pencil or > pen. Link below shows extreme close-up of this portion of the card she sent > me. > http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/dd368/fredlahr/LD-FU.jpg > I know that if I or just about any other dealer on this list was posting > this lobby card online, the description would not say 'faint writing behind > his head'. It would definitely be more descriptive and say exactly what was > written there and certainly the listing would not indicate that it was > 'faint' or hard to see. > I wrote to the seller immediately via the eBay contact option last > Sunday. As of ten minutes ago Saturday 10AM EST, she has not responded to > me. > > While I don't like to give negative feedback ratings, I am leaning heavily > toward it in this case because she posted a photo in an enlarged view which > did not accurately show the writing which was easily visible and (2) she > totally ignored my email after I received the card. > Due to privacy issues, I do not wish to publicy post a link to the eBay > listing or publish the seller's eBay ID. If anyone would like to see the > actual listing, please write me privately. > > I would, however, very much like to her your opinion and thoughts about > this transaction. > > Thanks! > Best, > Alan Herskowitz > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > ___________________________________________________________________ How to > UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: > [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF > MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > > -- Bruce Hershenson and the other 29 members of the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. Box 874 West Plains, MO 65775 Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take lunch) our site <http://www.emovieposter.com/> our auctions <http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/all.html> Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
