dejapooh
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posted on January 8, 2007 02:02:47 PM
I've found an item that has been poorly described. Properly described, it should sell for $750. As it is, it will probably go for $250 to $500. Should I buy it to resell or should I offer to tell the owner how to properly describe his / her item for 10% of the final total? How would you react if you were selling something you knew nothing about and someone offered to do this for you?
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merrie
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posted on January 8, 2007 02:22:50 PM
I have discovered items that were poorly or inappropriately described. I have either bought the item if I thought it was a good investment or I was a helpful fellow Ebayer and told them what they did "wrong" or inaccurate at no cost to them. I would never charge someone for advice especially unasked for advice.
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toolhound
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posted on January 8, 2007 02:23:18 PM
Send me the auction number and then I will tell you what you should do.
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merrie
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posted on January 8, 2007 02:23:53 PM
PS, I would hope someone would do the same for me some time.
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tonimar1
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posted on January 8, 2007 03:53:38 PM
Hi
If I saw what you just explained, I would just email the seller and let them know that they could get more $$$ if they were to do the following. If your interested in buying the item, then just buy it.
I had a buyer contact me about an item I was selling and he gave me info that I didn't know, so I ended the auction and did what he said, I received 3xs the amount I would have gotten if I left it my way.
toni
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pixiamom
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posted on January 8, 2007 04:07:14 PM
If it's a seller I know through a forum, I'll make suggestions. Otherwise, I'll bid on it and try to get my bid in before they edit their listing.
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blueyes29
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posted on January 8, 2007 04:26:45 PM
I've had this happen to me several times and, in these cases, helpful and generous fellow eBayers "educated" me as to what I was selling. None ever asked for a percentage and all were glad they could help.
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niel35
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posted on January 8, 2007 04:59:03 PM
I butt in all the time. I just advised a gal that DAM troll is not spelled DAMN and she was grateful
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merrie
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posted on January 8, 2007 05:32:37 PM
I hate when people spell Santa Claus as Santa CLAUSE - pleeeze!!
I offer "helpful" advice, but.......
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pixiamom
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posted on January 8, 2007 05:44:11 PM
Funny, Niel! I remember those DAM trolls - Neglus had several of them!
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photosensitive
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posted on January 9, 2007 06:11:46 AM
I am more likely to write if someone has misidentified an item that will get them a neg at the end of the transaction. There are some very common mistakes in some of the areas I collect. Sometimes they correct the listing and sometimes not. I just got an email from a new collector who bought several "daguerreotypes" on eBay that turned out to be ambrotypes. This is a very common error in listing. Sometimes it is obvious from the photographs but a new collector might not pick it up. I have seen some truly horrendous mistakes in listings.
My all time favorite was the seller of a very nice photograph that I might well have bid on EXCEPT they had identified it as being by one of the inventors of photography. Never mind that it was done years after this person stopped photographing in a a medium they never used! I wrote them to question why they had listed it thus and never got an answer. Fortunately they had put a high reserve on this "treasure" and it did not sell.
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“The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as of the pen.”
Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
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