ebay return shipping & t206 length opinions please

[tonyo]

I'm hoping a few t206heads will offer their opinion on the length of a card I recently won on ebay.

and also hope some ebay sellers will chime in with their opinion on return shipping costs.


I received the card maybe two days ago, automatically left positive feedback (which I've begun doing immediately upon receiving the card), sat down this a.m. to insert the card in my set (and replace the previous version). I noticed the new card was a good bit shorter than the old card, so I checked it against several more and sure enough it is shorter than the first dozen that I checked. I went back to check the listing to see if I missed something pointing out that the card was trimmed, then wrote the seller to tell him I'd like to return and receive a refund including the cost to return the card.


Ultimately it's not a big deal to me either way.... it is a hofer, but not a big dollar card or anything, just wanted to return a short card without any fanfare. I don't have many visual rules for cards to pass my smell test, but I don't like knowing I have a trimmed card.

You'll see the sellers response below, which made the needle on my "not-so-polite" o-meter jump a small tad and caused a bit of a frown.

So, I looked at the card once more. Honestly the edges don't show any signs I recognize of trimming, but it is no doubt short. I checked it against a dozen more t206's, all noticeably longer. The new card measures about 2-9/16" long.

Decided I'd see what happens if I start a thread for a change & maybe the responses will help out a new t206 collector


So, the questions are; does the sov460 card appear trimmed & would you say it's odd to find a factory cut card 1/16" short.?

As I'm typing this I have a gut feeling that I will find out the consensus to be "nothing unusual here" and I'll keep the card. No worries if that's the case.


Also, do you ebay sellers balk at refunding the cost of return shipping? Seems to me that generally speaking if I buy something and receive a product I didn't expect, it shouldn't cost me anything to return it. Again no biggy just wondering what folks think.


Thanks for some feedback,

Tony

the ebay listing:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/231861446924...%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

my note to the seller:


Hi There,

I just noticed that this card is about 1/8" shorter than all my other t206's and thus consider it to be trimmed. I reviewed the listing and see no mention of trimming,

Therefore I'd like to return the card for a refund including the cost to ship.

If you could forward your mailing address, I'll return the card post haste.

Thanks and have a good weekend!

Tony

and his response:
That card is not trimmed. You can send it back though if you believe that to be the case. As long as I get the same card back I have no problems with returns.

Send it to:
XXXXXXXXXXX

Also I will refund you but will not be refunding the shipping it takes for you to get it back to me.