Need your help with a EBAY deal gone bad

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Posted By: Gilbert Maines

If I am out in left field, I sure don't belong there - Julie is our left fielder, and she deserves the starting role.

But Im thinking that the seller was as surprised to find out that the card was trimmed as the buyer was. I can see the buyer opening the package, realizing "Oh crap, it is trimmed. Double crap, the seller won't believe me, I have to get it graded" ... Ok it is verified ..."Now I have to incur further cost to ship this back, what is its value? Should I insure it? No."

All very unfortunate. I am not sure how the card was described, and it is difficult to make a determination without that fact; however, The seller actually taking reposession of the trimmed, otherwise $56. card does not appear important in the overall scheme of things.

And as far as Joanne's analogy, I agree it was well stated, however, I have returned a broken socket wrench to Sears who told me (without inspecting it) to throw it in the trash and take a new one.

To ask the buyer to absorb half of the purchase price in addition to the other costs which he has already incurred appears wrong to me. The trimmed card may not be worth $25. anymore than it is worth $56. I don't know.

It is the seller's responsibility to fully describe what is offered for sale, and the buyer's responsibility to make sure that he is right. If we collectively feel that is not the case, I will view trading in this venue differently than I currently do.