Why are auctions so popular?

[Jantz]

Hi Barry

Auction Houses are making perfect sense to me.

Especially in the past few weeks. When I got my mail today I received another baseball card completely mangled.

This is the third item in the last month I've bought through Ebay to arrive damaged. No fault of the Post Office in any way either.

Ebay in their infinite wisdom has decided to start taking a cut of S&H fees, so sellers have been failing to properly package items for mailing.

I'm not saying auction houses couldn't improperly package an item, but for all the years I've been buying on Ebay, I've never received a damage package until after Ebay starting scalping S&H fees.

The Ebay seller of today's acquisition states that he doesn't take returns. That's about to change. I will be mailing him the card back just to educate him. No way can he resell the card since its so mangled that it won't even come out of the toploader.

Just for laughs, I thought about starting a "Guess the grade" thread.


Jantz