My experience with investinbaseball, a Net54 Advertiser

[packs]

If the seller is going to say the list price was simply a mistake and that means they have no obligation to honor the sale, I'm curious how the same seller would respond to a bidder who claimed they simply entered the wrong bid amount.

[vintagetoppsguy]

Originally Posted by packs

If the seller is going to say the list price was simply a mistake and that means they have no obligation to honor the sale, I'm curious how the same seller would respond to a bidder who claimed they simply entered the wrong bid amount.

That's a great point!

[Rookiemonster]

All I do is look for cards that are priced wrong or that I can bid for below what it's worth ! That's the name of the game . Any buyer that gets a good price is not doing anything wrong . I don't know the sellers reasons for the price listed . Maybe they want a quick sale , or they got it on the cheap , or its consigned and the price doesn't matter to them . The seller is in the wrong period . Your errors in life are your to live with . If someone benifits from it it's not there fault .

Just leave terrible feed back and check back in for more chances . Either the mistakes will stop or the seller will .

[1952boyntoncollector]

Originally Posted by packs

If the seller is going to say the list price was simply a mistake and that means they have no obligation to honor the sale, I'm curious how the same seller would respond to a bidder who claimed they simply entered the wrong bid amount.

Theres a different dynamic about the cancelling issue bidder versus seller

The seller actually has the card, the buyer may or may not have the money to buy..

Cant get blood from a turnip....if a 'committed' buyer all of the sudden has bills to pay as you see sellers complain on ebay all the time..they are going to just not pay...what are you going to do....part of the business....

as to the seller, we assuming they have the card in hand....so its frustrating to see them not sell it due to a pricing error is the argument,..i get it...i dont agree but i get it....they have the card right there!...just send it...i paid them now send it!....

you cant compare the buyer versus seller because the buyer can always say they dont have the money to pay....they can come up with other fake excuses...hit wrong amount, bad description, but when it comes down to it they will say they dont have the funds to pay....

so you really cant say its the same thing as a buyer retracting a bid (with no ability to pay is what they are going to say whether real or not) versus a seller refusing to sell for a price error (because unless they committing fraud, they shoud have the card) its only a one way street of an angry transaction...the buyer knows the seller has the card and he not sending it...

the opposite isnt true...always a risk the buyer doesnt have the money..happens all the time..

[packs]

My point was people are defending the seller but I doubt they'd defend the buyer. If everything is explained away as a simple mistake from the seller perspective, people should be more accepting of buyers making "mistakes" when they bid too.

But if someone is going to say it's impossible for a buyer to bid wrong, I'd say the same is true for someone claiming they listed a card wrong. Both have multiple safe guards in place to prevent such an "accident" (i.e. double confirms before something is submitted).