eBay situtation. You can all draw your own conclusions

[rhettyeakley]

He is being a disingenuous, dishonest blowhard. His rationale for cancelling the sale is beyond comical. He didn't like the price and that is it.

He likely has another buyer lined up that is willing to pay him more and may have even prompted him to do exactly what is being done.

We have all had somebody come out of left field and meddle with sales and I suspect that is the case here, he really has no leg to stand on for what he is doing.

[bcornell]

Hey, Leon - this dishonest seller uses a thread on this forum to justify behaving like this. Is that okay with you?

Phil Garry, anything to add here? The seller is singling you out for revealing hobby "collusion", as he describes it.


Bill

[Dewey]

He recently sold a nice Branch Rickey/Ohio Wesleyan photo. I don't think he "unwittingly" lists anything on ebay. I'm new around here and even I can see this clearly for what it is.

[bcornell]

Seller: americanlaureate

auction: Orig. Panorama Photo Negro League, Washington Potomacs, Hall of Famer Ben Taylor


His squirming response about why he won't sell this item is no better than the nonsense that all the reprint sellers spew. They behave badly because they don't fear the consequences.

[pokerplyr80]

I read through the other thread out of curiosity. I must have missed the part about colluding to keep public sales low. This guy sounds like a seller I would never want to do business with. Not that it would have made the action any better, but I would have respected Jimmy more if he would have simply said sorry I felt this item was worth much more than it closed for and decided to keep it.

[jonvancouver]

Seller is a pig. Karma is a real b*tch though.

[Sean]

Originally Posted by rhettyeakley

He is being a disingenuous, dishonest blowhard. His rationale for cancelling the sale is beyond comical. He didn't like the price and that is it.

He likely has another buyer lined up that is willing to pay him more and may have even prompted him to do exactly what is being done.

We have all had somebody come out of left field and meddle with sales and I suspect that is the case here, he really has no leg to stand on for what he is doing.

Agreed. The seller could have posted a reserve if he didn't want to sell below a certain price. He didn't, and now he should honor the sale.

[SyrNy1960]

Originally Posted by Sean

The seller could have posted a reserve if he didn't want to sell below a certain price. He didn't, and now he should honor the sale.

+1

[ullmandds]

Unfortunately this type of scenario is allowed and seems to be encouraged by eBay based on their awful rules. I most certainly hope that you can get some type of satisfaction from eBay but I doubt it.

No one wants to take accountability anymore in society.

[JustinD]

This whole experience sucks and this is one dealer that is 100% off my list.

I must say that you are assisting this delirium by having such an easily searched profile. The reason that many of us use the oddly written name descriptions are that to a human they are easily deciphered, however to a search engine it is unusable.

The seller was looking for an out and googled your name, city and state and found all your personal thoughts. He used this information to support his "Area 51" theories.

It is best to be an anonymous buyer than to play poker with your cards face up to a stranger.

I think if the googling had not lead him to the trough that fed unjustified fears you would have your item and the seller would have been frustrated, but in today's market he did receive a decent price.

[SyrNy1960]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

No one wants to take accountability anymore in society.

+1

[vintagetoppsguy]

Even though the seller cancelled the listing, you should still be allowed to leave feedback. Neg his sorry butt and move on.

[Leon]

Jimmy Allen, the seller, said he is an honest seller. His message seems to indicate otherwise. And the more we spell out his name in this thread the more googling will help others know how he really is. I also like the fact Jimmy Allen is professing law to one of the best lawyers I know.

[ksabet]

As a collector, this just makes me sad. I hate that something so innocent from my childhood has turned into this.

I am not in any way chiding the OP and actually agree with him 100% but I can't help but shake my head that people can't just buy, sell and enjoy anymore.


This isn't the first crazy buyer/seller story and won't be the last but makes me second guess why I don't collect My Little Pony like my 5-year-old daughter. She still smiles overtime she gets one. I am left wondering if what I have is real, fake or some combination of the two.

[53Browns]

What a little girl! Maybe this moron should look up the definition of "auction"!

[Marckus99]

Sorry you came out on the wrong side of this.
I wish there was a way the seller could be held accountable.

Just sent the seller a short message - as we should all do.
And indeed, Karma is a bitch.

- Mark

[Rickyy]

What a B.S. trying to turn it around to make it look like the bidders are at fault.... sorry to hear this Kenny...you got hosed.

Ricky Y

[SyrNy1960]

Odd how people try to justify things in their own mind, so they believe what they did is ok. Bottom line, he won the auction fair and square (by auction rules) and the seller must honor that! Seller should have put a reserve on it. By failing to do so, you get what you get. Jerk move!

[Republicaninmass]

Seller can always say he made a pricing error, and it should have been a reserve auction. It's hard for me to believe in a retail business, these practices exist. It's a terrible model to grow a business. Lose a customer, and possibly more for life, over a few hundred bucks. It's amazing how short sighted people are.