Happy Festivus! Airing of Grievances

[raulus]

Originally Posted by Snowman

For me, it's just all the complaining and negativity in this hobby. It's a lot more fun when you focus on the good. I'm having a blast building sets.

I’ll second that motion.

Does complaining about complaining verge on hypocrisy?

[jingram058]

When and why did car dealers start being called stores? Yet another example of stupid BS.

[jingram058]

If you want to be a collector and in a hobby, collect beater cards. Personally, I love them, because I am not a card speculator.

[boneheadandrube]

eBay sellers who list 800+ cards ALL with dark and out of focus scans. The first 100 could just be a mistake, the next 200-500 seems either lazy or incompetent, the remaining 600-800+ makes it seem intentional. "Don't notice my wrinkles please"

[Exhibitman]

https://open.substack.com/pub/adamst...utm_medium=ios

[Eric72]

Originally Posted by boneheadandrube

eBay sellers who list 800+ cards ALL with dark and out of focus scans. The first 100 could just be a mistake, the next 200-500 seems either lazy or incompetent, the remainong 600-800+ makes it seem intentional. "Don't notice my wrinkles please"

Some sellers have a scanner without a CCD element. This causes slabs (and other, more three dimensional objects) to look blurry and out-of-focus.

For the other 99% of knuckleheads who post crappy pictures, though, you’re spot on.

[boneheadandrube]

Originally Posted by Eric72

Some sellers have a scanner without a CCD element. This causes slabs (and other, more three dimensional objects) to look blurry and out-of-focus.

For the other 99% of knuckleheads who post crappy pictures, though, you’re spot on.

Yes, obviously. If you are going to list 800+ scans and many thousands of dollars worth of cards maybe invest the small amount it takes to get a used CCD scanner. This is where the "lazy" part of the assessment comes in.

[butchie_t]

Cards have two freaking sides people. You gonna sell’em? Post’em….front and back.

Every time I see that, I cuss a little and move on.

Harrumph……..gotta go. Hey you there……get offa my lawn.

[BRoberts]

Originally Posted by jingram058

When and why did car dealers start being called stores? Yet another example of stupid BS.

Also, where did all these damn clouds come from?!?

[Snowman]

Originally Posted by raulus

I’ll second that motion.

Does complaining about complaining verge on hypocrisy?

Yes, yes it does.

[Ray Van]

Am I still allowed to air a grievance on Dec 24?

For me, a Canadian collector, it's eBay's Global Shipping Program. It adds unnecessary costs to me as a buyer and I am 98% likely to pass on a seller's item if shipping is from the GSP. Lose/Lose situation.

My most recent example was an item won from the UK that cost 9.99 GBP, then the GSP tacked on an additional 21.30 GBP!!! My mistake for not noticing but I actually won three items from the same seller - the first two were sent together via regular post for a combined 9.00 GBP shipping charge (not unreasonable), the other went through the GSP where I got charged the ridiculous shipping cost. And guess which package arrived first and which one I am still waiting for? Does not make sense.

[Stampsfan]

Originally Posted by Ray Van

Am I still allowed to air a grievance on Dec 24?

For me, a Canadian collector, it's eBay's Global Shipping Program. It adds unnecessary costs to me as a buyer and I am 98% likely to pass on a seller's item if shipping is from the GSP. Lose/Lose situation.

My most recent example was an item won from the UK that cost 9.99 GBP, then the GSP tacked on an additional 21.30 GBP!!! My mistake for not noticing but I actually won three items from the same seller - the first two were sent together via regular post for a combined 9.00 GBP shipping charge (not unreasonable), the other went through the GSP where I got charged the ridiculous shipping cost. And guess which package arrived first and which one I am still waiting for? Does not make sense.

Agreed. However, I will buy using the GSP if the card plus the ridiculous shipping remains a fair price for the card. Otherwise, I am in agreement, I simply pass bidding on the item.

I will add the discrepancy on the amounts charged for GSP makes zero sense. I cannot find a pattern on neither shipping (source) location nor value shipped. It seems to be a random shipping price generator.

[Yoda]

Ebay's authentication program. Humbug!

[ullmandds]

Turn signals…USE THEM!!!

[brianp-beme]

My pet peeve is our pet peeves all over the place inside the house.

Brian (and we have to clean it up, not him)