I recently bought a die-cast car on eBay that was in horrifically bad shape. Someone had tried to repaint it and failed, then tried to strip the paint and failed. Got it for under $20 shipped when these have been going for $60-80 shipped.
The item description claimed "very good condition" despite the obvious paint problems from the ONE photo they listed. However, the paint was not a problem for me because I was going to strip and repaint it anyway.
I took a chance and bid on it anyway. When it arrived, I found that there were also quite a few missing parts, including the drivers window, and all the rest of the windows are scratched. None of this is apparent from the photo or the description.
Now, I did take a chance on this item since it was clearly beat up, and truth be told most of the problems I can deal with, except for the missing window. I'm going to have to make a new one and that is a pain in the ass. It's for this reason that I left him neutral feedback. The guy had only a feedback rating of 4 anyway, including a negative, so I didn't feel bad about it. The guy was an idiot anyway.
Now I got two messages from him today demanding that I revise my feedback to positive. He said he never claimed the item was in good condition and that there were no missing parts "that he knew of." Well, obviously he didn't know what he was selling. The idiot tried even said "collector's item for sure." Even if this model was new, it's not a collector's item because it's Sunstar, which is very low-end when it comes to diecast.
Honestly, this guy should consider himself lucky that I didn't leave him negative feedback and report him to eBay for "item doesn't match description," and i told him so in my reply.
Then I added him to my block list.
The item description claimed "very good condition" despite the obvious paint problems from the ONE photo they listed. However, the paint was not a problem for me because I was going to strip and repaint it anyway.
I took a chance and bid on it anyway. When it arrived, I found that there were also quite a few missing parts, including the drivers window, and all the rest of the windows are scratched. None of this is apparent from the photo or the description.
Now, I did take a chance on this item since it was clearly beat up, and truth be told most of the problems I can deal with, except for the missing window. I'm going to have to make a new one and that is a pain in the ass. It's for this reason that I left him neutral feedback. The guy had only a feedback rating of 4 anyway, including a negative, so I didn't feel bad about it. The guy was an idiot anyway.
Now I got two messages from him today demanding that I revise my feedback to positive. He said he never claimed the item was in good condition and that there were no missing parts "that he knew of." Well, obviously he didn't know what he was selling. The idiot tried even said "collector's item for sure." Even if this model was new, it's not a collector's item because it's Sunstar, which is very low-end when it comes to diecast.
Honestly, this guy should consider himself lucky that I didn't leave him negative feedback and report him to eBay for "item doesn't match description," and i told him so in my reply.
Then I added him to my block list.
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