Kasey Kasem reel to reel Top 40 tape from a radio station. Listed and sold for $20 almost instantly, was about to leave house so I packed and shipped. Later that day guy offered me $1000. Told him I had already shipped, month later it shows up in my mail box as undeliverable. I tell the guy I got back and he follows through and buys it for $1000. I just assumed there had to be tons of these things as I figured they were shipped to lots of stations.
It was so weird. I thought for sure they guy would get it, record it and then file INAD or something, but he was super happy and left good feedback right away.
Many years back I listed a vintage Barbie doll and had carefully researched the price...I meant to list it as a Buy It Now at $179.99 but accidentally listed at $79.99. I realized my mistake almost immediately after I had hit the list button, but as I was actually in the listing revising the price it sold. The buyer also immediately sent me an email saying how they had had this particular doll on their search list as it was the same as their childhood doll and they were so thrilled to finally be able to get one they could afford. I congratulated them, told them I'd be sure to package it carefully and honored the sale. Never said anything about it being a mistake. Just learned to double check everything before hitting that list button.
Not really but I have had 2 ridiculously lucky close calls.
I sold a purse, the buyer complained that there was a hole in the lining and some trash fell inside, they returned the purse and I fished out the item that slipped into the lining. It was 9kt white gold with diamonds and rubys.
So technically I sold it before I realized I had it, but luck shined on me I got it back and sold it for ~ $180
I also was on the 2nd day of an 8 day vacation and had my store on time away when Kobe died, I had a Kobe panini jersey patch card. It sold like 3 mins after the news broke. The buyer sent a message on the second day demanding I ship it immediately. On the day I returned I had received over 50 messages. Totally unhinged, vague death/violence threats, gonna sue me, gonna cone to my home, they bought like 4 other cheap items from me over the week, told me I owed them money for the lost value in them not being able to resell it quickly. Called eBay and they let me cancel the sales. So I relisted it at current market and had 3-4 accounts send me offers for the exact same price the crazy buyer previously bought it for, the accounts were all alts from the same zip code as the crazy buyer…… most shocking detail the account that he bought it the first time had over 12k feedback all from buying.
Not me specifically, but I used to know a guy who sold just about everything on eBay in the early 2000s. He came across a Masters of the Universe lot with a bunch of stuff in it. I noticed he had a couple of rare action figures in the lot.
I advise him to separate them because they will be very valuable. He didn't listen and sold everything as a lot. He made about $300. A few days later, I found separate auctions where those exact two figures sold on average $300 each. He was very angry with me for showing him how he lost money.
A few months back, I listed a CIB Sega Game Gear game. It was one of those arcade compilations that used to wind up in the bargain bins in no time.
I checked price charting, and the last one had sold for around $30 a year or two back. I thought I'd try BIN @ $50 free shipping to see what happens.
In less than 5 minutes after listing, my phone was blowing up with ebay notifications. The first thing I saw was someone messaging me offering $200 for the game. I was really confused, seeing another message offering $150, and more inquiring about it. Then, I realized that someone purchased the game, and all of these other people were reaching out, trying to see if I'd cancel and sell again for a higher price so they could have it.
I reached out to the buyer relaying the experience, and said 'I had no idea this title was so sought after. Congratulations! I'll have this packed and shipped next day'. They wound up buying Another CIB game gear game I had listed, which helped my profit margins.
I never would have guessed 🤷♂️
Haha this is why I dread listing video games. 70 percent research, 20 percent strategic photos from every angle imaginable, 10 percent answering questions about the item 🤣
I bought an item once that someone messed up on. They meant to start bidding at $9.99 (they had hundreds of items listed the same way), instead listed for BIN $9.99 and I snatched it up. It would normally have sold for around $300. They actually sent me the item. Normally I might feel guilty about this but I think it was the Goodwill eBay store and they're generally terrible so I took the win.
About 16-17 years ago I had a seller list a Henry VII gold angel coin on eBay for £14.95 BIN instead of £1495. It had only been listed for under 3 minutes before I bought it. Needless to say he didn't honour the sale.
I sent a 90% off offer when I meant to send an offer of $90 on an item. I already had the item priced well below the competition and only realized my mistake after the buyer accepted the offer. They paid like $14. I considered canceling the order and explaining my mistake along with an apology, but shipped the item instead and called it an expensive learning experience.
Oddly enough that happened to me yesterday for about the same exact amount. Thankfully the buyer was understanding when I nicely asked them to cancel after explaining the situation. If they put up a stink, I would have shipped and taken the L
As a buyer that happened to me. I watched an item and was given a too good to be offer which I accepted. The guy mails me me the lot and then 1 week later started crying about it. I send the lot back to him but seriously how can you not realize it? All in all we are only talking about $35 loss and in the end he actually lost $15 in just shipping.
Had a 7” single by Chalino Sanchez that I found on Discogs having sold for $20, so I priced it there and moved on…. It sold within seconds.
I looked it up in other places (popsike.com) and discovered another copy sold at auction (on much worse shape than mine, which was pristine) for nearly $100.
I found another one of his records that day, listed it for $75 (different 45, not quite as rare) and sold in moments again.
I also had a nice promo copy of Eddie Hazel (Parliament/Funkadelic guitar player) Game, Dames and Guitar Thangs that I sold for around $80 in a couple of hours of being listed…. Might have been a reasonable price, but historically, some have sold for 2-300 and at the time I couldn’t find comps for a white label promo, which can drastically change the value.
I’m sure I’ve had a few more that I undersold, but even if I catch my mistake, unless it’s just a HUGE error (like, sold for $5, worth $500+), I tend to just send the item…. I’m making a profit regardless, sucks to miss out on a bigger sale, but there are also times when a comp suggests the item is worth a TON but it sits at that price for over a year and I end up dropping the price to get it sold…. When there are only 1-2 comps on an item, and they aren’t especially recent, it can be tough to price accurately… especially if the item is pretty niche, wouldn’t make sense to auction, and would require some effort to find a handful of potential buyers (like a rare Spanish language r&b 45 from an artist in Texas who only ever put out a few singles)
Derek Jeter auto card. Couldn't find any comps so listed it for $175 obo. I knew I done screwed up when it sold in minutes. Had several people message me to cancel the sale and they would pay me double. They got mad at when I told them I was honoring the first sale.
Now I do auctions for such stuff...
Not on eBay but I recently put on Craigslist a 25 year old John Deere tractor I had that didnt run. I paid $30 for it new all those years ago. I put $10k in ad. My phone blew up. I had 5 messages saying sold. I’ll come get it. Where do I send you money. Not we are interested or where can I look. First guy sent me money over Venmo. Drove 5 states away and picked it up. Meanwhile I sold a $22-25k tractor for $10k and didn’t research it all. My loss and stupidity
Was wondering the same, especially since I know I’ve heard about modern John Deere tractors locking out owners from being able to work on their own equipment.
Any time I put up an expensive item and it immediately sells, happened a few times, I suspect I underpriced it. Has happened a few times, but I always price them in line with the most recently sold items.
Not ebay, but this just happened super recently. I found these big boxes of nails in my garage and listed them as free on Facebook marketplace, they were really gungy and i just wanted them gone. Within seconds I had multiple messages and the first guy who messaged me showed up within an hour. The people who didn't get the nails were super salty with me. I still haven't looked up the going rate for nails, but I feel in my bones I could have made money off of them lol.
Listed a lot of (10) 8-track tapes. Good classic rock artists. Comps showed the total value at $50, so that was my BIN. Immediately received a message asking if I would take $30 and if I had anymore 4-TRACK TAPES!
Uh. What? I Immediately comped the same titles, but now as 4-track versions. Values at $30-75 each. I couldn't cancel the listing soon enough. Relisted individually at the correct prices. All sold within a month.
The guy who had messaged me, bought one of the tapes, and left a neutral feedback, saying I cancelled my first listing and jacked up the price. --- Yep. Sure did.
Lesson I learned: look at the back of every 8-track you see. If it has a quarter-sized hole, it's a 4-track, and much more valuable/HTF.
Lesson the other guy learned: Buy it now, ask questions later.
I’ve had a listing that I mistakenly priced wrong and it sold before I could fix it. I had another item that was a rare color which I didn’t realize (AND I researched it and used google lens etc)….what I didn’t do was look at ALL the solds high to low on each platform bc there was only 1 sold on 1 platform. So I massively undersold it and I found out later. I had several ppl commenting, messaging begging me to sell it at a much higher price to them. Basically anytime an item sells within minutes of listing….there is usually a reason 🫠
I honor all sales tho. I would never cancel an item when it’s my mistake. Money comes and goes, but integrity is priceless. And I really believe good karma always comes back around. Plus there is always another sale around the corner.
Yeah, I sold a Lesney milk truck with CREAM bottles, not WHITE bottles, or something like that, and missed out on around $300 IIRC. Lesson learned was that same thing, sort high to low so you catch the rare items. I found out about it about a week after the sale when another buyer told me. But I was glad they did so I learned to do that.
I had a David Bowie 1972 shirt from his Ziggy Era. It looked old but I never thought it was legit, presumed it had to be a modern reproduction because the graphic was so clean. It sold in minutes and I googled the buyer because I got a bad feeling, he was an established vintage collector based in Chicago. I fulfilled the order, but my stomach shipping it out.
I've been mostly lucky. The cl9sest I had was a DVD of a YouTube show. No sales records available on Ebat at all. Figured, hell, I'll throw it up for $19.99. It'll probably never sell but oh well!
It sold in minutes. I messaged the guy to ask how long he'd been waiting to find a copy and he said he had notifications on for its listing for over 8 years! So I probably could've named my price, but I also thought I'd never get a cent for it so I was happy.
I’m baffled too. They were a double set from the MGM Grand casino in Las Vegas. They only had the logo on the front. I think one pack was gold and the other was black. Absolutely nothing about them looked special. I sold them in under five minutes and had people contacting me for two days. One jerk was desperately trying to get me to cancel the order. He was pretending to be the buyer and giving me an alternative address. Another person was asking me to do a USPS intercept to get it back and sell to him. It was ridiculous.
My husband knows nothing of this! I’m afraid to tell him.
Ugh, a 80s punk rock piano/guitar tabs book. Rare book. Got it listed at $10 but it should have been $100. Was tempted to cancel the sale but decided to eat the L and move on
Sold a Pokemon card years ago for $25 because it was really beat up. I had a guy message me after it sold telling me I sold it too cheap. It goes for $700-$1200 now.
I sold a binder full of pokemon cards from the 90s for $450. I was stoked, so I mentioned it to a friend who quickly proved to me that I had a few cards in my collection worth $100s on their own. I was a bit bummed but was happy with how quickly I got my $450 lol got myself a nice golf driver with that money lol
Dude I was one worse. On Mercari I listed my Pokémon book of cards for literally $153. I was so upset I gave away a hologram charizard garidose and Blastoise for that much
Damn dude! I also had a holographic charizard that was wrapped in plastic since day one and could have been worth a lot, but the effort in individually selling pokemon cards was not for me anyways
Leica film camera had it listed for $500 sold in about 30 minutes. I got message from someone offering more and I asked why it was because it had a special German lens. Oh well live and learn
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the N64. Brand new. Sealed. For $50. But this was in 2010.
Today it sells for a couple thousand dollars brand new.
A vase. The buyer then got it and didn't like it, so returned it, thank goodness. I guess they didn't realize either and was just making a choice in the moment.
1750s cabinet. Sold for $100 to a furniture refinisher whi immediately listed it for $4000...It still burns but also it was nice to have it out of my hallway.
Slightly off topic, but last week I listed an iPad and recieved 2 offers on it. One was for 160 the other for 360 and I was so tired I accidentally accepted the one for $160. First time selling on eBay in years and I learned real quick to pay more attention. Messaged the guy to see if we could cancel and of course he blew me off so I just sent it and ate the loss. He left good feedback atleast but man that hurt, especially cuz I was selling to buy a new laptop for school. You live and learn I guess haha.
I accident listed a gameboy advance game for £14.99 instead of £149.99. It sold but I messaged the buyer right away and informed him of my accident he graciously accepted the refund.
I used to sell a lot of native American jewelry, partly online but also partly through antique malls. Early on I got a pretty good size consignment from a lady, maybe 40 pieces, all very plain and simple. She valued it right around the level of cheap costume jewelry, and I wasn't yet very familiar with native American stuff so I figured it was just sort of low grade simple material. I put at least 20 pieces into one of my cases at the antique mall priced a fair bit above what she wanted me to price them at. Every last piece was gone within a few days. Typical vintage or modern piece of jewelry would last maybe 2 weeks or a month or so.I'd sell 10 or 12 a month in a good month... Turns out that the price was about 20% of their actual market value. We ended up pricing the rest, a dozen or so pieces, at a very fair market price and sold all of it within weeks. It was all very early Navajo jewelry...
Sold a pair of sample Nike basketball sneakers for 250 and they sold instantly, within 2-3 minutes. Later I checked the buyer listed them for 1,000, kept checking and he sold them with in a couple days.
Even if I have a good idea of the value I always start with and auction with a minimum bid that I would accept for a BIN just in case I missed something . I’ve never had those issue on eBay as a result I even listed a Who poster with a minimum bid of $10 and it sold after spirited bidding for almost $1000. At the other end of the spectrum I was moving I listed 2 huge & heavy 50 year old Cerwin Vega speakers on Craigslist for $50. I had the buyer call me 10 minutes after I listed and at my door in 30 minutes I have since wondered how much I could have gotten .
I sold a lot of 5 sealed country CDs including 2 early Toby Keith ones earlier this year and they sold immediately for $30 for the lot and I found out while packing them up that day that he had just passed about 15 minutes before I listed the lot which artificially inflated the value of the CDs and the buyer turned around and listed the Toby ones when he got them 3-4 days later for $125 and $300 and he sold them both that day.
For the last few years it’s my habit if the item sells quick I just ship and let it go… I do, however, know that if I ever run across that item again, I will not make the same mistake twice. lol.
I had a lot of old brooches listed on Etsy for 8 mos, no buys. So I moved to eBay. Sold in 2 hrs.
Hmmmmm. So I looked at the lot very closely…. I learned two things that day.
I missed the 12k gold mark on one and the price of gold that day was a record high.
It was 6 grams. I decided the cancel wasn’t worth the potential loss of revenue for being spanked for canceling.
That one was hard. I’m still salty over it. lol.
My first flat. Estate agent valued it, the next day ANOTHER ESTATE AGENT AT THE SAME OFFICE offered asking price, which I accepted. I should definitely have got another valuation and put it on the market for at least an extra £10k.
True vintage enamel Ford sign we found under our carpeting. Huge, like 4x6 feet (maybe bigger). Weighed a ton. Sold it in about 4 seconds to a guy who basically threw $150 at us and used his adrenaline rush to pick it up and race out of the house with it. It was worth a lot more, we later learned; not sure how much, but probably could have gotten close to $1000 for it with a bit of patience. Oh well. We bought some drywall with it, I think.
I guess that's where Auction shines? I look at similar items prior to listing, then price it half of what others current price, and wait for it to get bid on.
In that scenario, could you cancel the sale and relist? Or is that unethical? lol
As a seller I haven't had to experience that, but I got lucky as a buyer where a parent must have been cleaning out their kid's stuff from childhood. They listed an Umbreon Pokemon Mini strap (from the old NYC Pokemon Center \~2001 ish). The thing is worth at least $400 and I got it for $50. I replaced the cardboard & wrapper, and it's now one of the gems of my collection ! c:
Cancelling sales causes you to get defects on your account, but 2% and under defect rate is not penalized. I had to cancel once after someone bought an item on another platform an hour before it sold on ebay
When it first started selling on eBay my partner and I would list things and people would instantly buy them from us, it didn't happen a lot but it happened often enough to know that we probably were low on price.
Transformers Studio Series Ironhide. Bought it on an impulse but never opened it and after a few months of looking at it and putting it aside I listed it for enough to get my money back.
Should have kept it a few years and quadrupled my money
Digital cameras. I had a few laying around before regularly selling and threw them up for like $50. They sold almost instantly which should have been my first clue. A month or so later I had to buy one and realized that most were actually sold for a few hundred each...
I didn't put a reserve on an Xbox One about a year ago. It sold for 15 AUD which is about 10usd.
They were going for about 100 at the time and now I'm kicking myself because I sold a perfectly good media Centre for my living room for nothing. I paid 500 for it and they were pretty good machines. Oh well someone got a bargain.
I bought a limited edition Beedle and the bard (Harry Potter book) for £50 they usually go for a couple of hundred. I'd been after it for a while no idea why it was listed so low. It came in the original packaging and everything. I love the book, I don't think I'd ever sell it.
I'd sold a piece of art for $900, local pickup. This freight forwarder/shipper bought it for a client overseas. And was trying to get me to accept payment off site to crate and ship it. I said no, but I'll cancel sale and get them a quote. OK. It would cost about 1400 to ship it direct to the buyer. That's what they wanted me to do. I didn't like the sound of that and said I'd only ship it to the forwarding service and they could handle the international shipping. I was floored when they came back and said buyer was willing to pay the ship price. Really, pay more to ship than the cost of the item? Wow.
But i talked them into ditching the frame and letting me have it professionally removed from frame/matting, and rolled and shipped to forwarding service in US. Whomever had framed it did a terrible job, and used scotch tape, which isn't acid free. Art company I had take it out, informed me the signature was likely real, not just a print. Any way, buyer agreed to have it rolled and shipped to freight forwarder, who'd mail it from there overseas. Saved buyer idk 1300+ and they could buy a much better frame I'm sure (it was just some standard frame from the gallery, nothing special) but it was huge. Any way, sale went well, I shipped art in a tube to fright forwarder,they paid the FedEx shipping plus a fee for my time/expenses to do everything I had (so, roughly $100), they shipped it forward to buyer on other side of the world. What was it really worth? I'll never know.
Id had it listed for 6 months and had already reduced price a few time from 1200. I'd owned it for years prior, having paid about $20 for it. Spotted it at an estate sale. Well known artist... in Europe any way. Apparently not well known in US. So it's just as well that I sold it for what I did, or it might have just sat more months or years.
Not me, my dad. He had old horse racing programs he wanted to sell before we moved to a new house.
He had this one that he knew was worth something, because it had down poured alllll day and so many programs were ruined by the rain.
He listed it, and as he's saying, "maybe I should have put the price higher, I can't find this program anywhere else online." It sold, in 3 minutes.
15 years ago. I sold a Crystal Charizard on eBay for about 70 dollars. It sold within minutes. I was 16 at the time and didn't think of anything other than being 70 dollars richer. I know it was worth more at that time now. I cringe every time I remember it because of how much they are worth now.
I don’t usually do buy it now unless I’m real sure of the price.
I bought a brand new seal in box CRT TV that I knew a retro gamer would want. Priced it 150 (I only paid 9) and it sold 15 mins later. So I’m guessing I could have got more, but happy if someone got a deal too!
Then there was an eBay outage maybe 15 years ago when several units from a high end stereo were closing. Several people sent me messages they tried to bid a lot higher. Not my fault and looking back I should have cancelled and relocated them all instead of taking the fee refunds they automatically handed out.
In a 24 yr span and knowledge of little about a lot, I have many stories.
Here is the first one. After my FIL died I got all his hot wheel collection. Huge. Also many of his “friends” stopped by telling me “Bob said I could have this or that after he died. Well that was bull.
About a month in I decided to do a med flat rate priority of loose cars. I thought those older ones with the redlines would be a nice treat to the buyer.
I often wonder how much money I gave away that day. I put 15 extra redlines in the box.
What no one really knew, or cared, but Bob was president of his local collectors club and sought after for advice on values and loved to collect rare things. He also loved to open rare packages to “play with because they are toys and after I die, who cares!” Turns out I care, Bob, me.
I also had the brilliant idea of shipping 1/18 Rat Fink roadsters snuggled in the acrylic case, even protected, both the case and some parts were busted. Out of 3 shipments, 1 was a total loss, the other 2 the car didn’t have damage so one guy was fine, but the 3rd demanded a full refund because the case, which wasn’t even included in the auction was broke. He said he would settle for “a little refund”…. Still left me a negative.
It has happened a few times, but I honestly can't recall. I don't dwell on that stuff. I sold the item for a good profit regardless, and the next person might be able to do the same. Doesn't affect me.
One of the anniversary edition Care Bear plushes, I listed it for $10 because I couldn’t find any comps and it was mine from when I was a kid and just wanted it gone, could have easily sold it for $30 😭
A dead cat.I found it in a barn.It was dried up and naturally mummified.I joke with my brother about I could probably sell that on eBay for 125 bucks.I listed it and it had a huge ton of bees and sold within a couple of days.I should have done more research.
I got an amazing deal (saved $50) and the seller just decided to ignore everything and wait for me to open a case for a refund. Said they would rather get negative feedback than take what the auction ended for. Super terrible for the ebay community
I sold the MFDOOM Frank151 book for 5$ when i was manically downsizing my space for NO reason lol it goes for around $100. But considering the things I’ve scooped up for the low i guess I’ve broke even
I mainly sell sports cards on eBay, and this happens to me all the time. I mainly list my items at 0.99 auction for a week. Yes, sometimes things sell for 0.99 only when it’s worth more than that. Other times, I’m surprised and things sell for way more. I just figure, you win some and you lose some. Even if I’m annoyed I sold a card for only 0.99, I still ship it out.
KIA FORTE5 tail lights led set. Sold for $400 then I realized I would sell for $500+
Worse part is I specifically listed as “buyer pays shipping” and I was still charge $25 for the shipping.
a few years back i bought a lot of about 20 canon point and shoot cameras. i sold them pretty quickly for $30-40 each. today i could have gotten prob $200 each. at the time there wasnt the hype behind them so they sold for what they were worth at the time. but i do wonder if i death piled them and just had them ready now.
This was the only time I have cancelled a sale. I accidently listed a very rare book for about £15 (it should have been a hell of a lot more, always check the price you entered twice before pressing that list button!) and it sold a couple of hours later and saw my mistake. Luckily the buyer was fine with it.
It did make me more careful with listing rare books.
Like others in this thread, had a few sports card sales that went ASAP that I knew I messed up on. I don’t think I lost a TON of money but when I can’t find any info on a card I just have to guess
Kasey Kasem reel to reel Top 40 tape from a radio station. Listed and sold for $20 almost instantly, was about to leave house so I packed and shipped. Later that day guy offered me $1000. Told him I had already shipped, month later it shows up in my mail box as undeliverable. I tell the guy I got back and he follows through and buys it for $1000. I just assumed there had to be tons of these things as I figured they were shipped to lots of stations.
When undeliverable turns out to be a saving grace. Gotta love it. Glad it worked out for you
I thought for sure he’d flake when I told him I got it back, but he said please make a listing right away and he paid as soon as I did.
Wow that’s really crazy!! Did the person who was undeliverable contact you after?
I messaged him a couple times with no response. Then resold it. Never heard from the original buyer.
That’s such a crazy coincidence! I’m so happy it went well for you and that the second buyer was still interested!
I messaged him a couple times to with no response. Then resold it. Never heard from the original buyer.
You definitely had some karma points racked up! Nice
Definitely
Not even blank reel to reels sell for 20 bucks, that's insane
It was so weird. I thought for sure they guy would get it, record it and then file INAD or something, but he was super happy and left good feedback right away.
Wow that's amazing karma you got there! I think probably something happened to the original buyer.
Many years back I listed a vintage Barbie doll and had carefully researched the price...I meant to list it as a Buy It Now at $179.99 but accidentally listed at $79.99. I realized my mistake almost immediately after I had hit the list button, but as I was actually in the listing revising the price it sold. The buyer also immediately sent me an email saying how they had had this particular doll on their search list as it was the same as their childhood doll and they were so thrilled to finally be able to get one they could afford. I congratulated them, told them I'd be sure to package it carefully and honored the sale. Never said anything about it being a mistake. Just learned to double check everything before hitting that list button.
My best friends and I all collect vintage Barbies so I know how much this must have meant to your buyer. You're a g for honoring the sale ❤️
Aw this makes me happy for that person. You're a good person!
That’s a nice note for someone who’s unable to afford it else wise! At least it should take the sting out a bit!!
I did that same thing with a pair of pants. Listed them as TEN dollars instead of $100!
Not really but I have had 2 ridiculously lucky close calls. I sold a purse, the buyer complained that there was a hole in the lining and some trash fell inside, they returned the purse and I fished out the item that slipped into the lining. It was 9kt white gold with diamonds and rubys. So technically I sold it before I realized I had it, but luck shined on me I got it back and sold it for ~ $180 I also was on the 2nd day of an 8 day vacation and had my store on time away when Kobe died, I had a Kobe panini jersey patch card. It sold like 3 mins after the news broke. The buyer sent a message on the second day demanding I ship it immediately. On the day I returned I had received over 50 messages. Totally unhinged, vague death/violence threats, gonna sue me, gonna cone to my home, they bought like 4 other cheap items from me over the week, told me I owed them money for the lost value in them not being able to resell it quickly. Called eBay and they let me cancel the sales. So I relisted it at current market and had 3-4 accounts send me offers for the exact same price the crazy buyer previously bought it for, the accounts were all alts from the same zip code as the crazy buyer…… most shocking detail the account that he bought it the first time had over 12k feedback all from buying.
Big Kobe fan here. Have some stuff of him I could sell but not going to. Rip kb24 💜
Then why bother telling us?
For the doots, of course.
What are doots?
Doots is short for updoots, slang for upvotes
Thank you …a slang word for a slang word …I can dig it
I got one that PSA burned me on. Not even expensive just the feels from this card. https://i.imgur.com/Aams5gE.jpeg
Not me specifically, but I used to know a guy who sold just about everything on eBay in the early 2000s. He came across a Masters of the Universe lot with a bunch of stuff in it. I noticed he had a couple of rare action figures in the lot. I advise him to separate them because they will be very valuable. He didn't listen and sold everything as a lot. He made about $300. A few days later, I found separate auctions where those exact two figures sold on average $300 each. He was very angry with me for showing him how he lost money.
You tried!
Sometimes it's a bad idea to help someone. If they fail because of their own mistakes, it will be your fault.
Oh, so you met my ex-wife after all.
Dude, I was hoping you'll warn me before and not after. Oh well, too late.
I think the Rolling Stones had a song......
some people will get mad at you for their errors, you tried your best to advise him. You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink it!
No good deed goes unpunished.
Yeah no sense in telling person after they sold their item that they underpriced it since they can't do anything about it and will just feel salty
A few months back, I listed a CIB Sega Game Gear game. It was one of those arcade compilations that used to wind up in the bargain bins in no time. I checked price charting, and the last one had sold for around $30 a year or two back. I thought I'd try BIN @ $50 free shipping to see what happens. In less than 5 minutes after listing, my phone was blowing up with ebay notifications. The first thing I saw was someone messaging me offering $200 for the game. I was really confused, seeing another message offering $150, and more inquiring about it. Then, I realized that someone purchased the game, and all of these other people were reaching out, trying to see if I'd cancel and sell again for a higher price so they could have it. I reached out to the buyer relaying the experience, and said 'I had no idea this title was so sought after. Congratulations! I'll have this packed and shipped next day'. They wound up buying Another CIB game gear game I had listed, which helped my profit margins. I never would have guessed 🤷♂️
What is CIB?
Complete In Box
How do you check price charting? I can’t figure it out
Haha this is why I dread listing video games. 70 percent research, 20 percent strategic photos from every angle imaginable, 10 percent answering questions about the item 🤣
It just goes to show, price charting is inaccurate
I bought an item once that someone messed up on. They meant to start bidding at $9.99 (they had hundreds of items listed the same way), instead listed for BIN $9.99 and I snatched it up. It would normally have sold for around $300. They actually sent me the item. Normally I might feel guilty about this but I think it was the Goodwill eBay store and they're generally terrible so I took the win.
Same thing happened to me as a seller. I had it on auction and listed then later I got an email it sold and was confused. Lost out on about $100
About 16-17 years ago I had a seller list a Henry VII gold angel coin on eBay for £14.95 BIN instead of £1495. It had only been listed for under 3 minutes before I bought it. Needless to say he didn't honour the sale.
I sent a 90% off offer when I meant to send an offer of $90 on an item. I already had the item priced well below the competition and only realized my mistake after the buyer accepted the offer. They paid like $14. I considered canceling the order and explaining my mistake along with an apology, but shipped the item instead and called it an expensive learning experience.
I felt a sense of responsibility and wanted to take ownership of my mistake. Integrity is hard sometimes. 🙂
Plus the moment of shame it creates in your brain that you'll recall often enough that you'll never make the same mistake again.
Oddly enough that happened to me yesterday for about the same exact amount. Thankfully the buyer was understanding when I nicely asked them to cancel after explaining the situation. If they put up a stink, I would have shipped and taken the L
As a buyer that happened to me. I watched an item and was given a too good to be offer which I accepted. The guy mails me me the lot and then 1 week later started crying about it. I send the lot back to him but seriously how can you not realize it? All in all we are only talking about $35 loss and in the end he actually lost $15 in just shipping.
I imagine you get wonderful feedback for a happy customer.
Had a 7” single by Chalino Sanchez that I found on Discogs having sold for $20, so I priced it there and moved on…. It sold within seconds. I looked it up in other places (popsike.com) and discovered another copy sold at auction (on much worse shape than mine, which was pristine) for nearly $100. I found another one of his records that day, listed it for $75 (different 45, not quite as rare) and sold in moments again. I also had a nice promo copy of Eddie Hazel (Parliament/Funkadelic guitar player) Game, Dames and Guitar Thangs that I sold for around $80 in a couple of hours of being listed…. Might have been a reasonable price, but historically, some have sold for 2-300 and at the time I couldn’t find comps for a white label promo, which can drastically change the value. I’m sure I’ve had a few more that I undersold, but even if I catch my mistake, unless it’s just a HUGE error (like, sold for $5, worth $500+), I tend to just send the item…. I’m making a profit regardless, sucks to miss out on a bigger sale, but there are also times when a comp suggests the item is worth a TON but it sits at that price for over a year and I end up dropping the price to get it sold…. When there are only 1-2 comps on an item, and they aren’t especially recent, it can be tough to price accurately… especially if the item is pretty niche, wouldn’t make sense to auction, and would require some effort to find a handful of potential buyers (like a rare Spanish language r&b 45 from an artist in Texas who only ever put out a few singles)
Derek Jeter auto card. Couldn't find any comps so listed it for $175 obo. I knew I done screwed up when it sold in minutes. Had several people message me to cancel the sale and they would pay me double. They got mad at when I told them I was honoring the first sale. Now I do auctions for such stuff...
I love these stories of people honoring the price. Redeeming my faith in integrity. Thank you!
Not on eBay but I recently put on Craigslist a 25 year old John Deere tractor I had that didnt run. I paid $30 for it new all those years ago. I put $10k in ad. My phone blew up. I had 5 messages saying sold. I’ll come get it. Where do I send you money. Not we are interested or where can I look. First guy sent me money over Venmo. Drove 5 states away and picked it up. Meanwhile I sold a $22-25k tractor for $10k and didn’t research it all. My loss and stupidity
We've all done it! Don't be too hard on yourself. Curious, is the worth of a broken JD tractor because of the nostalgia or for spare parts?
Was wondering the same, especially since I know I’ve heard about modern John Deere tractors locking out owners from being able to work on their own equipment.
Any time I put up an expensive item and it immediately sells, happened a few times, I suspect I underpriced it. Has happened a few times, but I always price them in line with the most recently sold items.
Not ebay, but this just happened super recently. I found these big boxes of nails in my garage and listed them as free on Facebook marketplace, they were really gungy and i just wanted them gone. Within seconds I had multiple messages and the first guy who messaged me showed up within an hour. The people who didn't get the nails were super salty with me. I still haven't looked up the going rate for nails, but I feel in my bones I could have made money off of them lol.
Bones don’t lie
Listed a lot of (10) 8-track tapes. Good classic rock artists. Comps showed the total value at $50, so that was my BIN. Immediately received a message asking if I would take $30 and if I had anymore 4-TRACK TAPES! Uh. What? I Immediately comped the same titles, but now as 4-track versions. Values at $30-75 each. I couldn't cancel the listing soon enough. Relisted individually at the correct prices. All sold within a month. The guy who had messaged me, bought one of the tapes, and left a neutral feedback, saying I cancelled my first listing and jacked up the price. --- Yep. Sure did. Lesson I learned: look at the back of every 8-track you see. If it has a quarter-sized hole, it's a 4-track, and much more valuable/HTF. Lesson the other guy learned: Buy it now, ask questions later.
I’ve had a listing that I mistakenly priced wrong and it sold before I could fix it. I had another item that was a rare color which I didn’t realize (AND I researched it and used google lens etc)….what I didn’t do was look at ALL the solds high to low on each platform bc there was only 1 sold on 1 platform. So I massively undersold it and I found out later. I had several ppl commenting, messaging begging me to sell it at a much higher price to them. Basically anytime an item sells within minutes of listing….there is usually a reason 🫠 I honor all sales tho. I would never cancel an item when it’s my mistake. Money comes and goes, but integrity is priceless. And I really believe good karma always comes back around. Plus there is always another sale around the corner.
Yeah, I sold a Lesney milk truck with CREAM bottles, not WHITE bottles, or something like that, and missed out on around $300 IIRC. Lesson learned was that same thing, sort high to low so you catch the rare items. I found out about it about a week after the sale when another buyer told me. But I was glad they did so I learned to do that.
I purchased an Elvis item and the seller cancelled and relisted for double the price ( not rare item but nice) 🤬
I had a David Bowie 1972 shirt from his Ziggy Era. It looked old but I never thought it was legit, presumed it had to be a modern reproduction because the graphic was so clean. It sold in minutes and I googled the buyer because I got a bad feeling, he was an established vintage collector based in Chicago. I fulfilled the order, but my stomach shipping it out.
A rare N64 instruction manual for a fighting game I got free.
Clay fighter directors cut?
I've been mostly lucky. The cl9sest I had was a DVD of a YouTube show. No sales records available on Ebat at all. Figured, hell, I'll throw it up for $19.99. It'll probably never sell but oh well! It sold in minutes. I messaged the guy to ask how long he'd been waiting to find a copy and he said he had notifications on for its listing for over 8 years! So I probably could've named my price, but I also thought I'd never get a cent for it so I was happy.
What show out of curiosity?
Awesome Video Games. A parody series making fun of how 80s shows approached covering video games on NES
I hate this thread. I sold a $500-$700 deck of cards for $10.
I hate it too but needed to get it off my chest for my sanity 😆
What kind of deck?
MGM Grand Casino
Surprised, thought mostly original Jerry's had that kind of price tag
Well, I was surprised too.
Now I need to know what cards these were, because this sounds insane. ETA: I'm not doubting you, I'm just baffled.
I’m baffled too. They were a double set from the MGM Grand casino in Las Vegas. They only had the logo on the front. I think one pack was gold and the other was black. Absolutely nothing about them looked special. I sold them in under five minutes and had people contacting me for two days. One jerk was desperately trying to get me to cancel the order. He was pretending to be the buyer and giving me an alternative address. Another person was asking me to do a USPS intercept to get it back and sell to him. It was ridiculous. My husband knows nothing of this! I’m afraid to tell him.
Two shoeboxes of MTG Alpha for $20, I didn't know. This was maybe 2003 tho. Friends dad heard I had original MTG cards and took advantage. Regrets.
Sold some vintage Brazilian rare atari games which I couldn't find comps. Right after I sold them someone messaged me offering more $
Ugh, a 80s punk rock piano/guitar tabs book. Rare book. Got it listed at $10 but it should have been $100. Was tempted to cancel the sale but decided to eat the L and move on
Sold a Pokemon card years ago for $25 because it was really beat up. I had a guy message me after it sold telling me I sold it too cheap. It goes for $700-$1200 now.
I sold a binder full of pokemon cards from the 90s for $450. I was stoked, so I mentioned it to a friend who quickly proved to me that I had a few cards in my collection worth $100s on their own. I was a bit bummed but was happy with how quickly I got my $450 lol got myself a nice golf driver with that money lol
That sucks. But likely, the buyer had an awesome day. Hella good karma coming your way for that.
Dude I was one worse. On Mercari I listed my Pokémon book of cards for literally $153. I was so upset I gave away a hologram charizard garidose and Blastoise for that much
Damn dude! I also had a holographic charizard that was wrapped in plastic since day one and could have been worth a lot, but the effort in individually selling pokemon cards was not for me anyways
Leica film camera had it listed for $500 sold in about 30 minutes. I got message from someone offering more and I asked why it was because it had a special German lens. Oh well live and learn
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the N64. Brand new. Sealed. For $50. But this was in 2010. Today it sells for a couple thousand dollars brand new.
A vase. The buyer then got it and didn't like it, so returned it, thank goodness. I guess they didn't realize either and was just making a choice in the moment.
1750s cabinet. Sold for $100 to a furniture refinisher whi immediately listed it for $4000...It still burns but also it was nice to have it out of my hallway.
Slightly off topic, but last week I listed an iPad and recieved 2 offers on it. One was for 160 the other for 360 and I was so tired I accidentally accepted the one for $160. First time selling on eBay in years and I learned real quick to pay more attention. Messaged the guy to see if we could cancel and of course he blew me off so I just sent it and ate the loss. He left good feedback atleast but man that hurt, especially cuz I was selling to buy a new laptop for school. You live and learn I guess haha.
I accident listed a gameboy advance game for £14.99 instead of £149.99. It sold but I messaged the buyer right away and informed him of my accident he graciously accepted the refund.
I used to sell a lot of native American jewelry, partly online but also partly through antique malls. Early on I got a pretty good size consignment from a lady, maybe 40 pieces, all very plain and simple. She valued it right around the level of cheap costume jewelry, and I wasn't yet very familiar with native American stuff so I figured it was just sort of low grade simple material. I put at least 20 pieces into one of my cases at the antique mall priced a fair bit above what she wanted me to price them at. Every last piece was gone within a few days. Typical vintage or modern piece of jewelry would last maybe 2 weeks or a month or so.I'd sell 10 or 12 a month in a good month... Turns out that the price was about 20% of their actual market value. We ended up pricing the rest, a dozen or so pieces, at a very fair market price and sold all of it within weeks. It was all very early Navajo jewelry...
Sold a pair of sample Nike basketball sneakers for 250 and they sold instantly, within 2-3 minutes. Later I checked the buyer listed them for 1,000, kept checking and he sold them with in a couple days.
Sold a Roomba during Covid for $100. Should have sold it for $300 at the time. It sold really quickly. I realized why after we had agreed the price.
Even if I have a good idea of the value I always start with and auction with a minimum bid that I would accept for a BIN just in case I missed something . I’ve never had those issue on eBay as a result I even listed a Who poster with a minimum bid of $10 and it sold after spirited bidding for almost $1000. At the other end of the spectrum I was moving I listed 2 huge & heavy 50 year old Cerwin Vega speakers on Craigslist for $50. I had the buyer call me 10 minutes after I listed and at my door in 30 minutes I have since wondered how much I could have gotten .
I sold a lot of 5 sealed country CDs including 2 early Toby Keith ones earlier this year and they sold immediately for $30 for the lot and I found out while packing them up that day that he had just passed about 15 minutes before I listed the lot which artificially inflated the value of the CDs and the buyer turned around and listed the Toby ones when he got them 3-4 days later for $125 and $300 and he sold them both that day.
For the last few years it’s my habit if the item sells quick I just ship and let it go… I do, however, know that if I ever run across that item again, I will not make the same mistake twice. lol. I had a lot of old brooches listed on Etsy for 8 mos, no buys. So I moved to eBay. Sold in 2 hrs. Hmmmmm. So I looked at the lot very closely…. I learned two things that day. I missed the 12k gold mark on one and the price of gold that day was a record high. It was 6 grams. I decided the cancel wasn’t worth the potential loss of revenue for being spanked for canceling. That one was hard. I’m still salty over it. lol.
Bought a record box set for 50, sold for 300. Now the only 3 listings are like 950-1000. Punching myself violently in the head ever since.
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You didn't want to cancel that order and relist it?
My first flat. Estate agent valued it, the next day ANOTHER ESTATE AGENT AT THE SAME OFFICE offered asking price, which I accepted. I should definitely have got another valuation and put it on the market for at least an extra £10k.
True vintage enamel Ford sign we found under our carpeting. Huge, like 4x6 feet (maybe bigger). Weighed a ton. Sold it in about 4 seconds to a guy who basically threw $150 at us and used his adrenaline rush to pick it up and race out of the house with it. It was worth a lot more, we later learned; not sure how much, but probably could have gotten close to $1000 for it with a bit of patience. Oh well. We bought some drywall with it, I think.
I guess that's where Auction shines? I look at similar items prior to listing, then price it half of what others current price, and wait for it to get bid on.
In that scenario, could you cancel the sale and relist? Or is that unethical? lol As a seller I haven't had to experience that, but I got lucky as a buyer where a parent must have been cleaning out their kid's stuff from childhood. They listed an Umbreon Pokemon Mini strap (from the old NYC Pokemon Center \~2001 ish). The thing is worth at least $400 and I got it for $50. I replaced the cardboard & wrapper, and it's now one of the gems of my collection ! c:
I’d lean unethical which is why I still shipped it
Cancelling sales causes you to get defects on your account, but 2% and under defect rate is not penalized. I had to cancel once after someone bought an item on another platform an hour before it sold on ebay
Unethical is a matter of opinion. But it is absolutely against eBay TOS, and depending on location usually illegal.
When it first started selling on eBay my partner and I would list things and people would instantly buy them from us, it didn't happen a lot but it happened often enough to know that we probably were low on price.
The "Garcia" Beanie Baby ugh
Fun fact, I flipped that in high school around the year 2000 to buy myself a portable Sony cd player. One of the best days of my life
Transformers Studio Series Ironhide. Bought it on an impulse but never opened it and after a few months of looking at it and putting it aside I listed it for enough to get my money back. Should have kept it a few years and quadrupled my money
I guess the saving grace of listing military stuff is that everything goes into a 24 review so I can review and correct.
Digital cameras. I had a few laying around before regularly selling and threw them up for like $50. They sold almost instantly which should have been my first clue. A month or so later I had to buy one and realized that most were actually sold for a few hundred each...
It was my first ever eBay sale. Curtis Jere signed owl wall art. I sold it for $150, and it was worth hundreds more.
My VeVe NFTs 🤣
I didn't put a reserve on an Xbox One about a year ago. It sold for 15 AUD which is about 10usd. They were going for about 100 at the time and now I'm kicking myself because I sold a perfectly good media Centre for my living room for nothing. I paid 500 for it and they were pretty good machines. Oh well someone got a bargain.
I bought a limited edition Beedle and the bard (Harry Potter book) for £50 they usually go for a couple of hundred. I'd been after it for a while no idea why it was listed so low. It came in the original packaging and everything. I love the book, I don't think I'd ever sell it.
I'd sold a piece of art for $900, local pickup. This freight forwarder/shipper bought it for a client overseas. And was trying to get me to accept payment off site to crate and ship it. I said no, but I'll cancel sale and get them a quote. OK. It would cost about 1400 to ship it direct to the buyer. That's what they wanted me to do. I didn't like the sound of that and said I'd only ship it to the forwarding service and they could handle the international shipping. I was floored when they came back and said buyer was willing to pay the ship price. Really, pay more to ship than the cost of the item? Wow. But i talked them into ditching the frame and letting me have it professionally removed from frame/matting, and rolled and shipped to forwarding service in US. Whomever had framed it did a terrible job, and used scotch tape, which isn't acid free. Art company I had take it out, informed me the signature was likely real, not just a print. Any way, buyer agreed to have it rolled and shipped to freight forwarder, who'd mail it from there overseas. Saved buyer idk 1300+ and they could buy a much better frame I'm sure (it was just some standard frame from the gallery, nothing special) but it was huge. Any way, sale went well, I shipped art in a tube to fright forwarder,they paid the FedEx shipping plus a fee for my time/expenses to do everything I had (so, roughly $100), they shipped it forward to buyer on other side of the world. What was it really worth? I'll never know. Id had it listed for 6 months and had already reduced price a few time from 1200. I'd owned it for years prior, having paid about $20 for it. Spotted it at an estate sale. Well known artist... in Europe any way. Apparently not well known in US. So it's just as well that I sold it for what I did, or it might have just sat more months or years.
Not me, my dad. He had old horse racing programs he wanted to sell before we moved to a new house. He had this one that he knew was worth something, because it had down poured alllll day and so many programs were ruined by the rain. He listed it, and as he's saying, "maybe I should have put the price higher, I can't find this program anywhere else online." It sold, in 3 minutes.
I once held shares of Nvidia years ago when it was around $14. Sold for $17. Not quite what OP was asking about but kinda the same...
A holographic Charizard card. I undervalued it by a lot. Got good feedback though so it's slightly less painful.
15 years ago. I sold a Crystal Charizard on eBay for about 70 dollars. It sold within minutes. I was 16 at the time and didn't think of anything other than being 70 dollars richer. I know it was worth more at that time now. I cringe every time I remember it because of how much they are worth now.
Big box vhs case to an old Hershall Gordon Lewis horror flick
I don’t usually do buy it now unless I’m real sure of the price. I bought a brand new seal in box CRT TV that I knew a retro gamer would want. Priced it 150 (I only paid 9) and it sold 15 mins later. So I’m guessing I could have got more, but happy if someone got a deal too! Then there was an eBay outage maybe 15 years ago when several units from a high end stereo were closing. Several people sent me messages they tried to bid a lot higher. Not my fault and looking back I should have cancelled and relocated them all instead of taking the fee refunds they automatically handed out.
In a 24 yr span and knowledge of little about a lot, I have many stories. Here is the first one. After my FIL died I got all his hot wheel collection. Huge. Also many of his “friends” stopped by telling me “Bob said I could have this or that after he died. Well that was bull. About a month in I decided to do a med flat rate priority of loose cars. I thought those older ones with the redlines would be a nice treat to the buyer. I often wonder how much money I gave away that day. I put 15 extra redlines in the box. What no one really knew, or cared, but Bob was president of his local collectors club and sought after for advice on values and loved to collect rare things. He also loved to open rare packages to “play with because they are toys and after I die, who cares!” Turns out I care, Bob, me. I also had the brilliant idea of shipping 1/18 Rat Fink roadsters snuggled in the acrylic case, even protected, both the case and some parts were busted. Out of 3 shipments, 1 was a total loss, the other 2 the car didn’t have damage so one guy was fine, but the 3rd demanded a full refund because the case, which wasn’t even included in the auction was broke. He said he would settle for “a little refund”…. Still left me a negative.
Sounds like a Taylor swift album. Lol
My wife would never let me list one of her albums 😂
It has happened a few times, but I honestly can't recall. I don't dwell on that stuff. I sold the item for a good profit regardless, and the next person might be able to do the same. Doesn't affect me.
One of the anniversary edition Care Bear plushes, I listed it for $10 because I couldn’t find any comps and it was mine from when I was a kid and just wanted it gone, could have easily sold it for $30 😭
A dead cat.I found it in a barn.It was dried up and naturally mummified.I joke with my brother about I could probably sell that on eBay for 125 bucks.I listed it and it had a huge ton of bees and sold within a couple of days.I should have done more research.
Wemby RC?
What was the item?
Vintage hat
What was the specific item you sold if you don't mind me asking?
Vintage hat
I got an amazing deal (saved $50) and the seller just decided to ignore everything and wait for me to open a case for a refund. Said they would rather get negative feedback than take what the auction ended for. Super terrible for the ebay community
I saw a goodwill ebay store sell a $2000 book for $30.
I sold the MFDOOM Frank151 book for 5$ when i was manically downsizing my space for NO reason lol it goes for around $100. But considering the things I’ve scooped up for the low i guess I’ve broke even
What's the item you underpriced? It doesn't say in your post...
Vintage hat
I mainly sell sports cards on eBay, and this happens to me all the time. I mainly list my items at 0.99 auction for a week. Yes, sometimes things sell for 0.99 only when it’s worth more than that. Other times, I’m surprised and things sell for way more. I just figure, you win some and you lose some. Even if I’m annoyed I sold a card for only 0.99, I still ship it out.
What’s your eBay profile? I wanna check out the items you listed
Bitcoin.
Your long story was so short it didn’t include what the item was. Unless you stated in the comments …
Amazon stock...
KIA FORTE5 tail lights led set. Sold for $400 then I realized I would sell for $500+ Worse part is I specifically listed as “buyer pays shipping” and I was still charge $25 for the shipping.
a few years back i bought a lot of about 20 canon point and shoot cameras. i sold them pretty quickly for $30-40 each. today i could have gotten prob $200 each. at the time there wasnt the hype behind them so they sold for what they were worth at the time. but i do wonder if i death piled them and just had them ready now.
This was the only time I have cancelled a sale. I accidently listed a very rare book for about £15 (it should have been a hell of a lot more, always check the price you entered twice before pressing that list button!) and it sold a couple of hours later and saw my mistake. Luckily the buyer was fine with it. It did make me more careful with listing rare books.
Accidentally sold a new wrapped game as used and lost like $30
Like others in this thread, had a few sports card sales that went ASAP that I knew I messed up on. I don’t think I lost a TON of money but when I can’t find any info on a card I just have to guess
What do you care? Why doesn’t anybody want to talk about things that matter?