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Valued Member
Philippines
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For a $17 worth of nickels, it's not worth breaking somebody's heart IF he's telling the truth. In fact, you will gain some appreciation and good will from the man and his daughter.. But if he's not telling the truth, then his honor is just worth $17.
For me, I would take the first option.. Life is too short and valuable for such things.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1150 Posts |
If he was trying to teach his daughter a lesson, this would be the perfect one to teach her: Life isn't always fair! He shouldn't be trying to set her up for failure.
The real lesson in this is personal responsibility. When you make a contract with someone, even if you are loosing a few bucks, you honor that contract.
Whatever happened to keeping your word?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7840 Posts |
If I were the seller, I would "pony up" the difference to my "daughter", and consider it a "schooling" lesson.
If I were the buyer, I would not cancel the bid.
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Moderator
 United States
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I guess I am looking at this differently. I would be a little sad if my niece wanted to sell the coins I had given her.  To the GF1022, I believe that the best advice has been given, which is to have the seller cancel the auction. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1081 Posts |
I have my suspicions that he is just making that story up because they sold under melt. I wouldn't do anything. If he wants to cancel the auction, and refund your money, then let him. I would then leave him negative feedback for doing so. The seller assumes the risk of the final price, if he was so concerned and "promised" his daughter they would sell for at least $25, then he should have set the reserve at $25 or done a BIN. ebay is a business with contractual obligations. He should bear the costs of any breach of those obligations. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1080 Posts |
I would tell him you're worried about ebay ramifications if you cancel. Tell him to cancel the auction reason: item is no longer available. Then he can refund your money. Or there used to be a "mutually agreed not to sell" option, that may still work. I might even forward it to ebay and ask them what they suggest you do. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I guess I am looking at this differently. I would be a little sad if my niece wanted to sell the coins I had given her. No joke, jbuck. I thought the same thing. I know that some people don't care for coins, but to sell a gift that meant something special to her uncle? Why put it on ebay? Just tell the uncle his gift wasn't wanted and ask HIM to buy them back for $25. That would be on my mind IF I ever gave her a gift again. She would get a gift card or $10, because I would never put any thought into a gift for her. ANA ID: 3203813 - CONECA ID: N-5637 Clean a coin that may be worth collecting? Please DON'T! When in doubt, leave it dirty!! 
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2757 Posts |
If you withdraw your bid, then you have no right to leave feedback. Otherwise, the transaction is firm, and you can leave negative feedback. I think that's why the seller wants YOU to cancel the transaction.
Sounds screwy to me - in that the seller is messing with you.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1064 Posts |
Just doesn't have the right ring to it. I would send him email reminding him of ebay policy (my assumption, he knows it), and ask him to cancel it. Doesn't sound like you'll get the coins, anyway. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1817 Posts |
The ethical conundrum is this: if his daughter is real, the seller is basically saying to her, "If you do not like the outcome of any contract you enter into, it's perfectly all right to renege or get the other party to renege on it." Bad example to set in front of a child. A slippery slope leading to potential legal ramifications later.
As to the OP's situation, stand firm and allow the seller to cancel the transaction. Do NOT get a NPB strike as a result of someone's careless "mistake." The entire sob story sounds fishy.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
539 Posts |
...and be sure you let us know the outcome of whatever you ended up doing. I'm intersted in the ...rest of the story LOL
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Valued Member
United States
313 Posts |
Is this person a NEW E-Bayer or someone with a feed back history if he is new I would let him go through the push up's of cancelling the auction etc. to Teach HIM a lesson on how to do business if he has a feed back history I would say he is up to no good.IMHO.
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Valued Member
United States
313 Posts |
GF1022
Could you post the seller's info please
sellers name or the item number
Thanks
Fatboy
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3592 Posts |
Yeah, don't buy that line of BS...even if it were true, he can make it up to her,it's his problem,not yours.
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New Member
 United States
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Thanks for all the feedback! I(politely) told the seller that I did not wish to cancel my payment. I assume if he really wanted to he could have canceled the auction and refunded my money. I got an email today notifying me that he sent the coins and he will be leaving positive feedback on my account. If the daughter was not fictitious then I DO feel bad for her but the father should have known better than to promise her something that was unlikely to happen. Fatboy-He's not new to ebay (1100 feedback) but this was his first sale in a couple years |
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