Bought a complete base set of 2024-25 Upper Deck hockey from an eBay seller in Quebec. The cards arrived today, and ... it's not complete. There were five duplicate cards, and two missing cards:
One of the cards I submitted to BGS for grading is a Filip Forsberg Panini Prizm rookie card. I picked up the Blue Pulseczar Prizm on COMC a couple years ago and if the grade is high enough, it's going to look awesome in a slab. Here's a J.T. Miller Blue Pulsar for context:
That order should return to me by the end of July. There's a couple other hockey RCs in there, along with a Jackson Chourio Mojo Refractor and a couple low-numbered basketball inserts.
eBay really is a necessary evil for collectors. I wish I didn't have to buy or sell on that godforsaken site, but it's the easiest way to offload unwanted cards and collectibles. A few weeks ago I listed a medium flat rate box of about 2,500 football cards in an auction. Here's the key pic, and the description:
This medium flat rate box is FILLED with over 2,500 football cards from Panini Prizm, Donruss, Donruss Optic, Topps, Upper Deck, and more. 90% of these cards are modern football from 2000-2024 and more than half are from 2020-2024. Lots of stars and parallels in this box plus a few inserts and rookies of players such as Josh Allen, Jalen Hurts, Caleb Williams, Tony Gonzalez, Barry Sanders, Derrick Henry, Justin Jefferson, Rome Odunze, Marvin Harrison Jr., J.J. McCarthy, Christian McCaffrey, and many more!!
The buyer was "extremely disappointed" because there were only a few rookies and the rest was "junk". I told her (based on the name I assumed it was a female bidder) that the cards pictured and described were all shipped.
It was pretty obvious that she (or he) was trying to flip this lot and make a couple hundred dollars. Why else would they be disappointed with hundreds of recent base cards from Panini Prizm and Donruss, which included hundreds of semistars and stars.
So, because they bid over $70 for this huge box of cards, which included a Caleb Williams Prizm parallel RC and got exactly what was shown here... I got neutral feedback "unsatisfactory"
I petitioned eBay to remove it because there was no reason for this comment but they're very pro-bidder.
On a lighter note, Fuji asked about the mystery batting champion whose mother bought his card from my friend. And since no one else is reading this, I don't mind sharing ;)
My guy Baseball Brittie does much more volume than me, and seems to have much better luck with customers (not just DJ's mom) I don't think I've ever plugged his store, so if you absolutely must shop on eBay and you see something you like, tell him Chris The Collector sent you. He'll hook you up!
In more personal news, my wife is doing much better. We visited my family and best friend in CT for the first time since February (when she couldn't eat and had to go the hospital for a week) Everyone commented on how much healthier she looks. She's been eating solid food again, and has much more energy than she did even a month ago.
And we breathed a huge sigh of relief this week. My insurance company was in negotiation with the cancer center that Mrs Collector has been visiting and there was a last-minute agreement to continue coverage. If they didn't agree to terms and our hospital was no longer in-network, our only options would have been to rush the surgery to squeeze it in before Continuity of Care would have ended August 31st, or pay tens of thousands of dollars out of pocket. Yeah. No.
Luckily, all is well and we don't have to rush. But her improvement has me hopeful that we could schedule her for the end of August anyway.
I've got a significant anniversary coming up, which is somewhat tied to an NHL anniversary as well..
Thanks for reading!
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p.s. even though the UD hockey cards I bought were advertised as a complete set and I did not receive a complete set.. I left positive feedback and didn't bother the seller about the two missing cards. I'm not petty.
A. Sorry about the neutral feedback. You fulfilled your end of the deal and should have received positive feedback (or at the very least, the buy shouldn't have left any feedback). Shame on her (and eBay for not removing it).
ReplyDeleteB. That's really cool on a couple of levels. Cool that you interactive and helped an athlete's mom. And cool to see a mom buying cards of her son.
C. Happy to hear that your wife is doing better... and that the insurance company agreed to continue coverage.
A. I feel like theoretically I could do pretty well on ebay selling and flipping cards, but stories like these are why I don't bother.
ReplyDeleteB. So cool about the LeMahieu card. Now just need to sell him some hits!
C. Very glad to see the good news about your wife's health!