I had a perfectly working, recently serviced Akai GX 635 D on ebay. plugged it in and played and recorded on it in both directions for two hours the day before it went up. all controls work, and this deck must have been serviced not too long before I got it, thats how clean and nice it was.
first winning bidder snipes it up to $903 in the last second, THEN a minute and a half later, sends a cancel request saying "he had a stuck machine" when asked what he meant the reply was "its gaining in all the wrong places" THEN I get an email from him asking me to sell it to him for $750. so much for the "stuck machine" right? so then I immediately relist it again that night thinking "great now no ones going to bid on it because they will think I shilled it and I'll end up losing my ass on this thing now.
Second person wins it and tell me it doesnt work and a "technician they spoke to told them of the age related issue these have ( it's funny all the tech's I have ever attempted to describe a problem to always tell me they need to actually see and test the deck themselves before they can say whats wrong with anything.)
I am not one of those guys that just finds something in a storage locker and goes "OMG those is worf MONEY!!!!!) this guy expects me to just hand him $200 bucks back because he says it doesnt work.
I cannot believe its getting so bad that its actually getting harder to actually just sell something especially something a lot of people want on Ebay.
not to even mention I know how to pack a deck the right way so this guy didnt have to go through the heartache of having a deck arrived smashed. I put a lot of time and effort into what I do and its starting to seem like its not worth it and I might not be able to have anyactual sales, it seems like its all mostly people who bid things high because they just assume most of their bid will get refunded back to them.
first winning bidder snipes it up to $903 in the last second, THEN a minute and a half later, sends a cancel request saying "he had a stuck machine" when asked what he meant the reply was "its gaining in all the wrong places" THEN I get an email from him asking me to sell it to him for $750. so much for the "stuck machine" right? so then I immediately relist it again that night thinking "great now no ones going to bid on it because they will think I shilled it and I'll end up losing my ass on this thing now.
Second person wins it and tell me it doesnt work and a "technician they spoke to told them of the age related issue these have ( it's funny all the tech's I have ever attempted to describe a problem to always tell me they need to actually see and test the deck themselves before they can say whats wrong with anything.)
I am not one of those guys that just finds something in a storage locker and goes "OMG those is worf MONEY!!!!!) this guy expects me to just hand him $200 bucks back because he says it doesnt work.
I cannot believe its getting so bad that its actually getting harder to actually just sell something especially something a lot of people want on Ebay.
not to even mention I know how to pack a deck the right way so this guy didnt have to go through the heartache of having a deck arrived smashed. I put a lot of time and effort into what I do and its starting to seem like its not worth it and I might not be able to have anyactual sales, it seems like its all mostly people who bid things high because they just assume most of their bid will get refunded back to them.