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Mike & Chris Sewall Talk Crazy Scams On eBay and How To Avoid Them As A Seller · Sports Card Clubhouse

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Hey everybody, it is Mike and I'm joined for the second week
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in a row here for This Week in Sports Cards by Chris Sewell.
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Chris, how are you? What's?
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Going on, man, it's. Great to have you this week in
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sports cards. I like to focus on things that
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happened in the past week and of course last week there hadn't
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been anything. This week there's really been
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one thing that has happened and I know you're completely unaware
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you've been, haven't, haven't been watching any YouTube.
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But on Twitter on Tuesday night into Wednesday, a bunch of
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examples blew up where a an eBay seller, sorry, an eBay buyer was
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buying cards, $4050 cards. And when he would receive them,
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he would take a picture of himself holding them and then
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ask ChatGPT or some other AI program to make it look like the
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card had been destroyed. And then he would take those
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images and go back to the seller and say, hey, look at how this
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card arrived. I want a refund.
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And sellers were refunding him. But somebody started posting
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about it saying what is that? How does this even happen?
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And people started looking at it and saying, hey, I had the same
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exact thing happened. Was it this buyer?
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Yes, every single time it was 5 or 6 people sellers with the
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same exact buyer using AI to destroy his card mean and
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destroy it in in terms of the image.
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What's your take on that? No, Oh no, what what what was
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the end result like? Has he have people?
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Are people going after him as even?
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Yeah, can you hear me? Am I frozen again, man?
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Am I frozen still? Am I good?
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You're good. There's a small chance it's me.
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I don't. I think I've no.
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It's been happening with with Greg too.
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I think it's my stream yard. So the the end result on this is
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that he has deleted all of his social media.
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He he had a TikTok that people found.
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He had a, so he had, he was, he had presence on social media.
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Yes, as a sports card seller. Oh, OK.
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And people found all of his social media, they private
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messaged them all over the place.
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And he has deleted all of his social media.
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People reached out to his wife who's an attorney and I, I don't
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know what happened with that, but they wanted to let her know
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that her husband was scamming people online.
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And he has changed his name on eBay a couple times and says
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that he's deleting his eBay, but it takes time to delete your
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eBay account or eBay store. He he sells cards on eBay,
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although not anymore, and he said that he's no longer
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involved in selling sports cards because it's not worth it with
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all this stuff that's happened to him, playing the victim card,
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of course. Yeah, that's how many were
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there. There were 6.
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Yeah, they're 5 or 6. And so I did a video on it
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Wednesday, I think, or maybe Tuesday afternoon, and then Neo
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did a video on it, and then Jeff Wilson and Teapot did a video on
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it, too. I've been, I've been living
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under, this was on Tuesday. I've been under a rock for the
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last three days. I guess so, yeah.
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I guess so, yeah. OK.
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Yeah. So he did 6 or he did roughly 6
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and. Six that are known that are out
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there publicly. That are out there publicly.
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You got to think he was doing it a lot.
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In fact, with one of them, he accidentally in a in a message
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with a seller when he when he said to the seller, hey, look at
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what you're what the mail did to the card you mailed me.
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He then accidentally posted a photo of a different card and
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said make this card look the same.
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So he thought that his eBay chat was his ChatGPT prompt, and that
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went viral too. OK, so he's not, not not the
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brightest criminal. So there's no like debate as to
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maybe this is the biggest coincidence of all time and 66
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packages all got damaged in the same thing.
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No, no, no, no, no, no. You can tell.
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In fact, if you look at the cards, the real images of the
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cards with the AI images with the cards, you can see there's
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ever so slight differences in the autographs in some cases.
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And in one of them the the serial number was completely
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removed by AI and the player's socks were gone as well, like
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the the player's photo was stripped shifted down some.
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But if you're not looking carefully.
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You wouldn't. You wouldn't I?
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I would have. I would have.
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I would have missed that. I'm I'm sure because it's a,
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it's a $40 card. I would have missed it, yeah.
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Right. And that's the point I was
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making on my video was a lot of people on Twitter were saying,
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well, why would he do these on do this on $40 cards?
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And the answer to me was well, because it's right.
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A seller is going to take great care if it's $1000 card, but if
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it's a $40 card, you're just going to say, shoot, I can't
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believe that happened. I'll refund your money, right?
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Well and on and on $1000 card you're going to, it's going to
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be eBay. The eBay protection is there.
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Exactly, yes. Yeah.
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Yeah. So over $250 eBay authenticity
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guarantee is going to protect the seller.
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But the yeah, these $40 cards, there was a $20 card, a couple
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of $40 cards, a $50 card. So as a seller, have you, well,
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let me get your take just on the scam itself.
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It's pretty brilliant, right? I mean, it's a good scam because
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eBay is going to protect the buyer.
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They, they tend to do that. You're, you're keeping it under
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the $250. So most especially big sellers,
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if they, if you know who sell a lot of cards, if somebody, if
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one, you know, if I sell somebody sells, you know, 20
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cards a day. And once in a while somebody
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comes back and says, hey, this $40 card got damaged in the
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mail. I, I, you know, I don't even, I
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don't even argue it. I just refund it here.
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Here's the reason. All right, it's not worth my
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hassle to have it shipped back and check on it, whatever.
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So yeah, he, if he's dealing with big sellers, probably most
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of them are just going to give him his money back.
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So that, that's probably a scam that he, you know, he could, I
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mean, I remember you saying this, you said this to your kids
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about stealing. Like if you steal, you're going
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to get away with it. But if you steal constantly,
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you're going to get, you're going to get busted.
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Yeah, you can. You can get away with it for a
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time, but eventually you're going to get caught stealing,
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lying, whatever it is you're going to do, that's against the
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law. And when I say that this scam is
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brilliant, it's insanely scummy. But it's, I think Jeff and
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Teapot talked about how this type of scam is only going to
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get more evil, more smart, smarter.
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Yes, absolutely. This guy was just an idiot.
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Are there there must be tools that eBay has that say, hey,
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this guy's requested refunds or received refunds a dozen times
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in the last week and have eBay look into it, right?
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Shouldn't there be? Well, that was the first thought
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I can do because the the problem is, let's say AI can make that
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photo so realistic that nobody could tell.
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There's nothing there's I don't, I don't think there's anything
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anyone can do because eBay is going to support the buyer.
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So I think the seller's just out of luck when you're dealing with
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a scammer, unless what you just said is the is the answer.
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And I don't think eBay has that good of a system in place.
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Like if they see somebody constantly returning things for,
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you know, full refund or if they see constantly getting partial
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refunds, then that should be flagged.
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I don't know that that system's in place.
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I certainly hope it is. But like this guy, this.
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Guy 6 different times reached out to someone said hey my thing
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was damaged give me a refund and he got 6 refunds within a a
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short time. EBay should flag that.
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Yeah, they should. Yeah.
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So this guy isn't requesting, he's not returning them.
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And none of these sellers, only one of the sellers said, I'll be
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happy to refund you as soon as you return it to me.
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And then he just, he just ghosted them.
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Yeah. So isn't that your best bet on
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this? Even though it's only $40?
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Isn't isn't your best angle as a seller to just say?
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Return it. Return it to me and I'll refund
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you. Absolutely.
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But again, if you're a big seller and you're dealing with a
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lot of things, it's not even worth your time to have to to
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track that, keep track of when it arrives, remember what the
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package was, remember whose it was, remember check the car.
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It's just not. It's not even worth the time on
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a on a smaller item. How many cards a month?
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How many cards a month do you sell on eBay?
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I sell about 5 items a day or so but the but I don't sell
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anything under a few $100 or sorry $100.
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OK, so if you're AI don't know DC Sports 87.
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Yeah, yeah. Not.
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How did they prevent this from happening to themselves
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repeatedly? So I, oh, by the way, I, if I,
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if that happened to me, well, let's see if that happened to
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me. And if that happened to them,
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what I imagine they would do is let's say somebody says I have a
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$40 card you shipped me and it got came damaged and they
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suspected something was up. They would just refund the 40
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and then block that person, which is what, what I would do
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if I suspected it was a scam. It's not worth, it's not, it's
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not worth the fight from my end time wise and stress wise.
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But I don't want to deal with that person again if I if I
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assume it's a scam. I mean, maybe it's you know, I
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assume, oh, this probably really did happen.
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But if I have suspicion. Yeah.
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And it seems to me that eBay should have some of the the the
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way to catch it that we just talked about, but also if a lot
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of sellers are blocking a certain buyer.
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Yes, yeah. I hope there's some an algorithm
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with that calculates all that. If somebody's getting blocked a
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lot, if they're returning a lot, if they're getting a lot of
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partial refunds or full refunds. Yeah, a large percentage.
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Then that's a. That's a flag.
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So yeah, there's so many questions about this scam that
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are left unanswered, and I'm not sure that we'll ever we'll ever
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find out. Yeah.
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Have have you as a seller ever been scammed on eBay?
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Yeah, I was because you asked me that to come prepare with that.
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I I, I've, I don't know of a time where I was definitely
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scammed, but there's been many times when I was quite
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suspicious. And for those in those times, I
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basically just accepted, took the L, took the loss and and
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blocked the person. There's been, there's actually
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been a lot of those. There was even one fairly recent
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some, yeah, somebody, I mean, somebody just received the
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package said, said, said it was empty and sent a picture of it
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was in a like a, a bubble Mailer.
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They said it was empty. They sent a picture of the
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bubble Mailer with a with a cut like there was like a a RIP in
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it. Sure.
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What do I do? I have no, I have no, you know,
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the only thing I could have done in theory was record myself
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putting it into the but even there, I guess even there like
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it gets ripped in in shipping and falls out.
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I'm responsible according to ebay's rules.
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So you know, in that situation is that did that really happen?
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Maybe, but I think more likely the person is is scamming me.
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So I've I've just gave them the refund and blocked them.
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And can you then leave negative feedback for them?
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No, no, eBay does not allow you to leave negative feedback for
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buyers, which they used to a long time ago.
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You can report a buyer if you if they do something really wrong,
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but I don't I I don't think I reported if I'm like not sure.
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I I wouldn't report them. I would just block them.
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And I know eBay uses AI for a lot.
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Like customer service is almost all AI and, and I have to
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imagine that if you were to report them and say, hey, can
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you look into if this guy, this buyer is doing this a lot, it
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would probably just be an AI response.
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And just like with on Twitter, they'll say, we're looking into
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this problem and it's always the same exact wording.
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Nothing ever gets resolved. Well, so you're, I mean, you
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don't do any selling on eBay, right?
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The last card I sold was almost two years ago on eBay.
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And do you do? Are you a regular buyer?
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Oh yeah. Yeah, exactly.
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You buy 5 cards a day. No, I have, I have next to me
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probably 5 packages from the past week or so.
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So I would say an average of, I don't know, 3A week.
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I just bought a card from you off Com C.
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Did you? Oh, cool, though not on eBay or
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on. Yeah.
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OK. What was it?
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Yeah. It was early Red Sox top, Chrome
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tops, Chrome refractor, I think. And, you know, I was just
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searching and I, I found the one I was looking for and I went to
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buy it and it was owned by Sewell.
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Cool. Yeah.
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It's, oh, yeah. It was the second time it's
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happened. OK.
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OK, nice. Yeah, yeah.
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But so have you ever so as a buyer, because you probably
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haven't experienced that when something happens to you as a
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seller, eBay just doesn't have your back.
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They they, they always support the buyer, which is their model.
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And I don't, I don't even blame them for that.
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Have you I? I guess you wouldn't have
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experienced anything like that really, since you haven't sold.
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Well, you know, about four years ago I bought a collection, first
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time I'd ever bought a collection.
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And I in that collection was some WWE.
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Well back it was WWF wax packs and cards and things like that.
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And I sold a lot of them. I made more than what I paid for
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the collection back just in the WWF stuff.
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And I remember I, I'd taken great care and shipping and when
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I, when one of them was all of them, you know, I got great
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feedback on them. But one guy private messaged me
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and said, hey, look at how this arrived.
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And he sent me a photo that I felt like, I don't think my
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package arrived that way. But, and this is years, I barely
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remember it, but I do remember being like, I have to fix this.
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And so I said to him, all right, I'll give you half your money
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back and you can keep everything.
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And he agreed to it. Yeah, OK.
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Yeah, that's that's kind of what I would often offer.
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Another one I'm I'm fairly sure I got scammed on was I had a,
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it's sort of an oddball item. It's a 1992 little Suns set with
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which is like a a minor league set and it has Derek Jeter in
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there and it's an expensive card and there's actually even a long
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shot of getting a Derek Jeter auto out of it.
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But it's a very, very long shot. But the set is sealed.
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But it's sealed. You can you it comes in a like a
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30, I don't know, like a snap case.
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And there's a tiny little, there's a sticker that prevents
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you from opening it. And if the sticker is broken,
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obviously the, the seals and I, I, so I had one sealed and I
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sold it and I want to say it was like a $600.00 item and the
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person received it and then said that the seal had been broken.
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And he said the Jeter was in there, but the seal was broken.
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And he, and he, so he, he got, he sent it.
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He actually sent it back for a full refund, but I'm I'm quite
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certain that he received it, opened it.
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The Jeter was pretty off centered so he was probably not
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happy with that and and and he claimed that it was opened and
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again he just sent me a picture of the seal ripped but he he
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could have just done that of. Course.
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And I, I have no recourse. I mean, I can, I can refuse and
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he'll give me negative feedback and eBay will make me refund
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him. So there's no point in refusing
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or fighting like there's no, there's no, there's nothing for
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me to for me to do. That's crazy.
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That's crazy. I mean, I can report him if I'm
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like, sure. But I mean, was there a 10%
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chance that I did screw up? I guess, But you know, Yeah,
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yeah. We should just since we're
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talking about you and your eBay store.
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What is your eBay store? I know you put Sewell or
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something, right? Yeah, it's just my last name.
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Sewell. I'm like, I'm a It's the whole
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thing. I don't need any numbers at the
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end because I was there. I was there in the 90s.
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I think I started in like 98. Yeah, that's not.
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Like Sewell O 87 or something. That's crazy.
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I'll try to remember to put the link to it in the in the
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description here. Yeah, it's, it's a crazy world
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out there. And I see there was, I think I
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did 2 scam videos in the fall on eBay scams.
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I don't remember what those were.
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It's there's just so many. Yeah.
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Oh yeah, I remember. Well, one of them wasn't an eBay
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scam, it was just a buying online where one guy convinced
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two other people that they were mailing cards to each other, but
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they're actually mailing to him and paying him too.
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Yeah. Tricky, tricky stuff.
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Oh, oh, I I saw that one. Oh yeah, I remember that one and
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they like sent it to a church or something or or not a church
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like an abandoned in in the same city.
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That one was a pretty in depth scam.
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Or a. Pretty complex thought out scam.
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So as a seller, other other than just saying I gotta eat it, how
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do you protect yourself? So if there's, if, if it's an
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well, so the eBay off guarantee, authenticity guarantee program,
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I know a lot of people don't like it.
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I freaking love it because it's, it's, it is designed.
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It's a huge net positive for sellers.
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And I think it's one of the few things ebay's ever done that is
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a huge net positive for sellers. I think it's probably like kind
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of a wash for buyers 'cause they, they get a little extra
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protection, but they also have to wait longer, you know, and I,
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I think there's been some issues with it maybe I don't know if
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you have you experienced it as a buyer.
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I have I have APO box and one of the loopholes is that they don't
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ship to PO boxes so it won't go through the eBay authenticity
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guarantee if the buyer has APO box do.
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They just bypass it or you like you, you have to give a
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different address. Completely bypasses it, but but
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there was one time. So I've, I've bought a few
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things that should have qualified for authenticity
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guarantee. One time it still went through
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it and it still shipped it to my PO Box, which I didn't
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understand why. Why would they not?
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Because it's done by FedEx and I guess FedEx doesn't ship to PO
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Boxes. So I don't know.
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But yeah, that one time it still went through.
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It was a good experience as a buyer.
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It, it didn't take long. I think it may have been from
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the time I purchased it and paid for it.
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It was like 10 days, Yeah. So I thought that was pretty
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fast. Right.
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Although it if they didn't do it, you would received it in
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four days, right? Probably.
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Sure. So that's.
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That's the trade off. But so would you.
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So you, you, you were fine with this service like you're like I,
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I wouldn't do that. I'd prefer to have it in 10 with
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a little extra protection than have it in four.
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In that case, yeah, absolutely. I, I can't.
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I know that there will be some instances where I'd, I'd want it
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quicker, but with all the fake slabs that are out there, fake
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cards, like even Jeff talked about how he somebody came up to
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him at a show last year and was trying to sell him fake slabs
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and he he didn't do enough. Honestly, he was just like, hey,
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these are fake. And then just let the guy
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continue selling cards at his table.
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But yeah, there are people out there with fake slabs.
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Etsy. Fake PSA slabs like crazy on
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that scene. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Well, as going back to original question as a seller, I, I, I
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love it because it it truly protects you can't, you can't
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scam me on a, on a $250 an up card or at least eliminates any
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scam I can think of. But the other thing you can do,
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and I've I do often is if, if it's in a really expensive item
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that's not going to go through that, I'll, I'll actually
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literally record myself packaging it up, showing the
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card to make a video record myself packaging up, taping it
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up, putting the label in the box and marking the label in a way
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where it could couldn't be faked.
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And yeah, and shipping it out that way.
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I don't even that's never come into play.
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But I don't, I don't even know if that would help, but I
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imagine it might if like there was a descript I like if it was
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like a PayPal thing. PayPal is not a always support
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the buyer company that they they're more balanced, but with
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eBay you you probably need some sort of protection like that.
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So when you take those videos, do you just just keep them on
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your phone somewhere or do you store them in a a drive?
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No. They're literally on my phone
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and I delete them a month later, right?
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Yeah, or delete them later whenever they're they're long
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overdue. Yeah, yeah.
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And you've never and never had to use those.
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I have not, No, no, I don't. I mean, I actually, there's
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actually, I actually think there's very few scams like
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given how much I sell, I've sold in my lifetime and the number of
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times there's been a scam, it's a very, very small percentage,
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but for eBay, but it's obviously there.
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Yeah. I think that that's, it's a good
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clarification. Obviously, there are millions of
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card transactions probably every single month and a very small
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percentage of them result in scams.
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So there's more of awareness being aware of them.
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And I think that fewer of them end in scams because of
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awareness because people are so that the awareness of it is so
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heightened thanks to social media.
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Now another one that I just saw is the AI coin.
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You know what a coining is when you coin a photo online?
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So for anybody who. Yeah.
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So for anybody who doesn't know, if you're trying to sell on
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Instagram or Twitter, you take a photo of your card and you write
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down your name and the date on a piece of paper next to it.
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And now people are using AI to create that fake coin, the name
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and date. So they're stealing an image of
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a big card, and then they use AI to make it look like they've
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written their name and a date next to the on a piece of paper
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next to the card. And then they sell it in quotes.
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And then they've never actually had the card to collect money
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for it. Yeah.
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And so people are more aware of that scam too, because that's
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going around a lot lately. Yeah, the the simplest thing is
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in this industry do if you're if there's any way you can get
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scams, just avoid it. Like if anyone wants money up
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front, just don't even don't even consider it.
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I mean, I mean, if you want to use PayPal Goods and services
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for something to protect you, actually PayPal Goods and
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services is pretty impressive. I've, I've actually, no, that's
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a, that's a scam. That was not an eBay scam.
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But yeah, I bought a card, paid with PayPal Goods and services.
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The card never arrived. I I got my refund via PayPal.
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So, yeah, yeah. And that's another one that we
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hear occasionally on social media is people who have built
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up trust, you know, they, they sell a $20 card, goods and
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services, then they sell a $40 card, goods and services to the
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same person. And then now you've done
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business with them twice and they've, they do a, oh, I've got
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this $800 card now, are you interested in this?
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I this one I have to do friends and family and the person's like
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well I've done 2 cards and they were trustworthy and they fall
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for it. No, I, I have a strict like I
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don't. I have a strict.
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There's there's, I don't, there's nobody like and you have
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to set the line like other because otherwise, you know, the
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line just keeps moving or something.
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Now I either pay after I've received the cards or if I'm
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paying upfront it's goods and services and there's no
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exceptions. Yeah, I assume you have a
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business account where you can only accept money, goods and
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services. I can.
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I can only accept money, goods and services.
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Yes, but I can pay via friends and family.
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Yeah, it's a it's a wild time out there, especially with AI
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and just imagining what other AI scams might come about.
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That's a little scary, the AI thing, man.
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I, I didn't. Yeah, I mean, you can.
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People are gonna get clever. Hopefully it's hopefully it's
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all idiots like this guy who get clever and get caught right
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away. Well yeah, when you do it 6
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times and people start posting about it and people say oh hey
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the same exact thing happened to me.
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Was it this guy? Yeah, it was.
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And this guy and the players missing his his shoe on the
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card. Right, So what else is going on
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in your world? Not much.
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All's well. Going to look at a collection on
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Tuesday. How about how about your your
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world? Good.
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You know, I work full time in a corporate company.
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I don't get the the fun of buying collections and sorting
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cards all day. Yeah, I've asked you this
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before, but what? How many hours a week do you put
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in towards playing with cards and your your channel?
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Most of it is just my channel and and you know other things
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related to the channel. I would say 6 hours a week for
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the channel and Yep. And I don't really do a lot of
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playing with cards. It's I don't have a lot like.
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Well, playing with like searching eBay or oh.
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Jeez. Or watching other channel.
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I like watching other YouTube videos where that's like what
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you're doing, not not like his background.
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Stuff. Probably another six hours.
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OK, Yeah. But I don't watch a whole lot of
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YouTube. I do a lot of searching for
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cards and reading about cards and researching cards and things
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like that. That I love it.
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I don't, I don't consider it work.
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I don't. I don't think of my channel as
26:20
work the vast majority of the time either.
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Yeah. OK.
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So 6:00 and 6:00. Yeah. 12 hours a week, that's a
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solid, solid little side thing you got going on there.
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How much time do you spend on cards a week?
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Got to be like 80. Oh, it's a lot.
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Yeah, that's a good question. It's not 80.
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I'd say it's 60 to 60. Yeah, probably 60.
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But does it feel like it? Like, do you?
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Oh, I I wake up and I want to go play with cards now there's
26:52
there's aspects that are chore that are chore like shipping and
26:56
you know, some, some things, but no, most of it's fun.
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Yeah, the shipping that's that's the worst part for me is the
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shipping. Yeah, that is, that is the
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absolute worst. I was just gonna ask you another
27:12
question too, and now I don't remember what it was, but so.
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You you have sold on eBay before?
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What's your what's your feedback on eBay?
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100% yeah, it's like, but it almost all of its buyer
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feedback. I've probably sold, I don't
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know, 50 to 100 things on eBay. OK.
27:31
Oh, OK. So you have some, you have a
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little bit of seller feedback built up.
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Oh, that's something. That's something I wish eBay
27:36
would do or when, when they do a little bit.
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So I don't think somebody with 0 feedback should be allowed to
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buy a $500 card. And I think they have some level
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of that, but it's not enough like I'm allowed to.
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Am I allowed to do I'm allowed to like block buyers who have
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like 3 negatives in the last week or something, something
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like that. I'm allowed to if I want, but
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I'm not I I I should be allowed to block buyers with feedback
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like 5 and under from buying a a 200 plus item.
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I think I, I, I wish, I wish there was more of that.
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Yeah. Yeah, to protect, to protect
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sellers. Again, I'm more of a seller.
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But anyway, sorry, didn't mean to cut you off.
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No, there was an eBay account with 0 feedback a week or two
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ago. Yeah, that was selling a massive
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Tom Brady car worth I think 10s of thousands of dollars.
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Yeah. And it and it got a lot of
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attention 'cause it was a big, big Tom Brady card.
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But the seller had 0 feedback no Buyer feedback no.
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Seller feedback, right, Right. Yeah.
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Doesn't it feel? No, yes, by the way, that's an
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easy 1. EBay should not if you have 0
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feedback, but also with like shield bidding whenever there's
28:50
like a, you know, some card is shielded up to 20 grand and
28:53
there's a whole bunch of zeros in the like, why?
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Why is a 0 feedback person allowed to bid $18,000 on a card
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that, that you, you should have to build up to that.
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And maybe the maybe there is something in, in the some steps
29:05
for that, but it's not, it's not enough.
29:07
And no somewhat 0 feedback. I don't think they are allowed
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to sell that. Was it an auction?
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The Tom Brady card? It was.
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Yeah. OK, then they are, I don't think
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some of 0 feedback's allowed to like list a $10,000 item or
29:19
something. There's, there's limits there,
29:21
but I, I think it's an in an auction there.
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I mean, you know what's eBay gonna do, I guess, but.
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But can you, you can't go in and see live bidders.
29:33
I guess you can like if somebody's bidding on your card,
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you can click on the bids and see if somebody has 0 feedback,
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can you block them from from there so they can't bid again?
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No, no, I don't. I don't think so.
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I actually don't sell an auction on eBay at all.
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So I don't really know, but I don't think so.
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I don't think you can do anything block wise which is
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annoying but. Yeah, a lot of the things I sold
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were like in 2003 and 2004 when I was getting back into the
30:04
getting back into cards. But I was also really into
30:07
buying and selling and I was, I was selling some childhood stuff
30:10
and I had AI think it was a 1964.
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Was it the 64 tops coins set that Clemente had one?
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Yep. He's a 64 and 71.
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Yeah, 64. I had a really, really nice
30:23
Clemente Tops coin and I sold it for $150.00 in 2003 on eBay, on
30:31
eBay at at auction. And looking back on it, I
30:35
remember when I got back into the hobby again five years ago,
30:38
I thought, oh, I wonder, I regret selling that.
30:41
And I looked and they weren't going for anywhere near that
30:43
much now, no. I was going to say $150.00 was a
30:46
great price. Yeah, whatever.
30:48
You were doing. You didn't know there.
30:50
Anyway, it was. It was Immaculate.
30:52
Yeah, OK, It was Immaculate, isn't it?
30:55
Is. So having sold like singles on
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eBay, isn't it just like so much better to sell on Comsty?
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It is and I I actually what? Free promotion for COMC here.
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Yeah. I I was just saying last week, I
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know COMC, I think they're done sponsoring channels, but I there
31:15
are not a lot of channels, not a lot of places I would take
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sponsorship from, but I love COMC, yeah.
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Yeah. The problem with COMC is that it
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takes forever to get your cards back.
31:24
Like I put in a request for cards on December, I don't know,
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28th and they're they said that I'd get them on or they'd ship
31:33
on January 28th. So a month wait.
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But there were also 780 yeah, there were 787,000 items ahead
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of mine and they're sending out between 10 and 15,000 a day.
31:48
So you're talking about 70 ish business days for mine ship if
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they stay at the same pace. Wow, yeah, no they they they
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have they have some issues but the service they provide is
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awesome compared to other any other option.
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Yeah, I love using it. It's so easy.
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It's it's kind of fun, which is weird to say, but.
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Yeah, yeah. I just wish you could get your
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cards quicker. Yeah, me.
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Too. I agree with you on that one.
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Well, that's all I had. Chris, I appreciate you coming
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on again second week in a row. I've got teapot on next week.
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I don't know what we're going to talk about yet.
32:30
You. Don't have you don't have the
32:31
the the. I've actually only met him once
32:34
for like literally 10 seconds at A at a card show.
32:37
But. I've never met him in person.
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OK, but you don't have a topic yet.
32:43
Not yet, no. I'll wait for something to come
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up. Yeah.
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Yeah. Cool.
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Yeah. All right.
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Thanks for joining me. And thanks to everybody for
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watching or listening, depending on where you were.
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You were catching this. We will see all next week.