So I recently tried to sell my Beogram 5005 on eBay. I had it listed with a buy it now price, and (stupidly) I allowed offers to be made also. This person comes along, and sends me multiple low ball offers like $100 below my asking price. In their offer, it constantly says how they can't afford the Beogram and then have to go buy a cartridge for it as well. Lucky for me, I had it set so that extreme low ball offers like that would just automatically decline, but they kept going till that auto decline limit was hit, making the lowest offer that eBay would send through to me.
I then noticed all the previous low ball offers (at least 5 of them), and made a reasonable counter offer. They declined and once again re sent the lowest offer that eBay would send through, saying that a new cart was expensive and that it was just too much for them. Not my problem, though trying to be the nice person, I informed them that Sound-Smith had the SMMC4 for $199 plus shipping. Cheaper than the $250 that they were previously complaining about. At that point, they decided to try and make another offer on it, the same price that I had previously counter offered with. However, eBay must have seen all this activity, and didn't allow the offer to go through.
So once again, I get a message from this person, asking why they can't make the previous counter offer. At this point, I was thoroughly annoyed with them, and just didn't respond. It's obvious they weren't worth my time.
A few days latter, they hopped on someone else account. Once again making the lowest offer that eBay would send to me. I knew it was the same person since when the offer comes in, eBay tells me the city that the item would be sent to, and it was the exact same place, just a different account.
I should have just declined. It would have been the right thing to do, but wanting to sell the Beogram, I decided to re make the previously agree'd upon counter offer. So I sent it, they accepted. I shipped out the Beogram...
I had this thing packed well. Platter removed, transport screws set, even the spindle was removed and the belt in a nice little bag. I put felt between the dust cover and the plinth so that it wouldn't rattle and leave marks. I had it in a nice protective liner, surrounded by air bags, and inside a Sterlite plastic container, surrounded by a cardboard box. The tone arm was even braced and surrounded with felt. I really couldn't have packaged it any better.
After a few days, they come back:
Location: Minnesota, USA
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