[jeremy7269]

Has anyone had success or problems from buying from sellers that are overseas?

[bojesphob]

I've only had one bad experience out of over 300 transactions since 1999 on eBay (yeah, not a lot, but it is a personal account). Only had to leave one set of negatives for someone in all of that time. I can't remember what I bought from him, but I won two auctions for cards from him, and he never shipped them, and never replied to my emails. Anyhow, he had 100% positive feedback, and then, all of a sudden, he had almost 12 negatives in 2 weeks. I'm thinking he either had a really bad accident, died, got arrested or something, as he had a huge number of positives (somewhere around 12,000) and then just disappeared. But, got my money back and all was good. I've only sold a few things here or there, and haven't had any issues, either, but I tend to try not to sell. I've got some really good deals before, my favorite being a 2009 Bowman Sterling Aaron Rodgers Jersey XFractor numbered 3/5 for 30 bucks (right before they won through the playoffs then the Super Bowl), and a 1/1 Donald Driver printing plate auto for not much more than that around the same time.

[jplarson]

A lot of the details escape me now, but this was back when you could still see names of people bidding against you. I was going for a 1999 Finest Refractor Randy Moss BGS 8.5. I put a max bid of something or another and I saw as the days went by this other bidder would go up by 50 cents, then by dollars, until he was able to reveal my max bid (i usually do a dollar amount and some change).

I saw he had another auction for some baby clothes and for a roofing nailer and the SAME person bid the other people up to their max amounts as well. I put in a report to eBay that accused him of shilling me and two other people. I contacted one of them and they saw the same evidence and also subbed a report.

I pay right at the end of auction (cause that's how I roll son!) and slow shipping later I get a knock on my door. Turns out the sender didn't include enough postage. So I chip in the 70-80 cents and receive a bulging PWE......



Yes, a plain white envelope.... containing a BGS card.



You know how this one is gonna end.... So I open the one end that has a small tear in it and pieces of case slide out.




One may think, yep, damage from shipping. I have a different opinion. Looking at the damage on the front and especially the back, I think that the card was held in a vice and hit with a hammer in revenge for my complaints to him about shilling.

I start a case with Paypal and I recover my shipping damages but of course I'd have to get it regraded assuming the card itself isn't damaged. (it wasn't and it regraded a BGS 8.5 with slightly different subs). I find out later he gets banned from eBay. I'm sure he's still plying his scamming trade, but at least in this case justice was served.

[pudge27t]

@jplarson
"That's how I roll son!!"" lol