Thread: ebay question

I've never had a razor returned for incorrect measures...I've never heard of a razor being off 1/32 and being sent back. The guys are right about Ebay and return policies, you can't win, just bow out gracfully. I'll be double checking measurements from now on, thanks for the tough lesson.

Big Greg

I told the guy I'm more than happy to take the return. i told him it's a used, old vintage razor. It's obviously a 7/8 razor that has some hone wear. The fact that it is 1/32 short doesn't make it any less of a 7/8 razor. He got mad and told me my logic makes no sense, I wasted his time and money, and I knew it was short and tried to mislead and deceive intentionally. I am also only going to accept bids from people with 100% feedback from now on. He has many negative feedbacks. I just hope it's still in shave ready condition and not all screwed up from having calipers clamped on it.

I suggest you block him from bidding on any more of your items in the future.

Sounds to me like the guy has no idea what he is getting into. Vintage won't be his thing if he wants perfect dimensions. I will only sell my razors on here because of this very reason.

I used to take a photo of the razor on the ruler, but found the ruler on top of the razor is more revealing. It is still a bit tricky, camera angle, and what not, but here is what I do now, if I do it at all ;

I have used this PDF as a selling tool:
straight-razor-ruler
~Richard

Had a guy return a Wade & Butcher because (as he said) it was "old". Still trying to figure that one out....

Originally Posted by prodigy

I told the guy I'm more than happy to take the return. i told him it's a used, old vintage razor. It's obviously a 7/8 razor that has some hone wear. The fact that it is 1/32 short doesn't make it any less of a 7/8 razor. He got mad and told me my logic makes no sense, I wasted his time and money, and I knew it was short and tried to mislead and deceive intentionally. I am also only going to accept bids from people with 100% feedback from now on. He has many negative feedbacks. I just hope it's still in shave ready condition and not all screwed up from having calipers clamped on it.

I wouldn't have entered into that discussion, your reply to him says that you knew it wasn't 7/8". Whilst he is being picky he is also correct.

I've had the same thing happen, except it was if I remember 1/64" off. People are just crazy or looking for an excuse to return. I can +1, the best thing to do is mention a very rough measurement, then say 'judge the width by the picture with the ruler'. Definitely block him - if I get any trouble from picky buyers, I blacklist them without hesitation - there's a million buyers on ebay to replace them, and you are guaranteed never to have to deal with them again.

Originally Posted by mglindo

Probably a form of buyers remorse and the buyer is trying to find some form of a valid excuse to return it! He seems to have found one. I would do as Phrank suggests in post #2.


Mike

Yeah, like his wife found out he bought it. I've had the "there's something wrong with it because my wife found out that I bought it" return before. One guy even admitted it, but then claimed a garbage reason about some contrived problem.

I measure distance from the edge to the top of the spine and then from the top of the hollow to the spine and put both in my auctions. If anything is shy of 7/8 to the top of the razor (7/8 being the magic number for a razor to be a lot more expensive), then I say "just shy of 7/8ths".

Like Jimmy says, I never argue with someone sending something back. they can make up something completely false, and you're still getting the item back and paypal and ebay are still ruling against you. Ebay knows that catering to the buyers makes the most money, and the sellers have little alternative to go elsewhere so they'll just tolerate it even if they don't like it. A buyer has all kinds of options, and is more important to them.