Looking for Advice on How To Handle a System Sale Gone Wrong

[Satsuki]

go easy on me, i was putting on my makeup!

[plik]

thanks for all the advice everyone. it helped a lot. unfortunately they have disabled my ability to post a message so i could not even state my side of the story. i give up, i don't care anymore. if anyone is a member on neogeo.com and can post, let me know.

[Diff-chan]

That site is terrible.

[icarusfall]

neogeo.com

I found your problem.

[gamevet]

Tell the dumbass to clean his carts, or try them on a real Nes. Everything you've sent works.

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

As I read the posts, the guy didn't seem like that much of an asshole. He seemed really pissed that what he got was not what he thought he was buying. No one in they're right mind would be happy with the idea of having to lose money shipping a defective item back. It's like you're being punished for buying something and assuming you are getting what you were told you were getting. I'm not a member so I can't check what his feedback says, but he has a rating of 39. It seems like if he was always scamming people, especially in that community, he'd have lost his account too.


1)plik said he put a new connector in, but didn't. You gain nothing from lying, so why bother? That little stretching of the truth hurts your credibility.
2)I bought a couple of gba games from plik. He never mentioned one was japanese. I bought them to resell, but now I'm stuck with a game no one will buy. Is it the end of the world? No. But I would have passed had that all been disclosed up front.
3)he backed out of a sale with yoshi after he had yoshi's money because he had a better deal elsewhere after the fact. I'm sorry, but that's just shitty.

None of these are huge issues on their own and none of them make plik a bad guy. But they do kind of point to the fact that he's not the most reliable guy to buy from.

[OmegaFlareX]

Had something similar happen to me - 3 years ago I ebayed nearly all my consoles and their games. The SNES was a bit worse for wear, but I managed to get all the games I had to work. I did post in the auction that the cart port was grumpy in his old age, but that everything was confirmed working. Auction ended, funds were exchanged, the lot was packaged and mailed. A week later the seller emails saying they can't get any of the games to work. Since they were half in the right, I went ahead and refunded them the average cost of a barebones system. Whatever, I just wanted to get the crap out of my possession and make a few bucks (which I did thanks to the few-dozen games I included with it).

I'm not sure what the point of this story is, sorry.

[Vasteel]

I have a fucking top-loading NES and that shit still takes 3-4 tries sometimes. Tell that dude to lick your b-hole.

[Yoshi]

As I read the posts, the guy didn't seem like that much of an asshole. He seemed really pissed that what he got was not what he thought he was buying. No one in they're right mind would be happy with the idea of having to lose money shipping a defective item back. It's like you're being punished for buying something and assuming you are getting what you were told you were getting. I'm not a member so I can't check what his feedback says, but he has a rating of 39. It seems like if he was always scamming people, especially in that community, he'd have lost his account too.


1)plik said he put a new connector in, but didn't. You gain nothing from lying, so why bother? That little stretching of the truth hurts your credibility.
2)I bought a couple of gba games from plik. He never mentioned one was japanese. I bought them to resell, but now I'm stuck with a game no one will buy. Is it the end of the world? No. But I would have passed had that all been disclosed up front.
3)he backed out of a sale with yoshi after he had yoshi's money because he had a better deal elsewhere after the fact. I'm sorry, but that's just shitty.

None of these are huge issues on their own and none of them make plik a bad guy. But they do kind of point to the fact that he's not the most reliable guy to buy from.

This really needed to be said. I've never had any issue buying or selling over there, because I am up front about issues and don't change the rules once money has exchanged hands.

[kedawa]

2)I bought a couple of gba games from plik. He never mentioned one was japanese. I bought them to resell, but now I'm stuck with a game no one will buy. Is it the end of the world? No. But I would have passed had that all been disclosed up front.

What game is it? Unless it's something text heavy, you should have no trouble selling it.