through the years, i have gotten so many email stating the item is for there son or it is a gift and whether can i lower the price. what does everyone do in these cases?
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Honestly, ignore them
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Tell them that it was a hard decision to part with these comic books and you want the right home for them. You don’t really want them to go to a kid, or as a gift to someone that may or may not treat them correctly, so the price is now 10% higher. Or if you are a collector you can have them at the stated price.
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Wow.
Beware of the Ebay email that begins with
“Dear Kind Sir…”
It’s always some kind of request for a much lower price for any one of 8,539 reasons.
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Anything with, “Kindly,” is generally a scam too. Reddit’s scam awareness forum has a running gag about the use of the word Kindly.
I have a email filter with “Dear” in it… it’s usually spam or a scam… nobody writes like that anymore, this isn’t 1880 where you’re writing a formal letter to send across the continental US via Pony Express. 
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If someone hits me up and says “will you take x$ or take 10% off, sure. If they come at me with some sob story (I am a disabled veteran is often used) then no.
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Whenever someone comes at me with the excuse that their kid has autism and wants this video game/toy/comic I just counter that I have two children with autism and I need this money! I actually do have two children diagnosed with autism. Checkmate.
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Dear Kind Members of Chu,
Sincerely Yours,
Bill
Who doesn’t have autism nowadays is what I tell people trying to pull that excuse… you dig deep enough, we’re all effing special!
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Whaaaat! What about the email you sent me this morning about how you want to go on a boat ride on the river? That wasn’t you? It said Dear Gbess; 
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No mercy! I remember I bought a book from a guy and he took forever to mail it because he said he had been getting a lung transplant and about 10 other medical procedures done. How he got out of the hospital and mailed my book the next day was nothing short of miraculous. He was lying just like all of the “gift for my…” people. Now if someone says, “I can only offer x amount because that’s all I have,” then I respect that.
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He could have said that he’d just risen from the dead. Now THAT truly would have been unbelievable
I don’t get the reason why people have to make up excuses. You don’t need to go into details, we’re all human and we make mistakes. It’s okay to drop the ball every once in a while.
When I was doing a lot of listings and selling, I once missed a comic in the pile to ship off after printing all the labels and doing them in a big batch, one got missed and didn’t get noticed until the buyer a few days later asked for status. My response was… “I’m sorry, that’s on me as I was being a turd and totally skipped over this one with a bunch of others I mailed out around the same time!”
Guy was cool and I still gave him a partial refund for good measure (basically turned shipping into free shipping). I got a glowing review once he got the book.
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I’m trying to be understanding…ordered the book on the 8th. Took them until the 16th to respond…still
Waiting for the updated tracking number…
At some point I’m going to have to request a refund as there are others willing to sell me the book…maybe even cheaper.
So did you get a tracking number on the first attempt? If not, I smell BS excuse…
One time I had a seller respond to me that they just legit forgot to send a book when I followed up with them a few days after it had not shipped and was supposed to have after 2-3 days. It had only been like five days and they were apologetic and threw in some extra little comics for free because they felt bad. I left them positive feedback because I appreciated the fact that they actually were just honest and said they totally forgot. No silly excuses, no sick relatives, they just plum forgot.
I screwed up recently. Sold a bundle of books to one guy and a variant to another. Mixed them up somehow. I am super careful not to do this so don’t know how it happened. Funny thing is the one guy rated me really well and the other guy requested a refund.
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