The Result Of Selling The Neocell 2G On eBay

What’s up y’all? Wanted to give an update on how the sale of the original Neocell 2G went. First, though, let me tell you what I had to go through to sell it.

I first listed it up more than a month ago to sell on eBay. It sold fine, but the person who bought it was jack *** from Nigira who phished an eBay account of an American. Of course this bidder was the highest bidder because they were willing to “pay” anything. The SOB then sent me a fake email from Paypal, stating that “you have received the money” from Paypal, trying to get me to send the item without actually, um… receiving any money! Yeah, come on.. of all people, I am not the person to mess around with.

So it didn’t sell. So a few weeks ago, I tried again. This time, within an hour left of the bid, someone accidentally placed a bid too high. No big deal because the person retracted their bid immediately. But eBay’s system decided to… be lazy, and not actually retract this person’s bid, even though it clearly stated it was retracted. So when it came down to the last few minutes, the person who retracted the bid was the highest bidder. Way’ta go eBay, the world’s number one leader and pioneer of online auctioning. Clearly I’m not going to force this person to pay what the item “sold” for, because it was never meant to be sold to that person.

eBay has a “second chance offer” system, where you can offer an item to the second to highest person who bid on it. It gets offered at the person’s maximum bid. In other words, the highest amount they were willing to pay. Fair enough. I offered it to the second highest bidder…

The highest bidder retracted the bid (reason wrong price entered), so you can be the winning buyer for your $***offer if you want.

I sent the message out within 10 minutes of the bid ending, so the person should have been jumping for joy. But what’s the person do? He gives me his answer a day later…

if i do the second chance offer…..will u express mail it to me for free. to ….los angeles california…///??? thanx

The shipping was set for only $5, but not only did he not wanna’ pay the $5 (it would have been about $10 standard shipping to California, he wanted free shipping  which would have been much more expensive). Wow, what a moron. My answer…

No, it will be the standard shipping. I need your answer within a few hours or the item’s going to relisted for a new seven day auction.

Of course the guy doesn’t even bother responding. In addition to this, I had to answer so many stupid questions sent to me via eBay. Questions you shouldn’t even be asking. (I was polite and responded to every one of them.) Questions like “how many 3gs  u have like that for sale”, “i have 2g iphone i want os 3.1.2 how did u do that???”, “Do you have a buy it now price”, etc.

I put it up for a third time, and at this point I’m starting to get really disenchanted with eBay. But by eBay, I mean the people on there. But for the listing, nothing goes wrong and it sells. I go down to ship it out and realize that the shipping from Florida to Massachusetts is more than the $5 shipping. Great. Not only that, but I then realized “Hey, don’t feel safe sending the Neocell 2G out without any kinda’ shipping insurance.”. I realize I’ve now gotta’ pay the extra shipping and insurance outta’ my own pocket. I emailed the buyer, letting him know what the tracking number was, and also that I spent my own money insuring it, etc.

Man, at this point I’m feelin’ really disenchanted with dealing with people. Friend and family that knew the issues I was dealing with also felt the same way. Such a shame…

But today I get a letter in the mail from the person I shipped the Neocell 2G to. I said “Man, I ‘freakin’ swear if this is some kinda’ crap complainin’ about somethin’… I ain’t havin’ it. I’m so sick of this eBay crap!”. The letter…

Re: IPhone

Dear Mr. Baird:

Thank you for the Iphone. Enclosed please find $10.00 too cover the extra postage in mailing the item.

God Bless.

(signed)

And you see what’s included inside the letter. So that makes me feel better about the “human condition”, at least regarding eBay, haha. The person who bought it is a long time reader of theneocell.com (referred to me a “J”, which is what I used to sign these posts on theneocell.com months ago).

So even though I had to deal with attempted theft by international criminals, system screw ups and greedy non-buyers… the auction turned out to be a success. And most important, it seems the Neocell 2G is going to a good home, which is really want I wanted the most. I’ll miss ya baby…

Peace, JbB

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