Hi everyone,
I received a huge card today for my PC that is a really positive story, about one collector helping out the other. There have been so many negative stories of late on here that this is worth a read.
The card I received today was posted on eBay for sale 2 weeks ago and I contacted the seller and we agreed on a price. I sent the money straight away and being late night US time didn't expect a response till the morning. I was really excited about it, despite it costing me an arm and a leg.
I woke up the next morning and hadn't heard anything from the seller and in the meantime I had a chat with a really cool guy and friend of mine David (thenashcollector - one of the new Mods on HK) who has THE best Steve Nash collection around. During our conversation I found out that David had also spoken with the seller and agreed on a price to buy the exact same card, the same card I had paid for the night before.
I contacted the seller to find out what was going on and within a few minutes I had received a full refund and a BS excuse from the seller saying that they had since sold the card to someone else!
Honestly, I was gutted.
I went from owning the card, to watching it being sold to a friend who I knew would keep the card in their PC (albeit a very impressive PC). I thought my chance of owning it was gone forever!
So David and I were chatting about the situation at length and out of the blue he offered to sell me the card for what I was going to pay for it. He told me that despite this being below what he paid for it, he was happy to see it going to a fellow Nash fan.
He is a legend!
He didn't have to sell it to me and in some ways I wouldn't have blamed him for wanting to keep it. I did make a deal with him that firstly if I ever sold it it would go back to him and secondly that I would do whatever I could to help him chase down the one card he was chasing for his Nash PC.
I wont tell you the card he is chasing, or how that chase is going, but I will try and get him to come on and tell the second part of this story.
Finally, after going through more highs and lows than a jet plane, the card arrived today!
It really does show that there are still a few good guys out there!
ENJOY!
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2010/2011 Panini National Treasures Logoman 1/1 - Steve Nash
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Cheers
Matt
I received a huge card today for my PC that is a really positive story, about one collector helping out the other. There have been so many negative stories of late on here that this is worth a read.
The card I received today was posted on eBay for sale 2 weeks ago and I contacted the seller and we agreed on a price. I sent the money straight away and being late night US time didn't expect a response till the morning. I was really excited about it, despite it costing me an arm and a leg.
I woke up the next morning and hadn't heard anything from the seller and in the meantime I had a chat with a really cool guy and friend of mine David (thenashcollector - one of the new Mods on HK) who has THE best Steve Nash collection around. During our conversation I found out that David had also spoken with the seller and agreed on a price to buy the exact same card, the same card I had paid for the night before.
I contacted the seller to find out what was going on and within a few minutes I had received a full refund and a BS excuse from the seller saying that they had since sold the card to someone else!
Honestly, I was gutted.
I went from owning the card, to watching it being sold to a friend who I knew would keep the card in their PC (albeit a very impressive PC). I thought my chance of owning it was gone forever!
So David and I were chatting about the situation at length and out of the blue he offered to sell me the card for what I was going to pay for it. He told me that despite this being below what he paid for it, he was happy to see it going to a fellow Nash fan.
He is a legend!
He didn't have to sell it to me and in some ways I wouldn't have blamed him for wanting to keep it. I did make a deal with him that firstly if I ever sold it it would go back to him and secondly that I would do whatever I could to help him chase down the one card he was chasing for his Nash PC.
I wont tell you the card he is chasing, or how that chase is going, but I will try and get him to come on and tell the second part of this story.
Finally, after going through more highs and lows than a jet plane, the card arrived today!
It really does show that there are still a few good guys out there!
ENJOY!
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2010/2011 Panini National Treasures Logoman 1/1 - Steve Nash
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Cheers
Matt