I would have bought it for the buy it now price. The 24.95 price was still a fair price for such an item. Since there was only a 4.95 price difference between your offer and the buy it now price I would have bought it and nipped it in the bud knowing it would be in my collection within the week. If a collector wants something that bad he/she should not fuss over such a small price difference. You have to decide is it worth more for you to have the books in your collection or take the risk and not get them at all. I learned the hard way and now I use buy it now for those items that I really want when the price is still right. I hope this still can work out for you Harvey.
-----Original Message----- From: harvey kravitz <harveykrav...@yahoo.com> To: Antique Phonograph List <phono-l@oldcrank.org> Sent: Fri, Jul 8, 2011 9:13 pm Subject: [Phono-L] Beware of this seller on Ebay I don't know if this is appropriate, but I will post it anyway. I have a anguage phone disc machine made by Columbia. I was looking on ebay and found 260383447532. It was a set of books for a Language phone in Spanish dated 1917. I thought this would be a welcome addition to my Language phone machine. The eller's name is blue.moonbooks.and.antiques. I asked the usual questions efore I bid. It was a buy it now for $24.95 or obo.. I put in a offer of $20.00 and got a notice that the price jumped up to $55.00 and my offer was declined. I contacted the seller and asked what was going on about the sudden change in rice. She told me that she is a business woman and found out before I put in my offer, she reappraised the the value of the books. Needless to say I was pretty issed off and let her know how angry I was. I haven't heard back from her and I doubt if I ever will. I know I will get a lot of flak saying that it's still her item and she can do what ever they want with it. I guess i'm trying to say,a erson's word is thier most valuable asset. To me it is worth more than all the honographs and riches in the world. The lesson I learned from this is honographs are only a hobby, it's not worth getting mad at, and to move on. lso, I know to stay away from this seller. Thank you all for hearing me out. efore I forget, I checked the listing again and it was pulled. arvey Kravitz ______________________________________________ hono-L mailing list ttp://phono-l.oldcrank.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
