Multiple rare BioShock and Irrational Games items for sale

[Mike1888]

Originally Posted by MortalMonday

Let me be clear here, I feel horrible for both the buyer and the seller. As a fellow collector, I feel the buyer's pain. He wanted that thing so badly, and now I'm sure he's in tears. It's terrible! On the other hand, I can understand the sellers need to void the sale. You, as a buyer, should know better than to bid on something, if you can't follow through promptly; or at least, as a buyer, you should first contact the seller and mention any extenuating circumstance that may preclude your ability to promptly finalize the sale, and then ask if it's OK to bid.

Like I said, it's a tough all-around circumstance, and I can sympathize with both sides. Ultimately though, the seller has to do what's best for him, so I can for sure see why the deal had to be canceled.

I don't know the exact parameters of what happened, but I do not sympathize for the buyer in these kinds of situations whatsoever. Firstly, winning something you can't pay for, regardless of how much you want it is bad for everyone - the seller doesn't get his money, the second placed bidder who might have paid for it and won it for much less doesn't get it (if he had won, then the guy who couldn't pay was just raising the price for no reason), and the value for said item then becomes higher than it should be for everyone else who would like to own it.

Secondly, I'm not usually someone to tell people how to spend their money, but if you're ever thinking "I'm not really sure I can afford this" about a near $4000 gaming collectible...you probably shouldn't buy it. imo.

[MortalMonday]

Originally Posted by Mike1888

I don't know the exact parameters of what happened, but I do not sympathize for the buyer in these kinds of situations whatsoever. Firstly, winning something you can't pay for, regardless of how much you want it is bad for everyone - the seller doesn't get his money, the second placed bidder who might have paid for it and won it for much less doesn't get it (if he had won, then the guy who couldn't pay was just raising the price for no reason), and the value for said item then becomes higher than it should be for everyone else who would like to own it.

Secondly, I'm not usually someone to tell people how to spend their money, but if you're ever thinking "I'm not really sure I can afford this" about a near $4000 gaming collectible...you probably shouldn't buy it. imo.

That's true. Hell, that's in large part, the reason why I almost never sell anything on eBay as an auction. Whenever I sell anything on there, I sell it as a fixed price listing with immediate payment required. This set up eliminates all of these problems.

I think, just this one time, I was a little too emotionally invested. I kinda wanted to see the statue go to a member here. So I was a bit heartbroken that it all fell to pieces, lol. I know it sounds foolish.

Like I said though, most times, I do see things from the sellers point of view. Again, I don't even bother with auction-style listings for this very reason. Believe me, I've had this nonsense happen to me many a time before.