Hello Heritagetoys,
I can understand your frustration and it is bad that you lost a sale, but at the same time, I would like to say (from my own personal opinion) that the members here are not responsible for the lost sale. In any sale, the buyer is fully responsible for his decision to buy or not to buy. As other members have expressed here, we simply discussed the awards and the result was that the experts didn't see anything wrong in the awards based on the provided images.
I feel the more information we can get about something, the best it is. It is our responsibility to each of us (buyers) to take what we want and ignore the rest among all the info when we make a purchase decision.. The people who discussed your awards are not responsible.
Just a personal suggestion, you could always offer your buyer to have the awards authentified at his cost with an offer to reimburse authentication cost plus cancel the sale if the awards ended up being wrong.
Finally, I wanted to say that, by discussing auctions, our forum also give more visibility to some items and can potentially attract more buyers therefore lead to higher prices for the seller. So, I would not say that the forum is so bad for sellers. If you know your items are fully legit, then it's your responsability to convince the buyer. It seems here you failed at it. Maybe it was also that the buyer changed his mind and was just looking for an excuse.
Sorry for your lost sale and hopefully for you you will be able to sell your group.
I can understand your frustration and it is bad that you lost a sale, but at the same time, I would like to say (from my own personal opinion) that the members here are not responsible for the lost sale. In any sale, the buyer is fully responsible for his decision to buy or not to buy. As other members have expressed here, we simply discussed the awards and the result was that the experts didn't see anything wrong in the awards based on the provided images.
I feel the more information we can get about something, the best it is. It is our responsibility to each of us (buyers) to take what we want and ignore the rest among all the info when we make a purchase decision.. The people who discussed your awards are not responsible.
Just a personal suggestion, you could always offer your buyer to have the awards authentified at his cost with an offer to reimburse authentication cost plus cancel the sale if the awards ended up being wrong.
Finally, I wanted to say that, by discussing auctions, our forum also give more visibility to some items and can potentially attract more buyers therefore lead to higher prices for the seller. So, I would not say that the forum is so bad for sellers. If you know your items are fully legit, then it's your responsability to convince the buyer. It seems here you failed at it. Maybe it was also that the buyer changed his mind and was just looking for an excuse.
Sorry for your lost sale and hopefully for you you will be able to sell your group.
