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Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest

Aureliano

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So I decide to take a shot at a Barbisio on ebay. I win it. Pay instantly, seller acknowledges, sends delivery confirmation within hours. Nice!... The next day she says she saw a couple of stains on top that she hadn't noticed before, tried to clean them out, made the hat un-salvageable, stain spreads, she thinks she might have dented the felt into a hole. She refunds in full instantly. I ask if I could have it for $10. She says yes and will send invoice soon. Not a word until this morning. She says that she left the hat outside to dry, it rained a little bit and lo and behold, the stains are virtually gone. She wants $25 instead. I say yes. I ask about the hole, she says no hole. Hat is on its way to me.
Best case scenario: the stains she saw were probably easy to remove with steam and a hat sponge, and even after what she did I have a feeling I can save the hat. Worst case scenario: she ruined the felt by rubbing it and using who knows what to clean it, in which case I might have to pull a MacGyver ;), strip the whole thing and turn the body inside out (I did that to the Strat. Perry gave me) that is a pain in the ass process, which requires time specially for pouncing. Argh... See why I don't like eBay?
 
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Aureliano said:
So I decide to take a shot at a Barbisio on ebay. I win it. Pay instantly, seller acknowledges, sends delivery confirmation within hours. Nice!... The next day she says she saw a couple of stains on top that she hadn't notice before, tried to clean them out, made the hat un-salvageable, stain spreads she thinks she might have dented the felt into a hole. She refunds in full instantly. I ask if I could have it for $10. She says yes and will send invoice soon. Not a word until this morning. She says that she left the hat outside to dry, it rained a little bit and lo and behold, the stains are virtually gone. She wants $25 instead. I say yes. I ask about the hole, she says no hole. Hat is on its way to me.
Best case scenario: the stains she saw were probably easy to remove with steam and a hat sponge, and even after what she did I have a feeling I can save the hat. Worst case scenario: she ruined the felt by rubbing it and using who knows what to clean it, in which case I might have to pull a Macgyver ;), strip the whole thing and turn the body inside out (I did that to the Strat. Perry gave me) that is a pain in the ass process, which requires time specially for pouncing. Argh... See why I don't like eBay?
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Good lord. I mean to say, good lord. An indecisive and incompetent seller sure is a pain in the neck.

Haven't heard of that MacGyver trick before. :D He would do the pouncing with a nail file, I presume?
 
Aureliano

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Rabbit said:
Good lord. I mean to say, good lord. An indecisive and incompetent seller sure is a pain in the neck.

Haven't heard of that MacGyver trick before. :D He did the pouncing with a nail file, I presume?
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I think she meant well but sellers of hats with no knowledge should refrain from trying to be helpful and removing stains for buyers.
Not a nail file but with the dented edge of a quarter! lol
 
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Rabbit said:
Haven't heard of that MacGyver trick before.
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Sounds like a job better suited to MacGruber ... ;)

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newturnofphrase said:
Not that low for a 7, though given that it has the box and is in excellent condition it might have gone for 150 if they'd set it as a buy it now.
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Sure, it's possible. It "might" have happened. But I myself don't see any reason to suspect that a 150 BIN listing would have resulted in a sale at this time.
 
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Aureliano said:
So I decide to take a shot at a Barbisio on ebay. I win it. Pay instantly, seller acknowledges, sends delivery confirmation within hours. Nice!... The next day she says she saw a couple of stains on top that she hadn't noticed before, tried to clean them out, made the hat un-salvageable, stain spreads, she thinks she might have dented the felt into a hole. She refunds in full instantly. I ask if I could have it for $10. She says yes and will send invoice soon. Not a word until this morning. She says that she left the hat outside to dry, it rained a little bit and lo and behold, the stains are virtually gone. She wants $25 instead. I say yes. I ask about the hole, she says no hole. Hat is on its way to me.
Best case scenario: the stains she saw were probably easy to remove with steam and a hat sponge, and even after what she did I have a feeling I can save the hat. Worst case scenario: she ruined the felt by rubbing it and using who knows what to clean it, in which case I might have to pull a MacGyver ;), strip the whole thing and turn the body inside out (I did that to the Strat. Perry gave me) that is a pain in the ass process, which requires time specially for pouncing. Argh... See why I don't like eBay?
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Follow up: Stain is gone. Sweat being sewn back after slight stretch of leather and felt body. Pictures at some point after the weekend. I like it!
 
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Iyor said:
Could you explain how sew the sweat back?
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Turn out the sweatband of one of your hats. You'll see where the stitches go through the leather and trough the felt. After you remove it, is just a matter of doing it again. It all happens underneath.
 
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