Beware of the "polite" price-cutting scam with porcelain | Sell

lidor3073 · 2026-07-02T09:54:04.094579Z

Hello everyone,I am currently privately liquidating a larger inherited porcelain collection and would like to share my latest experience with you to warn other private sellers.Here’s how it went for me:The buyer wins the auction as normal and pays.After receiving the item, the buyer leaves positive feedback. Later, an extremely polite message arrives. It is claimed that a “collector friend” saw the piece and that it is a fake.At the same time, it is said that the piece is beautiful anyway, and a partial refund is suggested directly.The nice tone really throws you off. Unfortunately, I fell for it once and granted a discount, even though the piece later turned out (through raking-light photos of the underglaze mark) to be an absolutely undisputed original Meissen.Especially brazen: the same buyer is now bidding on my next high-quality plate and is already announcing in the chat in advance that one can “only really see the authenticity live” – so the next renegotiation after the auction ends is already preprogrammed. But I already made it clear beforehand that he should think carefully about it. My takeaway from this:Don’t let buyers intimidate you. Never grant partial refunds! If a buyer is dissatisfied, offer only a full return in exchange for sending back the goods. Most of the time the scam then falls apart immediately, because they actually want to keep the pieces. After that: block the buyer immediately from making further purchases. Have you also been experiencing this kind of retroactive price squeezing more often lately?Best regards

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