open box new

tyclin · 2013-03-21T01:19:26.000Z

I experienced a few bad ebay purchases with lego box either mild, moderate or severe damage from sellers missed the small tears/damages but claiming mint condition, poor packing skill in spite of request of protecting the lego box well.... Now, another stupid experience ..."open box new". It came down to my mistake anyway when bidding on some set recently. On the listing, the seller categorizes the item "new", meaning the item "new, unopened, unused, undamaged.." but tricky part is in their "detailed" description, "open box new"....another unique term the sellers come up with. Surely, I should have read it thoroughly but first time ever, I missed this one because I guess I trusted the seller categorizes it as "new". I won the bid and for some reason, I decided to read the description and found out this new terminology "open box new", meaning the seller open and test the item and the item sure working. According to the seller, the lego set was returned from a customer with some bags opened, so they opened all the bags and "verified" all the bricks". Apparently, there was no use to argue with the seller about the conflict of categorizing the item as "new, unopened..." and "open box new" because seller said that I should have read the description and it was not their fault and it was ebay's fault because there was no other way to categorize the item except "new" and "used". Since it is "not assembled", it is "new". And it is "open box new". From the seller's negative feedbacks, there were a few negative feedbacks as to this "open box new" deal. So I am expecting the worst.