Posted on 01/28/2007 6:38:39 AM PST by COUNTrecount
Well said!
Thanks! You are the type seller I choose to deal with.
There's two other rules that would apply as well.
One, that you never reward fraud.
Two, that when your agent goes bad and takes the other side of the deal, the deal is over.
There was one seller that had a camcorder that I was interested in and he was in the midwest somewhere and wanted $75 to ship in the US. I am in the midlands of SC but it didn't make a difference. I figured it was insurance included and asked to confirm. I got a resounding no on that. I wrote it off and never bid.
A couple of months later, one of the big box stores had it on sale up the street.
From time to time, I deal in unusual items and some of them tend to be heavy or odd sized/shaped.
I will take such things down to my local UPS store for an actual weigh in and also sometimes get other useful tips. I also offer to send a copy of any shipping reciept to any buyer. That policy helped out a few times when selling some guitars and accessories.
For the most part, I have found people are reasonable when shown that my numbers are based in reality. If a winner has a better idea, I will gladly listen. Sometimes that works out too.
There have been times that I have been off on shipping and it did cost more but I stand by what I say and have had to eat a loss once in a while.
I have even sold a few cars (mine and others) and those worked out really well.
I'm sorry, I don't agree with your post.
Never put in at a maximum more than you are willing to pay.
This is an auction, not a store.
eBay is not acting as your agent. You are using your own buying account. An auction agent is a different animal. eBay is just a marketing platform.
I'm in no means condoning the actions of the sellers. I'm stressing though, you are dealing with a street vendor environment.
Can you freepmail me her username?
I am always after odd shaped tupperware.
Sniper here too. I have an account with one of the sniping services. I set the max bid I'm willing to pay and forget about until I'm notified I either won or lost the auction.
That's not always true. I sometimes have many copies of the same item and I will use this option then.
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When eBay places bids on my behalf they are acting as my bidding agent, in my opinion.
Once the shill bidder made his fraudulent bid, my agent -- acting prudently, would not bid again on that item. The sale and the pool of bidders and sellers in it are now tainted by fraud. In this particular case, my maximum bid is now public. In such circumstance a reasonable buying agent would not rebid at all on the item. Yet Ebay does, that is imprudent and is not only a practice that allows fraud -- it is a practise that REWARDS fraud.
Just a guess but they may be refering to auctions in the UK. I know some countries won't let you view the buyer's history.
Do NOT miss that that in this auction the was a clear pattern that drew the strongest of suspicion of fraud upon the seller himself. No one -- you included -- should buy from frauds!
Especially not on Ebay, where the item being bought is not present to be examined.
From purchases over the last two weeks I can say that Ebay US started last week only showing the bidder by number.
And for that reason, so is anyone who lists an item at less than they're willing to sell for. But listing at realistic prices just runs up the EBay fees because no one bids. EBay is not a place for the naive.
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When I bid $5 and the bids go to $20 and than I get a second chance, I think it is shill bidding!
I only had one problem with buying a DVD on EBAY.
It would only play the first half of the movie before it bombed.
I contacted the seller and they shipped me a new one.
I asked what to do with the bad one.
They said "I believe you that it is bad, just toss it.
The new one worked fine and I left positive feedback.
Shill bidding is just as fair as sniping...IMHO.
eBay doesn't broker or bid for you. You are doing that.
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