[meteorite-list] More eBay cancelled auctions

[Steve Schoner]

I had a similar problem, or the seller had the problem as I was in the hospital and could not bid.  It was for a special type of thin rock saw... very expensive items when new and costly when used.   I wanted to bid on it as it was listed for .99cts.   Then the day before the auction was to end, there were no bidders.   I wanted that machine badly.   Then with a potentially deadly episode with my heart, to the hospital I went for 3 days.

I missed the auction completely and no one had bid on it.   .99cts.  I could not believed that it had passed with no bids.   And the seller had not re-listed it either.   I e-mailed the seller my story, saying that I would have bid on it and maybe gotten it for .99cts.   (Robbery on my part really).   So I wrote would he be willing to take an offer on it out of auction.   The owner was gone for a few days, and when he returned, I got an email stating?  MAKE US AN OFFER. 

I did.  $50 plus shipping and handling.   (Still a steal, expecting a counter offer)

Instead, the seller accepted, and the deal was done.

I think that maybe in cases where a really valuable item is snagged for a real low price, it might be honorable to make an offer that would reasonable to avoid the auction being canceled, due to seller regrets.  

But then again, I have sold things on ebay and taken it in the shorts so to speak, and that is the way it is.   I never short an auction that I put up no matter what the closing price is.

Steve Schoner
IMCA #4470
P.S.  I hate Ebay.



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Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:48:43 -0500
From: Darren Garrison <cynapse at charter.net>
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] More eBay cancelled auctions
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I had an issue similar to this recently-- I was looking for a specific computer
related book.  The book was in it's 4th edition, with 2nd, 3rd, and 4th edition
copies all on Ebay with varying prices.  Someone had a 3rd edition copy on
auction with a 99 cent opening price, but they had a feedback rating of only 3.
But figuring everybody had to start some time, I made a bid.  

The auction continued a few days after my bid (so I wasn't sniping) and nobody
else bid at all.  The auction closed for 99 cents plus shipping.  I paypaled the
amount as soon as the auction ended.  Within a hour, I get a refund from Paypal,
with a message from the seller that she had "sold it to someone else 
off-line."
Now, obviously, she had simply not liked the closing price and wanted a do over.
If it had been a seriously high-priced item that went for 99 cents, I would
probably have let someone off the hook just to be fair.  But 99 cents for a used
copy of a previous edition of a computer manual is not an unreasonable price,
even if it did cost $60 when it was new a few years back.  Dishonest tactics
over unrealistic expectations on prices for a used item deserve a negative
feedback, and got a negative feedback with an explanation why (best as could be
done in the 80 character limit.)

I then used buy-it-now to pick up a 2nd edition copy of the book for $2.05 with
no hassles.  


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