SluttyMary
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Oct 20, 2005 9:16:30 GMT -4
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Post by SluttyMary on May 2, 2009 12:37:54 GMT -4
I bought some protein powder, but recieved the wrong flavour. The seller has not responded to my emails. I'm always lucky like that.
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Oct 6, 2024 13:30:19 GMT -4
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2009 7:22:25 GMT -4
The last couple of months I've been doing some low-level bidding on Persian Carpets. I've noticed a couple of times where the bidding remained low and then suddenly jumped up overly high, and never turned up on the seller's feedback list. This makes me wonder whether some of these carpet places decide that they aren't going to get enough and so yank it off Ebay to sell in their bricks and mortar store. Actually reading that over, it sounds paranoid. Maybe I'm just bitter because I had a lowish bid on a nice carpet which had stood for a week, then somebody sniped me in the last few seconds to nab it at $1000! Can certainly agree that there seems to be some disposable cash out there.
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alpierce
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Mar 7, 2005 13:40:30 GMT -4
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Post by alpierce on Jul 13, 2009 14:48:32 GMT -4
This happens all the time. I forget the term used but what happens is a seller who doesn't like the bids he is getting either logs in under another account to bid on the item himself, so he can jack up the bid by a large margin, or has someone else help him do this. Whenever you bid on something and the next bid is a lot more then yours it is probably the seller himself trying to jack up the bids so he can make more money. I once bid on a laptop and during the bidding someone else decided to bid $100 over my bid. Why would someone do that, especially for a laptop on an auction site where the idea is to spend as little as possible? If this happens to you again, I would drop out of the bidding. It happens quite a bit on ebay, but they don't do anything about it. They even protect the other bidders identities making it hard for you to complain.
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piscessiren
Landed Gentry
"Every joke is a tiny revolution" George Orwell
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Dec 10, 2005 13:25:57 GMT -4
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Post by piscessiren on Jul 13, 2009 15:38:00 GMT -4
I think the term is shilling.
I collect dolls :'(and I am having a good laugh at all the inflated prices for items from the Barbie 2009 convention, which was this past weekend.
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Post by Witchie on Jul 13, 2009 16:01:15 GMT -4
I've dropped out of plenty of auctions when it's become apparent someone is jacking up the prices. It's ridiculous. I usually check back to see if the same item is back up for auction.
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Post by ratscabies on Jul 30, 2009 0:15:47 GMT -4
I have been known to keep bidding on something when my repeated bids keep getting smacked down immediately by someone who bids a large amount early on. Just to maximize what that guys has to pay. Because I am bitter that he wants it as much or more than I do. The problem is, sometimes I get riled up, and bid more than I really want to pay, and suddenly discover I'm winning. Then I spend a few days nervously praying I get outbid before it ends. But occasionally, I am on the hook for something for WAY too much money. I have learned to let things go. But lately, I sense myself on the verge of getting sucked in again.
A couple weeks ago, I bid on a camera and flash outfit, an old Minolta from the 70's, just to get the flash. I have my first 35mm camera to this day, and recently dug it out to shoot some slides of my daughter. The flash that came with it disappeared into the mists years ago, and I wanted to replace it.
So I win ($12 plus shipping!), and the stuff appears about a week ago. The flash works great, the cases are perfect, but the camera, despite being visually beautiful, is DOA. These old cameras used mercury batteries, and this one won't work at all without them. The mercury batteries corroded very easily when left in the camera, and the corrosion travels up the wiring and trashes it all. I got ambitious and tore the thing apart and tried to replace the dead wire, but alas, it's good'n'dead. Pretty, though.
So I go to leave feedback, and I don't really want to leave bad feedback, 'cuz this guy probably got the camera at a garage sale and knows nothing about them. Hell, I only learned while waiting for delivery. I've only ever left good feedback for people, so I didn't know what to expect. I tried to be very noncommittal, but when I got to the question about description accuracy, I rightly chose "inaccurate". Whoah! The sirens went off and the site went crazy trying to talk me out of leaving bad feedback, and in fact, wouldn't LET me until I exhausted other options. I ended up canceling, and sent an email to the seller telling him the camera didn't work, that I wasn't mad, the flash was great, but didn't feel right saying the description was accurate when it wasn't, so I wouldn't be leaving any feedback at all. I wasn't going to return the stuff to him, so I figured that was the end of it.
This morning I get a message from him saying he was sorry for the inconvenience, and that he was refunding the money (including shipping) and that I could keep the stuff anyway. The money was already out of my paypal account and back in my bank by the time I got all this.
While I was pleasantly surprised by this, I felt kinda bad, since I honestly wasn't mad, didn't feel cheated, and just wanted to give him a heads up about the phrase "untested; sold as is" that is usually all over these auctions for these old cameras. I immediately sent him a note insisting that we split the difference, since the flash was fine, and sent him back half the money. Karmically, I feel pretty good.
But, the camera is so cute! Now I want one of THOSE that works. And I keep getting sniped in the last 4 seconds. And it's pissing me off....
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Post by ladyboy on Aug 11, 2009 18:37:11 GMT -4
Get Bidnapper and snipe yourself! I'm addicted to it. It makes ebay so easy and I almost always win.
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Post by ratscabies on Aug 16, 2009 14:24:27 GMT -4
Well, that's not nearly as much fun, is it? I have gone insane on this binge. Since my last post, I have won auctions on five or six cameras (yet, none are the one I got in the first auction, go figure), a couple flashes, a prism finder for my extra fancy medium format camera, and 18 rolls of Kodachrome. Also, I have discovered Goodwill's online auction site, and gotten a few things there as well. I will be putting a few things back on eBay here soon. Hell, I may even open my own store.
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TrafficChick
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Immagonnaeatyou!
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Mar 7, 2005 9:30:05 GMT -4
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Post by TrafficChick on Aug 18, 2009 11:26:22 GMT -4
Also, I have discovered Goodwill's online auction site, and gotten a few things there as well. I will be putting a few things back on eBay here soon. Hell, I may even open my own store. There's no "maybe" about it. You will be opening your own store, mister.
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Post by ratscabies on Aug 18, 2009 19:56:37 GMT -4
...yes, dear.... [/ mumbly voice]
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