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Re: Whats all this about?
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lugnet.loc.au
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Tue, 20 Mar 2001 02:42:59 GMT
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So whats it all mean then? If I were to bid on this auction [1] should I be
cautious and try and get more information from the seller? It sounds a
little bit sneaky and suspicious for my liking. And If the seller is
scamming Ebay, whos to say they wont turn around and scam me too?
If you choose to see Ebay items Located within Australia, it doesnt show up
in that list. So how then is it possible to list in one country yet base the
currency of anothers? That seems a little wrong to me, though I guess it
would be better than those auctions that you see that are listed in $AU but
the seller will write "US Dollars only" as an auction condition.
This is still confusing to me. And the zero feedback certainly doesnt raise
the confidence any bit.
Santosh
[1] - I might've seriously bid on this one if I wasn't put off by the confusion.
In lugnet.loc.au, Peter White writes:
> In lugnet.loc.au, Santosh Bhat writes:
> > In lugnet.loc.au, Kerry Raymond writes:
> > >
> > > > I was checing Ebay for train items when i found this:
> > > >
> > > > http://cgi.ebay.com.au/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=569662194
> > > >
> > > > Seller location = Germany
> > > > Auction Currency = Australian dollars
> > >
> > > Well, the seller has a number of items up (a number of yummy items too), and
> > > they are all in AU$ and all showing as location Germany. There doesn't seem
> > > any confusion about this as the seller talks about postage prices in AU$
> > > too. Since there is also explicit mention of accepting US$ and CDN$, it
> > > seems clear that they are not such a newbie that they don't know the
> > > difference. Indeed, the auction descriptions look like someone who has done
> > > this before, which suggests this is a new ebay id but not a new ebay seller.
> > >
> > > Just a thought. Some days ago Ebay Australia has a no-fee listing day. Is it
> > > possible that this seller listed on Ebay Australia that day to save the
> > > listing fees? Maybe they had to (or chose to) create a new e-bay id to be
> > > able to do this?
> >
> > Another idea, though it is very left-field is..Did they confuse Austria and
> > Australia? Perhaps the German seller lives near Austria, they are neighbours
> > arent they? But then Austria wouldn't be a dollar currency anyhow. Confusing..
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> I have seen this occurring at least twice before as well.
> The last time they had zero feedback as well (different userid) and were
> auctioning some nice castle sets.
> Just think, when you bid AU$, you know the value won't go up even when no bids
> are made, which is what happens at the moment when you bid in US$.
>
> pete.w (who dreams of 1980, when AU$ 1 equalled US$ 1.12)
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| (...) Personally, I wouldn't bid on a zero feedback seller, esp. overseas. With regard to ebay they are exploiting a loophole in a very clever manner. Personal and institutional scamming are two different things. (...) It won't show up on the list, (...) (24 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) I have seen this occurring at least twice before as well. The last time they had zero feedback as well (different userid) and were auctioning some nice castle sets. Just think, when you bid AU$, you know the value won't go up even when no bids (...) (24 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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