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Re: Bad buyers on eBay
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lugnet.market.auction
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Mon, 4 Sep 2000 17:54:42 GMT
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In lugnet.market.auction, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> Hi all,
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> As I mentioned the other day, I have a new auction running. Part of why I took
> so long to get it started is that I was still hoping to resolve the five buyers
> who chose not to honor their bids. I waited so long that eBay won't allow me
> to place feedback and/or seek to get my money back from the sale. Oh well.
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> But beware!
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> The following buyers either refused to return contact, refused to pay, or paid
> in canadian funds and refused to make it right.
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> fmcgrann@megalink.net
> frank.roy / frank.roy@expanets.com
> beeper18 / lynn.v@ns.sympatico.ca
> jewelj71 / jewelj71@aol.com
> seahawk17 / lazarus@kiva.net
Part of me was hoping to see a couple of familiar names. I would love to
believe there are just a few people who are blowing off their
responsibilities. Apparently, there are 5 more deadbeats to add to the
growing list on eBay.
> I want to acknowledge two things here. I am not the best buyer in the world.
> I like to think I'm a pretty responsible seller, but I have bought stuff and
> forgot to pay for it. It happens. But it's not good. The other thing is that
> there is some miniscule chance that I have wrongly accused one of these people.
> If it ever comes to my attention that this is true I will post an apology about
> it in response to this note.
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> Christopher Weeks
> eBay merchant since 1996
In recent auctions, my deadbeat bidder list has dramatically
increased....Six months ago, I had no problems at all. I had never posted
negative feedback. A month ago the percentage of bad bidders on 30+ auctions
was 20%+. I have posted a couple of negative feedbacks, but I fear
retribution in my feedback as I post more of these. Having "no pays" One in
Five auctions is way too high for me.
Granted, I don't run more than 30 auctions at a time (2-3 times a month),
but this is alarming, especially when the items are $20-$50 each.
Re-listing is a problem sometimes; the market value of the items sold can
drop signifacantly, compounding the problems. As a matter of fact I have
one action lot 4 little Castle Wolfpack, dark forest+fright knights sets
that has been run twice, and both bidders didn't pay.
An interesting anomaly in my auctions...Most of my deadbeats are on Star
Wars items.
Overall, I have been especially satisfied by international bidders; most of
my deadbeats are from the US. For quite awhile, my eBay auctions led to
many non-eBay sales and trades. This was a great little spin off of eBay.
However, a few people overseas have contacted me to obtain SW or Ninja fig
packs or other items and then disappeared. I will only acquire these items
if I get half the money up front now. I no longer offer to obtain items for
people I have not dealt with or communicated with extensively.
I wish you better look in your large auction this week
= )
John
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| (...) Yeah! I've not had it anywhere near that extent, but it is troubling. (...) I wouldn't think that most LEGO is so speculative that the value would change much over a few months. Thought I did buy a shipment of 8880s from ets-dya and of course (...) (24 years ago, 4-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| Hi all, As I mentioned the other day, I have a new auction running. Part of why I took so long to get it started is that I was still hoping to resolve the five buyers who chose not to honor their bids. I waited so long that eBay won't allow me to (...) (24 years ago, 4-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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