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Re: Learning experience on eBay
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Wed, 22 Mar 2000 11:14:51 GMT
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On the subject of bid retractions. I've been running auctions of parted out
8448s. I split the 8448 down to 5 lots. With the last one I listed, a bidder
try to buy the whole car this way. For the 1st 8 or 9 days he outbid every
bidder just a soon as they out bid him. Then, with around a day to go, he
gave up he retracted all his bids - even on those lots where he was not
high bidder (he claimed he lost his job - but was still bidding on other
lots). The result of this was that all my auction prices collapsed. However,
I gave him the benifit of the doubt and moved on.
Then, when I parted out the next one and listed it, guess what happened.
Yep, the same guy started bidding on the whole car again. I mailed him thus:
"You cancelled bids on my 8448 parts auctions last week. I note you have bid
on more of my auctions. If you cancel your bids on these ones _after_ the
next 24 hours has passed, I will leave negative feed back."
(a rather empty threat I know)
His reply:
"what hell is your problem!"
The same guy also repeatedly tried to get me to sign up to paypal so he'd
get the referral.
Scott A
"Kevin Wilson" <70641.507@compuserve.com> wrote in message
news:38D7CF71.2C2576BB@compuserve.com...
> I just had an auction finish last night for some 12x24 green bases,
> which had TWO bid retractions on the last day from people who couldn't
> work out whether the 12x24 was inches or centimetres! (One said she
> emailed me about it but if she did, I never received the message). The
> pictures were clear enough that it was studs, I would have thought, but
> I guess next time I'll have to give dimensions as well!
>
> Kevin
> --
> Personal Lego Web page:
> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/kwilson_tccs/lego.html
> eBay auctions:http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/kevinw1/
> Subscribe to my Lego auction mailing list:
> http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/Legopartsales?referer=1
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| (...) You know you can cancel his bids, Scott? I think you'd be totally justified in doing so. That would maybe be more of a substantive comeback and would protect you from him doing it again. Kevin (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| I just had an auction finish last night for some 12x24 green bases, which had TWO bid retractions on the last day from people who couldn't work out whether the 12x24 was inches or centimetres! (One said she emailed me about it but if she did, I (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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