Why do some sellers bother doing this ? A new product being auctioned off worth 1300$ and on the last day a "ghost" bidder comes in ( I didn't just fall out of the turnip crate ) & bidds it up to close to what a new one is worth, "fine they can keep it". Then you get the E-mail. The top bidder crapped out, do you still want it for 900 ? I E-mailed back: "You should have taken the 900$ when I offered it". I wasn't going to go any farther into the scam.The next thing would probably be "can you just give a little more ? someone else wants it too".

 

I have bought and sold a lot of things of ebay.I agree whenever I get the second chance offer I never take it.Carl

 

E-bay has lots a games played. A seller will bid aginst himself under another name and try to do the same thing you said but in 3-10 bids. I have found it is easyer and as cheap to buy the item/product new!

A pro seller will have several names and bid aginst himself and if you watch his stuff you will start to see the same bid names! I found this out on computer parts by watching the bids for a month.

 

I was just thinking I did have a item that I had to second chance.It was a bass guitar that the buyer sent me one of those scam emails,about someone owed him money and they would send it to me etc... It was a totally scam.When I sent the guy the second chance I also forwarded him the email and told him I was going to relist it if he bought it or not,no big deal either way.He did buy it.But that was the only second chance I ever sent someone.Carl

 

The problem is that there are a lot of fools who go and bid just to cause the seller a fee and then not pay for it. There are a lot of childish people out there who will register and abuse ebay until they are locked out, then they'll find another way to get in and do it some more. Seldom will you find law suits over it all. That's why a lot of people put do not bid if you aren't going to buy it.

I"m helping my wife out with some auctions for the thrift store she works at. Just getting started this week as a matter of fact. I've been eBaying for a couple years and interacting with a lot of people, so I'm kinda getting the hang of it, but still have a lot to learn.

 

Well now, after deleting no less than 4 messages from the seller begging for me to buy it. Now I get a e-mail from e-bay basicly saying stay away from these people & not to respond to their e-mail

 

I just set my price that I want to bid on something and stick too it, if it goes higher then I forget about it and move on. I've lost out on alot of things but did pick up a few items with lowball bids. But I agree with all you guys that you really have to be carefull about those E-mails.

 

I bid on an alesis dm4 drum machine once.....the reserve was not met then the auction ended. The guy selling it offred it to me for less than what I bid. Go figure. I bought a new dm5 instead. There are a lot of scams on ebay when it comes to selling drums I have found out. Guys claim to have this unwordly deal on a nice set of drums and turns out they don't even know what they are selling. Most have no user feedback at all either.
I did get a 70's Ludwig snare off ebay 2 years ago for a good price.
Let the buyer beware!

 

It's called shill bidding and it's against ebay rules. Report him(the seller)and any others bidders you suspect of this activity, just try to make sure first. It probably wouldn't hurt to send copies of the emails the seller sent to you in your email to ebay.

 

There's also a lot of screwing people on shipping charges, apparently eBay doesn't take a percentage of shipping charges so people will charge like $20 to ship a couple headlights that only cost $6 to ship (I shipped some recently.)

 

The biggest disappointment I've had on ebay so far is when I bought a diecast 1/18th scale Expedition from a "power seller". The one in the picture I bid on and won matched my burgundy Expy exactly (looked like a picture of mine). When it arrived, it was some metallic red - pretty...but not the one I bid on. I'm 100% sure of that. The box was even different than the one behind the truck in the picture. So I emailed the seller, trying to get him to swap it...he came back with "that's the one you bid on...they're ALL that color". So I left him a negative feedback for doing a "bait-n-switch". He then retaliated with a negative feedback against me.

I got the shaft twice - once when I got something I didn't bid on and then he left ME a negative feedback for telling the truth about him! Geez!!!

THEN, he had the gaul to go through Fair Trade or whatever it is and attempt to get ME to withdraw my negative feedback about him. I told the arbitrator the only way I'd withdraw my negative feedback is if he sent me the truck I bid on and pay return shipping for the one he sent me. No dice...so I just got burned. Thank God it was only for a measly $45 (including shipping).

 

Ive only been on ebay a month and have already learned to wait until the final mins/seconds to bid or else sit and watch the same screenname out bid me over and over & it seems like it happens more if the item your buying is on a "ebay store" .
Other than shill bidders the only other problem ive had is after buying from a 100% feedback seller that had been a "member since 2000" the day after my echeck cleared i find out that person "Is no longer a registered user" and when i checked her feed back out again there was 7 negatives written that day & of course my emails arent being answered so im gonna give it a few more days then try to get my money back,still cant believe my luck on that deal.

 

I've had good luck with eBay. Just always check the seller's feedback, you want them to have a lot of feedback (hundreds preferrably) and 98%+ positive feedback. Read some of the recent feedback and you'll get a vibe for how their buyers like them.

Also pay attention to the shipping charges before bidding.

And finally for the impatient types if you have a choice buy from someone in a state near yours, then the shipping is faster.

 

I got burned by a guy who had pretty good feedback. Kind of the same deal as 91 XLT--had been a good seller until the day I bid on some stuff. He racked up about twenty negatives that day and the next, got kicked off eBay the next week....heard from him once after, got the stuff--two of the three items were dead--needless to say, never got my money back.

Another lesson--don't buy multiple items from someone the first time. Get one, see how it goes. I've bought a lot of stuff from a few sellers, but not the first time. There's good sellers, even a couple I've dealt with later outside of eBay, but there's some who ought to be banned from eBay and society too.

 

There is a company out of denver, econsign that just sells stuff on ebay. I was looking at a snowmobile trailer they had, and went and looked at it, and the secretarys name was Dina, well I had the high bid and got bid up buy "208buyer" well, 2 weeks earlier, the name was "20ina" and I said screw it and was sitting on the high bid with 2 cents room, with 2 seconds left a "sniper" came in and bumper it, well bought it. I got a call within 15 min. saying that the buyer backed out already and that we could have the trailer.