When bestimages80 won one of my auctions I got an email from a female. At least it was signed with a female name: ELLEN KILROY CT. 06440 I edited out the PO Box # Same person Lloyd. BTW, never paid me.
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Thanks Lloyd....... it just seems crazy to me. I find 1000's of coins I would "like" to have, on eBay other other sites. I am not so stupid that I don't know I can't pay for them. Please excuse my dumbness but when I buy I pay immediately, and yes, I am too dumb to understand that others do not..
Becoming informed but still trying to learn every day! 1-Dammit Boy Oct 14,2003
Bruce - NARU is the acronym for the eBay term "Not A Registered User" i.e. the person in question has been suspended/booted from eBay. Sometimes eBay will suspend a user for a specific length of time (ex. a seller whose Credit Card on file has expired). Deadbeat buyers/sellers get booted (eventually).
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Wayne You ought to try selling in some sort of reasonable volume. I get at least one non paying bidder per week if I'm knocking out say 100+ coins. Normally at these levels it's more like two per week.
I did not mean my comments as negative Lloyd, just it is confusing, to me. I can fully understand the problem it must make for you and other sellers but as a "cheap-o" buyer I can not imagine not paying immediately. It is, for some reason, beyond my little brain capacity.
And I do mean that I did not want to hi-jack your post.
Becoming informed but still trying to learn every day! 1-Dammit Boy Oct 14,2003
NPBs are becoming increasingly problematic on eBay. Even if we run 15 auctions every few weeks, we usually end up with one NPB for each series of auctions. That's why we don't use eBay much.
A dirty trick some sellers will use is a second account to run up prices on competitor's items so that similar items that they are selling will look like bargains. Or they are using it to establish a bogus price floor on an item they plan to sell in the near future. And of course sometimes it's just an idiot on the other end who doesn't understand that if he bids, he's supposed to pay.
Instead of Square Trade, they need an eBay "Bid Enforcer" named Knuckles who carries a tire iron and likes to ask "Which is youse favorite knee cap?"
Like Lloyd and CIVITAS, I am seeing more and more NPBs.
These people waste time and money on the part of honest sellers. I think eBay should require new eBay members to place a deposit before they are allowed to bid and not allow them to bid over the amount of the deposit. Once a member has more than 10 or 20 positive feedback AND has been registered for over six months the deposit restriction could be lifted.
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Good idea Aethelred. This NPB nonsense is disgusting.
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<< <i>I think eBay should require new eBay members to place a deposit before they are allowed to bid and not allow them to bid over the amount of the deposit >>
Would you trust eBay with your money? Not me in this case. I'm aware NPB are a pain and seem to be getting worse, but requiring a deposit would be a banking nightmare IMO. And if I'm not mistaken, some states require interest be paid on any such deposit.
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Conder tokens
19th & 20th Century coins from Great Britain and the Realm
L
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Wayne
eBay registered name:
Hard_ Search (buyer/bidder, a small time seller)
e-mail: wayne.whatley@gmail.com
<< <i>I'm sorry to seem so dense, but what reason would soemone have for doing this? Is it some kind of perverse harassment? >>
No just extraordinary stupidity.... The guy knows about coins but bids blindly - he can only afford a few bucks....
That's as far as my analysis can possibly go...
L
Ebay name: bhil3
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Please excuse my dumbness but when I buy I pay immediately, and yes, I am too dumb to understand that others do not..
1-Dammit Boy Oct 14,2003
International Coins
"A work in progress"
Wayne
eBay registered name:
Hard_ Search (buyer/bidder, a small time seller)
e-mail: wayne.whatley@gmail.com
NARU --- not a registered user.... used now also as Ebay "naru'd" him...
L
Collecting:
Conder tokens
19th & 20th Century coins from Great Britain and the Realm
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Don
Sorry to jump on your thread Lloyd, but it does confuse me (the action this guy does not take I mean)
1-Dammit Boy Oct 14,2003
International Coins
"A work in progress"
Wayne
eBay registered name:
Hard_ Search (buyer/bidder, a small time seller)
e-mail: wayne.whatley@gmail.com
You ought to try selling in some sort of reasonable volume. I get at least one non paying bidder per week if I'm knocking out say 100+ coins. Normally at these levels it's more like two per week.
L
And I do mean that I did not want to hi-jack your post.
1-Dammit Boy Oct 14,2003
International Coins
"A work in progress"
Wayne
eBay registered name:
Hard_ Search (buyer/bidder, a small time seller)
e-mail: wayne.whatley@gmail.com
A dirty trick some sellers will use is a second account to run up prices on competitor's items so that similar items that they are selling will look like bargains. Or they are using it to establish a bogus price floor on an item they plan to sell in the near future. And of course sometimes it's just an idiot on the other end who doesn't understand that if he bids, he's supposed to pay.
Instead of Square Trade, they need an eBay "Bid Enforcer" named Knuckles who carries a tire iron and likes to ask "Which is youse favorite knee cap?"
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These people waste time and money on the part of honest sellers. I think eBay should require new eBay members to place a deposit before they are allowed to bid and not allow them to bid over the amount of the deposit. Once a member has more than 10 or 20 positive feedback AND has been registered for over six months the deposit restriction could be lifted.
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"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9
"Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5
"For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
<< <i>I think eBay should require new eBay members to place a deposit before they are allowed to bid and not allow them to bid over the amount of the deposit >>
Would you trust eBay with your money? Not me in this case. I'm aware NPB are a pain and seem to be getting worse, but requiring a deposit would be a banking nightmare IMO. And if I'm not mistaken, some states require interest be paid on any such deposit.
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