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e-Bay 2nd chance- Possible shill or scam?

HeywoodHeywood Posts: 1,246 ✭✭✭
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i got into a bidding war over the past few days with another bidder on a modern jun k coin (IKE).

I stopped bidding when i found other BIN offers on the same grade coin for well below my bid

less than 2 min after the auction ended, I got a second chance offer at my lasat bid.

Is that common to happen so soon?

what could be a normal explaination for this, I have had other 2nd chance, but they were always scam e-mails, this one was on the e-bay site.



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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor

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  • TerrapinWillTerrapinWill Posts: 848
    if the email came through the Ebay system, I think you are OK. also it shoulf show up on your ebay screen somewhere
  • DennisHDennisH Posts: 13,991 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If it doesn't show up somewhere on your eBay "all buying" summary, it's a scam.
    When in doubt, don't.
  • fcloudfcloud Posts: 12,133 ✭✭✭✭
    I don't trust any of the second chance offers. The only one I ever took up was a scam right through the ebay system. The seller was booted, but I still was scammed. Good thing it was for a small dollar amount.

    President, Racine Numismatic Society 2013-2014; Variety Resource Dimes; See 6/8/12 CDN for my article on Winged Liberty Dimes; Ebay

  • StuartStuart Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Heywood: As TerrapinWill and Dennis H have already stated:

    << If it doesn't show up somewhere on your eBay "all buying" summary, it's a scam. >>

    << if the email came through the Ebay system, I think you are OK. also it shoulf show up on your ebay screen somewhere >>

    Stuart

    Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal

    "Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
  • HeywoodHeywood Posts: 1,246 ✭✭✭
    It came though the e-bay system, (under the "didn't win" tab)

    but what puzzels me is how fast the 2nd chance offer came in after the auction ended! (less than 3 minutes!)


    A witty saying proves nothing- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)



    An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor

    does the truth become error because nobody will see it. -Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
  • RELLARELLA Posts: 961 ✭✭✭
    When I have multiples of the same coin in the same grade (generic type stuff...not PQ or wildly toned or anything like that) I often auction one off with no reserve and send 2nd chance offers to the underbidder or possibly underbidders if their max bids are high enough. I usually follow with a note explaining why they received the offer from me and that they will get a different coin, different serial number on the slab, etc.

    RELLA
    Do not fall into the error of the artisan
    who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft
    while in fact he has had only one year of experience...
    twenty times.
  • MrWarmakerMrWarmaker Posts: 94
    Seller probably had a second coin he/she is willing to sell at you losing bid level. Probably not a scam but s simple email to the seller could confirm the offer.
    Retired USAF 1979 - 1999 ~ F-4 & A-10 Crew Chief/Logistics Planning
  • HeywoodHeywood Posts: 1,246 ✭✭✭
    I was just about to edit my post with the duplicate coin explaination.

    Everyone here has made me scam/shill paranoid


    A witty saying proves nothing- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)



    An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor

    does the truth become error because nobody will see it. -Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)

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