Some Buyers on eBay Just Burn Me Up

poorguy

A very simple matter and not neccessarily a high dollar coin but the principle is still the same.

A buyer clicks buy it now on a $450 coin and a $700 coin. I get a message this morning stating he did not want the $450 coin because "I have decided not to purchase this coin as I at my limit."

Ok! Didn't think about that BEFORE clicking buy it now?

This buyer has 18 bid retractions in the last six months and a feedback score of 97.8% (I wonder why?)

ziggy29

Sounds like a bidder to block to me...

coinandcurrency242

He doesn't think before he buys!

Leiana

Well, it's his loss. Somebody else will buy it.

-Amanda

BlindedByEgo

Stupid is, as stupid does.

Welcome (again) to the age of entitlement.

LeeG

Won't eBay eventually ban people for this?

RYK

Immediate buyer's remorse. At least he realized it promptly and did not have you go through the hassle of sending the coin out and receiving it back again. Sounds like an indecisive chap. No harm, no foul.

123cents

<< <i>Won't eBay eventually ban people for this? >>

Maybe? Someone on the forum brought up a Ebay bidder with 77 bid retractions and still on Ebay.

poorguy

<< <i>Immediate buyer's remorse. At least he realized it promptly and did not have you go through the hassle of sending the coin out and receiving it back again. Sounds like an indecisive chap. No harm, no foul. >>



18 bid retractions in 6 months sounds a bit more than buyer's remorse to me.

Russ

Definitely one to block. Pony up the handle so we can add him.

Russ, NCNE

Coindexter

<< <i>Pony up the handle so we can add him. >>


I think this should be a hard and fast rule for all ebay related threads.

TwoSides2aCoin

Amanda, while it's true someone else will be afforded the opportunity to buy the coin, the seller is inconvenienced as it has to be re listed, etc... Plus, the fact that a bidder retracts bids consistently is an indication of a less than reputable person. Anyone who uses the mouse button indiscriminately without regard for seller's costs in a BUY IT NOW auction is really not that trustworthy of a person, in my humble opinion.

respectfully,
Joe

P.S. You do have a refreshing, positive outlook, and that is good to see.
It's encouraging. but... in this case, I do hope you see that the seller did lose something when such happens. A potential buyer that may have been waiting til the last minute to pull the trigger, never got the chance.

IndianHeadMan

part of doing business on Ebay.

Res

<< <i>Amanda, while it's true someone else will be afforded the opportunity to buy the coin, the seller is inconvenienced as it has to be re listed, etc... Plus, the fact that a bidder retracts bids consistently is an indication of a less than reputable person. Anyone who uses the mouse button indiscriminately without regard for seller's costs in a BUY IT NOW auction is really not that trustworthy of a person, in my humble opinion.

respectfully,
Joe

P.S. You do have a refreshing, positive outlook, and that is good to see.
It's encouraging. but... in this case, I do hope you see that the seller did lose something when such happens. A potential buyer that may have been waiting til the last minute to pull the trigger, never got the chance. >>



Just curious - are there any costs other then the time it takes to relist the coin?

Cladiator

Sorry Brandon I had a few too many to drink that night and went crazy with the BIN's

airplanenut

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<< <i>Amanda, while it's true someone else will be afforded the opportunity to buy the coin, the seller is inconvenienced as it has to be re listed, etc... Plus, the fact that a bidder retracts bids consistently is an indication of a less than reputable person. Anyone who uses the mouse button indiscriminately without regard for seller's costs in a BUY IT NOW auction is really not that trustworthy of a person, in my humble opinion.

respectfully,
Joe

P.S. You do have a refreshing, positive outlook, and that is good to see.
It's encouraging. but... in this case, I do hope you see that the seller did lose something when such happens. A potential buyer that may have been waiting til the last minute to pull the trigger, never got the chance. >>



Just curious - are there any costs other then the time it takes to relist the coin? >>

You don't get your listing fees back unless the coin sells the next time around. Plus, if you aim for items to end at a certain time, so that gets messed up with a relist. Or if others were watching and thinking it over, they think the coin is sold and spend their money elsewhere.

johnsim03

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<< <i>Amanda, while it's true someone else will be afforded the opportunity to buy the coin, the seller is inconvenienced as it has to be re listed, etc... Plus, the fact that a bidder retracts bids consistently is an indication of a less than reputable person. Anyone who uses the mouse button indiscriminately without regard for seller's costs in a BUY IT NOW auction is really not that trustworthy of a person, in my humble opinion.

respectfully,
Joe

P.S. You do have a refreshing, positive outlook, and that is good to see.
It's encouraging. but... in this case, I do hope you see that the seller did lose something when such happens. A potential buyer that may have been waiting til the last minute to pull the trigger, never got the chance. >>



Just curious - are there any costs other then the time it takes to relist the coin? >>

You don't get your listing fees back unless the coin sells the next time around. Plus, if you aim for items to end at a certain time, so that gets messed up with a relist. Or if others were watching and thinking it over, they think the coin is sold and spend their money elsewhere. >>



Sure you do - you just do a mutually cancelled transaction in my eBay. Your listing fee gets refunded,
because the transaction was cancelled.

John

poorguy

Definitely one to block. Pony up the handle so we can add him.

PM me if you need it.

Leiana

<< <i>Amanda, while it's true someone else will be afforded the opportunity to buy the coin, the seller is inconvenienced as it has to be re listed, etc... Plus, the fact that a bidder retracts bids consistently is an indication of a less than reputable person. Anyone who uses the mouse button indiscriminately without regard for seller's costs in a BUY IT NOW auction is really not that trustworthy of a person, in my humble opinion.

respectfully,
Joe

P.S. You do have a refreshing, positive outlook, and that is good to see.
It's encouraging. but... in this case, I do hope you see that the seller did lose something when such happens. A potential buyer that may have been waiting til the last minute to pull the trigger, never got the chance. >>



Point noted, but would it not be worse if the buyer waited until he had the coin to decide he didn't want it? Then the seller would face extraneous shipping fees as well as the possibility that the coin might be lost in the mail. So it is rather an inconvinience, but not a total loss. I was really trying to make Brandon feel better more than anything else.

-Amanda

PS- Thanks.

lkenefic

<< <i>Immediate buyer's remorse. At least he realized it promptly and did not have you go through the hassle of sending the coin out and receiving it back again. Sounds like an indecisive chap. No harm, no foul. >>



"No Foul"? What about the listing fees that the seller is out? It's probably not a whole lot of money but nonetheless, the seller has to eat the fees and/or the time, effort, and energy in submitting a NPB report. As for incentive to stop this sort of activity on ebay...where is it? Ebay is making profit from buyers like this. The only recourse is negative feedback which IMHO is a joke.

Sorry for the quasi-rant...

Leo

nencoin

As far as too many bid retractions, a buyer can be removed from eBay for that violation. I have reported several bidders with numerous bid retractions (these were all people who canceled bids on our own auctions), and have gotten at least two people kicked off eBay. I told one I was going to report him, I did, the next day he was booted. He then sent me a VERY angry email, which I cherish to this day. At the time, he had around 60 bid retractions. I've also gotten other people warned by eBay, and have received angry emails from those people. So, if someone retracts a bid on one of your auctions (or if you simply notice a bidder with numerous bid retractions), report them to eBay via this link: Link. Click the Show link under Additional Information for the actual link to contact eBay (the URL was too long to post here).

Re the bidder in Poorguy's case, if he doesn't pay for both auctions, simply file a non-paying bidder dispute for whatever auction is not paid for. Three non-paying bidder strikes and the guy gets booted from eBay automatically. If he's done it to you, he's likely done it before. You could be giving him the final strike and no one has to worry about him again (until he registers under a new account).

Chris

airplanenut

<< <i>Sure you do - you just do a mutually cancelled transaction in my eBay. Your listing fee gets refunded,
because the transaction was cancelled.

John >>

You get final value fees only--listing fees are nonrefundable.

Russ

Jeremy is correct.

Russ, NCNE