Ebay rant
vladguerrero
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It has become WAY too common place for sellers to cancel auctions and relist as BIN/BO when they don't think an auction is going to sell for what they wanted. Three times in the last week this has happened to me. I find myself hoping that auctions don't cancelled so I can bid on them!
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<< <i>I have not had that happen but I can sure see your position. And in most cases, the seller might have gotten the price they wanted if they had just waited it out, as many bidders will wait to the last few moments to place their bids >>
Some sellers get cold feet. If you see a $500 card selling for $25 with a day left, why not just throw up a bid to keep from spooking the seller, into thinking his card is gong to sell for peanuts. Everyone knows it is a $500 card. That is one instance where I think "sniping" an auction has hurt auctions.
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<< <i>I have not had that happen but I can sure see your position. And in most cases, the seller might have gotten the price they wanted if they had just waited it out, as many bidders will wait to the last few moments to place their bids >>
Some sellers get cold feet. If you see a $500 card selling for $25 with a day left, why not just throw up a bid to keep from spooking the seller, into thinking his card is gong to sell for peanuts. Everyone knows it is a $500 card. That is one instance where I think "sniping" an auction has hurt auctions. >>
I'm not sure if it helps, but I've been getting in the habit of putting in a decent bid early on auctions I want hoping that someone else also has a decent bid. That way, I'm hoping we can skip all the hype around an auction getting run up by a few bucks with each bid and having 20-30 bids and on so many reminder emails for bidders and so forth. >>
Yeah, I've been doing the same for a while too. Personally, I'm not sure sniping has saved me much money anyway. If everyone knows what the card is worth, and enough people want it and use sniping tools, all you're doing is preventing yourself from overpaying a tiny bit at the last minute. Or a lot if you're weak-willed.
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I had put an opening bid four or five days ago just to make sure I would not forget but just yesterday I got the notice it was cancelled and the
item is no longer available. Checked the listing and it said item was ended and all bids cancelled. I emailed the
seller through ebay to ask what happened and the response was " I hope to relist early next week " Did not respond but wanted to ask if he was
going to let it run this time or waist my time once again., Decided to just forget it and not even bid now, I suspect if it does finish I stand little chance
of getting it if it sells less then the seller is hoping for
<< <i>^^^^Why not offer the seller a fair price for it off of ebay? You know he wants to sell it, you planned on winning it, and you have already opened a conversation with him. You may save a few $$, he will make a few more $$ with ebay not getting 9%, why not give it a try.^^^^ >>
That is indeed an option but since the seller has already proven he is willing to manipulation the rules I dont feel comfortable
dealing with him now. Also the loss of buyer protect with this seller would not be something I would like to chance
canceling an auction is within the rules. There could be many reasons
a seller cancels an auction, personally I don't like it.
Appreciate today-
Bill
A seller puts an item up for bid at a fair or better price and watches it for nearly the full duration of the auction with little or no bidding is going to get nervous. You could always ask the seller to offer the item on ebay as a BIN at your best offer and see what he/she says.
Nobody seems to like the BIN's as they tend to be too high. Ebay is certainly on the buyers side in most instances, let's give the sellers a break once in a while.
Joe
<< <i>Actually asking him to sell it off ebay would be manipulating the rules while
canceling an auction is within the rules. There could be many reasons
a seller cancels an auction, personally I don't like it. >>
Canceling and auction including my bid by saying the item is no longer available and then less
then 6hrs later tell me they will be relisting early next week screams of ... well you ge the idea.
They could of listed with a Bin and then accept offers if they were not willing to sell at the opening
bid. Thants the chance taken when running an auction, the seller is hoping for a bidding war and
getting more then he thinks its worth, the buyer hopes to get the item for less then they feel its
worth. But for the seller to start an auction with low starting bid and then get cold feet when the
bidding is slow should not be able to end the auction that has bids and if they do with intention to
relist is not a seller I can trust.