Are 2nd chance offers legit....

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• notwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭

  October 22, 2006 12:54PM

  Yes. But if you are concerned go back to the auction and send a message to seller asking him to confirm. --Jerry

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• Coins101 Posts: 2,603 ✭✭✭

  October 22, 2006 12:54PM

  It should be. You can always send it to spoof@ebay.com and see what they say.

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• Goldbully Posts: 17,989 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 22, 2006 12:57PM

  Even if in 'My Messages" in eBay beware!!!!!!
  
  Spoofs on eBay are amazingly common place.
  
  Been there several times......even in "My Messsages"
  
  These guys are out for blood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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• dizzlecc Posts: 1,125 ✭✭✭

  October 22, 2006 1:00PM

  Yes, they can be legit.
  
  I completed one today.
  
  The link in your items not won section should take you to a buy it now auction.
  
  I did email the seller before I accepted the offer to be on the cautious side.

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• BigE2 Posts: 1,037 ✭

  October 22, 2006 1:02PM

  Excellent! Thank you all!

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• RYK Posts: 35,800 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 22, 2006 1:05PM

  My guess is that upwards of 99% of the so-called second chance offers received by ebayers are NOT legit. That has certainly been my experience; I have received numerous offers but never a real one.

  My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132

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• Dabigkahuna Posts: 3,419

  October 22, 2006 1:10PM

  I use the second chance often, both buying and selling.
  
  
  I just never use the links supplied in e-mails when I'm offered something. It's always safer to to copy and paste the auction number and then go to Ebay.
  
  
  

  My Ebay Auctions
  

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• cullenbryant Posts: 1,794

  October 22, 2006 1:13PM

  after getting outsniped two days ago, i was very happy to get a second chance offer.
  i think the seller had more than one, and the best part was, i got mine cheaper than the
  actual winning bidder !
  

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• numisma Posts: 3,877 ✭✭✭✭

  October 22, 2006 1:32PM

  
  
  I recently had a second chance offer just HOURS after the auction closed. This tells me that I was being shilled. Even though I wanted the item, I did not respond. A second chance offer can be legitimate if it makes sense. In other words, the winning bidder did not pay after a reasonable time period and the seller offers it to the underbidder(s). Maybe it was a spoof second chance offer? I don't know, but I am always cautious.

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• notwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭

  October 22, 2006 1:33PM

  
  
  << <i>Even if in 'My Messages" in eBay beware!!!!!! Spoofs on eBay are amazingly common place. Been there several times......even in "My Messsages" These guys are out for blood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >>
  
  
  
  I've never heard of a confirmed fake one in your my messages. Are you repeating what you've heard 3rd hand or have you seen one?
  
  --Jerry

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• garsmith Posts: 5,894 ✭✭

  October 22, 2006 1:45PM

  It could be possible to get a scam one in your eBay My Messages if smoeone has had thier account hi-jacked! I have bought two coins from 2nd chance offers, but both times I new the seller and e-mailed them outside eBay to make sure it was legit!

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