Ebay listing and bidder

bbuckner22 · February 25, 2010 7:05AM

One of my listings on Ebay for a Mantle card had a high bidder with a feedback of 2. He has not had any feedback since 2007 either. So no bids or feedback for 3 years and all of a sudden they are bidding up a Mantle. With a recent higher % of non payers lately, I'm worried. Do I try to contact them? Is that too tacky? Cancel the bids and block them? What would you do?

zep33 · February 25, 2010 7:06AM

I'd be more worried about other bidders thinking you are shilling it and staying away

gemmintrarities · February 25, 2010 7:09AM

<< <i>One of my listings on Ebay for a Mantle card had a high bidder with a feedback of 2. He has not had any feedback since 2007 either. So no bids or feedback for 3 years and all of a sudden they are bidding up a Mantle. With a recent higher % of non payers lately, I'm worried. Do I try to contact them? Is that too tacky? Cancel the bids and block them? What would you do? >>

I would cancel and block.

vladguerrero · February 25, 2010 7:25AM

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<< <i>One of my listings on Ebay for a Mantle card had a high bidder with a feedback of 2. He has not had any feedback since 2007 either. So no bids or feedback for 3 years and all of a sudden they are bidding up a Mantle. With a recent higher % of non payers lately, I'm worried. Do I try to contact them? Is that too tacky? Cancel the bids and block them? What would you do? >>

I would cancel and block. >>

and state min. 25 feedback or something, it's actually not uncommon for legit buyers to 'shill' auctions so it looks like you may be doing it, in hopes of other potential buyers being turned off...

MCMLVTopps · February 25, 2010 7:34AM

What Vlad said.

benderbroeth · February 25, 2010 8:41AM

so then how do new members get feedback?

bbuckner22 · February 25, 2010 8:54AM

They are not a new member, been dormant for 3 years. I have sold to many zero feedback buyers without issue, but 3 years of sitting on the sidelines and getting back into the game going for a Mantle feels wrong to me.

benderbroeth · February 25, 2010 9:17AM

i see your point

72skywalker · February 25, 2010 9:24AM

I would not block him. I think that blocking a person who has not done anything to deserve it yet is a bad selling tactic in my opinion. He might be that other bidder driving the price of the card up against one other person who also wants the card.
Think of it this way if you had a store and someone came in that hasn't been there in 3 years would you automatically kick him out because he has been away so long. I understand that their are greater risk on the internet but if he buys the card and doesn't pay you are only out a few buck in listing fees and you probalby will get those back after contacting ebay.

mlbfan2 · February 25, 2010 11:35AM

I wouldn't block him. I've had many good transactions with low feedback bidders. If he was bidding on a lot of other auctions right now, then I might be worried.

cardbender · February 25, 2010 11:50AM

Maybe the bidder was in jail. Did their time, now want to buy things on ebay. You never know.

I'd let their bid ride myself. I once sold a Namath PSA 8 RC for $5100 to a zero feedback buyer from New York. They bid early too so their bid was sitting there for many days. It might have looked like a shill to others, but it wasn't. They were new to ebay and just starting out.

Also sold another expensive card (a '58 Ted Williams SGC 92) for over $2000 to a zero fb buyer in Cali. The deal went fine and they paid promptly.

You just never know who's bidding and why they're inactive with their ebay account.

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