Question about an Ebay Bid I made?

Jeff

Jeff

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Ok, this is weird, maybe I just have a very suspicious nature or maybe it's nothing.

I used a sniper program to make a bid on a very old billiard card. The seller has over 8,000 sales with 99.6 positive so I wasn't concerned about a ripoff.

Well, my high bid I had set wasn't high enough and I lost to another sniper with a higher bid.

I go look at the feedback for the high bidder and he has almost 4,000 sales, but the funny thing is I looked at several pages of his feedback and none was related to billiards, either buying or selling.

So here is the weird part, not 15 minutes after the sale ended, I get a second chance offer from the seller for the high bid I had.

Did this seller use a friend to snipe with a high price to push the price up? Did they mess up and set their snipe too high? Was it just to see what the high bid would be and then offer a second chance to get a better price?
 
doesn't seem up and up to me.

sounds like a charming situation to me! i had a guy send me a second chance offer for a pair of shoes about a day after the auction ended. the winning bidder had suddenly realized he had bid on the wrong size of shoes. yeah right. if it doesn't seem right to me i won't give a red cent- though i have thrown away a bit of cash here and there.
 
Jeff said:
Did this seller use a friend to snipe with a high price to push the price up? Did they mess up and set their snipe too high? Was it just to see what the high bid would be and then offer a second chance to get a better price?
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Very possible. If that is what indeed is going on and they get caught by Ebay then they will both lose their accounts on Ebay. I know this happened to a local guy and his wife where I'm from, they had friends/family bidding up their stuff and ended up doing that once too often and were suspended from Ebay for quite some time.

My wife and I are Power Sellers on Ebay and have a rating of over 1100 with 100% positive feedback. While this is just more of a hobby for us to make a little extra money from time to time, especially around Christmas, those who have very high ratings (5,000-10,000 or higher) are probably selling as a regular business and for them to do what has been touched upon here would be a very risky undertaking on their part so I would think there is some other explanation for what happened. But you never know for sure I guess.
 
Sounds like someone tried to have their friend bump up the price. You could offer him what you think is a fair price- but I wouldn't pay what your final bidding price was- unless you are willing to pay it.
 
Yes, that has happened to me also.

In this age of electronic garage sales. I never bid on anything 30 seconds before of closing. I have only paid once on a second chance offer. In the end it was not worth it and I should have passed on it. It was only a $30.00 lesson, that I will not repeat again.
 
In my experience, the second chance offer is always offered to the second highest bidder at his/her bid price. The guy should only legitimately be able to offer to sell to you at your highest bid.

Plus, if something is suspicious about the situation, you can always request more information as to why the original transaction didn't go through.

Ultimately, though, you have the option to not purchase it at all.

Good luck w/ everything.
-Shane
 
ShaneS said:
In my experience, the second chance offer is always offered to the second highest bidder at his/her bid price. The guy should only legitimately be able to offer to sell to you at your highest bid.

Plus, if something is suspicious about the situation, you can always request more information as to why the original transaction didn't go through.

Ultimately, though, you have the option to not purchase it at all.

Good luck w/ everything.
-Shane
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I was the second highest bidder and I am willing to buy it at my high bid, as my high bid is still a good deal.

This card is a series and I have seen cards in this series for sale on billiard memorabilia sites selling for $175.00 and my high was way below that.

I will probably go ahead and get it..............It's the idea that if I am right in that they did this to get the highest price out of it, then that pisses me off a little.
 
all i can say is ... beware of the second chance offer!!! i've only seen one legit one. first, use the 'ask a seller a question" button and ask him if it's legit.

guy
 
I sent a question through the auction page to the seller to make sure the offer was from them and I asked why the second chance was so quick.

I'll let you know what they say.
 
Jeff said:
I was the second highest bidder and I am willing to buy it at my high bid, as my high bid is still a good deal.

This card is a series and I have seen cards in this series for sale on billiard memorabilia sites selling for $175.00 and my high was way below that.

I will probably go ahead and get it..............It's the idea that if I am right in that they did this to get the highest price out of it, then that pisses me off a little.
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Hey Jeff if you can and want to would you post more antique items in that thread you and Manwon were posting in last week ..(i van't find the thread):o
 
cuejoey said:
Hey Jeff if you can and want to would you post more antique items in that thread you and Manwon were posting in last week ..(i van't find the thread):o
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I finally got the old Harper's Weekly Paper with the same image as my print.

Here are some pictures I took.

http://rottweilerconnection.com/Vig/

And I'll be taking some pictures of some very interesting stuff I have gotten lately. I'll post them in that thread and PM you when I do.
 
I give second chance offers to buyers all the time when I have more than 1 of the same pool cue or items available. They are definetly legit in my case.
 
I personally think that second chance offers should be priced at the point before the highest bidder started bidding. In other words all the bids placed by the person who backed out of the deal should all be nullified.
Vicdotcom
 
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