Crazy bidders!

I don't get snipers too much eoither jabber. I would not worry about the buyer of the item. I sell something that one time goes very high and the next half as much. It happens over and over.

Hi Mrs. M!

Just curious -- on your own auctions, do you tell your successful bidders about AS? Or do you reserve that for when you go proselytizing on the anti-snipe forums!?

Jabbergah

I had an old snowboard up for auction. It was worth about $300 to a collector. A first time bidder with a (0) rating bid right away. Of course nobody, including myself knew his maximum. As the auction started to close a well known collector, and past buyer from me, started to run up the auction from $50. He got up to $480, still losing to the (0) bidder and bailed to my next collector board which was to end 10 minutes later.

Obviously, (0) won the auction at $480. It was his first time with ebay and he must have bid $500 or something. When I invoiced him, I mentioned that he held off a strong collector and that a few snowboard shop buyers were monitoring the auction with interest. This single word "monitoring" set him into a fury and he turned me into Safe Harbor for shilling.

Needless to say, the collector won the next board and even beat out (0)'s early low bid on that board. Plus, he bought (0)'s unpaid board at a discount of $200. As for (0), I ended up with a negative and he, a (-0). I bought into the Square Trade rip-off deal and got it removed for $20.00.

Seller's lessons:

1. Don't deal with (0) buyers on stuff over $50-75.00.

2. Watch what you say after the auction. Just get the money and ship quickly.

This is a great board. I only wish I had this information when I was trading heavy a few months ago.

Henry

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Originally posted by H2Hester:
Watch what you say after the auction.

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I try to limit my comments to Congratulations, Payment Received, Item Shipped, and Thank You.

You never know when someone will take something the wrong way. That’s true of experienced bidders as well. They could be buying something they know little about.

H2Hester: You're a 'bike guy'. Talk about CraZY bidders, check this auction. Originally posted by Camera Collector. >> Click Here <<

H2H,

Thanks for the bidder story. I prefer to learn from OTHERS' not-so-nice stories than my own!

BTW, my bidder on the item that inspired this topic completed the transaction -- no problems!

Puppy, I read that "pile-of-pooh" bike auction again, and still got a laugh from it! It is definitely a classic! Apparently the transaction was completed satisfactorily based on the feedbacks of buyer & seller.

Jabbergah                                                    

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I try to limit my comments to Congratulations, Payment Received, Item Shipped, and Thank You.

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Same here. The less said the better. Just take the money and run.

I think the end price of an auction all depends on timing and who gets to see the auction. Whenever you list an item, you chance having either a lot of people interested in the item viewing it at the time, or not having as much interest as you could possibly have at another time. But there's really no way you can predict who will see your auction. I've seen some items go for way over the price they would normally go for because two or more people just happened to be viewing the auction at the time and all equally wanted it. It's a trend I have noticed time and again on eBay.

...And yes I know I haven't posted here in a very long time, mostly due to life situations...=_=

*~samuraiblossom~*

Nice to see you again samurai

Lexie

Glad to see you back, Sam! I agree. I have had auctions really surprise me. You just never know. I think what happened in the snowboard case was sort of one in a million. I often make comments to a buyer and have never had any backlash.