items are changed by seller ?

They certainly cannot! Forward everything you have to ebay! I might add, I don't know HOW they could do this. You can add to description up to the l2 hour point, but never change the item totally!!

Strange - I thought the item can only be changed if there are no bids - what's the item number?

R2

From ebay

Then the only way that I can think of that it could be changed is if the listing's text was actually an image hosted away from eBay - cunning... Still need the item number to confirm it.

R2

Oh, you are saying they just switched the picture?! If you have both, I would forward it to eBay.

Does sound a bit unlikely doesn't it - I guess we should wait for bytesandmore's return!

R2

I am not sure you can change pixs with a bid.

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I guess we should wait for bytesandmore's return!

That's never stop it before.

The strange thing is, that I checked my snipes about every other day and suddenly when I opened myEbay I noticed, that instead of the picture of the harddrive I found this Lance Armstrong wristband but from the same supplier. What really spooked me, was the price of 0.99 cents and my bid of 150 USD. I immediately deleted the bid, as I did not want to end up paying the 150 USD for a useless item and only a few hours later I started to wonder how this could have happened. Also it seems the originally quoted item never made it to the sale. Now I only had 2 items in there so there can't be any mistake on my part, because the two items, although from different supplier were identical IBM parts.
I guess I'll have to collect my info and forward it to Ebay.

Just for the heck of it: I sent the seller an email requesting information about 2 items, both harddisks "at the time" and he replied with an email making sense: in essence saying that one of them was a 68 pin drive and the other an 80 pin drive. If I take the 2 item numbers now and search on Ebay, one of them shows a disk and the other one shows the ominous Lance Armstrong wristband...strange strange.

Well, email him and tell him. Maybe it is a quirk from eBay! Does he have a good feedback rating?

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I am not sure you can change pixs with a bid.

You can if, as I said, they are hosted off-ebay. When I sell I use my 1 free photo with ebay and pay for the small gallery photo, then I add however many pictures I want to illustrate my item, all hosted on my own domain - clever eh? So, if you had your item's text as a self-hosted image you could easily change it at the last minute - ruining the winning bidder's day. Dodgy or what!

I'm guessing this is just a simple case of mistaken item no's which'll be hard to prove one way or the other.

Still no item numbers from bytesandmore so we cannot check my theory.

R2

Sorry, did'nt get the hint about the numbers...here they are:
5194919780 and 5194920385

Both items were revised (it says revised at the top of both) - you can see the revision history at http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemRevisionDetails&item=5194920385

Seems a lot got changed on the 17th but I see no bid retractions.

R2

I must be missing something unique about this, but two bidders thought the wristbands were worth $90+.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=7296&item=5194868565



bytes,
Did you retract your bid or cancel your snipe?

It may just be a coincidence, but if you sequence the seller’s completed auctions in “Start” time, the two auctions appear next to each other. It might be possible that bytes pasted the wrong auction number?

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I must be missing something unique about this, but two bidders thought the wristbands were worth $90

And how can that be, starting at just under a dollar on the bid? These are available all over for a dollar per bracelet.

Also, one of the things that changed on the Lance auction was the listing duration - looks like 4 times.

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Originally posted by Serenity:
And how can that be, starting at just under a dollar on the bid?

It's weird. Maybe a typo. One bidder is new, but not the other. Maybe Lance wore that one.


Which theory will be more popular - Conspiracy or Pasting the Wrong Auction #?

Yeah, I cancelled my snipe immediately after I saw the wrong picture. The strange thing was, that the original item was 90 USD and then the bracelet 0.90 USD. Anyway, the seller has good feedbacks and this might have been an oversight on his part. Also may be to be considered: The seller knew I was interested in his item, because I had sent him an email with a question to that effect and this might have been an ez 100 USD profit....

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The seller knew I was interested in his item, because I had sent him an email with a question to that effect and this might have been an ez 100 USD profit....

Possible, but since the seller has lots of auctions, he's receiving lots of email, so it's unlikely he picked out your auction - but it wouldn't be the first time I'm wrong.

Did you ever bring up the list of auctions for the seller?

Whoa! This little incident makes one reconsider the advice to "Set your snipe and forget it!"

After looking at pages and pages of the seller's feedback, I really do believe it was some sort of glich or accident. There is no way he would try to cheat someone, I believe.

Guess Jabbergah s'right. Unless there is at least one bid on an item when you start sniping, you can't really be sure your going to get what was displayed.

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Originally posted by bytesandmore:
Guess Jabbergah s'right. Unless there is at least one bid on an item when you start sniping, you can't really be sure your going to get what was displayed.

It's a bit difficult to believe ebay could have that big of a hole in it's auction system.

Did you ever bring up the list of auctions for the seller?

The guy that won the auction for ninty-one dollars or whatever, just bought the same thing in another auction for ninty-ninty cents! I read this seller's other auctions and he has several of the same thing for sale.They are all starting at 9.95 and shipping is to be per location.

eBay states :
If the seller's item has already received a bid/purchase or ends within 12 hours, the seller can only:

* Add to the item description or add a second category.
(Exception: If the seller's listing already has a bid/purchase AND ends within 12 hours, the seller can't add to their description or add a second category)
* Add optional seller features to increase the item's visibility.

But, I see no bids that were canceled. I only see the two listed. Insane!!

Ditto - it makes no sense - someone's messing with our heads!

R2

Yes, I agree, R2!

I'm at a lost for words, so ... !

Oh no, a whole line of rolling eyes!

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Originally posted by Serenity:
Oh no, a whole line of rolling eyes!

Like me, they're irresistable.

I see your , and raise you and a .

!! -mine has earrings

() -Beatles' haircut or Prince Charles

$$ -Thinking of money

'' -Ear plugs

^ ^
-horny little devil

 o
-angel

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- holy roller

As a seller, I know that I can change whatever I want as long as there are no bids, up to 12 hours before ending time.

As a bidder, I will safeguard myself against the bidless item "changing" by placing a $1 bid on it so the seller can only add to the auction. I know this violates bidder law #1 but I don't want to pay $90 for a wristband either.

Don't forget that a bid with a sniping service is not a bid in eBay's eyes until the snipe is actually processed.