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Re: Bidding on Ebay
« on: July 05, 2012, 03:55:24 PM »
Quote from: Lurch;699109
One gets tired bidding on ebay for items only to be shafted by someone who then re-lists the items for 3 times more.

This certain someone has done it 5 times now.

Such sellers need to be reported to ebay. And of course appropriate feedback left for others to see.

Let me ask if I understand the situation correctly. Is this a seller that ignores a winning bid, effectively cancelling the ended auction and relisting the same item for sale again? Or someone who buys an item and then turns around to immediatelly resell it?
« Last Edit: July 05, 2012, 04:31:41 PM by billt »
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Re: Bidding on Ebay
« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2012, 06:21:21 PM »
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Why???   I fail to see what they did was wrong.   They bid and won on an item listed on ebay following all the rules.  They then take their new property and re-list it for an amount they feel is fair.  I'm confused, what did they do that was wrong?

It seems like people on this thread are whining because they got outbid...
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If that's what he's doing, buying and then immediatelly reselling it, then I agree. While annoying, there's not really anything wrong with selling something you rightfully own. Though it seems off that the people buying from him later didn't outbid him in the original auction and then are later happy to pay more the second time around for the same thing... If they aren't willing to outbid him the first time, why does he succeed in this practice, why does he have a buyer at 3x the amount? Weird...

But I first interpreted the OP as having said that a seller cancelled a finished auction and put the same item up for sale again himself, being same seller each time. And that sort of thing should be reported and feedbacked.
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Re: Bidding on Ebay
« Reply #2 on: July 05, 2012, 06:24:30 PM »
Quote from: runequester;699153
Havent had it happen for amiga stuff specifically but for plenty of other items. The one time i emailed the guy asking wtf, he responded it was "listed wrong". Of  course the new listing was 100% identical.


Then sick the copyright pigs on him. If he didn't write the original full description, then the original seller that did should have some rights to that. And since we all know copyright is the ultimately most supremely important thing in the known and unknown universe, (heh, rip ACTA) then he'll spend the rest of his life in jail for reusing the word "the".
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