Same old ebay....

[Cyberus]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3073915070&category=3544&rd=1

Item ended early because 'no longer for sale'  :angry:

[Dalamar]

Fortunately I haven't had that experience with Ebay yet.  I'm only on the US one tho.   :-o

[ami500]

I don't see what the problem is  :-?

Only thing that's annoyed me before is when there is an item you are interested in, and there have been no other bids for the 5-8 days you've been keeping an eye on it, and then finally there is under a day to go, and you go back to the item to place a bid only to find they have extended it by another 9 days. Then you have to waste all those days waiting again.

[Cyberus]

ami500 wrote:
I don't see what the problem is  :-?

Only thing that's annoyed me before is when there is an item you are interested in, and there have been no other bids for the 5-8 days you've been keeping an eye on it, and then finally there is under a day to go, and you go back to the item to place a bid only to find they have extended it by another 9 days. Then you have to waste all those days waiting again.

But that is within the terms of service of ebay. Bidding for items outside of ebay is not.

Lots of people don't dream of asking the seller to end the auction early, and as a result lose out to those that do.
Also, I bet the greedy seller sees a cash offer and takes it, when it will quite easily go higher than that in auction anyway!

[Ryu]

what annoys me is when you buy something from someone and they request feedback, so you leave a nice postive feedback but they never return the favour, that really cheese me off!

[Cyberus]

yeah, me too.
Or if you're selling and you've bent over backwards to help someone - accepting a different payment method, finding out the shipping costs to some exotic loaction, you make sure the item is really well packed and goes out the same day, and they don't bother leaving you feedback  :-(

[Darth_X]

ami500 wrote:
I don't see what the problem is  :-?

Only thing that's annoyed me before is when there is an item you are interested in, and there have been no other bids for the 5-8 days you've been keeping an eye on it, and then finally there is under a day to go, and you go back to the item to place a bid only to find they have extended it by another 9 days. Then you have to waste all those days waiting again.

What's worse is when you bid several hundred dollars (Euros, GBP, etc) on something that has been for sale for 9 days and in the last minute of the auction someone comes along and outbids you by $1!!

[amigamad]

That 4000 tower has been on there a few times and has never made reserve.I was going to get the cdtv motherboard of of ebay for buy it now but somebody with the name of Cyberus_500 bought it before me  :-D still i was only after the  DKB Software MegAChip 2000/500 off of it.

Something that did annoy me was i won an auction for 3 external 12 speed cd roms for £1.00 plus 10 pound postage but seller pretends he has not recieved check and no longer answers email i needed 1 drive for my a3000 and planned to sell 2 of them on again making the money back. I got a scusi cdrom from my mate in the end who was clearing his shed out.
 :-)

[Cyberus]

Hi amigamad,
Heh, sorry about that. Great minds think alike eh?

I've just won an auction for a CD32 and controller (no PSU or leads), for £2.00. The postage for the item is quoted as £8.00.
I've emailed the seller three times asking if the item can be sent by any cheaper method but he has not replied. Which leads me to think that he wants to make money from the postage :-(

[redrumloa]

Cyberus wrote:
yeah, me too.
Or if you're selling and you've bent over backwards to help someone - accepting a different payment method, finding out the shipping costs to some exotic loaction, you make sure the item is really well packed and goes out the same day, and they don't bother leaving you feedback  :-(

Or worse you do everything in your power and they leave a nuetral. I just had a jerk leave me 2 nuetrals, even though the items were 100% as described. One auction included 4 new sealed games, he claimed one of the games didn't work. I emailed back IMMEDIATELY to try cleaming the contacts, but if it didn't work I'd replace the game no problem. He never responed to that email and he left nuetrals on *2* auctions even though the one had nothing to do with it. Some people are just impossible, with the volume of people I deal with I see all types.

Luckily Amiga users are by far the easiest to deal with on eBay, TRUST ME. :-o

[amigamad]

I've just won an auction for a CD32 and controller (no PSU or leads), for £2.00. The postage for the item is quoted as £8.00.

A lot of people do make money out of the postage ,as for the cd32 i have one with psu and controler the disc mechanism has a fault i dont use it i would sell it for spares. :-)

[amigamad]

Hi amigamad,Heh, sorry about that. Great minds think alike eh?

True still saved me some money. My cdtv does have an unknown scusi expansion and an old hard drive .

[Dalamar]

@redrumloa

I just saw those on your feedback.  I'm bidding on on of your auctions.  I thought your responses were good anyway.  :-)

@all
I guess I haven't used Ebay enuff to get too bitter.  I'm typing on the A4000 I got off of there so I can't complain.  I'm sure my first roasting is coming.  :-o

[Damion]

What's worse is when you bid several hundred dollars (Euros, GBP, etc) on something
that has been for sale for 9 days and in the last minute of the auction someone comes
along and outbids you by $1!!

That DOES suck. In fact I've experienced that scenario exactly two times...both on
the same day, and sniped both times by the same dude! :-o

[ami500]

Darth_X wrote:

ami500 wrote:
I don't see what the problem is  :-?

Only thing that's annoyed me before is when there is an item you are interested in, and there have been no other bids for the 5-8 days you've been keeping an eye on it, and then finally there is under a day to go, and you go back to the item to place a bid only to find they have extended it by another 9 days. Then you have to waste all those days waiting again.

What's worse is when you bid several hundred dollars (Euros, GBP, etc) on something that has been for sale for 9 days and in the last minute of the auction someone comes along and outbids you by $1!!

That sort of happened to me two days ago.

I was waiting for an auction on a 17" nec monitor to end and the seller had a -2 feedback, but I found out he lived close to me, so I could have picked it up.

So it's going along for several days, no bids, so I make a bid with just over a day to go. Then I find someone outbids me, ok, fair enough, it was only at 50AUD then, so I decide to wait, in the meantime, someone else brought it up to 56AUD, so that's still fine. I then keep waiting.... 40 seconds to go, I proxy 61AUD, fine, it's in the bag. Then I refresh the auction and it's ended with some c&%t beating me by 50cents. F F F F F F F Fark!

So I check out the bidding, and found he put it in with just 3 seconds to go. I figure he must have proxied some high amount to beat me so quickly. I still wonder how these people get in with so little time to go. I'm on 512k adsl and the page was taking at least 5 seconds to load for me each time I refreshed, Plus for some reason, I have to keep wasting time putting my password back in. Geez that's a pain in the arse. These people must be getting lower latencies than me somehow and don't keep getting their passwords cleared.

Damn I could have used that monitor though. I've been stuck with 15" screens for too many years now.