Same old ebay....

[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.

[that_punk_guy]

Well, some of us have morals!

I just sold my old moped on eBay and bidding started at £230, or Buy It Now at £280 (which someone has!)

I got four offers by email during the two days it was up there. A couple of people offered £250. I just replied and said it was against mine, and eBay's policy to end the auction early for an outside offer. The other two offers were stupid - £230, and one for £200. I had to go into another room to get the belly-laughs out of my system in case I felt the urge to reply.  ;-)

Some people just don't think twice about these kinds of things though. Even my own mother said, "why don't you get someone to bid on it for you to up the price?"

I couldn't believe I'd been raised by her when she said that. :-o

[Markus_Bieler]

So I check out the bidding, and found he put it in with just 3 seconds to go

Thats why ricardo Switzerland (I dont know about other contries) introduced the "five minutes to go". After every bid made you have at lst five minuts to overbid. Some auctions last this way more than an hour over the end time.

E-Bay should introduce this feature also.

[odin]

@tpg:

So your mode of transportation has become more healthy now? :-)

[that_punk_guy]

odin wrote:

So your mode of transportation has become more healthy now? :-)

Well, I was walking and using the bus/train anyway, the moped was kinda stood untaxed in the back yard. :-)

[odin]

I couldn't live without a bike.....or my spare bike :-).

[that_punk_guy]

My pushbike's dead at the moment, got a busted innertube. It's a shame 'cause my friend put some really smart new brakes on for me and I've hardly used it since.

Oh, and it needs a new saddle, 'cause it's kinda... uncomfortable on my skinny vegan arse. :lol:

[weirdami]

Fortunately I haven't had that experience with Ebay yet.

In the video camera section it happens a lot. Seems like a bunch of back alley electronics stores in New York don't like having to sell when their $5000 3-chip cameras don't get a good price, so they remove it just before the end and claim either it's not for sale anymore or there's a "mistake" in the listing. One time I even saw a guy claim it was in the wrong section but then relisted it in the exact same section. Some ebayers should just be shot. :-(

[sir_inferno]

that_punk_guy wrote:
Well, some of us have morals!

I just sold my old moped on eBay and bidding started at £230, or Buy It Now at £280 (which someone has!)

I got four offers by email during the two days it was up there. A couple of people offered £250. I just replied and said it was against mine, and eBay's policy to end the auction early for an outside offer. The other two offers were stupid - £230, and one for £200. I had to go into another room to get the belly-laughs out of my system in case I felt the urge to reply.  ;-)

Some people just don't think twice about these kinds of things though. Even my own mother said, "why don't you get someone to bid on it for you to up the price?"

I couldn't believe I'd been raised by her when she said that. :-o

do you live with your mum?



oh and why not implement a system, whereby the bid increment is increased in the last hour of auction or something? then it would dismay those batty little, ahh i'm going to raise you by 1p on this item MWUHA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA ;-)

[Abou27]

@Cyberus

Just had the same thing happen to me:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/ebayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2790872164


My bid was cancelled because item sold by other means.  If you look at the item, however, you see that the "advertised elsewhere" disclaimer was not initially part of the item description and was added just 8 mins before my bid was cancelled.  Wee bit peeed off.  I don't know if it's worth complaing to e-Bay or whether he has covered himself but certainly this is a poor way for people to behave on e-Bay.  As we see in this thread, it happens all too often.  Anyway, the seller in this case was 'MarkOHawkins'.  I'm not going anywhere near any other auctions of his :madashell: