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Either way, it's really disappointing and I think his business ethic sucks and he's lost any potential business from me.
On occasion I've massively unrequited jobs at work, usually when exhausted/too much on to think it through. Things like quoting kit at the buy price, or forgetting to include components in the cost, but quoting for a full solution. Or being screwed by suppliers who do that and leave me carrying the can.
On every occasion I've been prepared to honour the agreement, even with E&OE on the quote. Because ethics.
I've also usually explained the situation to the client; sometimes they've offered to pick up the slack, sometimes they haven't but they have at least known they're getting a great deal at my expense, and it pays dividends down the line.
You just have to chalk it up to experience and learn not to do it again.
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Hmmm... hadn’t noticed when it was described as playing perfectly, or hadn’t noticed until they saw some other ending prices of the same album?
I’m now expecting the seller to coincidentally find another copy of this very rare album, but with a price about five times as high.
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Very poor behaviour from the seller.
The irony is that, if Jetfire were to push for the proper completion of the failed eBay transaction, it could contribute to driving a struggling luthier/vendor out of business.
The seller could easily started the bidding at a price around what was his minimum price or my preferred method is to have a 'realistic BuyNow' price and allow buyers to make offers. I normally build in a bit of room for me to deliver within a reasonable distance if bought at the full BuyNow price.
I also hate it when people are bidding up their own listing... hard to prove but there are odd indicators (Bid activity (%) with this seller and looking at feedback scores in previous activities).
I do have mixed feelings with eBay, it is a great selling platform but open to abuse.
Best case scenario, you get what was rightfully yours. Worst case scenario, vendor gains a record of shady behaviour. Enough repeats and his account will be closed down.
You might have excepted the eBay presence of a business of that type to be an eBay Shop. Items listed indefinitely at Buy-It-Now or Best Offer prices. Things must be pretty marginal for him.
I would use the eBay Best Offer button to bid £352. Perhaps, if enough people did that, the vendor might get the hint that everybody knows what he has done.
Their tactic was less blatant though, in that they just vanished for a month (although apparently you can still list other pedals for sale from the great abyss) then when they did eventually reply gave me a similar sob story that I was too busy to pick apart so just accepted the refund.
Good to know though that if I wanted to, I could happy start a totally non viable business, sell on eBay, then sob to buyers if I don't sell at the price I want
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