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77' Les Paul Custom on Ebay;
'Sold' earlier today for £1550:
Relisted due to 'timewaster' (that's yourself mate!)
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My youngest put up a book starting at 99p and was thrilled to see it had reached £14 except that one buyer retracted his bids and now it is back to 99p.
How can people just retract bids willy nilly?
Can't do that in a proper auction can you?
The 'private' bidders is the main giveaway. You can't see that the same (normally zero-feedback) bidder is pushing the price up (and in this case winning). It will be the same bidder bidding on the relisted item - a dead giveaway if bids weren't private.
The other giveaway is the speed of the relist. If you have a genuine 'winning' bidder who doesn't pay you have to give them more than a couple of hours to pay before you relist.
It happens a lot, but most people just relist without the stupid 'rant' about timewasters (which is why I flagged this one up) In the relist he even says 'first sensible offer over £1700 will be considered' which all but blows his cover - as it only went for £1550 first time......
I hated the second chance offer thing.
I remember arguing with a seller who came to me with one. can't remember the exact values but it was on a pedal. Lets say it ended at £100 and my highest bid was £90. They came to me and said it was mine for £100. Obviously I said no and explained I never bid £100. After a bit of back and forth they came back with an offer of £90.
I pointed out that it only got to my upper bid because of a bidder who didn't want it. By my way of thinking, all of the bids by that person should be ignored. That would have put the auction final price at £75, so I offered that. They were not happy because the way they saw it I was willing to go up to £90. I was not happy because the only way they knew my upper limit was through potentially nefarious means
No new pedal for me
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Shill bidding suits ebay in terms of higher fees, so it's very unlikely they'll do anything about it.
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