eBay question

[Angrymarshmello]

Alright here goes: I sold some games on eBay the other day, transaction went smoothly, he said he'd leave me feedback if I left him some, so I did. Today I get an email saying:

thanks for the positive feedback. by the way, i am getting ready to sell some
things on ebay and was wondering how you knew my max bid was $68. this way, i
can run up the auction price. it is pretty obvious b/c here are the bids:

dpm.2b( 14) $68.00 Jun-26-03 10:05:52 PDT
iamcarol518( 36) $67.99 Jun-26-03 10:06:23 PDT
rine354( 8 ) $56.00 Jun-26-03 09:05:21 PDT
dpm.2b( 14) $55.00 Jun-26-03 08:32:15 PDT


why would someone bid 1 cent under my max bid. that is a rather large
coincidence dont you think?

So this guy is accusing me of "cheating" the system somehow.....is that even possible? Like can a seller somehow find out the maximum bid and artificially jack up the price? By the way, the Buy It Now price was $68....I emailed the guy stating that's probably why the second highest bid was $67.99.....I'm just a little miffed that this guy purposely waited for me to leave him feedback first so he could hold mine hostage because he's frickin' paranoid.

 

[Garet Jax]

What an ass! There is nothing you can do except try to convince him you didn't know the other person.

 

[MacGaven]

Who are these people?

 

[DurocShark]

iamcarol518( 36) $67.99 Jun-26-03 10:06:23 PDT

That name looks waaay familiar.... I think she (he?) bid on some of my stuff in the past.

Anyway, the guy's a clown. Ignore him, then go around and find every auction he's bidding on and outbid him! That'll show him!

 

[placebo139]

wow, what a jerk he'll be if he leaves negative or neutral feedback.

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Thanks for the support. But in your ebay experience(s), there is no way for the seller to find out the maximum bid is there?

Duroc - I intend to

Garet - thanks. I found some information on him - turns out he was some deans list super smart kid - hopefully he'll use that intelligence to realize I didn't cheat him

 

[isekii]

you can't find out the maximum bid until the auction ends.

that's from my experience.
Tell him to take one up the arse.

 

[AlienCraft]

Originally posted by: Angrymarshmello
Alright here goes: I sold some games on eBay the other day, transaction went smoothly, he said he'd leave me feedback if I left him some, so I did. Today I get an email saying:

thanks for the positive feedback. by the way, i am getting ready to sell some
things on ebay and was wondering how you knew my max bid was $68. this way, i
can run up the auction price. it is pretty obvious b/c here are the bids:

dpm.2b( 14) $68.00 Jun-26-03 10:05:52 PDT
iamcarol518( 36) $67.99 Jun-26-03 10:06:23 PDT
rine354( 8 ) $56.00 Jun-26-03 09:05:21 PDT
dpm.2b( 14) $55.00 Jun-26-03 08:32:15 PDT


why would someone bid 1 cent under my max bid. that is a rather large
coincidence dont you think?

So this guy is accusing me of "cheating" the system somehow.....is that even possible? Like can a seller somehow find out the maximum bid and artificially jack up the price? By the way, the Buy It Now price was $68....I emailed the guy stating that's probably why the second highest bid was $67.99.....I'm just a little miffed that this guy purposely waited for me to leave him feedback first so he could hold mine hostage because he's frickin' paranoid.

I don't get it... He's both selling an item and Bidding on it???
He obviously doesn't understand HOW EBay bidding works.... Ignore him.
Once bidding has begun, you cannot change the price without cancelling the sale and all bids.
If someone else had put a maximum bid of $.02 over, they would have won.
If he leaves neutral or negative feedback, copy to Ebay with a protest.

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Originally posted by: AlienCraft

Originally posted by: Angrymarshmello
Alright here goes: I sold some games on eBay the other day, transaction went smoothly, he said he'd leave me feedback if I left him some, so I did. Today I get an email saying:

thanks for the positive feedback. by the way, i am getting ready to sell some
things on ebay and was wondering how you knew my max bid was $68. this way, i
can run up the auction price. it is pretty obvious b/c here are the bids:

dpm.2b( 14) $68.00 Jun-26-03 10:05:52 PDT
iamcarol518( 36) $67.99 Jun-26-03 10:06:23 PDT
rine354( 8 ) $56.00 Jun-26-03 09:05:21 PDT
dpm.2b( 14) $55.00 Jun-26-03 08:32:15 PDT


why would someone bid 1 cent under my max bid. that is a rather large
coincidence dont you think?

So this guy is accusing me of "cheating" the system somehow.....is that even possible? Like can a seller somehow find out the maximum bid and artificially jack up the price? By the way, the Buy It Now price was $68....I emailed the guy stating that's probably why the second highest bid was $67.99.....I'm just a little miffed that this guy purposely waited for me to leave him feedback first so he could hold mine hostage because he's frickin' paranoid.

I don't get it... He's both selling an item and Bidding on it???
He obviously doesn't understand HOW EBay bidding works.... Ignore him.
Once bidding has begun, you cannot change the price without cancelling the sale and all bids.
If someone else had put a maximum bid of $.02 over, they would have won.
If he leaves neutral or negative feedback, copy to Ebay with a protest.

Hey AC - didn't know you could protest to eBay. In cases like this do they normally care enough to change/delete the feedback? And he bid and won my item, but now is making up a story about selling items to accuse me of cheating him.

 

[xchangx]

ebay will NOT change anything unless it's agreed upon on both parties (and that costs $20 regardless).

 

[vegetation]

If you get a negative, just make some fake accounts and put in some bids on this guy's future auctions. Leave some creative feedback there. Ebay doesn't care you do this.

 

[fs5]

Did they change the policy on deleting negative feedback? I remember about a year or two ago this kid left me negative feedback. I knew he was a kid so I cornered him into saying he was 15 (by saying "I bet you're like 12 years old" and he replied "Ha you're wrong, I'm 15!").

eBay had an underage policy and I forwarded them that email saying that a minor left me that negative feedback. They took it off within a week and suspended his account. Hahahaha..

 

[ReiAyanami]

that was back when ebay had enough CSRs, now they just have a single guy who copies and pastes generic responses all day long. his name is gabriel.

but that's ok because their stock is hovering near all time highs (the highs that were attained during the bubble). perhaps the new bubble shall burst tomorrow thanks to YHOO

 

[shopbruin]

it is impossible for a seller to find out how much a max bid is.

if the buy it now price was posted at 68, simply tell the loser that the 68 dollar buy it now price was posted and somebody was simply trying to buy under it. you just happened to bid at 68 yay for you.

he's being an ass also in trying to deliberately run up his auction prices. call him on that.

it is never "pretty obvious." i had one guy leave a neutral feedback because "i won the auction but others had backed out making me the winner suspicious don't you think"

apparently he doesn't know the concept of "bid retraction."