WTF, what happened with this ebay? :fixed link:

[fastz28]

I'm bidding on this camera and when I entered a bid, it tells me it's ended with a buy it now. But there's no buy it now.

And look at the winner, nicelittleparis, all of his rating came from the seller of this camera, poco0. Looks fishy to me. WTH happened?

edit: fixed link

 

[amdskip]

linkie no workie

 

[MacBaine]

link no work

 

[NetworkDad]

Someone used the buy it now feature before you got your bid in....sucks for you.

 

[fastz28]

any ebay experts to shed some light on this situation? There was no buy it now when I tried to bid.

 

[FSUpaintball]

It's possible that your browser just didn't show it.

Once, I saw Shenmue 1&2 for Dreamcast up for bid on Ebay. I snapped that up so quick.... even though it had some bids for it, I emailed the seller and said, "I'll give you $30 for both". He ended the auction and sold them to me.

Maybe that's what happened to your camera.

 

[FSUpaintball]

By the way, I meant to say.......

I know a great deal about the Rebel series. I have used many of them extensively, in all situations - from football games to feature stories to still lifes.


The Rebel 2000 is the best. Many focus areas, many nice options, and it's fast, too!

Rebel X-S is close behind. Even though it's only got 1 focus area, it's pretty damn fast, and does exactly what you want it to. It focuses right where you want it to. It's got a built-in flash. And it's cheap, too!

I hate the Rebel G. It's 3 focus areas confuse the camera - it never focuses where you want it to. REALLY bad when you're trying to get that action shot at the perfect moment and the camera can't decide where to focus.

The normal Rebel X isn't too bad. It's main fault is that it doesn't have a built-in flash. That's why I recommend the Rebel XS over it.




Overall, the Rebel XS is the best for the money, and the Rebel 2000 is nice if you can afford it.

 

[Yomicron]

It does look kinda fishy.

My only theory in my current sleep deprived sate is that poco0 created nicelittleparis to win auctions that poco0 decided he/she/it didn't want to sell. I'm not sure if you can add "Buy It Now" after the auction has started, but if it is possible, then poco0 may have added it so that nicelittleparis could get it.

It is very odd that nicelittleparis has 6 feedbacks from poco0 and that poco0 has zero feedbacks from nicelittleparis. (unless I missed them... did I mention that I'm tired?)


So, in closing, yes it looks suspicious, but I have no idea what you should do about it.



Wait.... I have a second theory, but it involves money laundering, which wouldn't change the (supposed) fact that something fishy is going on.


So...um... G'Night

 

[Lucky]

not sure what you are talking about, buyitnow is not mentioned anywhere. Additionally, the times match up perfectly for starting ending:

Sep-06-02 21:50:57 PDT

Ends Sep-13-02 21:50:57 PDT



it ended just like a regular auction; exactly 7 days after it started. no buy it now.

 

[AnyMal]

Just like Lucky said, there is no mentioning of buy it now. I have bid on auctions with buy it now before and it was pretty obvious in description, it would say something like "this auction was ended with buy it now" better luck next time for you.

 

[Lucky]

Originally posted by: FSUpaintball
By the way, I meant to say.......

I know a great deal about the Rebel series. I have used many of them extensively, in all situations - from football games to feature stories to still lifes.


The Rebel 2000 is the best. Many focus areas, many nice options, and it's fast, too!

Rebel X-S is close behind. Even though it's only got 1 focus area, it's pretty damn fast, and does exactly what you want it to. It focuses right where you want it to. It's got a built-in flash. And it's cheap, too!

I hate the Rebel G. It's 3 focus areas confuse the camera - it never focuses where you want it to. REALLY bad when you're trying to get that action shot at the perfect moment and the camera can't decide where to focus.

The normal Rebel X isn't too bad. It's main fault is that it doesn't have a built-in flash. That's why I recommend the Rebel XS over it.




Overall, the Rebel XS is the best for the money, and the Rebel 2000 is nice if you can afford it.

you have used them extensively? Dont know what you are talking about, the rebel x has the exact same 3 point focusing system as the rebel G does. You are really confused because the rebel G allows you to manually set the focus points whereas the rebel X does not. (you can lock the middle one only). and the worst part is that it doesnt tell you where it's focusing-the rebel G does. You sure you them extensively? I used to sell these things for a living.

rebel x sucks compared to the rebel G.

 

[FSUpaintball]

Yeah, I was the high school newspaper photo editor, and we used a bunch of these things.


I swear to god, they didn't come out with the 3-point focusing system until the Rebel G!

This is the order they came out in:

Rebel X
Rebel XS
Rebel G
Rebel 2000


The G was the first one to have the 3 boxes that are different focus zones. The X just has the box in the middle with brackets on the side, if I'm not mistaken. However, when you point that box where you want to focus, it'll bring it into focus QUICKLY, unlike the rebel G.

I know you can set the G's focus manually, but when you're photographing a fast-moving football game, you don't have time to do it manually. And when it was in auto-focus, the camera acted slow and confused. The XS was much faster.

 

[Lucky]

x had the same three point focusing system as G. Promise. (when I say system, I mean both had 3 AF points)...only with the G could you see which one was selected or manually select any of the three.

 

[SuperSix]

It didn't end w/buy it now, it ended regularly. Once a bid is placed, the Buy It Now options disappears. This auction had 6 bids.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: SuperSix
It didn't end w/buy it now, it ended regularly. Once a bid is placed, the Buy It Now options disappears. This auction had 6 bids.

No it doesen't. Maybe if the auction price is above the buy it now price, but ....

Just the first one I found..

Anyway, like some others have said, I don't see anything fishy.