This ebay item ~330717700885~ originally sold in March for the OTT price of £204+ and had 34 bids but has now been relisted.
When asked why, the seller said the buyer didn't want to pay and the second bidder didn't either. The normal price for this model is around £80 - £90 in top condition.
The relisted item is now at £77 and guess who the leading bidder is, yes its the one who won the first listing.
Something smells fishy to me, what do you guys think?
That all does sound a bit dodgy. Not least of which is that if you bid 204.00 it is a legally binding auction and you shoudn't just be allowed to back out. Makes you wonder if the 204 was a legitimate winning bid. I'd avoid that one... One of my rules is if it looks a bit fishy it probably is. If you have any suspicions, you'd feel super-dumb to end up paying more than you wanted to.
But it's a shame if two numpties were bidding against each other and subsequently realized they bid over the odds and backed out. That leaves a perfectly innocent seller being messed around by idiot timewasters.
I guess we can't know which for sure.
But then the big secret is: don't bid more than you actually want to pay and you won't go too far wrong.
Have put "Sir Gresley" on my Ebay watch list
and will see what happens over the next 4
days. I wonder what the losing bidder's final
bid was?
If the winning bid was phoney presumably
the losing bid was approx £180-£190...
so maybe the seller blew it by ramping
the last bid over £200.
Quote from: Agrippa on April 17, 2012, 06:28:31 PM
I wonder what the losing bidder's final bid was?
The bid increment around the 200 pound mark is 5.00. The winning bid is never more than one bid increment above the second highest bid (but could be less than that increment). So the second highest bid must have been at least 199 for a winning bid of 204.
That is a lovely looking loco though.
I'm not sure Ebay auctions are legaly binding but i know there are so many loop holes on ebay it's amazing there are any genuine tranactions taking place i know a chap who saw a mates model lifeboat on there a work of art it is with every detail scratch built the guy had sold it at least 3 times for over £700 he had obviously failed to deliver and had negative feedback but still bidders bid on a boat he just had pictures of that were taken at a show.
Dave
Unfortantly eBay has bad people on but also has its good people on it, this does sound very dodgy though!
I gave bidding on eBay away as I got caught too many times. I still buy on eBay but only new stuff and only "Buy it Now" sales.
Highest bid unchanged for a couple of days,
might bid near the closing time out of
impishness, might flush out some mugs. :evil:
ps is this loco about 15 years old ?