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Just registering my discontent with that guy who ended his auction on that stone, so he could sell it to somebody else, even though I was bidding on it 5 hours ago when I left the house. Who knows..Maybe my max bid was higher than your ended, relisted, and now sold stone. Ok, ok, it wasn't....but still. :boohoo:
I guarantee, whatever kind of stone it was, there will be another one down the road sometime. If it ain't that it will be something else. :nj
One day you'll thank that guy . :D
everything happens for some kind of reason. try not to stress it, even though it was an ass move
One thing's for sure. I absolutely didn't need it. lol. I'm only marginally qualified to hone. Just thought it was supremely uncool of the seller.
It's funny that you brought up this topic, the whole thing of ending an auction to sell to someone else. Without going into a lot of details, recently there was a seller selling a "razor du jour", bidding was around $260 when the seller abruptly end the auction stating the razor was no longer available. Then a few days later the exact same razor was relisted and went for $440. My point, keep your eyes open and the stone might yet again appear.
The seller is violating ebay's policies, so you can report them and ebay may slap them on the wrist, but that's about it.
That stinks. I've also been frustrated on a couple of occasions by this kind of "now-you-see-it, now-you-don't" listing tactic on eBay. Buyers are held to explicit rules about their bids and commitments to buy; I don't see why sellers shouldn't be held to the same standards.
I never had an auction pulled out from under me , but I did get hoodwinked by some shill bidding once . Luckly , it wasn't for much money . That's ebay for ya .
I won an auction for four Rolls razors last year, the winning bid by me was £0.99, in fact the postage came to nearly ten times the bid, the seller pulled out of the deal before I had time to pay.
A few weeks ago I won a Gerorge Butler Sheffield razor for 13,50GDP, and ten minutes later I got a message, that the auction I won also the seller is not reliable and the bussiness won't be safety......so ebay tell me not to pay an in any reason and the auction was closed down.
After that my account was suspended for a reinstatement, and until that time I was stuck the razor appeared again and gone for 19,50.
Is is unusuall, not anymore:shrug:
I would be willing to bet that the auction was for an escher or thuri or cf, i personally sold a few on ebay, and once you list these
you wouldnt believed the offers pouring in. So that said if your selling an escher and hoping to get a certain amount and get an offer for a lot more, most will sell it right away, and the reality is ebay wont do nothing about it because the transaction was ended and relisted with the buy it now option for the offer and they get their money from the sale + their paypal fee imediately.
There are 2 well known ebay stone sellers that I know of that go around and make offers on stone auctions. I coop with this by making a minimum bid as soon as I see something I like. This usually works. It does hurt to see an item pulled and repop the next week with a hefty starting price.
One time I had bids on a Dalmore Blue and a Water of Ayre when the seller decided to pull them :(
Hate the game... not the player.
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Originally Posted by 94Terp
This is the 3rd side of the coin:)
i have made offers on ebay items when the listings says "offers considered" and gotten them......the 7day set i picked up was like that and the seller said "these 43 ppl watching it aren't gonna be happy" but i will say if i am going to make an offer i make sure i am the high bidder at the time i contact the seller!