Drat! ^%&^& eBay

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KWJams

Senior Member
I knew it was too good to be true.

Somebody listed a D3x and a D3s this morning on eBay with no starting bid on either and the auction was scheduled for 24 hours.

Being a chance taker :biggrin-new: I opened both up for $1.00 as a way to keep track of them thinking with the big holiday coming up and all there might not be much bidders on hand to drive the prices up.

Something like 8 hours left on them the price was still at a modest $6-800.00 each.

Then ebay sent an email to all bidders saying the account holder did not authorize the auction and they let him / her pull them so they could restore the account.

Probably the dolt realized after the fact that they forgot the starting bid price and panic set in and had to fabricate a story of their account being used by someone else.

I doubt it because it was a very well laid out auction with all the pertinent information and snap shots showing the cameras.

EBay should have made them continue the listing in my opinion. :sour:
 
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Sandpatch

Senior Member
On the flip side, I was once an eBay Seller of an item and the winning Buyer never showed with a payment. When I contacted the Buyer he said he didn't know that a bid had been placed and that it must have been from his children playing around.

Perhaps his story was fabricated, but it didn't bother me. The Buyer contacted eBay, which gave him a break and I simply relisted the item and sold it the following week.

eBay is sometimes a challenging environment for both Buyers and Sellers and it seems that a lot of problems are rooted in ignoring the details -- like bad shipping addresses. I've twice had Buyers contact me after shipment to correct their addresses. "Ooops", say I, "you should have thought of that sooner."
 
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