e-bay goof up!
03-23-2011, 04:32 PM
#62
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This has absolutely NOTHING to do with quilts, but one time my husband's emplyer treated us to dinner and a night of racing at the local harness racing track. I've been there before, even bet at little, less than $50 total, so I went up and placed a bet for the trifecta (pick the 3 horses that get 1st, 2nd, 3rd, any order) So I get back to my seat and saw that I bet the trifecta (pick the 3 horses, exact order) and figured, of well, my mistake. Damn if I didn't win! and the people we were sitting with suddenly took an interest in the horse racing!
Mistakes, some ya win some ya lose.
I told you it had nothing to do with quilting, unless you count that as $200 more for fabric
Mistakes, some ya win some ya lose.
I told you it had nothing to do with quilting, unless you count that as $200 more for fabric
03-23-2011, 06:29 PM
#64
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Originally Posted by MTS
Originally Posted by Tennessee Suzi
I don't buy often enough to understand all the gobble-d-goop about bidding. Better stay away from e-bay now on huh?
Here's how the bidding looked at the end of the auction:
Bidder3 --- US $70.99 --- Mar-20-11 --- 10:54:37 PDT
Bidder2 --- US $69.99 --- Mar-20-11 --- 10:19:44 PDT
Bidder1 --- US $45.00 --- Mar-19-11 --- 15:39:21 PDT
Starting--- US $39.99 --- Mar-13-11 --- 10:54:46 PDT
When Bidder1 put in his proxy bid of $45 on 3/19, anyone looking at the auction would have seen the current bid price at $39.
Bidder2 comes along on 3/20 and places his proxy bid of $69.99.
That bid would automatically cause Bidder1's proxy to max out at $45 (note the time always remains that of the original proxy bid), and the bid price would automatically go to $46 from Bidder2.
35 minutes later, Suzi (Bidder3) comes along and attempts to put in a proxy bid of $47.
Now if that bid would have gone in correctly, the minute she hit enter she would have been outbid, as Bidder2's proxy would have jumped to $48 immediately.
However, because of the boo-boo, Suzi's proxy bid of $4,700 was in effect. So when she hit enter, Bidder2's proxy kicked in and maxed out at $69.99. The system automatically raised her bid to one bid increment more, bringing it to $70.99, where it stayed until the auction ended.
So, to my previous point about it not being exactly kosher for the Seller to offer the quilt to Bidder2 for $69.99, that bid didn't exist unless Bidder3's proxy was higher.
And an experienced buyer would have been able to easily see it on the bidding history and know that if the Seller was offering it the second bidder, that means something went wrong with the top bid. So if you back out that top bid, the high bid drops down to $48.
Hope that was understandable, and easy to follow. :wink:
03-23-2011, 11:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Tennessee Suzi
Yesterday I was skimming through the quilting section of E-Bay and saw a double wedding ring quilt up for auction. Well....the bid was $46.00 so I decided to bid $47.00 and see what happens. Well, I hit confirm and as I did I noticed that my maximum bid was $4,700.00 instead of $47.00. Needless to say, I won the auction but the winning bid was $70.00. That was a little more than I could pay but knowing the rules, I made the bid and have to live with it. I did e-mail the seller to see if she would take sympathy on me, but I guess the money talked louder than I did. Be careful when you bid that you don't get a twitch and bid too high!
03-24-2011, 01:15 PM
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The seller does not sound like they cared about their customer. Usually a seller can tell that this was truely a mistake. Had you notified them and AOL immediately, it would have been taken care of. There is a section for withdrawing your bid, and this certainly would have fallen into the rules of being able to withdraw your bid.
03-24-2011, 01:27 PM
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What would have been really bad is if the seller used another account to drive the bid up.
In the past when we were buying a lot of motorcycle parts I noticed that one seller who always seemed to get much more than other sellers did always had the same person bidding on all his stuff, but that other person only won 2 out of over 20 items. Luckily that was before ebay starting blocking bidder names on "private sales" so we were able to tell and just stopped bidding on his items. You have to be so careful on ebay, but I still love it.
ps - I caught it before hitting confirm, but once when trying to check shipping I accidentally clicked the bid button instead of the shipping info button and luckily caught my bid of over 22000 before hitting confirm. (I had entered my zipcode as a bid amount) It kinda scared me, lol.
In the past when we were buying a lot of motorcycle parts I noticed that one seller who always seemed to get much more than other sellers did always had the same person bidding on all his stuff, but that other person only won 2 out of over 20 items. Luckily that was before ebay starting blocking bidder names on "private sales" so we were able to tell and just stopped bidding on his items. You have to be so careful on ebay, but I still love it.
ps - I caught it before hitting confirm, but once when trying to check shipping I accidentally clicked the bid button instead of the shipping info button and luckily caught my bid of over 22000 before hitting confirm. (I had entered my zipcode as a bid amount) It kinda scared me, lol.
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