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| Thread ID: 105616 | 2009-12-08 10:02:00 | Trademe sellers | qazwsxokmijn (102) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 837749 | 2009-12-08 18:38:00 | That's what I thought as well, but it happens so often! Yes. I won a phone recently. $20. She wouldn't email or respond to emails. $20 was her reserve and I had the only bid. I persisted for a few days then gave up and bought another and gave her bad feedback. So then she gives me bad feedback and sends an email bleating how she had not heard from me. Yeah right. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 837750 | 2009-12-08 19:52:00 | I recently bid for a phone when it was somewhere under $100. I never bid again, because silliness took over and the phone eventually went for $240. Very soon after the auction (less than an hour) the seller sent out a fixed price offer to unsuccessful bidders for $235... I rejected it of course, but I was puzzled. Does this mean the seller had more than one phone, or...? | John H (8) | ||
| 837751 | 2009-12-08 21:28:00 | yep I've had the exact same deal with cell phones, the phone would sell and then you'd get an offer to buy it, never did figure it out. | Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 837752 | 2009-12-08 22:33:00 | I recently bid for a phone when it was somewhere under $100. I never bid again, because silliness took over and the phone eventually went for $240. Very soon after the auction (less than an hour) the seller sent out a fixed price offer to unsuccessful bidders for $235... I rejected it of course, but I was puzzled. Does this mean the seller had more than one phone, or...? Perhaps it was a dud buyer who just bids for fun. The seller realises this when they see their feedback and then offers it up to others |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 837753 | 2009-12-08 22:40:00 | Ah, so there are crook sellers and buyers....why are there so many of them? :( | qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 837754 | 2009-12-08 22:52:00 | Its happened to me before I guess the seller has heaps of the same item and is trying to flog them off. | prefect (6291) | ||
| 837755 | 2009-12-09 00:55:00 | Interesting. Happened to me bidding on a pair of motorcycle boots. Having lost, I then got a message offering at my bid. I figured the winning bid just above mine was placed by the seller or a friend to try and drive the price up. | Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 837756 | 2009-12-09 01:13:00 | I must say,I often wonder if there are bids just to drive up price. Very naughty if that is the case. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 837757 | 2009-12-09 02:42:00 | Doesn't it happen, if they have more than one item to sell. So they sell it to the highest bidder, and then they offer the others to the other bidders. However it would indicate that they 'lied' about the reason for selling it. | robbyp (2751) | ||
| 837758 | 2009-12-09 03:53:00 | Interesting. Happened to me bidding on a pair of motorcycle boots. Having lost, I then got a message offering at my bid. I figured the winning bid just above mine was placed by the seller or a friend to try and drive the price up. That was my concern - what is there to stop someone getting a friend (or another profile of their own) from driving the price up? I have also noticed the same bidder bidding for several of the same model cellphones at the same time? I must be too well behaved or too cautious - I bid for something, then if it escapes me, I start bidding on another item of the same kind - never more than one auction for the same sort of thing at the same time. I have often wondered whether these people bidding for several identical items are either reckless, having fun, or are a plant to get the auctions going. |
John H (8) | ||
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