Re: [OT] Ebay Diddle?

["Geoff Forwood" <geoff_forwood@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "mouserdrip15" <groups@m...> wrote:
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> Hi
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> Over the weekend I bid on an item. It had a starting price of=20
=A3350,=20
> there we no bidders at all untill I bid in the last 10 mins. Then=20
> immediately I was continuosly outbid by a zero rated new bidder=20
until=20
> I lost the item.
> 5 mins after the auction ended I got a second chance offer from=20
the=20
> seller saying the zero rated bidder was a fraud....!
> This seems very much like a underhanded seller forcing his price=20
up?=20
> Or am I being parranoid?=20
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> Rob

This happened to me a few weeks ago, on a surprisingly low value=20
item. I just ignored the "second chance offer", or whatever
they=20
called it, because I suspected a scam, but I did consider offering=20
to buy it at the price the auction would have ended at if the bogus=20
bidder had never appeared on the scene.

Whether this would have been accepted is however a different matter,=20
and you could well end up with negative feedback as the only=20
official agreed price is that as presented by Ebay, and the seller=20
could argue that you underpaid.

Geoff