[78-L] eBay rules

[David Lennick]

And we neglected to mention the idiots who list broken records and provide a 
photograph and don't even bother to align the pieces right side up.....!

dl

On 9/29/2010 3:54 PM, Jack Raymond wrote:
> Recently I entered a $16 bid on a 78 record that was listed on eBay with
> a ten-cent minimum bid.  Since no one else bid on it, I won it for ten
> cents, plus $5 shipping.
>
> So I paid the $5.10 and considered myself lucky, although I confess I
> was vaguely nervous about having won it at such a low price -- nervous
> with good reason.  The seller notified me the next day that the record
> had been accidentally dropped and broken and that my payment was being
> refunded.
>
> Why would anyone put such a ridiculously low minimum on anything being
> auctioned?
>
> -- Jack Raymond
>