[78-L] ePoo Reserve Prices (was Q.R.S. discs)

[agp]

At 15:16 19/06/2011, CG wrote:

>I merely emailed them after the auction closed and said that nobody 
>reached the reserve price; I'll take the best offer. Some of the 
>bidders each emailed me their top bid, all of which were higher than 
>their unsuccessful bids. I simply took the highest one and conducted 
>the purchase separately. That way, eBay did not know that the sale 
>was concluded and thus didn't get a piece of the action, other than 
>the original listing fee.


Well, you can do as you see fit, but I see this as being highly 
unethical. I have had this occur once with a seller of Bollywood 78s 
who had an Asha Bosli disk I wanted. Somehow wanting to further 
transact business outside of eBay on a lost item doesn't pass a sniff 
test with me and sets up my fraud-alert early warning system.

I'd much rather bid and sell by the rules, thank you

T