[78-L] Phantom eBay winner

[Tom]

If the second highest bidder submitted a bid that's acceptable to you, I'd go ahead
and offer the item to that person instead as a second chance offer.
 
After all, the high bidder is no longer anywhere to be found, so what is there to lose?
 
I've never sold records on ebay, though I have sold other stuff and have used this
particular feature a few times on items where the high bidder was a flake.
 
In one instance, the guy who got the second chance offer was thrilled.
 
In another instance, the guy who got the second chance offer got somewhat pissy,
for lack of a better term, and wanted me to lower the price on the item I had for
sale (a Mayan jade mask) below his bid.
 
I responded by saying something like "Look, if you want the mask, it's $X,XXX
and if you don't want the mask it's certainly no problem and I may decide at some
point down the road to list the item again. Let me know what you want to do."
 
He came around.
 
Hope this helps.
 
Tom
 


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From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
To: 78L <78-L at 78online.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2011 10:51 AM
Subject: [78-L] Phantom eBay winner

It's happened again. It's happened twice before, and always with calypso 
records, and always with a cretin in England..the winning bid is from someone 
with 0 or 1 feedback, and eBay then cancels the sale a couple of days later 
because he's "no longer registered". It just happened twice this morning and I 
am steamed. Can I immediately offer a "second chance" to the next bidders or do 
I have to wait?

Aaaaargh, mon.

dl

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