[78-L] Phantom eBay winner

[David Lennick]

He was using eSnipe (or equivalent, if there's one out there) so the next high 
bids were just a dollar or 50 cents lower. He has ONE feedback, from another 
burned seller, and I'm sure he's the same idiot..I just want to know if I'm 
supposed to wait for the transaction to be caught by eBay or if I can go ahead 
and do second chance offers. Bidding was pretty spirited on these records.

dl

On 11/13/2011 11:02 AM, Tom wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> 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
>