[78-L] More on the phantom bidder

[David Lennick]

I wonder if the only way around this is to list at fixed price? Takes the 
competition out of it though.

dl

On 11/18/2011 3:47 PM, Darrell Lehman wrote:
> New bidder goes by the ID "dorhawi".  eBay says he's:
>
> Dorham Wilson
> 1 Aylesham Centre
> London London SE15 1EW
> United Kingdom
>
> Anybody available to pay him a visit?
> Anybody confirm that's a "good" address"?
>
>
> Steve Shapiro wrote:
>> The bidder is not stupid and will see through such a ruse.
>>
>> Small sellers no longer matter much in oyVey's business model.
>>
>> Perhaps a piece by you in the Globe and Mail, carried on the web, will get oyVey to act.
>>
>> Good luck./steve
>> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:24:50 -0500
>> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] More on the phantom bidder ^
>> To: 78-L Mail List 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>>
>> The drama continues. eBay removed the phantom, finally..they also removed my
>> "second chance" offers and reversed the one that had sold to a legitimate
>> buyer. This is getting ridiculous, and my apologies for continuing this saga. I
>> wonder what would happen if I put the word "calypso" in a listing that was
>> something else altogether? Similarly, if I broke the word up or misspelled it
>> in a subject line?