posted on October 22, 2000 08:02:02 AM I am getting tired of people who's sole intent is to spoil auctions of the same type because of some moral objection they have to the items being offered. I have had 3 such occurances in the past few months. I was selling rock cassettes in one instance, there was a high bidder but he was a 0 rating with sunglasses and that always concerns me, but my view is, we were all at that point at one time. Here are some of the signs I have found that your auction is going foul. #1) new member, usually within the last week. #2) they have placed bids on many many many auctions all generally the same type of item. #3) the bid over the course of a week and then stop as the first batch of auctions start to end. They end up with 4 negatives, get suspended then move on to next new ID. All you can do is file a NPB get a refund for the final value but your still out the listing fee, and if you ever want to get that back then you have to raise your price the next time you list it But i generally just eat the cost.
So be caerful and when you see people that are a zero when they bid on your auction but before your auction is done, the fall below zero, it is a good sigh that you cancel their bid, email them and tell them you are not accepting bids from them.
They also end up driving up the price so high that potential legitimate bidders are scared away from bidding. One of these bad bidders, whom i told not to bid, tried to bid anyway by trying to snipe it at the end, he did not snipe it but he drove the price up $15 higher than the #1 bidder should have paid, unfair to him so i lowered the price to one increment over the next highest legitimate bidder, but also unfair to me because 1) i have to eat the cost of a higher final value and 2) the snipe may have scared away other last minute bidders.
SO WATCH OUT FOR THE AUCTION SPOILERS!
[ edited by guuuyyy on Oct 24, 2000 02:43 PM ]
posted on October 22, 2000 08:57:52 AM
I think that assuming the second highest bidder was a "spoiler" and only charging the high bidder one increment above the third highest bidder was naive and foolish.
Why not just give your items away at cost, or how about FREE! That'll really earn you brownie points.
posted on October 22, 2000 09:13:06 AM
candiman
you Are wrong here just selling at cost or giveing Items away dont earn you no brownie points these days.
I have lowered prices on auction offered free shipping and insurance after someone dead beat one a sale and all profit hopes on the Item were lost and 90% of the time the only thing get get from the guy you gave the break to is a complaint and even worse many times you dont even get feed back for the good guy policy.
hell I have Paid for the shipping and insurance to ship Item buyer says they have damage send the receipt so they can make the claim I ask for a picture of the damage and most cant be bothered with that so what you concidering brownie points.
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posted on October 22, 2000 01:08:57 PM
I had one guy who bid on an auction and then refused to pay me because I was auctioning another item that was immoral and unchristian (It was the "Big Gay Book". Then I had to deal with about a week worth of death and burn in hell threats.
Really annoying that ebay will not take action against bidders who commit hate crimes. In a B&M Venue, security would kick a person like that out.
I would add to your suggestions that you also CC safe harbor when you email a bidder to tell them that you don't want them to bid on your auctions. Then if they successfully snipe at the end--you can turn them in to safe harbor.
I have an inventory of just about every imaginable thing, except science and math books.
The area of the country I live in has several "New Age" publishers and a huge pagan community -- so such books - new, remaindered, used -- I have multiple bookpeople contacts I've developed through the years where I can acquire these very easily for re-sale, in other words it's not like elsewhere where they are difficult to find, or one is AFRAID to order them from the local bookstore in the nearest rural town to home.
When I at one time was listing on amazon, I receive two emails from self-identified Christians telling me they were PRAYING for me.
My dh thought this was the funniest thing he'd ever heard, as the book titles I'd listed were like really elementary and absolutely pedestrian.
I decided to list non-fiction of a more general nature, after I realized, when reading Publisher's Weekly that amazon had opened a special Christian Booksite, and done advertising to corner the marketshare, ...cuz ol' Jeff Bezos, he just gotta sell EVERY single book sold on the planet (as well as everything else) lol.
Amazon seemed LIVID when I happened to have mentioned these emails, and insisted adamently that I forward them, but I didn't.
When I had a major number of auctions sabotaged a large percentage of the books were university press books on major religions.
posted on October 22, 2000 08:14:48 PM
eoi observed and opined, "Really annoying that ebay will not take action against bidders who commit hate crimes. In a B&M Venue, security would kick a person like that out."
posted on October 22, 2000 08:22:11 PM
I HAVE A RULE 0 FEEDBACK AND YOU CAN NOT BID...ANDIT IS STATED IN THE AUCTION...TO MANY DEAD BEATS AND I AM SICK OFF IT
posted on October 22, 2000 08:27:20 PM
I suppose if you were in their town they would feel compelled to firebomb your store.
I thinkl I will start the same thing with anyone who idolizes Elvis the false king!
Watch out for Peanuts books also as they promote the Great Pumpkin, an obviously pagan
upstart.
I am getting tired of people who's sole intent is to spoil auctions of the same type because of some moral objection they have to the items being offered. I have had 3 such occurances in the past few months. I was selling rock cassettes in one instance, there was a high bidder but he was a 0 rating with sunglasses and that always concerns me, but my view is, we were all at that point at one time. Here are some of the signs I have found that your auction is going foul. #1) new member, usually within the last week. #2) they have placed bids on many many many auctions all generally the same type of item. #3) the bid over the course of a week and then stop as the first batch of auctions start to end. They end up with 4 negatives, get suspended then move on to next new ID. All you can do is file a NPB get a refund for the final value but your still out the listing fee, and if you ever want to get that back then you have to raise your price the next time you list it But i generally just eat the cost.
. Then I had to deal with about a week worth of death and burn in hell threats.