posted on October 22, 2000 07:43:50 PM new
I am soliciting the opinions of posters here to help me decide what course of action I should take.
I've been "watching" an auction that had a starting bid of $75.00 for an item I wanted. I placed my bid at Esnipe yesterday as I wouldn't be home when the bidding ended. I was the only bidder and won the auction for $75.00. No problems.
Now I see that the seller has changed his item description to reflect the price to be $60.00 both in the listing and description. However he didn't change the starting bid and I got it for the starting bid.
My question is: Should I ask the seller to honor his description price and lower the item to the $60.00 or just forgert about it and go on and give the $75.00?
I don't want to appear to be petty as the $15.00 difference wouldn't make any difference to me but 15 bucks is 15 bucks.
posted on October 22, 2000 07:56:22 PM new
I would just honor your bid which is more then like gonna end up happening any how inless this is a very passive seller who backs off at the least sign of conflict.
and if you didnt feel the Item you bid on to be worth $75 you would not have bid that price any how Right
since just changeing the discription to reflect the Item value at $60 while leaveing the starting bid at $75 would not have had a postive effect on the bidding by snippers in the last min anyhow since most snipper bids happen in the last seconds they are not reading new info any how.
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posted on October 22, 2000 09:17:27 PM new
Unless you set an extremely long buffer time, I can't understand how the auction price was changed subsequent to your snipe bid. It sounds as though the minimum bid was $75 at the time of auction end. If that's the case, you paid the lowest price possible and should be satisfied with the result. Regardless of the seller's description, no lower bid could possibly have won.
If the seller has listed another of the same item at a lower starting bid, I would think that falls within the realm of seller perogative and does not affect your transaction.
Esnipe's only been working sporadically for me lately. It only seems to fail when I would definitely have won a coveted item. In a case like yours I'm sure 100% reliability is to be expected.
posted on October 22, 2000 09:32:19 PM newxardon: If he had the auction under "watch," he wouldn't have been going back to look at the auction itself to see if it had changed.
Taxicabman: If the seller changed the description of THAT auction to $60 but didn't change the starting bid (the starting bid can't be changed - the only thing he could have done was close it and re-do the auction), then you should hold him to what he said in the description. You couldn't have bid only $60, because the starting bid required $75.
Now, if he has put up another identical auction and it has a starting price of $60, then you need to pay the price of $75 for "your" auction.
