posted on November 10, 2000 01:23:52 PM
I have an auction up right now was list for ten days.
in the very earliy stags of this auction like the second day I had a bidder of like 2500 feed back bid on the Item for starting bid.
Thing is today I find the Item has three bids the new bids both from the same 0 feed back buyer just register november 9th they have the sunglasses.
thing is they bid once on the Item at 8:47 am
then they bid against themself at 8:48 Am
tripleing the starting bid on this item anyone think this is newbie error here ???
the auction has several day left on it I know some times that you will get an item that will take off and the price will skyrocket above all exspectation but I have been selling in this catagory for months and and been a collector of this time of item much much longer its just not the nature of this type of item to sell for 3X my starting bid.
anyone wants the URL to this item feel free to email me at
posted on November 10, 2000 01:33:30 PM
Sounds like the new bidder bid once and did not beat out the first bidder. Then he bid higher and and beat him out.
Thats is what I like about new bidders they don't know what items have been selling for.
posted on November 10, 2000 01:37:46 PM
interesting I wasnt sure if you would see a second bid by the frist buyer if they had a proxy that was incressed .
posted on November 10, 2000 01:50:37 PM
Wow dman, I had always thought that your grammar and spelling here on AW was just due to typing fast and not correcting errors. Your site and auctions are just the same. You might do a great deal better if you checked your spelling, corrected grammar and puncuation errors, and used capitals when necessary. I'm not being mean, but so many errors make you seem very unprofessional. Not using punctuation and line breaks makes it really tough to understand what you are saying as well.
"Professionals built the Titanic, amateurs built the Ark."
posted on November 10, 2000 01:53:19 PM
Hi like i have said before i have a rule...no 0 feedback aloud to bid on my stuff...tends to be the ones who spoil the bid!!!! others feel dif and i know that !!!!but with all the dead beats out there ..i make sure i put it in my auction...email me first if you have 0 feedback...no email from them proves to me that they are not interested in reading my auction and listen to rules ...so there is a good chance i figure that they will not pay...if they will not read all the auction ...and for those that say they are new ...it states very clearly in my auctions to email me first before you bid if you have 0 feedback
posted on November 10, 2000 02:32:04 PM
Some of my BEST customers have been users with 0 feedback, some of my WORST customers have had over 500 feedback. It works both ways.
I can't imagine telling someone they need to ask permission to place a bid on my auctions?
A few weeks ago I could spell auction now I has them.
As far as my website goes it the result of a nitemare I had
I rent my computer and every time one gets sent out for repaired and sent back I lose all my files and programs when I get the computer back repaired the HD was restored to new store like condition.
Four times in times in as many months this has happened I uploaded what files I had put together to save my the basics of my page I haven’t had time to get all my software back together.
I can tell you this I just managed to get works suite 2000 reinstalled I am working As quickly as I cant to straighten out this night mare, this week I am out of work because I have pneumonia as little as I feel like it I am working to correct the nightmare on my website almost but not quite as we speak but close to it
I still need to get some of my very basic tools back for working with auction and web pages I have more then just the web page you seen and more then just the auctions you seen running I have two Domains both different and several free personal sights going and over all on different sights nearly 500 active & closed auction in various stages.
Under stand your not trying to be mean or anything but here I am working one bare minimum for equipment, I am the only one who works with the computer other are great at the spending end and Idea little interest at learning how or what it take to get it done when I am not feeling good or I’m having computer trouble it shows up big time.
Just for you I typed this in the newly installed word 2000
posted on November 10, 2000 02:50:55 PM
I heartily agree w/Meya. I've gotten a pretty good share of zero feedback bidders over the years. They've been some of my best customers & some of them are now in 200+ range.
I try to give them a good start to ebay, in fact, I like to set the standards by which they'll judge every other seller.
Yes, there've been some deadbeat ones, just as I've had to file deadbeat reports this week on some with much higher feedback.
I would be overjoyed to have one of my items triple in price.
Sort of the same thing happened to me earlier today. I went to check one of my auctions that was into it's 6th of 7 days. The bidder who opened up the bidding at $199.99 had been replaced with a bid of $202.00 by a bidder with 0 feedback.
I deceided to check into the 0 feedback bidders current auctions. By the time I did the original bidder who opened up the bidding had already overbid him with $225.00
I then deceided to check into the 0 feedback bidders email address. Guess what? They're from Japan. I have dealt with Japan bidders before, and have known them to be very prompt and to always send a payment.
What I'm trying to say is this, don't judge a book by it's cover, because it may have a gold spline. LOL
posted on November 10, 2000 03:07:33 PM
Don't forget that "before we became old-timers", we too, were Newbies...and had shades...and were given a chance...
What would worry me more than anything would be to find that this bidder is also bidding on maybe 15, 20 or more items....THAT, I would question.
You know, you can use your Email "SpellCheck" program to make corrections. I do it all the time for the board-posting I don't always trust myself...and even then, a lot goes straight through the sieve...
Good luck with that auction. Yes, please, Email me the number...
posted on November 10, 2000 04:04:13 PM
my question wasnt Ment to be judgemental of a new buyer with 0 feed back just seemed odd he bid twice with in a 60 sec or so period looked like they were bidding agnist them slef
posted on November 10, 2000 04:55:38 PM
Who's "Starge"??
dman, the ability to see all bids placed by a particular bidder is what's causing your concern.
A month or so ago ebay changed the bid history page to show all bids, rather than just a bidder's high bid. While the new information is interesting, it has caused trouble for some users, including myself, by giving a false impression of impropriety. For details, see this thread:
posted on November 10, 2000 05:00:03 PM
Dman3 -- No, it really doesn't seem odd to me. I bid against myself all the time. In the case of your bidder, I suspect it was something like this: "Oh! Hmm -- I didn't take the lead with my bid! Better try again."
For myself, I will bid early, then later may decide I want the item more than I'd originally thought, so I raise my proxy. That's bidding against myself. I also will bid, then snipe myself at the last moment to counteract any sniping acts of other bidders. That also is bidding against myself. (But it won't raise the high bid unless somebody else had raised the bid to an amount less than one bidding increment below my proxy.)
Violetta
(Not known by this nickname anywhere but here.)
