posted on November 16, 2000 07:34:23 PM new
I sent my high bidder the usual EOA email with amount due. Let's say starting price was $7.50. High bidder's bid was documented on bidder history as $10.50. Two lower bids were received by another bidder. Bidder says she only bid $7.00. Not sure how that could be when bidder history indicates this bidder bid $10.50. Then ebay sends her an email that states the following:
Your bid was in the amount of: $7.00
Your maximum bid was in the amount of: $750.00
The auction closes on: Nov-xx-00 xx:xx:xx PST
Web location used: After processing all open bids for
this item, the current bid price is: $7.00
My listing does not show this figure as the final bid. It shows $10.50. Anyway, high bidder is sending payment for the $10.50 + shipping, but I'm not sure how this happened. I've never run across this before. Has anyone else experienced anything like this lately?
posted on November 16, 2000 08:42:54 PM new
I had something somewhat similar happen in an auction I won last week. I bid, and received a bid notice stating that my current bid was for something lower than what the EOA notice I received a few minutes later. Looks like the high bidder that I was bidding against bid against himself 30 seconds before my bid for a nickle under my high bid. And then the auction ended.
I didn't investigate it any further as the final price was still significantly lower than what the seller sells it for on his website. *heh*
posted on November 17, 2000 03:13:59 AM new
harvestmoon -
This is a BID NOTICE! Not the EOA notice sent to winning bidders and sellers. Winning bid notices are quite different, and start out with congratulations. .
"Your bid was in the amount of: $7.00
Your maximum bid was in the amount of: $750.00
The auction closes on: Nov-xx-00 xx:xx:xx PST
Web location used:
After processing all open bids for
this item, the current bid price is: $7.00
posted on November 17, 2000 03:38:20 AM new
That's right. The notice quoted by the buyer is the bid notice, not the eoa.
Here is an eoa:
Final Price : $#.##
Auction Ended At : Nov-16-00 19:14:19 PST
Total number of bids : 7
Seller User ID : SellerNameHere
Seller E-mail : [email protected]
High-bidder User ID: BuyerNameHere
High-bidder E-mail: [email protected]
