furkidmom
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posted on November 16, 2000 07:39:31 PM new
I cannot believe this! I have an item up for bid and just got a notice of a bid retraction. Out of curiosity I went in to see the reason and she put..."I got an email that said she had a bad experience with this buyer knows of other.... and then she was cut off! This looks terrible and I wish to hell she would have had the common sense to contact me first. First of all I am not the buyer I am the sellerNow can I write to her and ask what this is all about or is this auction interference? Man I want to see what she has to say for herself to put something so rotton on her reason! HELP!!!
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AnonymousCoward
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posted on November 16, 2000 07:51:29 PM new
I would cancel the auction and relist it. No use paying a listing fee to have your name slandered.
If you are the seller it is not auction interference if you contact your bidder. It only, is if you contact the parties involved in another auction.
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mcjane
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posted on November 16, 2000 08:27:27 PM new
What a lousy thing to do. I can't shake the feeling she made it up after she regretted her bid & thought it was an easy way out.
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amalgamated2000
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posted on November 16, 2000 08:36:13 PM new
I don't think you contacting her to find out what's up would be auction interference. Whose auction would you be interferring with?
I wouldn't be suprised if a competitor of yours is responsible for contacting your bidder.
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loosecannon
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posted on November 16, 2000 08:54:54 PM new
It wouldn't do any good to contact the person.
I sent a terse message to a bidder who retracted his bids a while back (he placed about 6 bids on an item over several days, then retracted). It ticked me off, especially since he had several bid retractions on his record. Obviously a game player. All it got me was a nasty message back and more ticked off.
Your bidder may not have been contacted by anyone and could be making it up out of thin air just to have a "reason" to retract.
[ edited by loosecannon on Nov 16, 2000 08:58 PM ]
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furkidmom
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posted on November 16, 2000 11:21:25 PM new
Well I did what Anon suggested and canceled the auction, and then sat down and wrote a letter to Ebay and told them what happened. Now I am not going to hold my breath that they are going to do anything, but I believe using that STOOOOOOOOPID and lying reason to get out of a bid is not legal in the first place! I want ebay to contact her and also try to get her to send te letter she *supposidly* got to Ebay as well. Then I wrote tothe person with her 35 feedbacks and told her that her being relitively new to Ebay she perhaps did not know what a serious thing she did, but that I was going to have Ebay investigate it, and I am going to push this thing, let me tell ya !! I will write to ebay 6 times a day if I have to until I get some satisfaction here. I was so mad, I did the unthinkable, and cleaned the house for 3 hours!!! Now that's mad!
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outoftheblue
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posted on November 17, 2000 12:19:45 AM new
I would have emailed the person and asked her for details and carbon copied safeharbor. This would let the person know you were serious and would probably get results.
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cix
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posted on November 17, 2000 03:49:49 AM new
I will let you in on a little secret. EBAY ISN'T GOING TO DO A DAMN THING ABOUT IT. GUARANTEED !!!!!
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HJW
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posted on November 17, 2000 06:18:16 AM new
I wonder if the buyer meant to say that she got an email from a buyer
who had a bad experience with the item? By not using a period,
this might be the case.
For example,
I got an email that said she had a bad experience with this. buyer knows of other...
By adding the period, it could be interpreted another way.
In any event it is really unfortunate that the buyer was so
careless and thoughtless in her explanation.
Helen
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jwpc
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posted on November 17, 2000 06:22:53 AM new
OH how I wish eBay had the BLACKLIST feature that Yahoo has, so when you find a nut, you can just blacklist them and they can't bid on your auctions again. I occassionally blacklist a buyer who has completed a transaction but who was a pain in the derrier and I just don't want to be bothered with them.
No one sees the blacklist but the seller, but any time one of those on your blacklist try to bid on your auctions, they are blocked. THIS I LIKE!
Paul Truth
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furkidmom
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posted on November 17, 2000 02:53:54 PM new
Well I did get this from the bid retractor, and she also sent me the letter she got from the person who scared her and she goofed. I sent the whole thing on to Safe Harbor. Now I wait to see if what I want done will be done......(from being mad, my house is so dang clean, I cna't find anything!!!)
*edited by furkid mom coz I can't spell)
Hi XXXXXXXXXXX,
Yes I majorily goofed last night. After realizing that you were not the
seller this e-mail
was in referenance to, I tried to find a way to add to my retraction but
couldn't find one. If you can help me add to this I will do it. I feel
terrible. This gentleman that e-mailed me about a seller scared the pants off
me. I had several bids going on at the same time and had just bid on one of
yours when his e-mail came through. He did not put the auction number on the
e-mail just the seller's name. If you like, I can forward the e-mail I
received from him. Once again I am so sorry, XXXXXX XXXXX
[ edited by furkidmom on Nov 17, 2000 02:55 PM ]
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Shoshanah
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posted on November 17, 2000 03:26:07 PM new
Oh! Brother!...Could this be the nice handy work of "Slick-Dick-Agency"????
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Gosh Shosh!
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/rifkah/
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CAgrrl
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posted on November 18, 2000 06:07:32 PM new
I would be SO ANNOYED!!!!!!
but look on the bright side. It wasn't a malicious attack against you after all, just a DUMB mistake. Probably won't happen again. AND now you have a clean house. 
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pickersangel
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posted on November 18, 2000 06:22:32 PM new
"Auction interference"--that's what the "gentleman" who emailed your bidder is guilty of. I hope that he was stupid enough to email her from his Ebay registered address. If so, and if that info was included in the information you sent Safe Harbor, he should find himself NARU (regardless of what anyone says). It really sucks that your bidder freaked out and ended up screwing up your auction.
always pickersangel everywhere
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