posted on January 14, 2001 08:31:35 AM
Got your attention here? No not sex. Here is a new one for me. I've been a seller and buyer on ebay for about 2 years now and haven't seen this before. I recently won an auction for a LP. Mind you it is a small sum of money here $3.25. The auction was for three days, I think. I didn't pay much attention because ti was one of those small items I bid on thinking if I get it fine if not fine. Well as it turns out the seller made a mistake in the listing. He sell's Albums and CD's and he had used his CD template to list the albums. Hence he gave a gurantee as to the quality and listed shipping as $2 instead of $4. Now after I get the winner notification from ebay AND him. He then sends a note to the 16 winners for the different auctions stating he had made a mistake. He says all were cancelled and he will be listing them over again and if we wnat to bid again please look for them as he will have them back up on Sunday night. What do you thisnk of that?? I sent him a note back stating that the auction ended officially. And I am the winner and expect to get the album at that price. Why should I have to bid again on something I already won??? I told him I'd be happy to pay the correct postage and do understand the mistake but I still expect to get the item. Now, folks, the odd thing is that this guy has a feedback of over 600!!! You'd think he'd know the ebay rules! Even with the mistake I win and it is MY underlined MY option to not complete the auction not the seller. and technically he should be held to the shipping and gurantee as he listed. But understanding as I am I am willing to give up the gurantee and pay another $2 big deal!
posted on January 14, 2001 09:00:52 AM
I suppose he feels justified cuz his stuff did not bring in as much as he expected....That is NO reason to back out, though! Gosh Shosh!
posted on January 14, 2001 09:52:43 AM
Tecnically your right and he's wrong...
But, we all are human and subject to making mistakes and I would let him off the hook. They say "what goes around, comes around" and maybe by being understanding of another's mistake then at some later date when I goof the other guy will be equally understanding towards me and will let me off the hook.
posted on January 14, 2001 10:05:58 AM
Amy, did you read my letter completely? I did let him off. I do not want a gurantee nor do I want the cheap shipping. I just want my LP. The error he made was in the fine print not the description. He said it was an LP right in the title. I think this guy is just trying to wholedale clear out the mistake instead of going to each person individually. He had over 100 items listed during the last week. Most either no bids or under $15. I think he is cleaning house. I too have about 150 LP's I collected when in college but they will not show up on ebay because it jsut isn't worth the hassel to list and pack them to get $4 apiece. I guess this guy is forgetting the customer service end of the deal.
posted on January 14, 2001 10:14:42 AM
Spuds..I read your post. You asked for opinions, I gave you mine. I would not demand he send me the LP even with higher shipping.
You, yourself said "I didn't pay much attention because ti was one of those small items I bid on thinking if I get it fine if not fine.
If I were in your situation I would let the guy COMPLETELY off the hook...but that's just the way I would handle it
posted on January 14, 2001 10:19:33 AM
Since it's virtually impossible to FORCE a seller to accept your payment and ship you the merchandise, seller is "off the hook" whether you "let" him or not.
You are, of course, free to express your opinion in his FB...something along the line of "Refused to sell item even after I offered to pay more to correct seller's error"...
posted on January 14, 2001 10:32:13 AM
Well, I guess I just have this little thing about following the rules. In my 400 transactions I have had times where I bought things I decided I didn't want because I made a mistake reading the listing and I also shipped things for $3.55 when it cost me $10 because I forgot to change the listing. I guess I jsut figure that there is a set of rules to follow. You see this guy may be honest in his mistake but some people are not -- that is why we have rules. When you run into a couple problems you will see. Like a gentleman that bought a used alternator from me. I stated I had no knowledge of it just that the previous owner of this car said there were no problems. The guy sends me a personal check and it bounces. He then states that the alternator was no good so he is not paying me anyhow because he had paid a mechanic $75 to install the alternator. Now the rule is: you don't issue a bad check. Period. I would have dealt with the problem of the nonworking part later. I am honest and sincere but I do not like people that arbitrarily make up their own rules.
posted on January 14, 2001 10:56:21 AM
You are right and he is wrong, but sending money to someone who you know does not want to sell to you is asking for trouble. I would drop it but leave appropriate neutral feedback.
edited to leave a forgotten leave.
[ edited by BlondeSense on Jan 14, 2001 10:58 AM ]
posted on January 14, 2001 11:11:03 AM
Can a seller cancel an auction with ebay after it has ended?
Does ebay refund FVFs?
If an auction of mine closes and there is an error in the listing, and the error is in favor of the bidder (wrong start price, not enough postage) I honor my auction and consider it my stupid mistake.
Since it is not an item you truly really wanted, I would not contact the seller any more, but leave approriate feedback.
And I really don't care for misleading thread titles either.
posted on January 15, 2001 05:41:28 AM
Sorry about the title but it is not misleading. The selled did cancel after the end and the cause could have been sex. I know I'ved stayed up late at night then the next morning had jelly fo a brain when I had to do something important. The gentleman responded to my email stating that once he realized his mistake he ended the auction and is willing to eat the fees charged to him by ebay. Still he did not acknowledge that the rules state that no matter what the reason the high bidder is the winner and that it is a binding contract. Since this auction had about 4 days left there is no way for me to know what the thing would have sold for. The only thing I can do is just the usual bid the price I am willing to pay and if someone pays more they get it.
posted on January 15, 2001 05:54:53 AM
spuddy - now I am not clear on exactly what happened. I thought you said the auction ended, but now you say it had about four days left. Did he cancel the bids on it before he ended the auction, or just notify the bidders that he was ending it? If he realized his mistake, and ended the auction early because of it, he should have cancelled all bids on it first; if he failed to do that, then he is suposedly obligated to sell to the highest bidder. However, in this case I would cut him some slack, as I think he was TRYING to do the right thing.
I originally thought that the auction ended as scheduled, and then he decided to back out.
posted on January 15, 2001 06:11:25 AM
If it were me I would be unhappy, but I would try to be gracious about the seller's goof. After all, you already said you didn't really care if you won, so why make a federal case out of it?
posted on January 15, 2001 06:14:18 AM
By the way, great title for your thread.
Remember when eBay auctions had titles like "Full Frontal Nudity" and when you clicked on it, there was a picture of a gorilla in the ad? eBay banned that, too.
