posted on January 27, 2001 03:43:29 PM
Hi all - I'm a hobby seller on eBay - maybe a dozen items up for auction at a time. Anyway, I noticed that the high bidder on my auction ending tonight was high bidder on a total of four of my auctions. Relatively new buyer (1 pos. feedback from over six months ago). I don't normally do this but I decided to check what other auctions she's bidding on. She won maybe 10 auctions in the past month but she's high bidder on about 40 right now. I checked with a couple of the sellers of completed auctions (from the end of Dec.) and - sure enough - she hasn't responded to their emails or paid.
So, she's a deadbeat (at least in my opinion). So here's the question. On the auction ending tonight, should I just wait and hope she's outbid? (She's outbid on about 3/4's of the auctions she bids on.) Then - if she's not outbid - just cancel her a few minutes before auction end? Actually I'm hoping she'll be outbid. Then I'll let her stay out there as high bidder on the other auctions and - hopefully - she'll be outbid there also. Obviously, if she's not outbid by 30 minutes or so before the auction end, I'll cancel her.
Would you wait (hoping to maximize your profits) or should I just go ahead and cancel her now on all of the auctions?
posted on January 27, 2001 04:07:37 PM
I think you should cancel her immediately...
what if the site goes POOF just when you want to cancel her near the end?...
of course if you want to take your chances and "go for the profit", then...
posted on January 27, 2001 05:28:17 PM
I agree...cancel her now before your auction ends. If you wait she'll just leave neg. FB when report her as a no-pay.
posted on January 27, 2001 07:34:00 PM
People (sellers)who give positive feedback to
SLO payers do an injustice to all and Ebay
is partially responsible with all the WARNINGS they issue to the person giving NEG
feedback. It takes four (4) violations to get
a suspension from Ebay. It appears there are
a lot of irresponsible people buying and
selling on Ebay and usimng PayPalk.
posted on January 28, 2001 06:39:08 AM
What's somewhat amusing is that one of the sellers (that she hasn't paid) told me that *I* should report her. I told him that I couldn't, she hadn't 'won' any of my auctions but that *he* should report her (his auction that she won ended in late dec.).
This seller has over 300 feedback (all positive). Evidently he doesn't want to neg her (afraid of getting a neg back??). But he wants *me* to do it?!?! No thanks - I neg and file for FVF on my deadbeat bidders - but I don't need to do his work too.
If a few of the sellers from her earlier auctions had filed FVFs, she'd already be NARU'd. But they didn't so she's still out there - high bidder on roughly 50 auctions right now. There's going to be a lot of unhappy sellers soon.
