posted on March 14, 2001 06:46:35 PM
I had an auction end on Sunday. Winner with 0 feedback (no prob, I usually have good luck with newbies). No response to email. Sent second email today. Bidder now has 4 positive feedback. BUT - bidder has bid on 141 auctions since 3/7, and is high bidder so far on 22 still remaining! I compute he's been high bidder for approx $2,600 PLUS shipping during the last week! Somehow (and I might be doing him a disservice - maybe he won the lottery!)...I just don't think so. What to do?
posted on March 14, 2001 10:31:54 PM
If it was me in this situation, I would send a "Second Notice" e-mail (if you haven't already done so), and use a SECOND e-mail service to do the same....some people have certain e-mails "blocked". Inform the buyer that they have 3 days to respond (in a non-threatening way)....
If they do not respond, wait a couple more days and then file a NPB (10 day wait???)
Best of luck!!
Keith
I assume full responsibility for my actions, except
the ones that are someone else's fault.
posted on March 15, 2001 03:00:40 AM
Thanks Keith - I have sent a follow up email and will send another from a different address. I think the guy got caught up in the "fun" and had no idea he'd win so many as lots of bids are for similar items. Of course, winning 120 auctions in a week could put him a bit behind in more ways than one! NBP on the horizon I think!
posted on March 15, 2001 05:26:52 AM
Just a quick added thought that sometimes things like this work out okay. I recently had a relative newbie bid (and win) an outrageous sum for a household linen item that normally would go for 1/3 the price on eBay! I sent an EOA, no response. Sent 2nd EOA, no response. When searching high bidder's history (no negs), saw they had also bid on LOTS of stuff, all across the board - no particular category. Had WON over 100 auctions in last month. Uh-oh, I thought. So, I sent an automatic bill from Paypal as this service was mentioned in feedback left for buyer. No response. I then left a very nice email stating, "welcome to ebay, I see you have bid on lots of stuff here. Isn't auction life fun?? Perhaps my request for payment got lost in all your winning bids (congratulations, by the way!)... yada yada yada..." They sent back an email giving ship address and followed up with money order. So if you can wait a bit longer, and persevere - these situations don't always have to be bad ones.
posted on March 15, 2001 05:44:49 AMantiquealley, you've hit upon the secret... kill them with kindness! The newbies wouldn't bid on so many things if they didn't want them at least a little bit. If one had to pick and choose between the hundreds of items they had bid and won, would'nt they surely pick the nice emailer over the bully?
I'm not saying that this would work all the time, I think it improves your odds greatly though.
Edited for that darned UBB....
[ edited by sugar2912 on Mar 15, 2001 05:45 AM ]
posted on March 15, 2001 05:51:40 AM
I too had a similar experience, the guy had bought hundreds of items within a two week period. Took him almost a week to answer by e-mail, the payment was already on the way. The check was written on a business account, he unregistered with no negs two weeks later. It was almost like he was opening a store bought a bunch of inventory to get started and then disappeared. But he paid, and managed to accumulate over 200 positives, no negs before he unregistered. Didn't leave any feedback though. All were similar quality items limoge, royal winton all china porcelain and old glass.
posted on March 15, 2001 06:04:14 AM
I have heard of people who went nuts when they came to eBay. They have never seen so much of what they collect and can't do the mental switch to figure out there will be things there in a week or a month - they have to buy it NOW. They over bid and then usually withdraw because of an ulimatum from their spouse.
posted on March 15, 2001 11:52:49 AM
Thanks, I'm hoping for the best and will try the kill with kindness routine & see if that helps although I haven't been anything but pleasant in either of my emails. Over 100 auctions in a week is a lot for a buyer though. The items in this case don't seem to fit the collection type categories...and the store theory would be a possibility as a ton of it is clothing - but it is all similar and all of one size! His address is a .com site - which has been down for days which adds to the mystery! The ultimatum from the spouse may come to pass... 99.9% of clothing was male, rest female!
posted on March 15, 2001 12:01:46 PMHis address is a .com site - which has been down for days which adds to the mystery
If the web site corresponding to his email address is down, maybe his email is, too. My email for my part-time job won't work when the server for the web site is down.
posted on March 15, 2001 08:04:20 PM
I was just browsing the message center for the first time and had to respond about the email problem. I ran into a little bit of trouble several months ago with ebay because I could not access my email from my ISP and could not send anything out either. Then, by the time I got that fixed, I couldn't get people paid through paypal because it turned out my browser was corrupt. Had to take the computer into get it fixed, so several days and a couple hundred dollars later I was able to respond and straighten things out. These things do happen, hopefully the guy is just having trouble catching up on everything he has won. I've done that too. Good luck.
