posted on April 2, 2001 04:50:00 AM
Goodmorning
The following is a Email I just received
Maybe you can tell me what you think of the this email and has anyone ever received an email like this?
This auction that she is talking about already has 3 bidders on it.
What do you think she expects me to do.
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Also, how did she email me with out going threw EBAY!!!! This was a direct email from her.
This is the email she sent to me.....
Hello, my name is xxxxx, my Mom is standing right here, I am 11, I have been getting allowance for a year now and I would save up to get something and I would get it. My mommy loves xxxxxxx!!!!!!! I just spent all my allowance on a xxxxxxxxx xxxx. I have to get this xxxxxxx!!!!!!! Could you lower the price a little? I know you probably think that I am an older person that just wants to get a xxxxxxx for a cheeper price but I'm not, My name is xxxxx, I am 11 years old I was born on xxxxxx x 1989. I live in xxxxxxx. I'm in 6th grade. You don't know how much My mom loves xxxxxxx! You don't know how much I love my mommy!!!!!! Diomonds
PLEASE PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE,
PLEASE, PLEASE,I know that you are probably a nice person, so can you help?
It is the "xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxxx- - xxxxx auction"
#xxxxxxxxxx Please help............
My e-mail address is xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
thanx,
xxxxxx
posted on April 2, 2001 05:17:30 AM
Check the headers ... emails through eBay will have the other person's email address in the reply-to field.
I would email her back and say that she is welcome to bid on the auction, just like everyone else.
Explain, in words of 7 letters or less, that an AUCTION means the person with the most money gets the item, not the person who writes the best begging letter.
And if her mommy REALLY loved her, she's get the kid a spell-checker!
posted on April 2, 2001 06:08:09 AM
For heaven's sake, don't lower the price. This is an obvious scam. Real 11 year olds don't email and tell you that they are really only 11 years old and give you their date of birth.
Sounds like Dad took Mom's credit cards away and she wants to keep spending....
posted on April 2, 2001 07:50:57 AM
Sounds like a scam to me as well. Don't fall for it. I sincerely doubt that an 11 year-old sent that email to you. A kid wouldn't be giving his birth year, for one thing. And I can't think of any self-respecting 11 year-old who would be using "mommy".
Since you seem to believe that the youngest person should get the best deal, I am only ten years old and therefore you should pay ME even more money. Please, please, please. I really need the money because I spent all my allowance on xxx.
posted on April 2, 2001 08:28:06 AM
It sounded alright until she said, you don't know how much I love my mommy."
They're really trying to sell you on the idea they are a kid. Don't fall for it.
I personally think this is a odd request to say the least, sounds like someone is having a good laugh at your expense or perhaps this person is actually suffering from a form of a mental illness called "idiot bidder syndrome", this is very common on ebay.
posted on April 2, 2001 09:22:31 AM
tonimar1....as I said before: Please do yourself a favor and delete and move on. If you REALLY feel motivated to do something about this, email this person back and ask them what their Ebay username is and then do a search; but, I don't think you will get a reply.
posted on April 2, 2001 09:30:59 AM
Just email her back w/the following:
Dear xxx,
I would LOVE to sell you this item for less for your Mommy that you love SOOO much.
BUT, it is against the rules to sell to anyone under the age of 18 AND it is against the rules to sell to anyone except through the auction.
Now I'm SURE your Mom, who's a GREAT Mom, has always told you to follow the rules so I know you will understand why I must follow ebay rules. I am sure you would not want me to break any of them.
I wish you the very best of luck & I'm SURE you will find something your Mommy loves just as much as she loves you!
Regards,
YYYYY
If it is a kid OR an adult, you've explained why you can't do this.
If it is a child, what kind of mother encourages this behavior???
posted on April 2, 2001 10:15:01 AM
Is the email address registered on eBay? If so, forward the letter to safeharbor and request it be unregistered since it belongs to a minor
posted on April 2, 2001 10:41:02 AM
Hi
Thank you all for the good ideas, some really made me laugh, Just for an update.
I went to check on Ebay and I found that
her Or her Mommy......have 25 bids going where she is the high bidder.
I would love to ans. her email but I think
the best way is to just not respond. The feedback is (0).
NOW I get a Email from someone offering me
$200.00 more if I would end my auction NOW!! this auction has 8 bidders and going strong.
I just wish bidders would stick to the auction rules, I think rather then give an
explaination to there request, I should
just use three words,......WHAT DO YOU THINK...??????????????
posted on April 4, 2001 09:35:50 AM
Hi, 1st do you have more than one? if not oh well, if so ask how much they will pay for it. Its all about sales right? get there user ID and check it out. does sound kind of goofy but hey a sale is a sale, wouldn't go down on price if you only have one item. Make her bid just like everybody else does. Atleast give her the benefit of the dought, i buy stuff for my kids and his friends all the time they have every right to buy it cheaper if they got the money let'em buy it.
Well i guess it depends on the item! Anyway good luck just thought i would throw in my 2 cents. Raysir
posted on April 4, 2001 11:45:22 AM
digitaldiscount,
I think I can answer that..because most people would react to a child asking rather than an adult.
When my daughter was a bit younger, I'd always send her up to ask the price of something when we were at the flea market or garage sale. They would always lower the price for her.
Now that she's older, don't get near as good a discount..damn!
posted on April 4, 2001 11:51:03 AM
Haven't you ever heard the one about the child getting on a bus where the sign reads, "Children under 6 free."? The driver asks her age. She answers, "Five." He asks when she'll be six. She answers, "When I get off the bus."
posted on April 4, 2001 01:16:25 PM
computerboy...I don't understand the joke, explain please.....
mrssantaclaus Hi Becky, Your right, I did tell her that I am not going to end the auction. plus it is getting very interesting now, I also like to watch the snipping at the end.
There are 20 bids and still going but the high bidder, has a 0 feedback I just hope he is serious about his bidding because since he came in he keeps outbidding every other bidder.
I guess I will know in a couple of hours.
I will be back to tell you if he won the bidding war.
I want to thank everyone who took the time to give me good advise, it makes a difference, you don't feel so alone because being at the computer for so many hours, it gets lonely sometimes, except when you get weird emails!!
posted on April 4, 2001 08:54:22 PM
The Mommy thing sounds fishy to me. In this part of the country, kids stop calling their mother "Mommy" about the time they reach 4 years old. Don't sell, not only for the legality of it (I sometimes can tell that kids bid on things because of cash being sent and the way envelopes are addressed, but I won't sell if they let me know ahead of time.) but also for the fact I believe this is an adult trying to get you to lower the price.
My most precious sale? An 8 year old girl who had her dad bid on a lot of foreign postage stamps for her. He explained in an e-mail to me that she wanted them, and he bid on them, and she would send me money from her allowance. The money came with a letter written in a childish scrawl with address and auction number -- very professional for an 8 year old. She sent $2 in cash, and I found a few extra cancelled postage stamps for her. She mentioned her stamp collection in the note, and how she was excited to get some foreign stamps. It was just too cute! But, I felt better about it knowing her dad bid FOR her.
Diomonds
