kninecollect
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posted on April 13, 2001 05:39:52 AM new
A seller I won an auction from was narued from ebay shortly after I won the auction. I questioned him and he said it was for bidding on his own auction with a different id. He said the item (not the one I won) was broken and he could now longer sell it so he bid on it himself. He is appealing to ebay to get un narued. What will happen now? Will ebay let him back in? Will he have a suspension for a certain amount of time? I don't know if I still want to complete this purchase.
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eventer
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posted on April 13, 2001 06:00:11 AM new
Excuse me?
If it was broken, he could have canceled the bids & the auction (I think it's a one click step now). Then he wouldn't be in trouble with ebay.
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kninecollect
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posted on April 13, 2001 06:06:06 AM new
Suspicious me - I think he was trying to bid the price of the auction up BUT is using the excuse of 'broken' to get back on ebay.
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spazmodeus
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posted on April 13, 2001 06:07:25 AM new
There's even a box you can click now when cancelling to indicate "Item Was Lost or Broken."
That aside, there used to be a rule that said a seller was allowed to place one bid on his own auction. Is that still in effect? I never used it myself, and always found it a peculiar rule, but as I recall it did exist.
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eventer
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posted on April 13, 2001 06:11:32 AM new
spaz,
There once was such a rule. Sellers were allowed to bid once. This was in the days when you couldn't change the starting price & you were allowed to do so if you'd put in the wrong purchase price.
But that went away several years ago & you aren't allowed to bid now under any circumstances.
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redskinfan
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posted on April 13, 2001 06:36:20 AM new
but you can't change the price now....
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eventer
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posted on April 13, 2001 06:44:48 AM new
You're right, redskinfan.
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igolf
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posted on April 13, 2001 06:47:52 AM new
I don't know if the seller is telling the truth, but I tend to believe that it is possible.
Why?
If you do a search on eBay, for items like "no longer available" "do not bid" "item broken do not bid" "mistake do not bid" "listed twice do not bid"
You will find many, many auctions where sellers did not know how to end an auction early, and instead revised the auction asking that bidders not bid on their auctions.
A surprising amount of eBay users (sellers included) do not know how to properly end an auction. Some do not know how to navigate the site map and find how to retract bids, cancel bids or even search on their user id to find auctions that they have bid on.
The rule allowing a seller to bid "once" on their own auction has been gone for approx. two years, but there are still MANY users that believe that it is still in effect.
Finding specific rules on eBay can be tough, and take LOTS of time, something a frantic seller, who has just broken an item, may not have.
Just a thought, but like I said, it's very possible the seller just didn't know it was wrong.
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redskinfan
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posted on April 13, 2001 06:53:15 AM new
When I had my first id booted off yahoo, I had to go ask a former bidder who I had great dealings with to go through and "win" all of my running auctions because if someone were to win for real they wouldn't be able to purchase because I had no way to get their info since I couldn't log in. I had the auction info set up to go to my yahoo email account (which was deleted along with the name). I had no way to contact anyone.
It is possible for any site to mess up so that you are no longer able to cancel it out the old fashion way.
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musicman12533
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posted on April 13, 2001 07:42:16 AM new
just curious why were you booted off yahoo?
i didnt think they cared what you sell
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redskinfan
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posted on April 13, 2001 07:49:33 AM new
I bought something from a seller and she cashed my check and never sent the item. She instead relisted it on ebay and sold it again. MY ITEM. I gave her a negative and said she was a thief and listed the url where she was resaling MY ITEM on ebay and yahoo kicked me off for it. They allowed her to continue doing this on yahoo until she ripped off even more people. But yahoo would deleted the bad ratings from where someone would say they didn't get their items so that other buyers wouldn't be warned. At least I have the luxery I suppose of knowing her ebay names so that I steer clear of her.
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skip555
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posted on April 13, 2001 01:13:20 PM new
To get back to your orginal question,I beleive ebay suspends both id's for a 30 day period.it happened to a freind of mine a while back. Personally I see nothing wrong with bidding on your own aucion , I have done it myself in real time auctions and it was allowed but since ebay dosn't allow it I don't do it. I also keep two ebay id's going in case I accedently violate a rule I can keep going with id two (auctually my wifes but we both work both Id's)
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