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 beatnikera
 
posted on October 18, 2004 02:03:27 PM
A woman met my reserve price on a pair of speakers and
won them for $450.00. I sent her an EOA email
and waited for a response. Well, here's her response!

"The last bid I placed on the speakers was 450 and
at that time the reserve had not been met, so I went
ahead and bought another pair.  I don't know Ebay's
policy on changing reserves, but I'll have to check."

Wrong! She MET the reserve at $450.

Have to check? Huh? What's to check? You bid, met my
reserve and are the winning bidder. Now you owe
ME money.

BTW, I doubt she "bought another pair." Just a lame excuse.

She was the only bidder, no under bidder.

She has a feedback of 195 with *9* negs and 2
bid retractions. I see one more neg on her profile
real soon.

Getting stiffed for $25 is bad enough, but $450?!?

Grrr.


 
[ edited by beatnikera on Oct 18, 2004 02:05 PM ]
[ edited by beatnikera on Oct 18, 2004 02:06 PM ]
[ edited by beatnikera on Oct 18, 2004 02:07 PM ]
 
 ewora
 
posted on October 18, 2004 02:25:55 PM
If she purchased the other pair off ebay...you can do a search buyer search under her ebay name you can see what she's been bidding on.
 
 beatnikera
 
posted on October 18, 2004 02:45:17 PM
Hi Ewora:

Yep, I did that. She bids alot but has not won
any loudspeakers there, at least within the last
30 days.

The speakers she won from me are rarely
seen on eBay or anywhere else for that
matter.

Bottom line: She met my reserve price and is
now trying to wiggle her way out of paying me.
No way.

Her whole "at that time the reserve had not been
met" line is pure BS.





 
 stopwhining
 
posted on October 18, 2004 03:27:13 PM
she could be using a diff id for bidding on the speakers.
if she does not want to pay,there is not much you can do ,why not just ask her to reimburse you on your listing fee.
-sig file -------Life is one big happy 'All You Can Eat' buffet .
 
 beatnikera
 
posted on October 18, 2004 03:55:23 PM
Yep, she could have a different ID. Anything's possible.

I already asked her to reimburse me for my listing fees.

She said no. I figured she'd say as much.

So, this Thursday I will start the Unpaid Item Dispute
and then wait 8 days after that to get my FVF's back.

I guess that's all I can do. This sucks. A $450 sale
right down the drain plus $8 in listing fees that I
will NEVER get back.

I've had more deadbeat bidders this year than
any other year combined and I've sold since
1999. What a sad system.







[ edited by beatnikera on Oct 18, 2004 03:56 PM ]
[ edited by beatnikera on Oct 18, 2004 03:56 PM ]
 
 
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