Idiots on eBay

Just held an auction for a nice ASE 25th Set with 3 70's and 2 69's.
Somebody bid yesterday, somebody with an excellent FB record.
Then this IDIOT comes along with a miserable little 15 FB and bids at the last minute, bumpting the price up 1 notch.
OK, I sent the guy an eBay invoice and he immediately write me telling me he wants to cancel the transaction because he thought they were all 70s!
The auction listed in detail what was being sold and there were large images of all the slabs:

So I cancel the transaction but the guy doesn't respond to the eBay cancellation request.
I got his phone # and called him and stepped him thru the cancellation process.
Now I'm out the $900 I would have had if this idiot didn't bid plus eBay is taking their sweet time refunding my FVF.
I swear, people should have to pass an IQ test before being allowed to bid on eBay.
I can't leave this dope a neg FB to warn others to steer clear.
Grrrr

 

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can't you cancel people's bids?

 

Not if they bid at the last minute.

 

Would be tough to do if it was a last minute snipe.

 

Dang, that stinks. Do you get a second-chance offer to re-list?

 

I did send a second chance offer but the bidder has not responded.
Soo basically I'm out $900 because some troglodyte can't read.

 

Wow, that's lame. Hope you can get the same or more for it.

 

The second chance may not see your offer for up to 24 hours, if they don't check their email or ebay messages every few minutes.

 

Sorry to hear. Is there any way to block bidders with under a certain amount of feedback?

 

No, there isn't but there should be.
All the trouble I've ever had selling on eBay has invariably come from newbies.
I wish eBay would let sellers specify no sales to people who haven't been members for a certain amount of time (like 6 months or so) But eBay doesn't give a rat's rear about the seller, having heavily stacked the deck against them.
BTW: the 2nd place bidder responded to the 2nd chance offer and paid already, so I can send the coins out tomorrow.

 

You lucked out on that, but I agree with you, those bidiots seem to get annoying.

 

Bid first; read later. It's not easy reading all those descriptions on eBay and buyer agreements on Teletrade.

 

One would think that when spending close to $1000 on a set of coins that even a casual perusal of the description would be warranted but apparently that's not the case in a lot of folk's minds.

 

At least the second place bidder didn't back out too, that would suck. Some sellers clearly states that if a bidder has less than 20 feedback they must email first. Maybe next time you can try that.

 

Since you cannot block bidders unless they have negative feedback, just what good does it do require buyers with low feedback to contact the seller first? All they have to do is bid and unless you can cancel their bid before your item ends, you can do nothing else. Unless you sit there and watch each item end and the buyers bid early enough for you to be able to cancel their bids, you can do nothing.

 

Yeah, "you can't leave negative feedback for buyers" was the straw that broke this former Power Seller's back. I'm just about ready to stick my toe back in the water for selling, after a three-year-plus hiatus, but I'm still pretty reluctant.

Glad you were able to work things out with the Second Chance offer. I hope things go more smoothly this time.

 

cant you send a second chance offer to the guy that bidded before???

 

Just wake up? (see post #10)

 

Geezer,

I've never sold anything on ebay; I've only purchased on it. Situations like this don't make me want to begin an ebay career anytime soon either. I'm glad everything was resolved in a positive manner though. We now know why there are more horses asses in the world than there are horses.

 

That happened to me I got a 50 euro fee and they didn`t pay I ended up having to sell my only Morgan Dollars I had and have ever owned, 50 days after the auction ended the person leaves my neutral feedback. I felt so annoyed especially since it cost me money. I was so mad
On ebay the buyer is always treated better than sellers which is a disgrace