[LargeFormat] Ebay Madness

[Robert Mayrand]

Buying from an ended auction;

I also use this tactic quite often and by choosing words carefully, using
ambiguity, you can avoid any complaint to ebay.

My typical phrasing is something like that.

"I'm really interested by this item, but unfortunately I missed the auction.
Please let me know if you relist this item, because I would gladly bid
XXXX$"

The only person who could report you is the seller and with an email like
this there is not much to complain about, and if he's just a bit wise and
still willing to sell he will email you and propose to do business outside
ebay.....it always work.

This is just to be on the safe side.

Robert
Mtl, Quebec






On 2/5/02 12:26 AM, "Michael Briggs" <MichaelBriggs@Earthlink.net> wrote:

> 
> On 05-Feb-02 Jim wrote:
>> Many times I seen something that I was interested in but the starting bid
>> was more than I (or anyone else) was interested in paying so the auction
>> ends with no bids. Sometimes the seller re-lists with a lower starting
>> price, but still too much for anyone.
>> 
>> I have then contacted the seller directly and offered exactly what I am
>> willing to pay and many times they sell to me at that price. I guess they
>> figure it beats waiting it out again for nothing. And selling direct there
>> are no eBay fees.
> 
> The last sentence explains why eBay considers this a violation of their rules.
> (See Fee Avoidance at http://pages.ebay.com/help/community/investigates.html.)
> I don't know what they would do if they found out--probably a warning the
> first
> time.
> 
> --Michael
> 
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