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Bidding wars on Ebay when there are days left to run. why?

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Allington (Steve):
Too much nowadays on eBay = shenanigans

Skunky:
My mate sold his boomerang on EBay....that never came back. ;D

taysidedragon:

--- Quote from: hairygit on October 07, 2018, 11:54:52 AM ---
--- Quote from: mike the bike on October 07, 2018, 11:52:07 AM ---My mate sold his homing pigeons on ebay.


Again.

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Old joke! Only because live animals are not allowed to be sold on e bay!

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Did you see the guy who sold his girlfriend on eBay? Got over £70k bid!

It's given me an idea.... 😆

MrDavo:
A while back I bid on a cheap Jaguar with ages to run, only to see if I hit the reserve yet, which I did....

No worries, as the last one I'd bid on went up £800 in the last few seconds.

A couple of hours later, I, the wife, and the vendor, were all very surprised to find that I'd just bought it! The vendor was horrified as he'd set a very low reserve to keep the costs down, but he went through with the sale. I was shocked as I'd just done something I said I'd never do - bid on a car hundreds of miles away without even looking at it. In the end it turned out to be a nice ex lease car with a good history and brand new wheels and tyres. My mate took me down to Bristol, I had the cash in an envelope in my pocket, but he had strict instructions to floor it and get us out of there at the slightest hint I wasn't 100% happy, feedback be damned.

matthewmosse:
There will always be sellers who get up to shinanigans, getting a mate to run the bidding up etc, the thing as a buyer is to set a price in mind as a max and if these shinanigans are going on , the mate who runs up the bidding will end up 'buying' the item if they run it high, then eBay will be charging final value fees or black marking the non payer, you can get a black mark 3 times then ebay close your account. My bottom line with eBay and expensive stuff is that it has to either be hard to get elsewhere or a bargin. Overall I have had a lot of bargains off there, and a few absolute lemons. - overall I think I've made more selling stuff that would otherwise have been chucked to cover any Lemmon purchases, and for every bad buy I have made there have been a few steals, just look very carefully at feedback before putting big bids.

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