Once I "sold" a small Sikhote Alin shrapnel specimen for $24/gram...ahem, I
almost choked; two separate entities bidding it up and up (it was a nice
20cents/gram piece...and it was Ebay that pulled it. I'm not sure how they
figured it out. (No, I wasn't going to accept that kind of payment anyway!)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yinan Wang" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Warning, Warning tri-ball34
I usually have a non-payer in about 1 out of every 250 sales. It's
almost always someone who's new or has a very low number. I'd have to
assume its someone who doesn't know how it all works, or is a kid, or
occasionally its someone who initially was alright but had an
unfortunate accident or such.
Here's a famous example. a 5 year old uses buy-it-now to win a $1
million Transformers collection:
http://www.pr-inside.com/year-old-canadian-boy-buys-million-r187248.htm
I did see someone bid crazy for a short period of time in the fossil
section of ebay a year or two ago, but based on their bidding pattern
of big dinosaur fossils, fake fossils, and toys, I assumed it was a
kid discovering his parent's ebay account.
I don't think Tri-ball is ebay itself.... That would be considered
shill bidding and is illegal in most states.
-YvW
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:49 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
Creep!
It brings up the question - how frequently do Ebay sales fall through?
I've sold a fair amount of non-meteorite things on Ebay and everyone
paid. Anybody have any intel on this?
cheers
Paul Swartz
He bid up so many of my items that I thought the meteorite
market was recovering nicely. Now, that I have spent many hours opening
23
separate cases against him and undoing the damage, I see that the market
is
about the same. It is amazing what kind of chaos a single bidder can
cause.
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