There're a lot of warnings about getting offered an item
on eBay as the second high bidder.
I had occasion when I had to sell the item to the second
bidder because the high bidder bid on the wrong item. He
said he would -really- prefer not to proceed with the deal,
but would go through if I insisted.
Of course I didn't feel like insisting on the poor guy,
and managed instead to sell to the second bidder at a
slight loss and also got changed a bit extra by eBay for
the highest bid amount. But the guy was very grateful,
and I was fortunate that the second bidder obliged.
So I know that trying to sell to the second bidder is not
all fraud or a result of shill bidding.
Regards,
___________________________________________________________________
Tonghang Zhou ("Zhou" is pronounced like Joe)
On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Len Paris wrote:
> Do you think he'll tell us if he gets ripped off?
>
> This kind of scam usually progresses to the point where he stops
> the auction and then sends e-mails the top 4 or 5 bidders and
> tells each them that the winner dropped out and that he'll sell
> it to them for what they bid. That way he gets 4 or 5 peoples
> money and never ships to any of them. Ebay considers it to be
> an uncompleted auction.
>
> Len
> ---
>
> > That's odd. well, our very own Sid Barris has the current
> high bid. If
> > he wins we'll have a chance to find out how the transaction
> went.
> >
> > Rob Studdert wrote:
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