Susan, there is a way to pay for items on ebay with an escrow service,
and the service holds your money until you receive the product and are
satisfied. It is mostly used for high dollar items as you might
imagine. That might be a way to go. But if it came down to losing
$3000 on a bad deal through ebay or risk being known as a
deadbeat...I'll take deadbeat any day:)
Cheyanne
Susan Wallace wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I've been keeping a daily eye on the ebay trailers as well. The problem with
> bidding on something that is across the country is that you are risking the
> money on something you can't actually lay eyes on or examine except in
> photographs and whatever answers you get from the questions you ask over email
> or phone.
>
> I was really interested in one that was within 3-4 hours driving time from
> where I live, but the guy who was auctioning it claimed that he got if from
> someone who didn't seem to know much about it, and he admitted he didn't have
> the keys to the access doors. He told me a bunch of people were coming by on
> the Saturday before the auction ended to look at it. After that weekend, I
> didn't notice that the bids had gone up high enough to make his reserve (which
> was $3000), which didn't exactly constitute a vote of confidence. The pictures
> of the trailer all looked nice, but even I know there's a lot of stuff you'd
> want to look at in person.
>
> The auction is supposed to be a legally binding transaction, and if you don't
> go through with it you're branded a "deadbeat." I don't know if there's
> anything the seller could *legally* do to you, but ebay deducts a certain fee
> from the final bid price and it costs quite a bit upfront to list an item that
> has a $3000 reserve. I would never bid thousands of dollars on an item I hadn't
> looked at in person. Just my 2¢.
> Susan
>
> "Wayne A. Moore" wrote:
>
> > Hey Gang,
> > In the past 10 days, 6 vintage trailers have been offered for
> > sale. There was not one bid for these trailers above $2300. Two of the six
> > sold for under $1800 including a '53 Custom. the balance did not meet the
> > reserve price.
> >
>
> <snip>
>
> >
> > WAM
> >
> >
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