Re: [CR]Again a (german) eBay warning!

(Example: Framebuilding:Restoration)

Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:42:06 +0100
From: "Martin Appel" <martin@camelot.de>
To: Otis <otis@otisrecords.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Again a (german) eBay warning!
References: <DMEJIHDFKPCMMPJEINFDMENODLAA.otis@otisrecords.com>
In-Reply-To:
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

Otis schrieb:
> Exactly, the seller is trying to avoid ebay fees. This is a violation of
> ebay rules that ebay actually cares about and will act on. If reported, ebay
> will cancel all his auctions. Dirk is not obligated to go through with the
> sale if he does not want to. Usually sellers will do this with insane
> shipping costs, I've seen it happen many times, and ebay usually clamps down
> on these guys because it's their money (unlike most of the other rampant
> violations scattered through the site that make them money).

I noticed that the same seller lists in the text of another auction (Wheel with C-Record HF hub) that he owns 5 similar wheels, of which he would like to sell 3. (Why he even bothers to tell us about wheels he *doesn't* want to sell, escapes me. Should we all email him and congratulate him for owning such nice gear? :-)

I'm pretty sure this is against Ebays rules, as well, anyway. Maybe more Ammo for Dirk if he doesn't want to pay.

Martin Appel
Munich, Germany