Charles
while your suggestion sounds like a good idea, it is not exactly permitted.....
You are allowed to retract a bid (before final 12 hours) only if:
1. you made an error in amount you bid. 2. someone else made a bid illegally in your name. 3. you cannot contact seller.
Hmmm, I will try to contact seller and query him/her/it as to why it is relisted since it was sold to a reputable Ebayer...
Then, if I get no response (as I suspect) I will be within my rights to legally retract....
(prev auction was item 7214436781)
Ken Sanford
> It seems as though the 2 listmembers that are presently bidding on the
> frame
> should consider retracting their bids to telegraph the shabby business
> practices of this eBay seller.
>
> I had a seller of a Hetchins Mountain King frame defraud me and he
> subsequently resold it about 1 1/2 years later on eBay. Unfortunately, I
> wasn't made aware of it until the second auction had closed. Not sure if
> the
> buyer ever received it. Still a bit frothed about that deal and consider
> that the frame, wherever it is, is mine.
>
> Charlie Young
> Honey Brook, PA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tam Pham" <terminaut@gmail.com>
> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 11:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [CR]Interesting Track Frame & San Marco Swallow Saddle
> again???
>
>
>> Wow - what a bunch of jerks that operation is. They charged me $90 to
>> ship
>> the frame by ground, then somehow the package ended up getting lost in
>> transit. The seller's communications is the worst as they almost never
> repl
>> y
>> to emailed questions, and I had to deal with FedEx for many days trying
>> to
>> figure out what happened to the frame. The FedEx agents thought that the
>> frame was likely poorly packaged/labeled and that the label fell off.
>>
>> When I emailed the seller to tell them that FedEx said the bike was lost,
>> they amazingly sent me a different (and wrong) tracking number saying
>> that
>> things were OK.
>>
>> Anyways, the frame never arrived and after no success in getting the
> seller
>> to refund me (at that point could make a claim with FedEx to recoup their
>> loss) I had to file a complaint with Paypal. That step worked in
> motivating
>> the seller to issue me a refund and they threw in some bonus surleyness
>> to
>> go with it.
>>
>> The short of it is that they're one of those "drop it off and we'll sell
> in
>> for you on eBay" places. My biggest gripe is their very poor
> communications
>> throughout the entire transaction. Now it looks like they got the frame
> bac
>> k
>> and didn't bother to email me to see if perhaps we could resume where we
>> left off. Oh well.
>>
>> Tam "hey that was my frame!" Pham, in Huntington Beach, CA
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 3/1/06, Kevin Kruger <ktk1_7_0_2_8@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I brought the following eBay auction to the list's attention first time
>> > around, and now the same frame/saddle are listed again. Seem to recall
> a
>> > list member stating that he purchased the frame, but that it was never
>> > delivered because it was lost in transit.
>> > Don't know the seller, but something doesn't appear to be right if I
>> > follow what happened???
>> >
>> >
> http://ebay.com/
>> QQitemZ7223232072
>> > Regards,
>> > Kevin Kruger
>> >
>> >
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