I'm with you on this Kim. Not only eBay rules directly forbid this, it is also plain unfair both to eBay - because it was eBay that brought the buyer and the seller together - and to other potential buyers of the item who do comply with the rules and refrain from making offers outside of eBay not because they are hoping for rock bottom bargains or something but simply because they want to play by the rules. Just my 0.02 Canadian...
Monday, September 10, 2007, 5:25:00 AM, kim klakow wrote:
> Yes, many people do that. But a lot of times it is to shaft an
> unknowing seller; probably what happened to the owner of the Cinelli tandem Steven outed the other day.
> The other part is, eBay does not permit this. Easy rule. Having had
> this happen to me several times on choice items, you could incurr my
> wrath, for how am I to know that YOU didn't snatch them away from me?
> This survival-of-the-fittest thing is poo-poo'd on in this list,
> unless I am wrong and the general tenor has changed since this was an
> item (it has been several times before).
> best,
> kim
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>> Datum: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 20:28:34 -0700
>> Von: mark assaf <mark@sciencemonster.net>
>> An: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>> Betreff: [CR]Re: Singer tandem disappears from ebay
>> I've ended two auctions early in the past month, and had a seller end
>> two auctions early for me.
>>
>> The first was the bid got up to what I wanted, and the guy who bid was a
>> nice guy, so I asked him if he wanted me to end it early - he said yes,
>> of course. The second auction, the guy contacted me during the auction
>> with some questions and I sold him two other items I wanted to get rid
>> of, so I made him a package deal. These were all 16mm prints of old
>> monster movies.
>>
>> The two I won, I told the guy who had separate auctions for a derailler
>> and the matching shifter that I would bid higher if he combined the
>> auctions so I knew I could win both items and not get stuck with a half
>> of a set. He asked what I would pay for the set, and he thought my offer
>> was fair. He was a nice guy too, and he must of thought I was, too,
>> since he threw in a NOS cable to match.
>>
>> I find it's better to take a fair price for something rather than take a
>> chance some numskull will bid up my auction to some crazy price. I don't
>> like ripping people off, I don't like feeling that I ripped somebody
>> off, and I don't like fools who bid like idiots and then come back with
>> buyer's remorse and whine.
>>
>> I also am not an eBay 'pro,' so the extra closet space means almost as
>> much as the money.
>>
>> Just four examples, but there it is. The bird in the hand gets the early
>> worm, or something like that.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> --
>> mark assaf
>> burlingame ca 94010
>> usa
>> http://www.sciencemonster.net
>> ebay:sciencemonster
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Subject: [CR]Singer tandem disappears from ebay
>>
>> Last week there was the case of the early ending of the Cinelli track
>> tandem auction on ebay. This week it is the early ending of the auction
>> for a 1950's Singer tandem.
>>
>> http://ebay.com/
>>
>> What makes sellers close auctions early?
>>
>> Steven Maasland
>> Moorestown, NJ
>> USA
>>
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Dmitry Yaitskov,
Toronto, Canada.