@livadia wrote:
Had a bidder flake out on an auction so tried to send a Second Chance Offer to the back-up bidder.
Got an error message saying: "Buyer Doesn't Accept Second Chance Offers." (Huh?) Anyone else ever gotten this kind of message or are aware that there is such a setting? It's news to me...
Must be a setting they can turn on and off.
I don't do SCO (as a seller), because I don't want to be accused of rigging an auction to expose the second bidder's maximum bid.
True stories...
Had an expensive piece of computer equipment I foolishly put up at auction. It's industrial, not the kind of thing people steal. Most people don't even know what it is (Xilinx Kintek 7). On the last day, a zero FB bidder who was fairly new, bid it from $520 to $680, then called eBay to complain he bid too much and I got a notification from eBay that he wanted to cancel. I realized that by cancelling I now know the second bidder's maximum, and if a third bidder comes along, the price might be bid up and it looks rigged. I did cancel the bid, and I ended the auction to the second highest bidder at $520 (the current bid before Mr zero showed up to bid it up). No problems with the transaction. I decided before ending it that I felt this would be a good customer for this equipment.
As a buyer... I bid $1 on a Pyrex bowl from the 1970s. Mine broke in the dishwasher and my parents had these when I was little, so I wanted to replace it as the small size was common. My max bid was $10, and just before the auction ended, my bid went from $1 to their high bid of $10.50. Less than an hour after the auction ended I got a SCO. I realized the auction was rigged to extract my maximum bid on an item that wasn't getting enough attention. I didn't respond to the SCO and bought the bowl from another seller at fixed price for $12. (Yes I paid more, but it was an honest payment).
Cheers, C.
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