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zatoichiblindsword · ‎08-10-2017

The following text is from my messages:

Potential Buyer:

Would you consider a buy in now price for this lot?

Myself:

There WAS one originally attached. $450 would be the target

Potential Buyer: If you could add that back on I would pay 450

Unfortunately, once the minimum acceptable bid is reached, it removes the Buy it Now option originally posted until the auction is over. I could end the auction early if a $450 bid was input, but can't re-add buy it now.

Potential Buyer: 450 bid placed

So I go out to verify and see:

[buyer ID redacted] (133 opens in new window or tab) $305.00 7 Aug 2017 at 11:55:58AM PDT

I sent his actual bid to him in email, and got no reply. He is still the highest bidder but now I suspect there is a lack of trustworthyness with this buyer; his ratings are positive. Is this just minor predatory activity hoping a seller will end the auction at a misrepresented offer?

emerald40 · ‎08-10-2017

@zatoichiblindsword wrote:
The following text is from my messages:

Potential Buyer:
Would you consider a buy in now price for this lot?

Myself:
There WAS one originally attached. $450 would be the target

Potential Buyer: If you could add that back on I would pay 450

Unfortunately, once the minimum acceptable bid is reached, it removes the Buy it Now option originally posted until the auction is over. I could end the auction early if a $450 bid was input, but can't re-add buy it now.

Potential Buyer: 450 bid placed

So I go out to verify and see:
[buyer ID redacted] (133 opens in new window or tab) $305.00 7 Aug 2017 at 11:55:58AM PDT

I sent his actual bid to him in email, and got no reply. He is still the highest bidder but now I suspect there is a lack of trustworthyness with this buyer; his ratings are positive. Is this just minor predatory activity hoping a seller will end the auction at a misrepresented offer?

Buyer can only have postive feedback, so that is irrelevant.

Sounds like he may have bid that high and changed his mind.

If your gut tells you he is a problem, just remove his current bid and block him.

sg51 · ‎08-10-2017

I sent his actual bid to him in email, and got no reply. He is still the highest bidder but now I suspect there is a lack of trustworthyness with this buyer; his ratings are positive. Is this just minor predatory activity hoping a seller will end the auction at a misrepresented offer?

If he bid $450, it would not show until 2nd place bid reached $445 (or $440).

pjcdn2005 · ‎08-10-2017

@zatoichiblindsword

You won't normally see the bidder's maximum amount that they have bid until other bidder's bid it up that high. I see that now the bidder has cancelled his $450 bid. I wonder if he was upset or cancelled for another reason. You can now see his high bid if you click on the number of bids. You need to understand how bidding works. If a buyer sets a bid quite a bit higher than the current bids, the amount goes up in increments when someone else bids. It is explained here.

https://pages.ebay.com/help/buy/bidding-overview.html

coolections · ‎08-10-2017

The only way what you did would work is to hope for a second bidder to raise your buyer's bid up OR you could have ended the listing and relisted it as a BIN for the buyer.

d-k_treasures · ‎08-10-2017

@pjcdn2005 wrote:
@zatoichiblindsword
You won't normally see the bidder's maximum amount that they have bid until other bidder's bid it up that high. I see that now the bidder has cancelled his $450 bid. I wonder if he was upset or cancelled for another reason. You can now see his high bid if you click on the number of bids. You need to understand how bidding works. If a buyer sets a bid quite a bit higher than the current bids, the amount goes up in increments when someone else bids. It is explained here.
https://pages.ebay.com/help/buy/bidding-overview.html

Most likely they wanted to see where the bidding was now. By placing that 450 bid, the seller could have friends run the auction up, so they may wait and put in a snipe bid.

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the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth · ‎08-10-2017

You apparently have other buyers. Why would you want to make one buyer happy while annoying who knows how many others? This is the kind of seller behavior that is driving buyers off Ebay.

pjcdn2005 · ‎08-11-2017

@d-k_treasures wrote:
@pjcdn2005 wrote:
@zatoichiblindsword
You won't normally see the bidder's maximum amount that they have bid until other bidder's bid it up that high. I see that now the bidder has cancelled his $450 bid. I wonder if he was upset or cancelled for another reason. You can now see his high bid if you click on the number of bids. You need to understand how bidding works. If a buyer sets a bid quite a bit higher than the current bids, the amount goes up in increments when someone else bids. It is explained here.
https://pages.ebay.com/help/buy/bidding-overview.html

Most likely they wanted to see where the bidding was now. By placing that 450 bid, the seller could have friends run the auction up, so they may wait and put in a snipe bid.

Perhaps but the auction is over now and they didn't rebid.

siayan · ‎08-11-2017

Someone making a unofficial offer and actually buying is two different things. Your "potential" buyer knows the system enough to make you think they were actually going to buy it but apparently they weren't.

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partial*eclipse · ‎08-11-2017

He placed a bid for $450, but you canceled it. It was not a "misrepresented offer."

It didn't show as $450 because the high bid showing will always show as just one bid increment above the second-highest bid. But at the bottom of the bid history, retracted or canceled bids will show at their actual full amount. We can see that his bid was for $450. But apparently both of you don't quite understand how eBay's bidding process works.

partial*eclipse · ‎08-11-2017

pjcdn2005 wrote: ... You won't normally see the bidder's maximum amount that they have bid until other bidder's bid it up that high. I see that now the bidder has cancelled his $450 bid. I wonder if he was upset or cancelled for another reason. ...

@pjcdn2005

In eBay jargon: sellers cancel, and bidders retract. The bid shows as canceled, which means that the seller did it. If the bidder had retracted the bid, it would show as "Retracted."